Mixing For Smartphones, Laptops & Small Speakers with Saturation

Mixing For Smartphones, Laptops & Small Speakers with Saturation | Paul "Willie Green" Womack

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Жыл бұрын

How do you get your mix to translate to smaller speakers, especially in the low frequencies. In this video, Paul "Willie Green" Womack from Backwoodz Studioz walks through the technique he uses to make bass translate to smartphones, laptops, and small speakers.
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@Rudolf_Edward Жыл бұрын

I always had an argument with the director of a tv-programme what I was mixing. ‘Please lower the background music’, he constantly said. My main monitors were Genelecs. But the intended audience listened to old tv sets. So finally I added two crappy speakers to convince the director of what it (somewhat) would sound like at home. This video brings back memories!

@johnhaller2273 Жыл бұрын

I remember talking to a guy in the 70's who told me that in the 50's and early 60's they used to run the mix through a 4" speaker like those that were in the old home tube radios.

@ChainsTheChef888 6 ай бұрын

Nice!! Interesting

@donaldbundy3499 Жыл бұрын

When you can master a mix that sounds good on small as well as large monitors you'll have more success. Adding harmonics has been around awhile. It's an art where the approach varies on genre and takes practice. Nice clarification on Womack's technique.

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

Well said, Donald! Thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

@philbertmusicafrica3860 Жыл бұрын

HEY I AM A PRODUCER FROM EAST AFRICA. ANY SUPPORT TO CREAT MY OWN MUSIC STUDIO WILL REALLY DO ME GOOD .THANK U

@peexstile Жыл бұрын

Great advice, but the MOST important tip is always to have a good and clean arrangement, because if your low end is full of stuff you can use all the tricks possible and imaginable, it will sounds bad.

@peen2804 Жыл бұрын

I disagree, that’s a subjective matter. Being able to literally hear something or not on a specific playback device is not subjective. For example noisier genres of music aren’t always trying to go for a clean arrangement and mix, bloated and muddy can often times be the objective. Some do, some do not, it really depends on intentions, goals, and stylistic choices

@ebormajaw8064 Жыл бұрын

This is my big problem, my mix in studio is not suitable for all speakers .. Thanks again Kyle, i've learn a lot from you bro.👍

@NewHopeAudio Жыл бұрын

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you for sharing! Would love to hear more from this guy. I learned more from him in 6 mins than I have from people who spend 30 mins talking about stuff.

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it, Kyle! Here’s the full conversation: Paul "Willie Green" Womack - Audio University Podcast kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8B-eNOUtbOvg4E.html

@NewHopeAudio Жыл бұрын

@@AudioUniversity thank you!

@KSherwoodOps Жыл бұрын

Great advice.

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@LegendaryMaoMao20 Жыл бұрын

After watching this, now I can hear the mid low to somewhat low frequencies on my new phone(Redmi Note 11) with FL Studio Mobile, with a new project, I really appreciate all the efforts you and your team made!!

@Lorichs Жыл бұрын

Now that is some really good advice. THANKS

@davidchurch8828 Жыл бұрын

Terrific advice. Thanks for this video. Really helpful.

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, David! Thanks for watching.

@ProducerKayo Жыл бұрын

Well put, very understandable. 🙏🏼

@rickneibauer1 Жыл бұрын

This guy's knows his shit and has that gear!!!

@SavedPulley Жыл бұрын

Great great great session!!!! I'm catching up, God bless u all!!!

@thewatchers9123 Жыл бұрын

Another great vid.

@theofficialczex1708 Жыл бұрын

Insightful!

@sundamusik Жыл бұрын

Informative post, bless

@cmdess Жыл бұрын

This is why the world needs STEREOCELL...the pocket boombox. The smart phone transformed into a real listening environment for music. Also, recording speakers works a similar magic, it will make things saturate in a totally different way. Somehow when you blend a speaker recording of a track with the track it's nearly inaudible except that it captures a more phone friendly version of the track depending on the kind of speakers and mics used. For instance, a rock track I produced didn't have the same punch that a recording from a speaker of the rock track had when both were played back through the same phone.

@TarzanHedgepeth Жыл бұрын

This is something I imagined and wondered about just a few hours ago… this is timely and helpful.

@jorgepeterbarton 10 ай бұрын

One evening i was bored and ill, and decided to mix someone else's song on earbuds for some of the way. At some point i did eventually get up and fetch my monitors to assess, so the results made me turn down bass, then saturate/eq until it hit a sweet spot where i could retain the original balance i went for on earbuds.. They way it pushed me to find such a thick saturated bass tone is something i would have never done on full range only. Honestly sounded better on both. I think there isn't a dichotomy most the time unless you really are doing some type of music that shouldn't be processed like true classical, because the balanced mix works on full range, its a case of sounding better on both! (Yes speakers would be even better due to crossfeed perhaps but mono checked, used an analyser of the mid/side frequency graphs etc. But this was just a way to amuse myself one evening instead of netflix or a book and yet it informed my mixing preference!)

Жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@jabeztechs Жыл бұрын

How to add this to our church mix for phone on m32 or x32 mixer thanks video will be helpfull

@Emkaiii Жыл бұрын

0:26 made me think this was gonna be a meme, other than that great video

@jllj6503 Жыл бұрын

Saturation on everything? And how much?

@armgod1 Жыл бұрын

How do you do "silent stare" for an entire conversation? Or was this the point of the video upload??

@chrisketchum6595 Жыл бұрын

What about the opposite issue, where the mix comes off "too hot" on phone speakers despite being mastered to the same levels as other mixes, etc. Like the small speakers create an overblown/distorted sound that isn't present on nice studio monitors. Help?

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

This has happened to me before, too, Chris. For me, this sometimes indicates too much limiting and cut-off peaks. Maybe experiment with letting the dynamics breathe a bit. If you’re trying to control dynamics in a particular frequency band, you might try a multi and compressor instead of a normal, broadband compressor.

@chrisketchum6595 Жыл бұрын

@@AudioUniversity thanks for replying! I’ve received similar feedback from other engineers, and have been experimenting with dynamic EQ in the “problematic” frequency ranges, but to no avail. Also tried adjusting the gain staging and removing some limiting, but still no dice! Not sure how these other content creators are doing it 🥶

@jorgepeterbarton 10 ай бұрын

I am not sure but is there resonance in your mix? I imagine you can have a lot of power in some frequencies vs spread out then this will impact the peak vs volume. Especially if pione is sensitive there. But one thing: does it do this with any music? I have TV that has one resonance that bfffrps on a particular talking vocal pitch, some terrinble speaker that have a distorted buzz of the tweeter, and car speakers that are just far too bright. I would never mix to remove that, but i might see how it feels in comparison to some references

@allcapsbeats Жыл бұрын

3:04 ?

@aniruddhasitar Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@PeteOnTheBeat Жыл бұрын

Saturation before or after compression?

@EverywhereisHE Жыл бұрын

So you’re going from a pure sine wave to a modified sine wave...

@annfrank5959 Жыл бұрын

The good hifi used to invest in almost non existent

@Still_waiting4U Жыл бұрын

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@JoeJ-8282 Жыл бұрын

To each their own I guess, but I cannot stand any kind of distortion in my music and I will NOT listen to it, especially if it "muddies up" or blurs the vocals and other instruments then it is not acceptable IMO!

@lexruptor Жыл бұрын

Great vid, except that most listen on phones ON HEADPHONES, so this was a bit redundant tbph. Ofc my phone doesn't make sub, but my headphones do, and you can get the same result by cutting the fundamental.

@robbehr8806 Жыл бұрын

Psychoacoustics.

@rockmusicvideoreviewer896 Жыл бұрын

who care about people using crappy bud earphones on their cell phones. They should just get what they paid for. So Just make the audio sound good on good systems.

@clicks59 Жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t your mixes sound good on everything? Why cater to the lo-fi enthusiast?

@AudioUniversity Жыл бұрын

I don’t think he is advocating to cater to the lo-fi listener. His mixes sound best on hi-fi systems, but they still sound good on lo-fi systems.

@Bittamin Жыл бұрын

What’s the percentage your music is going to get played on a giant PA system, vs the phones of people who come across it? More music than ever is now listened to from phone speakers. TikTok made that happen. So honestly, you are totally right but this is still good info

@clicks59 Жыл бұрын

@@BittaminAgreed. Still good information. As an aspiring engineer and audiophile, it’s painful to know that the hard work of top notch engineers is getting funneled into lo-fi mainstream media. It has become the norm for the average listener which is quite sad. Thankfully, there are those of us who know the difference.

@jorgepeterbarton 10 ай бұрын

Weirdly i think there is a coincidence between it sounding good on hifi and with lofi reproduction. I am not sure i can explain, but something like it has balanced frequencies, sounds aren't too stuck in one resonance but spread out over rich warm harmonics, its separated well between instrument frequencies, panning and stereo feels more 3-D rather than overblown width or too narrow but strong focal point and big side image. I LIKE this process for what it does to a hifi result, because it forces me to go an extra mile with things that are NOT destructive to the hifi mix but rather helpful. Our ears adapt far too well so its hard to push mixes that extra mile just from listening hifi alone. Maybe you can ignore hifi mixing and actually mix on a smartphone and make it terrible but no one does that, they just do some a/bing reference at some point between hifi/lofi reproduction whilst mainly mixing hifi, with some mental rules or aim to the mix that respects both playback situations.

@claudianreyn4529 Жыл бұрын

I really don't care about how my music sounds on phones. This is so stupid. If you want to make some background music for reels, yeah, make smartphones and laptop music. I expect from anyone who respects or likes music, to at least use a god damn good device like headphones or speakers. If they listen music on the phones, it means they have no real interest in that music or they don't really like it, so why should I care?