I wish more people on KZfaq had your style. I learned more in this right here than the last year anywhere else.

Honestly bro, this vid was great. I think you should record a series, diving deeper into each section, giving each section its own vid with a live demonstration. The SSL 9000K, is a powerful tool and if taught correctly, the only tool one needs to start and finish a project. I suggest picking an unmixed, unmastered song you created and mix and master it using Reason's SSL version mixer and Mastering suite. Just a suggestion.

Dude, the explanation of the master fader meters saved my LIFE. I didn't know VU was telling me basically LUFS. So game changing to see it this way. I would load insight onto every single reason project until THIS. It wasn't even in my class on producing with reason at Berklee. See ur content bro

Chris, you keep making the best, most comprehensive tutorials about my favourite DAW... it reminds me of when I first started learning from Matt on his LearnReason channel .

Would be amazing to have a full tutorial on preparing a mix for Mastering, I'm often confused with the different meter options and then the master fader, combined with it all being -6db ready to be mastered!

The best explanation of this mixer I've yet to see. Had this video been out years ago, it would've saved me years of trial and error!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 All jokes aside, you're an efficient tutor. Glad you're a Reason head. Maybe Propellerhead would be more appropriate 🤔🤔🤔🤔

You are like heaven sent right now bro, been looking for a good reason content creator!!🙏🏾👊🏾 Thank you!

fantastic bro

I thought I knew everything and I still learned some things.

Subscribed In the first 10 seconds. Great to See someone get to the point for a change

Sincerely I would have bought Reason and set it above all my other DAW software that I purchased over the years since 2009 and beyond if this amazing tutorial was available back then. I heard the famous producers Da Internz bragging about Reason during a studio session working with Big Sean while I was doing internship at Windmark Studio back in 2014 but I was in love with Ableton Live at that time. I own Ableton Live (2009), Pro Tools(2013), Logic Pro(2013), Maschine(2020). I give Chris 5 stars without blinking for this tutorial. Well done.

Almighty God Bless you my brother 🙏🙌☘️🙏. Definitely 1 of the BEST EXPLANATIONS of the mixer & how to REALLY mix!!!💯😎💯

As a newbie into music production, i started using reason 12 because of you, i was looking into videos that would explain how to use different daws and there's not a lot of people teaching you properly how to use them, and then i found you with one of your videos on how to use reason as a beginner and now i can't stop watching your videos to learn more...so thank you.

This is fantastic, much appreciated!

Crazy dope content!!!! As always!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I bought Reason 3 back in 2007 when I started producing with my own beginner gear/production setup at age 19. It taught me so much. Sadly it only offered midi, unless you sampled in your own audio. It's amazing to see where Reason has moved forward to. I remember it was the upper hand rival to Fruity Loops back then. Fruity Loopers were laughed at haha. Although FL Studio is now the choice for the young generation, it's U.I. has never been for me. I love Reason's built-in SSL like mixer. I like mixing on a mixer, and not having to load in so many plugins. I stopped using Reason in 2009 when I bought a Open Labs Miko that came with Reaper. Reaper allowed my brain and skills to go to a whole top tier level. I then switched to Cubase, then Studio One a couple years later. Then back to Reaper, then to Cakewalk Sonar (great built-in SSL like mixer). I then switched from PC to Mac and started using Logic Pro X in 2018 to current. But with Reason now allowing VST-3 plugins, audio and so much more, I'm switching back to the very first DAW I ever bought. And that makes me incredibly happy. I just ordered it today, right before leaving this comment. I've added a lot to my production Studio over the past couple years. Yamaha Montage 6, Akai MPC X, Audient iD44 MK-II, and just bought a Elktron rytm MK-II, as it works better with how my brain works than the MPC X. But Im still keeping the MPC X 😅. Logic Pro X is great and easy to use. But it doesn't have nearly as many built-in features as Reason 12. At least Logic's built-in effects can be used with other DAWs, as they are actual audio units. So I will be using it's built in vocal pitch effects with Reason 12. I can't wait to get back to where it all started. Thanks for the great video!

Loved this!

Fantastic video!! Taught me just what I needed to know to start mixing down some things I've been working on but didn't know how to do it. Keep up the good work!!

Thanks for the video. It was very informative.

Thanks broski, very helpful video. Saved

Stunning explanation

Super thanks, learned a lot

Great video! Thank you!

Great explanation, quick and to the point

Awsome video, I learned a lot, thank you!

Dope big homie 💪🏽💥

Excellent video, thanks Chris

Very nice! Thank you

Amazing job in breaking down all the sections of Reason Chris! You really nailed it for a general breakdown of how the daw functions. I learned a few things and I’ve been using Reason for some time now.

You're one of my favorite people.

I love Reason and having everything from pre to post in one DAW is ideal for me. This post gave me more confidence to keep my mixes in Reason as opposed to exporting audio files to be mixed in another DAW. Thank you.

I learned what I needed to in this video, no more, no less. Well done!

This console is amazing I can’t mix any other way, you can even pull off old school analog tricks like if your parallel processing drums you can ram the gain input into the channel comp n get great results, having the eq there too on every channel, hp/LP, everything is right in front of you and sounds great, I rarely need inserts for dynamics n eq, now if only they’d make a dedicated controller for it, or just make a deal with SSL to give UC-1 a preset for it lol

Just just started with music production again after 15 years. Decided on Reason for my DAW.. thanks for the well-narrated and concise beginner tutorial!

Hey! Thx Man. Very concise, precise, and informative. Learned a lot.

Great succinct breakdown with just enough tips/pointers to add. Thanx!!

Wow, Chris, subscribed. I've been away from Reason for a while and was looking for a refresher.. you are a natural teacher. What you did is excellent. Many thanks. I hope some of this is new because I've been dabbling since Reason 3 and you just showed me things I've never been aware of.

Excellent video. Very informative and easy to listen to as well as understand. Learned much more about this DAW in the 20 min taken than I have over years of use. Thanks

Great video...

daaaaaawg!!!! *applauds*

Thx learn alot bro.

Great video! I do still think Reason is underrated as a DAW, even though it's still missing a handful of things that'd make life just that little bit easier for me. It's still my favourite out of Live, Cubase and FL, by far.

Fantastic

Ioove for every reason Tutorial!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Finally a straight to the point tutorial without making the teacher / presenter the highlight of the tutorial. I've had reason for years and stopped using it once the SSL was included. Just couldn't find a simple explanation. This is exactly what I needed. Do you offer any paid one on one training sessions?

What an informed and incredible video tnx a lot for sharing your wisdom with us.P.S if you can make same about master class sections that we use to master compress etc. Stuff

Thank you

Very detailed man. I've been meaning to make a video like this for a while, but my scottish accent might make people not understand. I love the whole SSL style mixer - made me pass an exam at university (when they got a new SSL desk while I was off sick for a while and I then knew how to work stuff).

Been using reason over twenty years and im pretty good with it....but now i know how to put names with what im already doin lol....thanks you're great

one and a half minute in and I already learned something that I thought I already knew

Good video

Thank you. Reason has certainly moved on since the last time I used it (Version 3).

أنا أعرف الكثير على Reason 12 و لكن عندما أنسى بعض الأشياء أتي إلى هنا , شكرا لك كريس

Ya man!

Still watching it love it , if you can do something like that with music examples a few tracks like live edm and trap hip hop will be great .God bless you and your family

Thank you for the content! You speak in a clear concise manner, and you didn't even stutter or say "um" once - not that doing so is somehow an issue or makes that much of a difference, but this is some very high-quality content! Do you have any content or recommendations for content otherwise regarding what gain-staging is and how to do it without going too much into "the weeds"? (I have some cognitive impairment that makes self-teaching a bit difficult :c ) I know there is a ton of content on KZfaq about it, but if you know of any videos or any resources that particularly stand out, I would appreciate it.

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How do you add hardware analog inserts, like adding a couple on one track?

Thanks Chris!!! I'm still using Reason 10, but I really found this tutorial very helpful. Do you suggest upgrading to Reason 12 or should I wait for the next upgrade?

Alright Chris got a question for you so I just mastert some songs that I mix I mastered them individually that then I realized I was going to release it as EP 5 songs Was I supposed to mix them I mean master them all at the same time or can now master them as an album

I think reason has the best mixer.

Great vid. However at 4:07, you've completely misunderstood the expansion button. It is not the opposite of a gate, just a less severe one. So instead of completely cutting the sound off below the threshold it reduces it by up to the amount set by the range knob. If it was cutting the sound above the threshold it would be a compressor or limiter. An expander is actually the opposite of a compressor (making the volume above and below the threshold further apart rather than closer).

Hay Chris, can you answer me a question? It may be obvious if you can see the screen but for me seeing the screen has its chalanges due to sight loss. The mixer channels have a comp and gate gain reduction level, shown with 5 lights and is available to remote with the value 0 to 5. My question is does these lights represent 1dB reduction each or does it scale up for each light? I ask as I am currently working on a speaking web UI to work with Reason, that I hope will greatly improve accessibility. all the best, John

I've been using Reason since version 1 and really like except for one limitation. If I want to do multiple mix versions of a song it saves the entire song file each time I make a new mix and save it. These files are really large. In protools or most other DAWs you can save many mixes inside the project and they are very small files since they all reference the same audio files. Is there any way to do this in Reason?

any vids about doing live performance with reason would be nice. not uncomon in techno

Hope Reason Studios is paying you well. If not talk to John Wick.

It seems very odd that the default signal flow would be set the way that it is. I am still learning but the default seems like the last way you would want it to work as it is leaving your insert effects for last and not processing them.

Extremely detailed. Did you design this?

bro, im trying to load my own drum samples into reason, through the side bar thing where it displays your computer stuff, and reason factory sounds. for some reason the samples only show when theres no intruments loaded, right after i load a redrum or kong, or any instrument the samples disapear, and sometimes they dont. So frustrating. Any ideas? at first i thought it may of been bc the drum samples i used were from maschine. Maybe not the right type of files? but then i used a kit i downloaded, and still the same issue. Please help my guy. thanks in advance. love the channel

When I plug my Control Room Out to another output like you had (3+4), it lights up red and the Control Room Level knob doesn’t do anything. Is there something I’m doing wrong?

I'll be honest, I cant be bothered to fully utilize Reasons newer mixer as, I dont really want to be mastering and engendering while making music or laying down ideas. Sometimes I will just use the old mixer because it's simple, and also easily automated, as a single unit.

ive always loved this mixer, BUT, if your using reason as a VST plugin you cant use it.

You completely and totally lost me within the first 20 seconds of this video with the sunned shaking my head of "huh". Why? I'm a composer. I'm NOT a sound engineer. Reason was originally designed for the composer and then sound design suddenly and completely took over thus leaving the composer a blank check. I do not hear compression, EQ, FX etc in the mixing of sound design when it is already there before it hits the mixer. It's sad.

Quick but efficient. A thousand thanks. Agree with other comments, I understood more thanks to this efficient tutorial

I guess I just make beats. I would have to be able to focus on this properly to understand everything. EQ, gain, comp, pan is enough for me. Maybe someday more. But good video thx! 🙏 @king willie said all, do it pls 🫶