I'm literally doing this now, following along with the videos. Mix has already gone from completely muddy and mushy and boring, just got to the applying master eq, did the same thing, swept for resonsnance, dipped them a bit, lifted the highs, instantly, it's starting to come together. I've got no fx on any track yet, unbelieveable!

trevortjes you should watch it using headphones monitors to hear the difference. Works for me

100%... which is why i suck at mixing. All these subtle "moves" people talk about in videos... i don't hear shit. There was a time i almost went to become a sound engineer... i dodged that bullet. I would have been horrible.

@@AdamKobyshev also on headphones, no difference at all.

@@AnymMusic I use headphones and I can notice the differences.

@@AnymMusic just takes practice

The Music Promoter me too

It’s on Apple Music

It's called "Bury It" by Graham himself

It's referred to as "Top-Down" mixing. From my understanding, most engineers apply this method to varying degrees before then diving into mixing the individual tracks

Its called masterixing

Nothing wrong with that. I appreciate people who just speak their mind and heart. I am trying to learn all I can as well yet without even a means to record- except on my phone. Keep sharing and learning-

@@AFloodofSolaceJohnWhigham you should check out bandlab - web based DAW, phone friendly

4 years later, how's it going? I'm trying to mix more to save money..

Well, I think what he's getting at here is that he, very subtly, gave the mix a light spritz. He cut out some mud ACCUMULATED by all the instruments, cut out some boxy low mids, and added a little brightness to make the entire mix shine. The edits were small and juuusssttt added a little clarity before going in deep and affecting each individual track. Also, he just tamed the imbalance in the overall dynamic range to make everything more evenly balanced volume-wise, and it's not hopping around from loud to quiet on the master bus. Like clipping at some parts, too low at others, now the peaks of the overall accumulation of instruments are reduced, and the quieter parts are boosted up to give it a nice balance and everything has clarity. Then you can dive deep into the tracks themselves and continue to process, polish and add effects to an already nice sounding mix! Great concept!

If you have a hard time just take your mix and play it on a car stereo or in the house somewhere. You'll find that a break in mixing and a listen elsewhere helps your ears to kinda recalibrate themselves and you'll be good again.

Well, yeah, I dont know if I hear a difference. Maybe, but I cant even articulate the difference, that I MIGHT hear. Subtle is as term still too much for the difference I may seem to notice. Maybe I am nearly deaf? But still I love music, at last! :)

It could be down to your speaker/headphone setup. Some changes are subtle and won't be noticeable in subpar audio equipment.

Or you dont have a musical ear

Can tell the difference on a half decent transparent set of headphones.

I couldn't hear it in headphones, while monitors show BIIIG difference

Melodically, that was my favourite part of the song

@@boeyyikming harmonically, that was my favorite part of the song.

I wouldn't say it's mastering, because you're still in the mixing stage. The mastering mindset is a whole different game

Make sure you are watching youtube in HD so the audio is in good shape. I listen with Audio Technica ATH-M50x headphones and the differences are clear.

I'm using a regular model of headphones (not the cheapest, but good enough to listen to music), and the computer has a standard sound card. I listened to it many times but I hear no difference.

Thanks Edward. I'm listening through ATH-M50x as well, but could not hear the difference. I gave it a few more listens since you noticed a difference with the same headphones. I slowly began to notice a subtle difference, though I may just be fooling myself. The first thing I could pinpoint were the drums/cymbals sounding more clear. Beyond that, I didn't notice much that I could put my finger on. Perhaps I need more time to train my ears.

@@edwardmorra6240 Video definition has nothing to do with audio quality

@@RussTi That's not true Tim. Depending on the resolution, KZfaq compresses audio is at different bit rates. While a 1080p video has audio running at 192 kbps, 240p runs audio at 64 kbps, which is super low. Here's an article about it www.h3xed.com/web-and-internet/youtube-audio-quality-bitrate-240p-360p-480p-720p-1080p

You would want to keep them. You are mixing through them from the beginning and now they are a part of you mix. Hope this helps!

i believe the MOVES he made were subtle.... nothing to drastic but the positive final result are DEF there..

Am I seriously the only one here who doesn't feel the difference, as a musician and not a producer or anything i guess it might be lack of practice just like it happens with pitch, but it's literally the exact same thing to me, do you think someone listenning to this on the radio could hear the difference between the song with the eq and without it? I mean, there's not even a reference there

Eron Constante right!! And in a couple of videos he explained how he "always" used an aux track for mix buss processing! I definitely do!

I'd love to hear the answer for this as well... what are we exactly looking for?

+David Elston you're listening out for the harsh frequencies

Maybe a routing issue ? Your guitar may not be as hard panned as you think ? Maybe a plugin is messing with your panning ? Or your interface... Or maybe your headphones... Try soloing the tracks and removing effects to find the culprit, maybe simplify your routing. Hard panned should only be heard on its side, not bleed to the other

Fernando if you do Graham's REmixing Course you won't need a mixing engineer :-) Learnt so much from him and so pleased with my first mix post course. Worth every $ IMHO

Did you mean a "mastering" engineer, Bob?

Fernando if you do Grahams mixing course you will have the confidence to mix yourself. Then you could either send it to a mastering engineer or do Ian Shepherds mastering course and do it yourself :-)

Thats what i think....I really don't think i wil be using this technique in my mix

Maybe i will use the master eq to cut below 30hz but thats about it

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bKepjZOg1J62hnU.html

Everything you hear was recorded by Graham :=) Apart from drum loops.

At least for me, it helps to listen specifically for the guitar in the context of the whole mix when you're talking about EQ (listen for the "sparkle" of the treble) as well as the attack of the snare. For the compressor, I think its easier to hear a difference when you isolate the attack of both the kick and the snare.

Yep if you sign up for the duelling mixes class

Mono is usually used for EQing

Guys, I agree with you all. I was just funnin' at Graham; but perhaps he will go mono in the next video.

In the blog he says he first does the static mix process and then turns to mono to do the EQ