I wish I had fully understood this concept years ago as it would have saved me hundreds of hours of frustration.I hope it helps you too. I am running a giveaway on my instagram today, be sure to check it out @michael.inthemix :)

you're just a good human, giving this information to new producers and helping them without charging them is really nice of you.

Was replying to my GF but I saw this popped up on my notifications. I clicked right away.

I always trust 100% in you! I have seen all your videos, your tips to create a studio, your family helping in the construction and all your priceless tips to make an amazing sound, mixing, production, everything. But this video is a rare Gem, I wish I could give you more than 1 like. Thank you!

i love how you smile anytime you mention mixing. the genuin love you have for mixing is probably what makes you the best mixing teachers on youtube while everyone else are making loops

Your channel is always my go-to when I want to break down and improve my audio workflow. You consistently put out valuable information through your intuitive presentations and thoughtful voiceover work. Wonderful content, cheers Michael!

My mixed improved 10x the day I started using only Headphones, the room where I make music is really bad. Even if headphones only is not optimal, it's still better than mixing in a bad room IMO. BTW: great video!

The best mixing advice is stay away from jealous haters

I thought the one advice you were gonna say.... "if you can't afford sound treatment... mix on headphones"

Micheal I’m gonna be serious, I’ve been watching your videos now for 2 years and I can’t even imagine where I would be right now without you sharing your knowledge, of course I have seen many channels which provide tips and tricks and so on, but most of those are only going with the trends, they use clickbaits just to gain views even though there tips are absolutely useless for any more advanced musicians. But the way you provide the information is so different, you try to make the most complex information so easy for us to understand. You really have the intention to spread music knowledge... Short, Thank you micheal

SW is an invaluable tool for mixing for sure. Though keep in mind that the stronger the room node is cancelling out a frequency or boosting it, no software or eq can ever "level that out". A node that causes a dip wil still dip that frequency, no matter how hard you boost it. Which brings on the next problem, the stronger you have to boost a frequency to "correct the room", the more you are physically straining the speaker cone vibrating at that frequency, causing it to distort and play nearby frequencies less clear. SW has a max amount of dB correction to counter this.

You seem to be the most genuine and true person out there who really wants to help.

The kindness within you is inspiring. Thank you for being a compassionate teacher!

I've watched a bunch of your videos and I'm not sure if I've said it before, but you are honestly one of the best youtubers when it comes to production tips and lessons. There's no bull$h!t or flashy ads, you just bestow knowledge in a calm and collected manner which makes it very easy to follow along. I feel like I am actually learning something when I watch one of your videos, and I say that as someone who went to school for post-production. Thanks for being you!

Straight forward, direct and to the point, in plain English, non-repetitive, loud and clear instruction and explanation on exactly what the video title says. That shouldn’t be as rare as it is. I’m glad I found this channel today.

I've been following you since 1000 subs. You are the most consistently informative and helpful tutor on KZfaq. You take your time to explain, go through all steps within tutorials. If you skip something in the tutorial you have another video already uploaded or soon to follow that goes in depth. Other than being a really good teacher you're very much unbiased and you seem open to many views although you do have preferences. Keep posting bro ❤️

Your tutorials are really useful, they're so professional and accurate. I'm learning a LOT with them, so thank you very much. Cheers from Argentina.

You are an amazing human being Michael... From the bottom of my heart, I wanna thank you for all the help you freely offer. You do best mate!!! 👊✊ please do keep it up if you do not mind brother.👍

have watched hours worth of your videos, just wanted to finally take the time to say thank you

I have a lot of problem areas in the low end in my room as well. I remember hearing you talk about Sonarworks before and I've been thinking about looking into it more. This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks man. I agree with you 100% about everything.

I picked this up over the weekend after the recommendation. I knew frequency response was an issue, but wasn't aware there was such an easy fix. I was blown away at how much more quickly I was able to get a mix done. Usually its 4-6 trips to the car and back to tweak things to get it on point but I got it on the first mix (which also was quicker). Made mastering easier too as the mix was so well done. It translated perfectly across several listening devices. Over the moon happy and can't wait to keep trying it out. Thanks.

thank you for your help man it really helps i mean you are typically the one who makes things easy and clear. I spent all the day viewing your vids and i can tell by far you are the best on yt you're not that kind of guy explaining deep things to make us struggle lol. I say it for me because i am not such a beginner but not a pro and your channel really gives the opportunity to go further you know ! Appreciate your work

You're the most honest mp in youtube, I really appreciate your work. Thank you for sharing your information with us :)

i wish he is my friend in real life. he look really genuine .

I'm so grateful to view this video before obtaining my bedroom/home studio. This is amazing information and I will definitely apply this to myself. Thank you so much ^_^

This is the only channel on youtube I spend hours with :-) Thankyou so much for the efforts and your humble heart you put through to getting this helpful information to us...The channel of the century !!!

I really appreciate your videos and I've truly learned alot about mixing and you seem happy to help people and I respect you for that.

Thank you for your honesty and willingness to help others achieve their musical dreams!

This is awesome what you do. Keep it up. I always end up learning new things through your videos. But I think this is the best take for me of them all. Cheers!!

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I just subscribed and am looking forward to the rest of today. Excited to see what all I learn. I am a beatmaker/songwriter and just sparked a little buzz after a friend let a major label A&R hear a catalog of beats and compositions I put together. I've been doing it since 2008 and have never published, posted, released or submitted anything. It's just alot fun for me and I enjoy making a killer piece of music. I'm self taught and nearly every project is an experiment. All these years I've been creating and mixing in a completely unorthodox way. I've completely created my own sound of hiphop/experimental RnB and have designed a plethora of crazy and awesome sounds. I was told that my mixes are definitely different and are not of the norm at all but they're clean and the sound captured was intriguing. I've been asked to study traditional mixing and mastering and to gain a grasp on it so I know exactly what it is I need to do to incorporate these theories and techniques I developed over the years. They're excited and curious to see what I come up with and so am I. I'm going to embark on this journey with your channel and knowledge you've shared... I've literally sat for hrs upon hrs with dozens and dozens of plugins of all sorts over the years and just explored, experimented and learned how it altered sound. Gain, threshold, ratio, filter, attack, sustain, delay, limiters, dry, wet, reverb, envelops, compression, decay, chorus, flange and everything else was all foreign language to me until about last year. I used all these things in all kinds of different ways and tons of times gbut never actually knew what they were on a technical standpoint. I just knew each one and all there knobs, switches and buttons altered, morphed, enhanced and manipulated sound and time in a bunch of different and little ways. I called reverb "the spacey sound" I called flange "the trippy effect". I just watched your video on the fruity maximus...my brain is fried. Lol Its something i use but never like that and I had absolutely no idea about any of the things you taught and explained before today. There's definitely some gems you shared. I'm hoping you have a mixing with headphones vid. Anyway, I'm done rambling.lol I just want to say thank you a trillion times over. Take care.

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Thank you so much.This will help a lot of beginners producers🙏🙏

Best sales pitch ever, it was a clickbait, I had just finished watching 3 other videos on sonarworks reference. I thought this was something else. You got me!

Love your videos. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and pointers!

Very nice video, well explained, addressing a common, fundamental issue for every home studio (and really any) music maker. Thanks, Michael!

Man I just love you, you are taking care of my mental health thank you

This is needed info. I've heard about this product and some others. I will consider a purchase soon. Thanks and cheers Michael!!!

u always motivate me! love you so much..ur one of my fav channels..

thanks for this mate! my sound translates well as it is but now I have hope it will improve even more! great video, very logical and helpful! Thanks!

The peaks and troughs you’re talking about are called standing waves! I learnt this at college! The teacher played a certain frequency and we literally walked across the room and could hear dips or peaks in volume! So cool man! It feels nice to be finally understanding how this stuff works so thanks for the video Michael! 💋

Appreciate the video, i feel like your vids really try to explain things clearly, practically, and in a down to earth way. Mixing is probably my least favorite part of making music so it's great to have someone more experienced with it help me out

I use SWR 4, too. It makes wonders. Highly recommend it!

I'd never heard of such software. What an awesome tip. great advice as usual, thanks!

I used sonarworks for quite some time (about 12-18months or so), but the issue i found with it was this: when SW was enabled and i A/B my track to the refference track they sounded similar, but when i turned SW off, the refference track barely changed because it is mixed THAT well, while my mix could change dramatically. The conclusion was that SW actually made my track sound better than it actually did...in other words, it was rather counterproductive, because not only did i settle for an actually worse sounding mix, but i also started to switch back and forth between SW and non-SW. NOW i have SW disabled all the time because i get better mixes thru my Amphions with no SW. My point is that when it sounds really good on the Amphion One18s the mix sounds good, but that is not allways the case using SW, it feels more like a shot in the dark. Another thing is that you will benefit from SW alot better if you have acoustically treated your room. They even told me that, so this is not a miracleproduct, it can only enhance the experience to a certain point. Also, speakers have different sound and character to them which is a great thing, and this will be further lost using SW. This is just my experience and i wanted to share just to make people aware of possible issues. Ps..you can also add SW globally on your soundcard so you dont have to have it loaded on your masterchannel.

Thank you for making these videos. Helps me out a lot!

You teach me most likely everything I know about mixing just so you know you doing an amazing job

Thanks for the videos! Your channel has been very helpful!

dude you a legit hero when it comes to music production, love your vids !!!! very very very very very very much appreciated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael; you are built for this. May the sound be with you.

Love your tutorials bra always propper and informative...big ups bru

Thank you very much for sharing this crucial advise. I am at the stage where I really needed this kind of music wisdom. God bless you.

This is the best channel for FL studio and general studio knowledge.

Ive got so much respect just because of the non-cutted straight and thoughtful to the point six and a half minutes u have talked already! yo man

No doubt that he is one of the honest and humble teacher we can get💖thank you master

Always giving amazing tips and info to make us improved. Thanks youre the boss

Daaam u improved so many self made mixing engineers (including myself) Speaking right about the problems i had to fight over years. I wondering so many times why something in my mix is muddy and at the end of the day when i go for the different audio devices tests the mix sounded so flat! (Because i cleared to many of these low mid low end frequencies out) Thanks a lot ❤️

Thanks for the down to earth and honest video.Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Thank you. This is very helpful. Your videos have helped me to improve at faster pace than I would have without it. Keep teaching us! :D

These info are priceless! many thanks

I had no idea software like this existed! Thanks for sharing, Michael!

Waaao this is so helpful. Thank you so much for this knowledge. Brother. 🙏🏻.

This awnsers SO MANY of my worries. Thank u

I made the mistake of using speakers in an untreated room. The moment I switched to headphones, my mixes went from muddy to super clear on almost every system. Helps develop proper technique too. I knew much of the theory behind mixing, so finally hearing how things are supposed to sound made things easy.

Incredible advice, as always!

I've been learning a lot watching your videos and I just wanted to say thank you ✌🏼

Another thing I've got from your advice is that you cannot control how your listeners' environments will bring out a mix so it's also good to understand that while we can apply all the measures to eliminate a lot of problems, there is always that 0.1% (or more) room for inaccuracy you know, unless we all listen in fine tuned rooms :)... thanks a lot, this has been great insight to what was a vague concept.

Great vid, this is greatly appreciated. Really, thank you!

The effort for this short video is a subscription and a like well done.

I have this il set this up shortly as like most of us I don't use a studio this is where its super handy. Thanks Michael

It is indeed the best advice I received and explains me why things sound so different.

watching this video didn’t feel like 14 minutes at all. It was over so suddenly. Great tips thank you for your knowledge!

Thank you, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar. I already have the Headphone Edition but until seeing your video I was never quite clear on the actual problem the Speaker Edition was supposed to be solving.

Thank u for sharing all these 💎

Amazing stuff. Thank you!

I own sonarworks reference studio 4 and it is a game changer!

Man, wish I found this vid sooner. Thanks for sharing

Amazing advice bro! Thank you for this

Your energy makes my tummy sink. I like it

Totally agree. I've been using Reference 4 for six months now and my mixes have improved A TON!!

Crazy good advice!! Thanks a lot

Love your videos and "sound" advice. Thanks

These videos are really useful and interesting. Thanks for sharing it.

Fantastic information, thanks Michael!

This is a very useful tool and even more if you have speakers, mics and stuff. However, this exact problem is also the number one reason why I recommend my subs to mix with headphones when starting, is better than most people think! Keep it up Michael with the great videos

YES! My life changed since I got Sonarworks. Not only is it amazing now but the fact it can move anywhere is amazing. Sonarworks alongside my Avantone Mixcubes in Mono on a SUPER LOW Volume with no calibration makes life so much easier when Mixing. A Killer Combo I highly recommend and has all the bases covered!

Your videos should be featured at websites that deal with how to speak clearly and effectively. You are a very skilled communicator.

HIS VOICE MAKES THE VIDEOS BETTER THIS IS HOW I WANT TO LEARN 👍👍 SOOTHING INFORMATION THANKS A LOT!

This is such an important video. Sonarworks saved my life. Mixes translate well now. All the fine eq adjustments i was making in the lows was my room! It's the best advice and wish i knew this when i started. the plugin can be put in the control room on Cubase so you don't have to remember to turn it off.

Thanks for this great advice. I've been taking singin lessons and 2 weeks ago, I could show my teacher the song I was working on and I was going to record vocals on, we listened to it on a medium size (for PC speakers) and I realized, that although the mix sounded quite decent with the gear and VSTs I got at home, the bass felt kind of quite out of context when we listened to it on those little speakers. I think I'll definetely check out Sonar Works. Thanks for the effort and energy you put into making these videos!

You may be the best KZfaq ever great tutor.. best tutorials.. peace and Thank you

This explanation makes more sense for me than all the marketing work of sonarworks. Thanks for sharing!

You have a really good heart. Respect you so much and thank you very much for everything 🙏 God bless you !

Excellent advice. Thanks

I mix in a studio pair of headphones 🤷‍♂ for me that's the best possible way I found to mix... But still thank you so much for these precious tips! ❤

Great advice about acoustics, thank you!

You're a beast! Thanks for the vids. God bless

Thank you so much for the advice 👍❤️

Love your vids! Your statement in the video description really resonates with me "In my opinion, investing in monitor calibration is worth far more than upgrading your equipment - I would prefer a £300 pair of monitors with £250 of calibration (Sonar Works Reference 4) over a £1000 pair without calibration in my room."

Thanks alot for sharing this valuable knowledge!

just thank you, i have no clue how you get these ideas and "improvements"