like the thing is, i think i make good music just in very niche genres :/

how do you fix this if you're having the same problem with a keyboard with sounds not a plugin?

Nice

spongebob scream

There's nothing worse than pointlessly L/R shifting. Ugh.

Youre the least metal looking dude that pops the most metal sounding track.

Yup. That’s good 👍 📢 this track around anywhere?

Sick tip!

YES YES YES

GREAAAAAT!❤🙏

Omg, I didn’t get notified that you were streaming, I wish was there to watch live. I’m ready for that call tomorrow!

No no no it's gotta be verse,chorus,verse,chorus, chorus, chorus, end in under 2m.30s...

I hate that I missed this, Brother!

Yeah......I had to chuckle at your video, but do agree with you. When you first start mixing, we all had tendencies to "follow the rules of others", or rather, the majority rules folks. I still sometimes get confused at the "difference in terms" between Gain Staging and Static Mix. I've already gotten to the point where I "start mixing" after I have two tracks in my session! I mix and master my own songs. I also have Studio One pro (I have version 6 downloaded but still use 5), and I have used the Mixtool in the same way you showed. I also "cut up" my tracks into the song sections, so if I need a Rhythm Gtr a bit louder on a Bridge or Chorus, I adjust it in the section and not with a fader, affecting the whole track. I find that works best for me. PLUS when i occasionally create a Mixdown mp3, Studio One will alert me if I am clipping along the way. Andrew had a great line.....if it's too loud, turn the overall volume down! I have Andrew's Omni Channel Strip, and use it on the Drums Bus. I have EZDrummer and those grooves are so well recorded, I do not separate the components into separate tracks, so I use this plugin on the drums bus. Works great for me. Plus I can adjust drums' volume if I want in the mastering Project Page, using Izotope's ReBalance plugin, also for vocals and bass. I write country and CCM music, so I generally don't do or need Punch! Just good track balance.

Gain staging refers to the process of managing audio levels at each stage of the signal path to ensure optimal sound quality and prevent distortion or noise. That's essentially what Andrew describes in the interview. Granted, gain staging has become simplified with digital processing, but it’s still important when dealing with nonlinear processors. The reason your mix sounded different-aside from the fact that it was lower in volume and we often perceive louder as better (if you had level-matched the results, the differences would have been much harder to hear)-is that by lowering the level going into your mix bus chain, you changed the way your nonlinear processors, like compression or saturation, were affecting the signal. Technically, if you had compensated those levels within your mix bus processing, your mix would have sounded exactly the same. Ironically, that’s one of the principles of gain staging. 😄

Logic pro does better than studio one when comp. I use both and i can tell that logic does better and faster and easier. In fact the copy this from logic.

Great Tips. Thanks a lot. I have a question for you. I was looking for a Filter to decide what MIDI Events will be copied from one Track to another. For example, I want to switch off the copy of Program Change or Control Change events (such as Sustain Pedal) and so on. Is there any Filter like that? If yes where is it? Many thanks in advance. Best regards. Paolo

ok so studio one for recording & mixing, ableton for production - BET

That video behind funnies geezus Christ am tweaking

Thank You.... I was getting frustrated but this video saved me.

why everybody call themselves producers?

Hold on , so u don't use bus channel 😮 just straight to FX ? 😢

That's exactly what I do - I always assumed I was just being lazy.

It is fine for a seasoned engineer like Scheps to throw caution to the wind because he understands what is salvageable/reversible and what isn’t. The amount of young kids I meet trying to get into the studios I work at who see stuff like this and think they already know everything and/or think “none of that stuff really matters just go with feel” and then fuck things up irreversibly is mindblowing. Secondly, Finneas ain’t a mix engineer, or even an engineer at all, so who cares what his advice on that is? Songwriting maybe? But they’ve had two flops now since Billie’s second record - and everything he does without her sucks.

Numbers?? what numbers?!! I just drive everything till it sounds how I want it to sound 🤪Andrew is right!!!!

Clip to Zero is all you need 😃

Awesome vieo, each to his own. Gain staging was made so much easier in Studio One I just use it..quick no hassles. Not trying to reinvent the wheel.

As he describes it more and more he sounds more like he is completely biased and is finding every reason to glorify this DAW. The whole purchasing scheme sounds like a scammy vibe. This is not a video about a real opinion or candid opinion. Its a very very biased review.

The thresholds on the plugins aren't set for the new level. You can reduce level and compensate thresholds to get the same sound and the difference is just level. That's what thresholds are for; or am I missing something? Just curious not trolling. Like your content.

Nothing but nothing can replace good ears.

I feel like Plan Z is a better song all around, but Neon Tide DEFINITELY has the better chorus!

Thanks for another video man!! I always love learning from you!

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24-bit 48kHz works great. Helps with CPU load, records the entire range of hearing and then some (22.05kHz), and has a really low noise floor, much lower than the -60dBFS of 16-bit.

The freaking unholy use of Autotune actually makes it really hard to hear much difference in compression. That being said, you can mix just anything with the stock plugins in Studio One. And the Fat channel is really good.

is it the same as in bandlab?

Cubase you can customize your own macros and create your own.

You speak too fast.

Flashing background video makes me want to puke, please never use it again for the sake of people with sensitivities/epilepsy.

My main problem is finding a producer who actually listens to what I'm telling them when I ask for a revision. Idk if it's the program or what, but when I get done early with my studio session I like to take a hour with the producer to mix and master a song, but it seems everytime whoever bounces my song to me there's always something missing, like a missing a echo effect here or a missing dub. It drives me nuts!

Amazing advice, thank you!

Buy a Mac M2 Silicon. CPU issues gone. You cannot run it over. Not possible.

FL is for beat makers. Studio One Pro is for producers that actually play keys. A beat maker is not a producer.

As a logic user, getting to dive into the Ocean Eyes demo project was INSANE!! They even kept all of Billie’s vocal takes and there are like 40 of them at least

Video is good, but the blinking background is so disturbing

This is a great vid!

From now on I am going to comment on an S1 video everytime the sack of shit crashes on me. Don't waste your money. An absolute buggy bag of tug. This crash I had just saved 10 mins before, did a shit load of tweaking 4 synths I had spent the past hour setting up as a base for, for sound design. Tweaked them all to get sounds spot on and it crashed. Literally the most important 10 minutes that I put a shit ton of effort in to to sculpt the sounds - gone. What is the arrangement? None, no stress on it, no midi, no audio, an empty page. Just 4 empty instrument tracks, no mixer effects, nothing. I could have opened over 30 of that VST in Reason and it wouldn't have crashed. I got S1 5 as a free upgrade because I bought S1 4 at the end of its life. 5 was unusable it crashed so often. All of my software is legal, this isn't any try before you buy shit causing a crash. All my plugins, DAW's, everything legit. So obviously with v5 being so bad I rolled back to v4. V4 still crashes all the time. If you don't hit save every minute, you're at risk of losing stuff. I tried v5 again after years thinking they probably fixed it by now but no. It's a mess still. What do we have now? V6. They left v4 a mess, v5 a big steaming mess and instead of fixing those they made v6. Not a chance in hell I am upgrading with them and I need some functions that aren't in the other versions. Now I need to find £300 so I can crossgrade to Cubase. So to save £200 I bought S1 at £300 instead of Cubase at £500, when I get money to crossgrade it's gonna have cost me £600. Should have just bought Cubase in the first place. Don't waste your money on Studio One. Pre Sonus do not give a shit about you. Go with a company that isn't going to sell you wank DAW. Presonus are dirty cash grabbing, rip off bastards.

the video behind finneas is nauseating. i see what you were trying to do tho.

Back in the 80’s and 90s some of the most popular songs were done on cheap equipment and very few tracks It’s not about all this technology it’s about how to put something really good out

I'm gonna try tonight and I'll come back to comment