Sub group your drums, just bass, subgroup guitars, and other instruments. Then vocals. Building the mix dry then last add your reverbs, ext. on sends. That’s what I have learned for me works
Great video, especially for indie-start up's like us. To offset some of our lack of cashflow, we use mostly plugins. Currently, we're using Wave's Abbey Studio 3, and there is a noticeable improvement in our mixes. Undoubtedly, experience is a controlling factor when you approach any mix. Speaking of experience, just a tip for your viewers: You produced/mixed one (or several) of MC Solaar's commercial releases. Historically, he's considered the greatest French Rapper alive to date. I first heard him back in the early 90's on the late GURU's (R.I.P.) Jazzmatazz Vol. 1. I'm an old Gangstarr fan, and I was a D.J. back in the Golden Age of Hip Hop. Back then, my gear was a 4 track Tascam mixer, a Casio keyboard with 2 1 second sample banks, and a JVC radio for recording and routing. Things sure have changed. Again, thanks for the tips, they help us immensely. HMC
Ive met your channel just two days ago by looking for isover type of material for my studio and very surprise to see that someone does the midside cheking too... midside sure its powerful... keep rockin man! your channel is fantastic^^ hope you can answer my other comment about the isover stuff you shine a lot! cheers from spain!
Great stuff again. When you say you mixed on those $100 monitors, surely you also did listening on other speakers with some lower frequency capability, or with a sub? Thanks!
Always interesting listen to what you have to say. Sooner or later Dave P will have to invite you to 'The Place' I'd love to see you doing 'Batters Box'! :)
Big thanks for a very interesting discussion. However, I still must say that my game-changing thing had very little to do with technical aspects. The game-changer was just the stupid banal realization that I spend lots of time with music just because it's something I actually love and I'm supposed to love and when it stops being that, I move on, forget it and do something else for a while :) After that, I've always trusted my instincts only!
Exactly!!! love your comment!!! to everybody if you understand this comment, here youre getting gold advice. happened to me too... if you are not enjoying it, move on... nothing good comes from pushing yourself too far into doing something you abhor
Thanks for your nice comment :) ... I also feel it's very healthy to just let the ears rest for a while now and then. Music producers and people who work or just spend lots of time with music shouldn't narrow themselves to music only, IMHO, but also read books, watch movies, spend time in art galleries, go hiking or have a good deal of outdoors activity in order to give listeners something relevant by understanding what's going on generally. That way, it'll be easier to keep things fresh and branch out a little bit and find new ideas and styles.
How you don't have 1M subscribers!? This is the best channel hands down
Your posts are always so useful, even as an experienced producer and mix engineer I do really appreciate the conversation...
Dude, I love your videos! Can't wait to see the new studio!
Great video David! Definitely looking into the monitor controller with all those features it’s a must have!
So many awesome tips. Big picture first then dive in if needed.
Another great one man! So grateful for these you're the best!
Sub group your drums, just bass, subgroup guitars, and other instruments. Then vocals. Building the mix dry then last add your reverbs, ext. on sends. That’s what I have learned for me works
Great video, especially for indie-start up's like us. To offset some of our lack of cashflow, we use mostly plugins. Currently, we're using Wave's Abbey Studio 3, and there is a noticeable improvement in our mixes. Undoubtedly, experience is a controlling factor when you approach any mix. Speaking of experience, just a tip for your viewers: You produced/mixed one (or several) of MC Solaar's commercial releases. Historically, he's considered the greatest French Rapper alive to date. I first heard him back in the early 90's on the late GURU's (R.I.P.) Jazzmatazz Vol. 1. I'm an old Gangstarr fan, and I was a D.J. back in the Golden Age of Hip Hop. Back then, my gear was a 4 track Tascam mixer, a Casio keyboard with 2 1 second sample banks, and a JVC radio for recording and routing. Things sure have changed. Again, thanks for the tips, they help us immensely. HMC
These tips are priceless, thank you.
U kidz will soon have no tyme 4 yur "little songs", we gonna be at WW3 very soon !!!!!!
Ive met your channel just two days ago by looking for isover type of material for my studio and very surprise to see that someone does the midside cheking too... midside sure its powerful... keep rockin man! your channel is fantastic^^
hope you can answer my other comment about the isover stuff you shine a lot! cheers from spain!
Man really like these videos.
"and of course saturation on everything" hahaha best advice
I was waiting for the saturation tip since the beginning haha
Very useful, thanks!
Great Advices!! Thank You
Another gem thanks David! 🖒
You are a godsend!
Great stuff again.
When you say you mixed on those $100 monitors, surely you also did listening on other speakers with some lower frequency capability, or with a sub?
Thanks!
Always interesting listen to what you have to say. Sooner or later Dave P will have to invite you to 'The Place' I'd love to see you doing 'Batters Box'! :)
Great approach as usual ❤
great video,as always..regards
Great video, what kind of PC keyboard do you use?
uh thanks David!
If you got to design a piece of hardware or a plugin solely for the purpose of improving your mixes, what would you design?
You said "tactical" instead of "tactile", but i think it still fits ;P
Saturation on everithing :D
Big thanks for a very interesting discussion. However, I still must say that my game-changing thing had very little to do with technical aspects. The game-changer was just the stupid banal realization that I spend lots of time with music just because it's something I actually love and I'm supposed to love and when it stops being that, I move on, forget it and do something else for a while :) After that, I've always trusted my instincts only!
Exactly!!! love your comment!!! to everybody if you understand this comment, here youre getting gold advice. happened to me too... if you are not enjoying it, move on... nothing good comes from pushing yourself too far into doing something you abhor
Thanks for your nice comment :) ... I also feel it's very healthy to just let the ears rest for a while now and then. Music producers and people who work or just spend lots of time with music shouldn't narrow themselves to music only, IMHO, but also read books, watch movies, spend time in art galleries, go hiking or have a good deal of outdoors activity in order to give listeners something relevant by understanding what's going on generally. That way, it'll be easier to keep things fresh and branch out a little bit and find new ideas and styles.
Tkm
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