One thing I recommend is to put a limiter on the mix bus… not to actually use as a limiter, but to use as a mix checking tool. Often mastering will uncover issues with a mix. While you can try to fix them during mastering, if you can fix the big ones during your mix process imo you will get a better master. So when your mix is ‘close’… turn your limiter on and crank it up a bit. It will give you a sense of shrill spots, volume issues, etc.. Turn the limiter off, fix issues.
Just tried it. I'm really impressed by the power of the volume adjusting technique. It really forces you to choose the position of each element, and the constraint is helpful to go ahead. And it's soooo fast .... thanks for the vid! (watched a bunch of yours these days)
Yes! I think that's where it's really powerful, just picking one and moving on. And if something is still out of whack you'll hear it later and adjust accordingly
Perfect timing, man. Just finished a track and am about to start the mixing process; I have a bit of a workflow currently but I never really feel like I have a clear direction forward. Definitely going to try your method here as a framework and see if it helps me get a good result with less guesswork.
As someone who needs to get confident with mixing these videos lets me know that you do what sounds best to you. And while that's different for everybody you do pick up on stuff watching others. Thanks a bunch. Share the knowledge and love brother.
Incredible video! I've come back to it several times and I gain something new with every watch. Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing your knowledge. You've also got great energy, bud! 👍
Awww shoot!! Someone mentioned your channel in a music producer group, and I'm so glad I looked you up. My mixes are just BAAAD. lol They're usually harsh, with the levels all wrong, despite my attempts to balance, but I just rough mixed a recent track with your method, and it's already sounding better!! I have a bunch of new music I'd like to release, but I hesitate because it doesn't sound cohesive. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙌🏾 Love this track too. 🔥
Your videos have been so helpful for me in the lab. I'm always struggling with my mixes but you really simplify the process so I can really understand it. I hate the mixing and mastering part of the process. I just want to play with my toys and record col shit, but this makes it a much less painful experience! Thanks Friend!
Hey there friend. Just wanted to chime on again and let you know that this video got me over the hump. I watched Uta. Few different times while working on this album where the mix was just driving me crazy and your tips really saved my life man! I can't recommend this video enough for simplifying what has often been a very complicated process for me. Thanks friend!!!
Great technique to stay away from perfectionism that can often ruin the mixes! Simple yet genius approach. Massive thanks for this video and your time Ricky!!!
Sup, man, very neat vid, as always. One more tip for a smooth buttery bass is to use a multi band compressor on bass in your 25-50 range and add a vintage optic compressor (like LA-2A) and push it to "overdrive" just a little, so you almost don't hear the OD from compressor, just a bit of dirt. ~1 dB of gain reduction and you are set.
Another tip: for generic reverb, that's just meant to push things a bit wider and back in the mix, use a single send channel effect for all those sounds. Saves on cpu, gells the sounds as they are in the same 'space'. Also eq out the low and low mids on the effect send. The reverb is just meant to be some top end sparkle and the overall mix will be more transparent and less muddy
while using meters to get you in the ball park, I'd still dial in some fine level adjustments using your ears, the clap is a bit hot at -12 in my opinion and should be around -14/15, always use your ears, also mix very low monitor volume, you can hear when elements appear and sit in the sound bed, mixing is all about practice and knowing your monitors, always good to leave space on the master bus around -10/12 db for the Mastering stage, also good to have a Reference track to compare against, no matter what genre youre mixing,
Thank you so much for sharing these tips! It helped me a lot! I was usually struggling to set the levels right and now I can do it not only by ear and the results are great! Sending love!
thanks dude. been wanting to move a bunch of stuff out of my digitakt and this has been a daunting part of this process. appreciate your candor and vids man
Thank you, Ricky! Just what I’ve been looking for. The creative inspiration is deep. Would love to see a video on making bass patterns using Ableton stock sounds. Recs for go to bass’s. ❤
Just watched a recent @Bthelick video and he's a huge advocate for no compressors for mixing and also really pushes for not needing mastering either. If you can make a good enough mix you won't need mastering. It's a pretty awesome goal to shoot for.
I used to use something like this way back... In the mid-90s, Tascam dbx NR cassette 4-track of about 12 or so instruments - rock stuff...gtr, keys, electric bass, a Boss DR-550 mk1 and all sorts of little percussion things - into a Dolby C NR Sony tape deck (metal tape), to manually make my masters to run copies off of. I learned it somewhere, may have either been my training on 2" 16 tracks or the Home Recording book by Peter McIan and Larry Wichman. You make great vids with an honest take on things - thank you!
I love that -6db idea you are talking about. My mentor teached me technique where think that - 3 db is little and -6 db is much. So if you feel that sound is too loud move it -6db and if little too loud move it -3db and vice versa.
Amazing timing. I've been devouvering mixing videos the last days and this came just when I needed it. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge Ricky. Love
I refrain from moving the mixer level at all and do everything with utilities. It allows you to boost way above like you mentioned, but then you can just throw effects on the line after utility.
Yo dude, don't make me take notes to your sessions :-D Killer tips to get in the ballpark. I've been struggling with mix lately because I went too far ahead of my skills with my ambitions. Get back to basics - start with volume and EQ and arrangement and let those build the tracks. This is exactly what I needed in this space of time. Appreciate you!
yes! some of my best "mixed" tracks are on my old MPCs which only had volume adjustments haha. But what really helped them, I think, was the final output of the L/R outs. I have a hunch that it glued it all together well. Where a DAW might try to leave it as transparent as possible. Either way, volume, EQ, some effects to add width. done!
Great video. I was sceptical at first about looking at the peak meters instead of using your ears. But your argument about removing decision paralysis is really legit and i can see it speeding up my process. Gonna try it soon!
I generally try and stick to 1 reverb (Vintage Verb) on a bus for my drums and instruments. I used to use individual reverbs on inserts when i started out, but found it would make my mixes opaque/foggy. I use a bigger ambient verb with a low blend on vocals.
Que buen vídeo Ricky. This was awesome, and I have been mixing for many many years. This is almost like a framework for a quick draft mix, and then you can go ballistic with the traditional tweaks. Love all your videos and love your music, house with beautiful pad progressions, a bit like in the mid 90s. Keep up the great work!
This is gonna be a game changer for me. Creating beats to edit my vids to has been a challenge because I'm always towing the line between having elements that sound interesting and sit in the mix well without getting annoying or distracting because the main focus is the video. Using this as a guideline will help bring so much more consistency to the tracks, keep up the great content!
That's why it's so difficult for me to make music for my own video haha! It's like to competing things playing at once. I applaud your efforts in that goal
Yea panning is extremely difficult haha. I'll put a sound to one side then think its missing from the other side. So then I add a sound over there and now my track is too cluttered! Its tricky. Also, for my style of music and where it's usually played, having extreme panning might be a downfall since a lot of clubs are mixed mono, or wires extremely weird to have music playing throughout a building
Thanks @Ricky! This is a really straightforward approach to getting to that clean mix we all need. I always struggle with this and end up spending too much time on it and throwing a hodge podge of plugins at the problem. Conveniently, I'm about to mix up a batch of tracks from this summer, so excellent timing!
Great tutorial! Getting your levels right does make things so much easier. I have been using a plugin called mix monolith that works on a similar principle as you are describing. It combines the utility aspect with having different gain levels for the type of track you are mixing. I start every mix with it on every channel. I don't use a lot of compression and always wondered if that was wrong. You have put my mind at ease.
Hey man! Nice tutorial but still some question: 1. What about panning drums and other elements of the track? 2. The pre-recorded sound are straigh from drums maichines/ samples without any process? 3. Do you have some kind of this tutorial from Mastering?
Holy crap. I usually reference pink noise and mix my levels against that. It works ok. But I just followed your suggestions in this video and got my levels sounding AMAZING very quickly.
Sweet video man, I use a VU meter for this, especially getting the kick and bass balanced. It works a lot better than peak meters because sometimes the perceived volume is louder or quieter and it can be tough to get the right balance with those elements. For example, -3 on the VU meter can show a different peak value for the kick depending on the sound of it. So the VU never really lies like the peak. For kick bass, try kick at -3 on the VU and then when bass hits with the kick they should peak at 0 VU. Give it a shot!
Wow new to the channel and production love your videos been here for the last two and im learning stuff so good. Will have to go into the archives and look for more mixing vids but more of that mate fantastic! Thankyou
Such a useful video that I will definitely keep coming back to. Interesting that your initial mixing process goes from the kick through the percussion then onto the bass.I must have watched 100 other videos where the kick then the bass take priority.
I like to get the drums nailed down, That to me is the most important for my house music. It is one instrument, it also should be able to live on its own without a bass or chords or main sample. If all elements turn off in the middle of the track and the drums are groovin' the dance floor don't stop
I first saw the "separating sounds in groups 6db apart" method in a Hainbach video, but I don't think he went into so much detail, showing the process from end to end. This is awesome @RickyTinez. This works great for dance music in particular, where we kind of expect certain sounds to be in a certain place in the mix. Probably still applicable to other genres, but I would be careful about that. As I was watching the video I was like...hmmmm, he could use a clipper here and there to tighten the sounds, and boom, there you have it, apogee soft limit. Baphometrix has an amazing in depth tutorial series into using clipping at different stages of the mix - even though I'm not ever producing tracks in her hyper-loud genre, the overall "clip to zero" strategy helped me be more conscious of how peaks that were NOT there are created all the way through the summing of instruments, busses, etc.
it 100% applies to all genres. It's basically just balancing the mix. 6 dB is kinda nice "preset" value, but you can tweak it to what you think sounds best. In every genre you don't want to have all parts right in your face. Even in hardest EDM, trap or dirtiest garage lo-fi diy punk kraut rock. Setting up right recording levels, panning elements, and balancing the mix properly is like 50% of good mix. Then you fix the problems with subtractive eq, work further on placement of elements by using compressor and space effects. And after all this ground work is done, you go to the best, most fun part of mixing - creative effects, saturation, neat tricks and automation. But without properly set balance it's not gonna be that much fun.
@@Quimmoo maybe my message did not come across, I guess what I was trying to convey is you have to be careful of not following this mechanism as the end-all/be-all of balancing instruments in a mix. For example, there are many genres where the kick drum is not the most prominent instrument in the mix, so it would not make a lot of sense to build the mix using that as the baseline. Or, there may be times where, irrespective of genre, you are just going in a different direction/aesthetic. A famous example of that is David Bowie's "Heroes" where Tony Visconti purposely left the kick drum very low in the mix, because he wanted to give the music a lighter/more ethereal vibe. In the end its all about what feels right, I know it sounds cliché, but we have to keep reminding that this is supposed to be an art form, not a formula.
@@cadetesespaciales yeah, sure. I've been working on a song once, client gave me midi track of drums, and asked me to put some nice sounding samples, since he didn't have any "cool" "expensive" sounds. I took all the finest shit from my library, just to finally end up with a stock logic drum kit, and all toms being really muddy low tom sound. I've sent the first revision of the song to him and he said "nah, those drums are too bright and too prominent". Dude wanted his record to sound as dark and monotonous as possible, so I've put most drums far back, even tho it was a rock/new-wave song.
I really enjoyed your video, they are super effective tips for putting a mix together! As for the pans, do you leave everything a little in the middle so that the sound passes correctly in the club? otherwise, thank you again for your nourishing and always positive spirit dude ! d;-D peace
Step 3 was taught to me by @CraigWilliamsMusic who also has a really good video on mixing here -th-cam.com/video/NwnMGZ0jKhE/w-d-xo.html
PLEASE DO MORE MIXING VIDEOS!!! this is so helpful, ive never understood mixing more than i do now after watching this lol
I second this
One thing I recommend is to put a limiter on the mix bus… not to actually use as a limiter, but to use as a mix checking tool. Often mastering will uncover issues with a mix. While you can try to fix them during mastering, if you can fix the big ones during your mix process imo you will get a better master. So when your mix is ‘close’… turn your limiter on and crank it up a bit. It will give you a sense of shrill spots, volume issues, etc.. Turn the limiter off, fix issues.
Just tried it. I'm really impressed by the power of the volume adjusting technique. It really forces you to choose the position of each element, and the constraint is helpful to go ahead. And it's soooo fast .... thanks for the vid! (watched a bunch of yours these days)
Yes! I think that's where it's really powerful, just picking one and moving on. And if something is still out of whack you'll hear it later and adjust accordingly
You, my friend, are an excellent presenter and teacher. I love your style. Thank you.
Perfect timing, man. Just finished a track and am about to start the mixing process; I have a bit of a workflow currently but I never really feel like I have a clear direction forward. Definitely going to try your method here as a framework and see if it helps me get a good result with less guesswork.
As someone who needs to get confident with mixing these videos lets me know that you do what sounds best to you. And while that's different for everybody you do pick up on stuff watching others. Thanks a bunch. Share the knowledge and love brother.
Hell yea! Thanks for the kind words @phyxirian ! Dope name too btw
Incredible video! I've come back to it several times and I gain something new with every watch. Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing your knowledge. You've also got great energy, bud! 👍
Awww shoot!! Someone mentioned your channel in a music producer group, and I'm so glad I looked you up. My mixes are just BAAAD. lol They're usually harsh, with the levels all wrong, despite my attempts to balance, but I just rough mixed a recent track with your method, and it's already sounding better!! I have a bunch of new music I'd like to release, but I hesitate because it doesn't sound cohesive. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙌🏾 Love this track too. 🔥
Your videos have been so helpful for me in the lab. I'm always struggling with my mixes but you really simplify the process so I can really understand it. I hate the mixing and mastering part of the process. I just want to play with my toys and record col shit, but this makes it a much less painful experience! Thanks Friend!
Hey there friend. Just wanted to chime on again and let you know that this video got me over the hump. I watched Uta. Few different times while working on this album where the mix was just driving me crazy and your tips really saved my life man! I can't recommend this video enough for simplifying what has often been a very complicated process for me. Thanks friend!!!
Great technique to stay away from perfectionism that can often ruin the mixes! Simple yet genius approach. Massive thanks for this video and your time Ricky!!!
This is the most eloquent explanation of mixing that I’ve heard. Thank you so much
Sup, man, very neat vid, as always. One more tip for a smooth buttery bass is to use a multi band compressor on bass in your 25-50 range and add a vintage optic compressor (like LA-2A) and push it to "overdrive" just a little, so you almost don't hear the OD from compressor, just a bit of dirt. ~1 dB of gain reduction and you are set.
This is a great mixing video. It's a great example of how to get past the analysis paralysis that can happen.
Yes, keep it moving!
Love this! I’ve gotten so lazy with mixing. This is a great reminder that it really doesn’t need to be complicated.
Another tip: for generic reverb, that's just meant to push things a bit wider and back in the mix, use a single send channel effect for all those sounds. Saves on cpu, gells the sounds as they are in the same 'space'. Also eq out the low and low mids on the effect send. The reverb is just meant to be some top end sparkle and the overall mix will be more transparent and less muddy
your videos are so great Ricky ! - cheers Rio / Brazil
its so nice to see somebody actually making it simple and not trying to sell tons of plugins. thanks for that, bro!
This is actually the best short-form mastering lesson on the internet. No joke.
while using meters to get you in the ball park, I'd still dial in some fine level adjustments using your ears, the clap is a bit hot at -12 in my opinion and should be around -14/15, always use your ears, also mix very low monitor volume, you can hear when elements appear and sit in the sound bed, mixing is all about practice and knowing your monitors, always good to leave space on the master bus around -10/12 db for the Mastering stage, also good to have a Reference track to compare against, no matter what genre youre mixing,
You are Mr Uncomplicated - in the best sense. What a great straightforward video. Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing these tips! It helped me a lot! I was usually struggling to set the levels right and now I can do it not only by ear and the results are great! Sending love!
Ive mixed stuff since the early 90s, and this still teaches me "new basics". Well tweaked!
thanks dude. been wanting to move a bunch of stuff out of my digitakt and this has been a daunting part of this process. appreciate your candor and vids man
Good tips!
Thank you, Ricky! Just what I’ve been looking for. The creative inspiration is deep. Would love to see a video on making bass patterns using Ableton stock sounds. Recs for go to bass’s. ❤
Thank you for some really great sounding and instructional content! I'm learning more about mixing, and this was super helpful.
Just watched a recent @Bthelick video and he's a huge advocate for no compressors for mixing and also really pushes for not needing mastering either. If you can make a good enough mix you won't need mastering. It's a pretty awesome goal to shoot for.
I used to use something like this way back...
In the mid-90s, Tascam dbx NR cassette 4-track of about 12 or so instruments - rock stuff...gtr, keys, electric bass, a Boss DR-550 mk1 and all sorts of little percussion things - into a Dolby C NR Sony tape deck (metal tape), to manually make my masters to run copies off of.
I learned it somewhere, may have either been my training on 2" 16 tracks or the Home Recording book by Peter McIan and Larry Wichman.
You make great vids with an honest take on things - thank you!
I love that -6db idea you are talking about. My mentor teached me technique where think that - 3 db is little and -6 db is much. So if you feel that sound is too loud move it -6db and if little too loud move it -3db and vice versa.
Sick track! ❤
I've watched a fair few mixing videos, but this has been the most easy to follow and understand. Can put into use straight away!
Thanks Enrique! ❤
i think this is one of the best videos you've made. Nice one! Thx
THIS IS.. SO GOOD! Thank you for sharing this!
Damn Ricky! 🤓👏🏻 Thank you buddy. So simple but powerful.
Excellent advice, thanks...
Just applied the -6db recommendation to a track I was mixing for my band and it got me to a really good place really fast. Thanks, Ricky.
Amazing timing. I've been devouvering mixing videos the last days and this came just when I needed it. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge Ricky. Love
I refrain from moving the mixer level at all and do everything with utilities. It allows you to boost way above like you mentioned, but then you can just throw effects on the line after utility.
Yo dude, don't make me take notes to your sessions :-D Killer tips to get in the ballpark. I've been struggling with mix lately because I went too far ahead of my skills with my ambitions. Get back to basics - start with volume and EQ and arrangement and let those build the tracks. This is exactly what I needed in this space of time. Appreciate you!
yes! some of my best "mixed" tracks are on my old MPCs which only had volume adjustments haha. But what really helped them, I think, was the final output of the L/R outs. I have a hunch that it glued it all together well. Where a DAW might try to leave it as transparent as possible. Either way, volume, EQ, some effects to add width. done!
You earned yourself a sub. I know it's not much, but it is the only way the little guy (me) could show you appreciation.
Great video. I was sceptical at first about looking at the peak meters instead of using your ears. But your argument about removing decision paralysis is really legit and i can see it speeding up my process. Gonna try it soon!
I really enjoy your videos every saturday, it’s like a ritual.
I generally try and stick to 1 reverb (Vintage Verb) on a bus for my drums and instruments. I used to use individual reverbs on inserts when i started out, but found it would make my mixes opaque/foggy. I use a bigger ambient verb with a low blend on vocals.
Que buen vídeo Ricky. This was awesome, and I have been mixing for many many years. This is almost like a framework for a quick draft mix, and then you can go ballistic with the traditional tweaks. Love all your videos and love your music, house with beautiful pad progressions, a bit like in the mid 90s. Keep up the great work!
Thank you.. what a great, informative video. Massive simplified help.
This is gonna be a game changer for me. Creating beats to edit my vids to has been a challenge because I'm always towing the line between having elements that sound interesting and sit in the mix well without getting annoying or distracting because the main focus is the video. Using this as a guideline will help bring so much more consistency to the tracks, keep up the great content!
That's why it's so difficult for me to make music for my own video haha! It's like to competing things playing at once. I applaud your efforts in that goal
This is public service, Ricky. More than that! Thanks!!!
Great tips ! One of the hardest thing for me is panning. Would love to see some experimentation around that topic
Yea panning is extremely difficult haha. I'll put a sound to one side then think its missing from the other side. So then I add a sound over there and now my track is too cluttered! Its tricky. Also, for my style of music and where it's usually played, having extreme panning might be a downfall since a lot of clubs are mixed mono, or wires extremely weird to have music playing throughout a building
Oh my days Ricky!! This is so helpful!! Thank you ❤
i appreciate you deeeplyyy, im never too too dissapointed in my mixes but i know this gon help tha level up
s/o ricky, much love to you gang
Thanks @Ricky! This is a really straightforward approach to getting to that clean mix we all need. I always struggle with this and end up spending too much time on it and throwing a hodge podge of plugins at the problem. Conveniently, I'm about to mix up a batch of tracks from this summer, so excellent timing!
This was maaaaad useful. Thanks so much for what you do.
I learned so much, wow
Great track and great mixing tips! Thanks for sharing!
This method works for me. Thanks for the Gem.
Great tutorial! Getting your levels right does make things so much easier. I have been using a plugin called mix monolith that works on a similar principle as you are describing. It combines the utility aspect with having different gain levels for the type of track you are mixing. I start every mix with it on every channel. I don't use a lot of compression and always wondered if that was wrong. You have put my mind at ease.
Cheers for the info shows another take how to approach mixing. Have a good one. ✌️✊
Hey man! Nice tutorial but still some question:
1. What about panning drums and other elements of the track?
2. The pre-recorded sound are straigh from drums maichines/ samples without any process?
3. Do you have some kind of this tutorial from Mastering?
Great video! I've bookmarked this and will be referring to it again. 🙏
Holy crap. I usually reference pink noise and mix my levels against that. It works ok. But I just followed your suggestions in this video and got my levels sounding AMAZING very quickly.
The tricks in this one definitely helped with a track of mine, thanks
Cool idea and nice tips. I'm gonna try this out later. Thanks a bunch for the info
Sweet video man, I use a VU meter for this, especially getting the kick and bass balanced. It works a lot better than peak meters because sometimes the perceived volume is louder or quieter and it can be tough to get the right balance with those elements. For example, -3 on the VU meter can show a different peak value for the kick depending on the sound of it. So the VU never really lies like the peak. For kick bass, try kick at -3 on the VU and then when bass hits with the kick they should peak at 0 VU. Give it a shot!
Exactly what Tejada was telling me! Do you have a preferred VU meter? He uses a plug-in I can't remember the name of
Klanghelm VUMT bro @@RickyTinez I like your technique better though as it works well with all the other elements in the mix
This video is a jewel
Great vid. Really helpful when you gave specific -db per element. Thank you 🎉
Beautiful track, please release this one 🙌🏽
Thanks! Great video!
Wow new to the channel and production love your videos been here for the last two and im learning stuff so good. Will have to go into the archives and look for more mixing vids but more of that mate fantastic! Thankyou
Welcome! And thanks for the kind words @Locket104
Thank you🙏👊
needed this video like 2 years ago 😭🙌
You give so much in one video, thank you)
Thank you! Perfect timing for me 😇
Sick video G🔊
This was great, thanks!!
Great content, thank's Ricky!
6dB is almost double amplitude, and -6dB is almost exactly half
Then what's 35dB?!
@@RickyTineznot sure where you're seeing 35, but 36dB is 6 * 6, or 6 "doubling"s of amplitude so 64(ish) times (2^6)
@@AMTunLimitedyuppp
Such a useful video that I will definitely keep coming back to. Interesting that your initial mixing process goes from the kick through the percussion then onto the bass.I must have watched 100 other videos where the kick then the bass take priority.
I like to get the drums nailed down, That to me is the most important for my house music. It is one instrument, it also should be able to live on its own without a bass or chords or main sample. If all elements turn off in the middle of the track and the drums are groovin' the dance floor don't stop
I’ve been using logic on the iPad pro for film cues and sound design with killer results too!👽✌️
Great stuff, man!
Good lord... this is a perfect feel good mixing lesson. 🤝
Awesome content Ricky. This video could have been epic if it were a live stream.😂 Love your stuff.
break Down! ,, thank you sir,, super valuable info
delicious with pleasant presentation. long live 'haws musik.'
I first saw the "separating sounds in groups 6db apart" method in a Hainbach video, but I don't think he went into so much detail, showing the process from end to end. This is awesome @RickyTinez. This works great for dance music in particular, where we kind of expect certain sounds to be in a certain place in the mix. Probably still applicable to other genres, but I would be careful about that.
As I was watching the video I was like...hmmmm, he could use a clipper here and there to tighten the sounds, and boom, there you have it, apogee soft limit. Baphometrix has an amazing in depth tutorial series into using clipping at different stages of the mix - even though I'm not ever producing tracks in her hyper-loud genre, the overall "clip to zero" strategy helped me be more conscious of how peaks that were NOT there are created all the way through the summing of instruments, busses, etc.
it 100% applies to all genres. It's basically just balancing the mix. 6 dB is kinda nice "preset" value, but you can tweak it to what you think sounds best. In every genre you don't want to have all parts right in your face. Even in hardest EDM, trap or dirtiest garage lo-fi diy punk kraut rock. Setting up right recording levels, panning elements, and balancing the mix properly is like 50% of good mix. Then you fix the problems with subtractive eq, work further on placement of elements by using compressor and space effects. And after all this ground work is done, you go to the best, most fun part of mixing - creative effects, saturation, neat tricks and automation. But without properly set balance it's not gonna be that much fun.
@@Quimmoo maybe my message did not come across, I guess what I was trying to convey is you have to be careful of not following this mechanism as the end-all/be-all of balancing instruments in a mix. For example, there are many genres where the kick drum is not the most prominent instrument in the mix, so it would not make a lot of sense to build the mix using that as the baseline. Or, there may be times where, irrespective of genre, you are just going in a different direction/aesthetic. A famous example of that is David Bowie's "Heroes" where Tony Visconti purposely left the kick drum very low in the mix, because he wanted to give the music a lighter/more ethereal vibe. In the end its all about what feels right, I know it sounds cliché, but we have to keep reminding that this is supposed to be an art form, not a formula.
@@cadetesespaciales yeah, sure. I've been working on a song once, client gave me midi track of drums, and asked me to put some nice sounding samples, since he didn't have any "cool" "expensive" sounds. I took all the finest shit from my library, just to finally end up with a stock logic drum kit, and all toms being really muddy low tom sound. I've sent the first revision of the song to him and he said "nah, those drums are too bright and too prominent". Dude wanted his record to sound as dark and monotonous as possible, so I've put most drums far back, even tho it was a rock/new-wave song.
Great Video as always my man 🔥👊🏼 For these ‚hard‘ transients i use the gm audio clipper. Also a great tool for these kind of things. Cheers, d 🙂
I like how 2 minutes into the video you get so into your own track that you forgot what you were going to say - sign of a good session
The real magic here is how well you mix your voice-over with the rest of the track.
Lol so true
It's probably a little side chain compression 😆
I have to rewatch this video over and over again !
I really enjoyed your video, they are super effective tips for putting a mix together! As for the pans, do you leave everything a little in the middle so that the sound passes correctly in the club?
otherwise, thank you again for your nourishing and always positive spirit dude ! d;-D peace
Hell yeah Wedgehead Pinball.
20:02 there’s media offline in the video.
Thanks, Ricky!
Track is bangin man, really sick tune.
Simply beautiful :)
i'm curious on your stance re: pros/cons of individual channel fx vs aux sends
good stuff
great tutorial, sweet track!!!
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Need arranging video of this track. Ricky pls !!!