In regards to mixing, it helps to have a vision of the finished song before you hit record. Do you want a deep gushy snare, a high snappy snare, ringy, dead, bright cymbols, dark? Do you want a bright guitar tone, or a thick one? Choose the best instruments to nudge you in that direction, with whatever instruments you have. Choose the best mic. Don't use a ribon if you want a bright guitar. Use a 57 if you hear something midrange forward. Play with your mic placements. If you can and are feeling adventurous, try tracking with a little EQ. I tend to do mostly cuts on my console going in so I'm only printing the good stuff. For really dynamic sources like vocals, try a bit of compression just to narrow that range a little. Record in a manner where you can put your faders at unity and you're 75 percent of the way there. Mixing then is a matter of bringing out every last bit of greatness in the song rather than correcting what you didn't do at tracking.
No it's not people just need to make their music and stay with the skills of their genre, know that amature mixes exist do things correctly, also remember every ones genre isn't your genre. People who do Hip-Hop Rock Pop R&B are totally different from one another, I work with 90's and early 2000's Hip-Hop and R&B artist I shouldn't take advice from a House or Rock engineer. And also remember these people are youtubers at the end of the day selling courses and videos, when I see videos like these I usually ignore these people but this topic has even landed in my community and I felt the need to say something everytime I see it. The home studio isn't collapsing in my genre heck it's growing I don't deal with room mics or acoustic instruments why would I listen to someone who has to deal with these types of instruments, and if I do have to deal with them it's usually rugged instruments or a rare track, I still treat it as my genre though, anyways digital instruments don't have that effect but live instruments do. But you get the idea hope this helps my Hip-Hop heads if you come across this our community has nothing to do with TRAP DRILL ROCK POP R&B we are hip-hop let these people deal with phase issues and anti aliasing/ hardware equipment vs plugins we don't have to we are good.
I am 49 years old, graduated as an audio engineer in the 90s. My thing is sound design and synths. The clickbait that I see in most plugins is that they are selling you features and functions you already have! Those "atmospheres" you already have all that. Why do people buy them? Because they lack the education. No matter what plugins you buy, you will never do something different than the thousands of the other uneducated fools are not doing already. Music composition has nothing to do with buying plugins.
Because production/mixing/mastering != plugins. People forget that. No amount of money thrown on hardware and plugins will make you a good engineer. Skills, hard work, persistence, taste will get you the good results. End video.
Can i ask, have you had to update? I refuse to pay to update plugins i already own. I have the Diamond bundle and various others but can't use most of them because i wont pay twice! Haven't bought a Waves plugin since they introduced the WUP, A rip-off IMO!
Everyone is process oriented and not goal oriented when it comes to home recording. That is a major issue. Tslk, talk, talk, buy this, upgrade that. Looking at stats, look at gear. Everything but actually write something. Smh.
You hit the nail on the head. I think people are wearing too many hats. They are the the song writer, the musician, the engineer, the producer, the marketer. ANd on youtube they don't have videos about getting quality tracks layed down after you have the song written and arranged. People do try to go to fast.
Naw.... it's not really about 'patience', I think..... Perhaps it's really because most of us home / hobbyist musicians / producers really are not the best players 😅 So we want to know mixing so we can learn how to fix our poorly recorded songs 😅😅😅
I literally have thousands of plugins. Most of them I've never used and don't remember what some of them even do. There's not enough time in the day for me to try them all and actually create music.
So.. pretty sure there is no home recording apocalypse on the horizon. There is no shortage of bad out there but that is mostly a symptom of home recording now being as accessable as it now is. This means hobbiest level folks now have a great deal of access to an amazing quantity of tools. The result of that is the tools have gotten way ahead of skills. Also, with a huge influx of people thaf are not only pretty green to recording but also pretty green on music skills across the board. That means there is stuff getting made that is far from perfect. But that is ok. Constructive criticism is a useful thing. Also, as a rule, I do not get in the way of some youthful enthusiasm. Now workflow! Probably the real problem folks are having. First, even in the DAW you can, and should make a demo grade version of a song. Its the messy, poorly grouped badly labled version. It plays, it might even show off where you are headed. But, its a demo little effort needs to go into mixing and mastering at demo stage. Use the demo to start getting feedback and make the edits and fix the arrangement until the song is in a good place. Now, make a new version of the project and start getting the labeling and grouping squared away. Clean up the mess then freeze it all and create a mixing project with just the audio files ( save on cpu and latency ) use the audio tracks to actually do the mixing, from there print the pre-master mix and open a mastering project. Now you can always refer back to any stage of the project in the state it was last saved.
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In regards to mixing, it helps to have a vision of the finished song before you hit record. Do you want a deep gushy snare, a high snappy snare, ringy, dead, bright cymbols, dark? Do you want a bright guitar tone, or a thick one? Choose the best instruments to nudge you in that direction, with whatever instruments you have. Choose the best mic. Don't use a ribon if you want a bright guitar. Use a 57 if you hear something midrange forward. Play with your mic placements. If you can and are feeling adventurous, try tracking with a little EQ. I tend to do mostly cuts on my console going in so I'm only printing the good stuff. For really dynamic sources like vocals, try a bit of compression just to narrow that range a little. Record in a manner where you can put your faders at unity and you're 75 percent of the way there. Mixing then is a matter of bringing out every last bit of greatness in the song rather than correcting what you didn't do at tracking.
That thumbnail + that title = this lack of retention. Bye.
No it's not people just need to make their music and stay with the skills of their genre, know that amature mixes exist do things correctly, also remember every ones genre isn't your genre. People who do Hip-Hop Rock Pop R&B are totally different from one another, I work with 90's and early 2000's Hip-Hop and R&B artist I shouldn't take advice from a House or Rock engineer. And also remember these people are youtubers at the end of the day selling courses and videos, when I see videos like these I usually ignore these people but this topic has even landed in my community and I felt the need to say something everytime I see it. The home studio isn't collapsing in my genre heck it's growing I don't deal with room mics or acoustic instruments why would I listen to someone who has to deal with these types of instruments, and if I do have to deal with them it's usually rugged instruments or a rare track, I still treat it as my genre though, anyways digital instruments don't have that effect but live instruments do. But you get the idea hope this helps my Hip-Hop heads if you come across this our community has nothing to do with TRAP DRILL ROCK POP R&B we are hip-hop let these people deal with phase issues and anti aliasing/ hardware equipment vs plugins we don't have to we are good.
I am 49 years old, graduated as an audio engineer in the 90s. My thing is sound design and synths. The clickbait that I see in most plugins is that they are selling you features and functions you already have! Those "atmospheres" you already have all that. Why do people buy them? Because they lack the education. No matter what plugins you buy, you will never do something different than the thousands of the other uneducated fools are not doing already. Music composition has nothing to do with buying plugins.
Because production/mixing/mastering != plugins. People forget that. No amount of money thrown on hardware and plugins will make you a good engineer. Skills, hard work, persistence, taste will get you the good results. End video.
I totally agree, good gear helps but doesn’t make you a better engineer 😊
I still use the Waves Gold bundle that I bought in 1999!
Can i ask, have you had to update? I refuse to pay to update plugins i already own. I have the Diamond bundle and various others but can't use most of them because i wont pay twice! Haven't bought a Waves plugin since they introduced the WUP, A rip-off IMO!
@@alexanderewing3779 yes. I've had to pay to update every time I upgrade my computer/os. Usually, I just renew the update plan at that time.
On top of it as always!
Everyone is process oriented and not goal oriented when it comes to home recording. That is a major issue. Tslk, talk, talk, buy this, upgrade that. Looking at stats, look at gear. Everything but actually write something. Smh.
You hit the nail on the head. I think people are wearing too many hats. They are the the song writer, the musician, the engineer, the producer, the marketer. ANd on youtube they don't have videos about getting quality tracks layed down after you have the song written and arranged. People do try to go to fast.
Naw.... it's not really about 'patience', I think.....
Perhaps it's really because most of us home / hobbyist musicians / producers really are not the best players 😅
So we want to know mixing so we can learn how to fix our poorly recorded songs 😅😅😅
Very good, mate!
thanks mate🤘
I literally have thousands of plugins. Most of them I've never used and don't remember what some of them even do. There's not enough time in the day for me to try them all and actually create music.
Great info 👍
cheers bud!
Lack of QUALITY in all facets of life. Until you demand better quality in your life it will continue to decline.
If you work with "pros" in a "studio, they use set of trust and tested plugins again and again... "
No imagination, huh? ;)
Oh jeez here we go again
So.. pretty sure there is no home recording apocalypse on the horizon. There is no shortage of bad out there but that is mostly a symptom of home recording now being as accessable as it now is. This means hobbiest level folks now have a great deal of access to an amazing quantity of tools. The result of that is the tools have gotten way ahead of skills. Also, with a huge influx of people thaf are not only pretty green to recording but also pretty green on music skills across the board. That means there is stuff getting made that is far from perfect. But that is ok. Constructive criticism is a useful thing. Also, as a rule, I do not get in the way of some youthful enthusiasm. Now workflow! Probably the real problem folks are having. First, even in the DAW you can, and should make a demo grade version of a song. Its the messy, poorly grouped badly labled version. It plays, it might even show off where you are headed. But, its a demo little effort needs to go into mixing and mastering at demo stage. Use the demo to start getting feedback and make the edits and fix the arrangement until the song is in a good place. Now, make a new version of the project and start getting the labeling and grouping squared away. Clean up the mess then freeze it all and create a mixing project with just the audio files ( save on cpu and latency ) use the audio tracks to actually do the mixing, from there print the pre-master mix and open a mastering project. Now you can always refer back to any stage of the project in the state it was last saved.