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i love your vids with the fundamental tricks to sound much better - short effective and for beginners - just here i learned that the radio ready sound doesnt came from an expensive plugin, no!, it comes from learning basic skills from the pros.
on the phase cancellation - far easier way to do it - remove the fundamental on your "wide bass" (edit wavetable, process, remove funadamental) then just add the sub in the same serum with direct out - steady as a rock
@@johnbaprac Always better to split it in layers. Way better as to do it in 1 track and with a plugin, because you can also put a chorus on the mid bass layer for example.
this is GOLD!!! So many videos about "how to get rid of the mud in your mixes" but so few giving real, EFFICIENT tips... can't wait to applying those in my productions, thank you so much!
Producing can be very frustrating and can be making me insecure about my abilities. But you’ve just breathed some new fresh confidence into me, and suddenly i can’t wait to continue my music hobby. So thanks a lot man. Great video, for real. It’s very appreciated what you did here. ❤️💪🏻
The fact that you gave a before and after audio of muddiness and clarity is gold. I cant ever explain it in words. I can always show this video for an example.
Can't say I'm a fan of this type of EDM, but your videos are really well explained and I can apply the learnings to the music I produce. I love as well the way you provide examples. Top notch stuff.
Muddy mixes are something I struggled with, and I've gradually realized some of these tips over the years, but thanks for highlighting the rest. I think my only other obstacle is exporting. When my tracks get played on internet radio, which broadcasts at 128kbps, there is often some unwanted limiting or even audio tearing in high frequencies.
This video brought me to the next level. I thought by changing sound selection was letting the mixing process “beat “ my art 😂but once I acc changed a baseline and pads on a certain song it made the mix have much more clarity ! It took me YEARS. Thanks ! #knowledge
Man I have the same problem. If I get set on a sound it’s hard to let it go and end up trying to force it to work. Gotta start being more selective when choosing sounds in the first place, that’s a tough one!
Some more tips: 1) Muddiness goes all the way up to around 400hz. 2) As well as low end roll off don't forget you can roll off the top end too. Cut out as much frequency band as you can get away with on every sound - this should form your initial mix. 3) You can create 'false' weight by using a resonant filter to cut your low end. Add a bit of resonance to regain some weight back 4) Using an EQ turn up the gain and freq to max and to the thinnest bandwidth. Then listen to your main section of track by slowly scrolling from the high end to the low end. The frequency should mainly be musical, but if anything suddenly jumps out or sounds out of tune cut it by 3-5db. Obviously your monitors have their own characters so check on 2 different listening sources. Keep repeating the EQ sweep until you've done the whole track. You may easily end up with 6 or more cuts in the mix. 5) Sum everything below 200hz to mono 6) Cut your mix below 40hz with at least a 48db filter. Do 4, 5, and 6 before entering any mastering compression. You want to even out peaks before you get there and cause unnecessary compression artifacts.
@khobys no it isn't. The main weight of the 808 and 909 are well above 40hz ' typically around 60hz. Most people's monitors don't cover the sub 40hz frequency spectrum and club systems generally cut off at 30hz.
@NelyL I hear my music regularly on club systems following these practices, and it stands up to anything else. Loads of clear low end still. Most home studio set ups don't cover the sub 40hz spectrum and generally club systems cut at 30hz. Get your 50-80hz right and you have plenty of low end.
Number 5. seems to be a highly debated technique. Seems for everyone advocating for scanning for problem frequencies that way, there’s two people saying it introduces artificial resonance and leads to excessive cutting. For what it’s worth I use it carefully and try to not get carried away with it.
I’ve been producing for 20 years and never thought of sticking a roll off on my reverb aux channel. It’s so obvious now I think about it. 🤦♂️ Top tip Will. 👍
Will I cannot thank you enough for your work. I released my first track last month and I am working now on my first EP. Your videos help a lot, I am very impressed by the excellence of the content.
Apart from composition and sound selection: proper volumes and eq are the main players for a good sounding mix. And always cut your reverb tails below 150 or higher even ... i mean always when you are using it as a spacial fx. There are some sounddesign techniques involving reverb in bass and subbass ranges, but thats another topic. For mixing purposes: cut your reverbs, or even better: put the eq in front of the reverb (on the same send/return channel), this way you get a much more natural and clear sounding results
Excellent video... I do some of these things, but you've mentioned some techniques that I'm not doing. This will definitely bring up my sounds. I've subscribed... Thank you.
Somethingpeople often forget, clubs use L+R mono not true mono, so youstillhave a left and right.what this means is you can use full stereo panning (panning equally on both sides except for the key elements like kick, bass, vocals) to create a clean mix. I'm studying this at fullsail, and one of the things we are told is fader/pan balance is more important than any EQ or compression we can do. i have noticed this helps my mixes, I hope you give it a try in yours and let me know how it goes!
Great video! Super engaging, really nice personality for tutorials. Some people are knowledgeable but they just don't sound good so I watch with the sound off and captions on but this isn't the case for you! keep up the good work!
As opposed to most of your followers I'm not a young EDM producer. I'm 42 years old and I do remixes for fun. I generally remix 90's female vocalist stuff (Mariah Carey, Tori Amos, etc.) and I've found my mixes to be creative and well executed, however I was having a lot of trouble mixing / mastering. This gave me so much insight on how to make my mixes sound less muddy and more balanced. If you listen to the mixes on my channel you'll hear that masteringwise they're not the best. I've gotten better over the past two years but I felt like I was hitting the ceiling in the sense that I had tried everything to make them sound better. This is gonna help a great deal, thanks!
Great info on mixing. Thanks for the tutorials. Sending to a stock compressor plug-in with ducking (with dry vocal channel as the sidechain key) to a delay and reverb FX send was a pointer I latched onto several weeks ago. It truly does give me much more control of that reverb. I can mix each plug-in on this reverb channel full wet and use the fader itself to mix it in as I see fit. And I think it sounds far better than beforehand. I also do an FX send to an EQ and a Waves stereo widener plug-in, setting the EQ to low cut below about 250 Hz. It's adding a bit to side mid and high frequencies, and it seems to fit decently into my target sound. PS I'm sending each of these FX sends as prefade so that my dry fader doesn't affect the FX channels.
You have a really smooth and concise style in explaining things that can take people years to understand. While these are obviously very basic concepts and are to be expanded upon to garner their full effect. They are all extremely important foundational fundamentals everyone should begin with. One thing i would alter sometimes is to not “hard cut” all mid/high freq tracks but rather use a shelf filter instead, to subtly remove the mud and avoid jarring frequency clips within the mix. Whilst they are usually hard to hear to the untrained ear. They can be a noticable problem when finishing a track in its final stages if there are too many hard cuts in those same 100k-200k areas. Potato, potàto, but its something ive started to do and i feel like it helps keep things smooth.
Thanks!! Especially on the reverb aux channels, I didn’t know that it cuts the reverb part . also putting the track in mono to listen out for things. always learning . every little helps 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I recently over the last six months or so have been collaborating remotely with another musician. I am learning now how to best use a home studio in this joint venture using Ableton 11 Standard DAW. I find the video(s) very informative and will help in producing our own individual collaboration. Thanks for mixing it up.
@@charliesilverman1132 Check out soundbetter.com. Also, Facebook groups (like the EDM Tips Academy) and subreddits are a good place to meet other producers!
@@EDMTips I strongly believe that content like this one would help the channel. For example, you do " how to " videos which a bdeeper and of course great. You can also add simple tips for every topic, like arrangement, sound design, mastering. So we as your followers can benefit from both deep dive stuff and more generic / top level stuff. These are my thoughts of course. Apart from those, everything from you is all welcome :))
I wholly agree with keroser1983. I really love your how to videos but it’s videos like this that you should make along with them. I would love to see videos where you take only stock sounds and instruments and turn it into a pro level track. You could show us what’s your mindset when you choose your sounds and how you go about sketching your track. Thanks Will.
i've been hobby producing hip hop now and then, but started now more lately with frenchcore. this video is awesome. the second tip was incredibly important for me. thanks for the good video! :DD
Thanks for this guide. So much helpful stuff. People who are relatively new to music production and who are primarily familiar with Ableton will know "auxilliary channels" as "returns" in Live. I'm one of those relatively new people, and you've given me another reason to love aux channels.
Brilliant and very useful tips there! I've written 25+ pieces of music in the past few years and have always struggled with the final mixdown in it sounding thin and washed out - which is so frustrating having put hours into it. I never gave a second thought to the obvious issue that maybe I need to space the octaves out somewhat for individual tracks - the penny has dropped! Thanks Will.
This is so fascinating! I've been a trance/house lover for many years. It began with ATB - 9 (P.M. 'Til I Come) in 1999 when I was 13! I know absolutely nothing about music theory, so this is so god damn interesting and explains why I can't stand how trance music has sounded since post 2011. & why I'm really into melodic progressive house/techno these days.
The only and only right answer, is use your ears, and monitor with a good analyzer, but not like the whole time analyzing. And don't be shy to use high / low pass filtering. But also with other filters, less is more. Or tick the phase knob or like you did, switch it to mono. Or parallel compression, there are so many ways to cut a space for other instr. / voices. But sometimes twisted phase can be your best friend. But that takes a full podcast to explain. Great video btw. I use Ableton too for my DJ work with a APC40 mkII, consider this like you have a new subscriber.
Great video, I’d always add to any list like this, the room you’re in.. Poor room acoustics will always under or over compensate a range of frequencies.. Alternatively, good headphones.. Add to that, sooooooo many club systems are still outputting in mono..
Incredibly useful as always!! Question on using drum rack for drums instead of individual channels, and also a potential topic for a video - how do you bounce stems if they are all on the drum rack? We had this recently for a label that wanted to stem master our track! Cheers!
Great video! Checking mixes in mono is a must, and especially if you are making EDM or any other club music, there's actually a really good chance people will be listening to your music in mono, because a lot (maybe even a majority) of clubs and venues run in mono.
Hi and thansk for the cool video! I just wanted to add that all the tips work for rock music production as well, especially the top-down mixing approach. When drums and bass guitar already rock than you are on a very good way. So, rock on!
This is absolutely smashing! And im only half way in! Thanks bro, this is the most natural step from composing to mixing. The next step is mastering and we are full on producers!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Even without elite engineering like ducking, just knowing the frequency ranges of your instruments, and a proper arrangement, will provide the room needed. EQ is your friend.
After watching this i went and revisited my old stuff from 8 yrs ago on soundcloud and have a renewed interest in applying some of the tips here and rework them. I don't have the original tracks anymore so its going to be a total rebuild but using your tutorials and hints in Ableton will make things a little easier. Cheers will Regards spike the bloody
solid video! Love the clear format and just really useful tips! I'm curious if that clicking on the sidechain compressor on the bass line affects the overall mix ?
@@EDMTips I'm struggling very much with the volume of my tracks. I like the drums to be somewhat quieter in the mix, as opposed to EDM tracks, for a listener to feel the atmosphere more, and I like the emphasis on the mid-low frequencies more than on any high synths/instruments or dominating vocals. Moreover, I'm totally not a pro in mastering - some people say you should compress the track for loudness, and some say that LUFS accounts for the dynamics, allowing the transients to cut through, so idk who to listen to. This overall results in my mixes being far quieter than the reference. I think it's a quite common problem, so I would love to see a video about this from you
Hey man loving your videos! Thanksss, very good tips and my mixes are getting way better! I have a small question… currently I sidechain almost everything to the kick, so this tip on sidechaining keys to the vocals is great! What will be the proper sidechains for the basic elements? Kick, snare, hithats, bass, synths, fx and vocals? Hope this question is not asking that much. Thanks!
Crazy stuff. Im just now trying to switch to Abelton after using Reason since 1.0. Hard to understand the interface atm. This is great though and will try to apply once i better understand it.
It was great tutorial. Though I started working in FL Studio 20 recently It was everything clear about mixing. Cause that always led me to confusions I made earlier. No doubt this will help to clean up our mixes
This is an excellently made video. Now, I'm not necessarily a fan or producer of edm-music (more like 70's/80's rock/pop), but all the tips given here basically apply to any style of music. Especially when it is a dense arrangement with many instrument tracks. Also the way things are explained and presented here is very well done and understandable (even for me, for whom English is not my first language). Conclusion: The whole thing makes a very likeable impression. I subscribe to the channel!
Tbh, I'm trying to find my space right in the middle of 80's pop and whatever "dance" has brought since then. My abilities are limited (but slowly expanding), but being an 80's baby it feels like home. Even tried my hand at some campy disco stuff.
@@EDMTips You have covered so much so its quite hard to think of anything!!There is a rubber kind of bass sound i am trying to master, something like charli XCX uses in good ones, or maybe create an 80s vibe sound,like the weekend uses. Apologies if you have covered these, Thank you for all your knowledge you share, it helps me and everyone else a great deal!!
Will. I love all of your EDM tips but a long time ago you made a comment about Mix values being about -18db but didnt specify if it was involviing recordings or just plain jamming on simply Synth tracks. Yet I have heard making synth only tracks being mixed at -6db and this is enough headroom for tracks. We are talkiing 12db of difference before mastering. Now I am a huge Deadmau5 influence and I know there is no way on earth he starts a project at -18db on initial jam and mix. Without vocals and just wanting to make a huge bassline like his can you show how Deadmau5 and some drum and bass artists make the real difference between kick and solid bass line Beside this I love every video you produce and this channel deserves more than 98.2 Subs. This is really a great channel. Also you have taught me that Abelton is so much more UI friendly than FL studio when it comes to grouping and bussing
Ableton UI friendly lol. Used it for over 10 years & now im laughing at people using it when thers Bitwig Studio as for user friendlyness... Its simply the best! Just Sayin' 👍
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i love your vids with the fundamental tricks to sound much better - short effective and for beginners - just here i learned that the radio ready sound doesnt came from an expensive plugin, no!, it comes from learning basic skills from the pros.
What song is this?
Amazing you cleared so much of my mental blocks in my mixing :) Thank you for the video ..
Can u do a video on sound selection
Thanks
on the phase cancellation - far easier way to do it - remove the fundamental on your "wide bass" (edit wavetable, process, remove funadamental) then just add the sub in the same serum with direct out - steady as a rock
Love it! Great tip 🤙
Best way to do this with vital or wavetables?
I just clone my bass layer- set high pass to 30-50 depending how it interacts with kick, and make mono.
@@colmcq isn't it the same than adding in just 1 bass an Utility, setting it up mono for frequencies upper 100Hz or something?
@@johnbaprac Always better to split it in layers. Way better as to do it in 1 track and with a plugin, because you can also put a chorus on the mid bass layer for example.
this is GOLD!!! So many videos about "how to get rid of the mud in your mixes" but so few giving real, EFFICIENT tips... can't wait to applying those in my productions, thank you so much!
Awesome, I am glad it was helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Producing can be very frustrating and can be making me insecure about my abilities. But you’ve just breathed some new fresh confidence into me, and suddenly i can’t wait to continue my music hobby. So thanks a lot man. Great video, for real. It’s very appreciated what you did here. ❤️💪🏻
love that you took an actual example and fixed it, very helpful
The fact that you gave a before and after audio of muddiness and clarity is gold. I cant ever explain it in words. I can always show this video for an example.
I am glad you found it helpful 🙌🏻
Can't say I'm a fan of this type of EDM, but your videos are really well explained and I can apply the learnings to the music I produce. I love as well the way you provide examples. Top notch stuff.
Three of your videos taught me about 500% more than 2 years at ACM doing music production. Thanks!
Rock on! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻
Loved it, dropping my album with no hassle now~!
Muddy mixes are something I struggled with, and I've gradually realized some of these tips over the years, but thanks for highlighting the rest. I think my only other obstacle is exporting. When my tracks get played on internet radio, which broadcasts at 128kbps, there is often some unwanted limiting or even audio tearing in high frequencies.
Get *Eventide SplitEQ* - it will revolutionize your mixing life !!! 👍
@@tredfxman I'll look into it. Thanks!
I found learning simple mastering techniques helped me and gave me a target to work towards
@@sandwich-breath Great point! Here's a vid on mastering if anyone's interested: th-cam.com/video/-VQRaMGZPzQ/w-d-xo.html
@@EDMTips Thanks, will check that out. :)
This video brought me to the next level. I thought by changing sound selection was letting the mixing process “beat “ my art 😂but once I acc changed a baseline and pads on a certain song it made the mix have much more clarity ! It took me YEARS. Thanks ! #knowledge
You're welcome, I am glad it was helpful 🙂🙌🏻
Man I have the same problem. If I get set on a sound it’s hard to let it go and end up trying to force it to work. Gotta start being more selective when choosing sounds in the first place, that’s a tough one!
Some more tips:
1) Muddiness goes all the way up to around 400hz.
2) As well as low end roll off don't forget you can roll off the top end too. Cut out as much frequency band as you can get away with on every sound - this should form your initial mix.
3) You can create 'false' weight by using a resonant filter to cut your low end. Add a bit of resonance to regain some weight back
4) Using an EQ turn up the gain and freq to max and to the thinnest bandwidth. Then listen to your main section of track by slowly scrolling from the high end to the low end. The frequency should mainly be musical, but if anything suddenly jumps out or sounds out of tune cut it by 3-5db. Obviously your monitors have their own characters so check on 2 different listening sources. Keep repeating the EQ sweep until you've done the whole track. You may easily end up with 6 or more cuts in the mix.
5) Sum everything below 200hz to mono
6) Cut your mix below 40hz with at least a 48db filter. Do 4, 5, and 6 before entering any mastering compression. You want to even out peaks before you get there and cause unnecessary compression artifacts.
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40hz is way too high, especially for this kind of dance music. you're going to lose all your club shaking power haha
@khobys no it isn't. The main weight of the 808 and 909 are well above 40hz ' typically around 60hz. Most people's monitors don't cover the sub 40hz frequency spectrum and club systems generally cut off at 30hz.
@NelyL I hear my music regularly on club systems following these practices, and it stands up to anything else. Loads of clear low end still. Most home studio set ups don't cover the sub 40hz spectrum and generally club systems cut at 30hz. Get your 50-80hz right and you have plenty of low end.
Number 5. seems to be a highly debated technique. Seems for everyone advocating for scanning for problem frequencies that way, there’s two people saying it introduces artificial resonance and leads to excessive cutting. For what it’s worth I use it carefully and try to not get carried away with it.
Showing before and after examples really elevated what you were talking about. You're an awesome teacher!
Thank you so much for your kind words, really appreciate it! 🙂🙌🏻
I've been producing music since 1997 and this has been such an eye-opener for me, thanks very much!
The "auxiliary channel" tip changed my mind!! Thanks so much for this precious tricks! Subscribed 🙌🏻
Welcome aboard, the Untouchman. Glad you found it helpful :)
I’ve been producing for 20 years and never thought of sticking a roll off on my reverb aux channel. It’s so obvious now I think about it. 🤦♂️ Top tip Will. 👍
Thanks, Scott, I am glad you found this little gem useful! 🙂
Jam-packed with great tips that are very well explained.
Another cool tip I always use: drop an EQ in the Reverb feedback/tank to tame errant frequencies overwhelming the mix with resonance
Love it! Great tip 🤙
This has to be the most helpful video on mixing I've ever watched. Thank you
Thank you so much, I am really glad you liked it! Any point in particular you found useful?
Excellent tutorial, techniques clearly explained and easy to understand. Going to employ this rather quickly, game changer!
Cheers, glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?
Great tips here. Love the compressor to duck the aux reverb channel on vox. Keep em coming Will!
Will I cannot thank you enough for your work. I released my first track last month and I am working now on my first EP. Your videos help a lot, I am very impressed by the excellence of the content.
Rock on! You're welcome! 🙂
the sidechain part omg TYSMMMMM for that!!
You’re very welcome, glad it was helpful 🙂🙌🏻
Apart from composition and sound selection: proper volumes and eq are the main players for a good sounding mix. And always cut your reverb tails below 150 or higher even ... i mean always when you are using it as a spacial fx. There are some sounddesign techniques involving reverb in bass and subbass ranges, but thats another topic. For mixing purposes: cut your reverbs, or even better: put the eq in front of the reverb (on the same send/return channel), this way you get a much more natural and clear sounding results
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Mixing in mono not only helps identify masking but most club PA systems are in mono - so it is very important.
My personal favorite is to upgrade it to: Mixing in mono with *Pink Noise!* 👍
Second that!
Excellent video...
I do some of these things, but you've mentioned some techniques that I'm not doing. This will definitely bring up my sounds.
I've subscribed...
Thank you.
Well, looks like I've done my job then! 😉
Thanks for subscribing and I hope you continue to enjoy the content! 🙌🏻
@@EDMTips I will be spending some time around here!
Thanks for the reply 😉
Really great video! Especially the Frequency Masking brings my mixes to a whole new level of richness! love it!
Thank you, I am glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻
Somethingpeople often forget, clubs use L+R mono not true mono, so youstillhave a left and right.what this means is you can use full stereo panning (panning equally on both sides except for the key elements like kick, bass, vocals) to create a clean mix. I'm studying this at fullsail, and one of the things we are told is fader/pan balance is more important than any EQ or compression we can do. i have noticed this helps my mixes, I hope you give it a try in yours and let me know how it goes!
th-cam.com/video/q-th7QobO7I/w-d-xo.html
Great video! Super engaging, really nice personality for tutorials. Some people are knowledgeable but they just don't sound good so I watch with the sound off and captions on but this isn't the case for you! keep up the good work!
Thank you for your kind words of support, and I am glad you enjoyed it! 🙂🙌🏻
Bro mixing quite some time, but they way explained things was REALLY HELPFUL !
Glad you found it helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
As opposed to most of your followers I'm not a young EDM producer. I'm 42 years old and I do remixes for fun. I generally remix 90's female vocalist stuff (Mariah Carey, Tori Amos, etc.) and I've found my mixes to be creative and well executed, however I was having a lot of trouble mixing / mastering. This gave me so much insight on how to make my mixes sound less muddy and more balanced. If you listen to the mixes on my channel you'll hear that masteringwise they're not the best. I've gotten better over the past two years but I felt like I was hitting the ceiling in the sense that I had tried everything to make them sound better. This is gonna help a great deal, thanks!
You're welcome, glad you found this video helpful!
And by the way, you will be surprise buy the average age of my students 😀
Great info on mixing. Thanks for the tutorials.
Sending to a stock compressor plug-in with ducking (with dry vocal channel as the sidechain key) to a delay and reverb FX send was a pointer I latched onto several weeks ago. It truly does give me much more control of that reverb. I can mix each plug-in on this reverb channel full wet and use the fader itself to mix it in as I see fit. And I think it sounds far better than beforehand.
I also do an FX send to an EQ and a Waves stereo widener plug-in, setting the EQ to low cut below about 250 Hz. It's adding a bit to side mid and high frequencies, and it seems to fit decently into my target sound.
PS I'm sending each of these FX sends as prefade so that my dry fader doesn't affect the FX channels.
Can't wait to watch this later, always good with a video to help get a more clean mix
Cheers, and hope you enjoy!
You have a really smooth and concise style in explaining things that can take people years to understand. While these are obviously very basic concepts and are to be expanded upon to garner their full effect. They are all extremely important foundational fundamentals everyone should begin with.
One thing i would alter sometimes is to not “hard cut” all mid/high freq tracks but rather use a shelf filter instead, to subtly remove the mud and avoid jarring frequency clips within the mix. Whilst they are usually hard to hear to the untrained ear. They can be a noticable problem when finishing a track in its final stages if there are too many hard cuts in those same 100k-200k areas. Potato, potàto, but its something ive started to do and i feel like it helps keep things smooth.
Thanks!! Especially on the reverb aux channels, I didn’t know that it cuts the reverb part . also putting the track in mono to listen out for things.
always learning .
every little helps 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Glad it helped!
This video is absolute gold for all producers of any skill level. Much appreciated 🙏
Awesome, I am stoked you found it helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
I recently over the last six months or so have been collaborating remotely with another musician. I am learning now how to best use a home studio in this joint venture using Ableton 11 Standard DAW. I find the video(s) very informative and will help in producing our own individual collaboration. Thanks for mixing it up.
Really glad you liked it! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with?
Hey Bobby, Where do you find people to collaborate with?.
@@charliesilverman1132 Check out soundbetter.com. Also, Facebook groups (like the EDM Tips Academy) and subreddits are a good place to meet other producers!
Thanks for the tips💪, I'm going to apply them right now to a song I made.
You're welcome, glad you found them useful! 🙌🏻
This is amazing Will. Thank you very much. Please bring more like this. We sometimes underestimate how important the basic or simple things.
Really glad you liked it! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with?
@@EDMTips I strongly believe that content like this one would help the channel. For example, you do " how to " videos which a bdeeper and of course great. You can also add simple tips for every topic, like arrangement, sound design, mastering.
So we as your followers can benefit from both deep dive stuff and more generic / top level stuff. These are my thoughts of course.
Apart from those, everything from you is all welcome :))
I wholly agree with keroser1983. I really love your how to videos but it’s videos like this that you should make along with them. I would love to see videos where you take only stock sounds and instruments and turn it into a pro level track. You could show us what’s your mindset when you choose your sounds and how you go about sketching your track. Thanks Will.
@@Keroser1983 Thanks for the suggestions! Much appreciated :)
@@Keroser1983 Thanks for the feedback!
i've been hobby producing hip hop now and then, but started now more lately with frenchcore. this video is awesome. the second tip was incredibly important for me. thanks for the good video! :DD
Thanks for this guide. So much helpful stuff.
People who are relatively new to music production and who are primarily familiar with Ableton will know "auxilliary channels" as "returns" in Live. I'm one of those relatively new people, and you've given me another reason to love aux channels.
Great point, Tom! Glad you found the video helpful :)
omg...one of the best mixing tutorials i'v ever seen...RESPECT!!!
Thank you!
Brilliant and very useful tips there! I've written 25+ pieces of music in the past few years and have always struggled with the final mixdown in it sounding thin and washed out - which is so frustrating having put hours into it. I never gave a second thought to the obvious issue that maybe I need to space the octaves out somewhat for individual tracks - the penny has dropped! Thanks Will.
Very glad it helped! :)
This is so fascinating! I've been a trance/house lover for many years. It began with ATB - 9 (P.M. 'Til I Come) in 1999 when I was 13! I know absolutely nothing about music theory, so this is so god damn interesting and explains why I can't stand how trance music has sounded since post 2011. & why I'm really into melodic progressive house/techno these days.
Always wondered should I sidechain a vocal to a synth, great tips!
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed :)
Wow, didn't know that. It looks pretty easy. And you are right, you can receive a much more clearer mix. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! 🙌🏻
Great points. Another method which we belive is effective to get rid of 'mud' is the T-Clarity :)
Great suggestion, I will check it out! :)
Excellent video, you gave some of the best mixing advice around
Awesome, I am glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻
Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
Fantastic stuff, man! Thanks! Also, the song sounds super fab! Where do you get to hear the final product?
I will finish it one day! Thanks for wathcing, I am glad you liked it! Any point in particular you found useful?
The only and only right answer, is use your ears, and monitor with a good analyzer, but not like the whole time analyzing. And don't be shy to use high / low pass filtering. But also with other filters, less is more. Or tick the phase knob or like you did, switch it to mono. Or parallel compression, there are so many ways to cut a space for other instr. / voices. But sometimes twisted phase can be your best friend. But that takes a full podcast to explain. Great video btw. I use Ableton too for my DJ work with a APC40 mkII, consider this like you have a new subscriber.
Wonderful, sincere and presented in a clear and accessible way, I just subscribed 🙌🙌 you got a great vibe 🕺🏻💃🏻👍👍🎹🎧🎤🎼
Appreciate it! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support :)
Great video, I’d always add to any list like this, the room you’re in.. Poor room acoustics will always under or over compensate a range of frequencies.. Alternatively, good headphones..
Add to that, sooooooo many club systems are still outputting in mono..
Very true! I wasn't thinking of clubs for some reason but totally agree here!
Mixing in mono has helped me considerably.
I am with you on this! 🙌🙏
I loved your version of "Remember The Lies". Can u share the project file? I would like to make a extended version. Congrats for the channel content.
Great explanation and straight to the point, thanks !
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻
This is some top level content! To the point, laser focused, spreading valuable info. Hats off, Will and thank you for sharing your treasure!
You're welcome...Thanks as always for watching and supporting!
Incredibly useful as always!! Question on using drum rack for drums instead of individual channels, and also a potential topic for a video - how do you bounce stems if they are all on the drum rack? We had this recently for a label that wanted to stem master our track! Cheers!
Great idea! In a nutshell, you have to "extract chains" to get the separate drum stems
@@EDMTips ah of course! Cheers Will
Great video! Thanks for providing definitions, examples, and easy-to-follow instructions!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful!
Will always on top. Best EDM TIPS channel on TH-cam!
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Thank you! I have been struggling with this topic and your video helps me understand what I’m doing wrong. 👍🏾
Glad it was helpful! Is there anything else you're struggling with?
This is golden, nicely enriched my how to knowledge side so, hey thanks! 😊🌸 Can't wait to apply that to my prods!
Excellent video and tips, Will! Thx!
i like how the muddy mix example sounds clearer than my track which i spent almost a whole week on mixing to
Practice makes perfect! 😉
Love the way you explain things so clearly! That's a gift!
Thank you!
Probably the best tutorial you’ve ever made
Cheers!...Thanks as always for watching and supporting!
Great video! Checking mixes in mono is a must, and especially if you are making EDM or any other club music, there's actually a really good chance people will be listening to your music in mono, because a lot (maybe even a majority) of clubs and venues run in mono.
Very true!
Hi and thansk for the cool video! I just wanted to add that all the tips work for rock music production as well, especially the top-down mixing approach. When drums and bass guitar already rock than you are on a very good way. So, rock on!
Indeed, the techniques I try covering in my non-genre specific videos could be applied to any genre! Glad you found them useful too :)
This is absolutely smashing! And im only half way in!
Thanks bro, this is the most natural step from composing to mixing. The next step is mastering and we are full on producers!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Really glad you’re finding it useful, Julio! Anything else you’re struggling with?
Awesome as allways Will! But also, a tutorial for this kind of music would be gr8!
Thank you, Tim! Maybe one day :) Any particular artists or tracks you're digging at the moment?
Even without elite engineering like ducking, just knowing the frequency ranges of your instruments, and a proper arrangement, will provide the room needed. EQ is your friend.
Absolutely!
After watching this i went and revisited my old stuff from 8 yrs ago on soundcloud and have a renewed interest in applying some of the tips here and rework them. I don't have the original tracks anymore so its going to be a total rebuild but using your tutorials and hints in Ableton will make things a little easier. Cheers will
Regards spike the bloody
Glad you found the video helpful. Go for it, Paul!
wow those are awesome tips brother. you are simply great :)
Great video!
Thanks for the tips, some of them I already use but I needed more tools. As a selftaught producer and musician this is golden 🔥
Great, I am glad you found it useful!
Thank you for watching and supporting the channel! 🙌🏻
@@EDMTips No worries bro!
solid video! Love the clear format and just really useful tips! I'm curious if that clicking on the sidechain compressor on the bass line affects the overall mix ?
thank you very much with these good technical tips!
You're welcome, glad you found them helpful! 🙂
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You are very welcome! 🙂🙌🏻
8 points... simple... efficient! Thanks
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support :)
Awesome tips, thanks for sharing !
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel :)
Love this. I really need to understand and mail mixing before going into mastering. I cringe so much at my old tracks, but hey, I’m learning lol
That's all that counts! My old tracks are cringe-worthy, too 😆
Outstanding Will. Struggled with some mixes of late (I do dark techno via Logic/Maschine) and there's some really good pointers here. Keep them coming
Thanks for your help, I wish I will finally fix my muddy mix !
You're welcome, Costas! Go for it :)
@@EDMTips I will ! :)
Dang, what a tutorial, this is mad useful
Really glad you think so! Thanks for watching! Anything else you’d like to see me cover?
Awesome info Will! This is GOLD.
Thank you, glad it was helpful! 🙌🏻
Cmon you guys, got this man 100k subscribers
So close I can taste it! 😆
before and after comparison are the reason vids are full watched, liked and revisited to learn further more, thankyou=)
Glad it was helpful! Anything else you’d like to see me cover?
man this is the best mixing vieo I've seen in 4 years of music prod
Glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?
@@EDMTips I'm struggling very much with the volume of my tracks.
I like the drums to be somewhat quieter in the mix, as opposed to EDM tracks, for a listener to feel the atmosphere more, and I like the emphasis on the mid-low frequencies more than on any high synths/instruments or dominating vocals.
Moreover, I'm totally not a pro in mastering - some people say you should compress the track for loudness, and some say that LUFS accounts for the dynamics, allowing the transients to cut through, so idk who to listen to.
This overall results in my mixes being far quieter than the reference. I think it's a quite common problem, so I would love to see a video about this from you
Hey man loving your videos! Thanksss, very good tips and my mixes are getting way better! I have a small question… currently I sidechain almost everything to the kick, so this tip on sidechaining keys to the vocals is great! What will be the proper sidechains for the basic elements? Kick, snare, hithats, bass, synths, fx and vocals? Hope this question is not asking that much. Thanks!
Crazy stuff. Im just now trying to switch to Abelton after using Reason since 1.0. Hard to understand the interface atm. This is great though and will try to apply once i better understand it.
Absolutely! Check out my Ableton Live for beginners course, it will speed up your learning curve :)
It was great tutorial. Though I started working in FL Studio 20 recently It was everything clear about mixing. Cause that always led me to confusions I made earlier. No doubt this will help to clean up our mixes
Great, I am stoked you found it helpful! 🙂
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
Aweosme stuff will! Are you releasing this track?? I seem to remember it from you live stream a few weeks ago!
I suppose I should, really!
@@EDMTips certified banger :D
This is an excellently made video. Now, I'm not necessarily a fan or producer of edm-music (more like 70's/80's rock/pop), but all the tips given here basically apply to any style of music. Especially when it is a dense arrangement with many instrument tracks. Also the way things are explained and presented here is very well done and understandable (even for me, for whom English is not my first language). Conclusion: The whole thing makes a very likeable impression. I subscribe to the channel!
Thank you for your kind words of support and welcome to the channel! 🙂🙌🏻
@@EDMTips 🍀👍🏼🍻
Tbh, I'm trying to find my space right in the middle of 80's pop and whatever "dance" has brought since then. My abilities are limited (but slowly expanding), but being an 80's baby it feels like home.
Even tried my hand at some campy disco stuff.
thank you very much, clear and straight forward. Bravo
You're welcome, glad you found it useful! 🙂🙌🏻
These are all great tips and a great video, thanks mate!!!
You’re welcome! Anything else you’d like me to cover?
@@EDMTips You have covered so much so its quite hard to think of anything!!There is a rubber kind of bass sound i am trying to master, something like charli XCX uses in good ones, or maybe create an 80s vibe sound,like the weekend uses. Apologies if you have covered these, Thank you for all your knowledge you share, it helps me and everyone else a great deal!!
YEAAHH BOI!! thats's what I'm taking about! Vital tips!
Glad I found this channel! Thanks!
You're a legend Will. Well done again
Cheers!
Pure Gold here! FANTASTIC!
I love your videos, they cut right to the chase and really helpfull tips. I feel i learn more with you than in my 3 years of classes
Appreciate the support! 🙌🙏
Will. I love all of your EDM tips but a long time ago you made a comment about Mix values being about -18db but didnt specify if it was involviing recordings or just plain jamming on simply Synth tracks. Yet I have heard making synth only tracks being mixed at -6db and this is enough headroom for tracks. We are talkiing 12db of difference before mastering. Now I am a huge Deadmau5 influence and I know there is no way on earth he starts a project at -18db on initial jam and mix. Without vocals and just wanting to make a huge bassline like his can you show how Deadmau5 and some drum and bass artists make the real difference between kick and solid bass line
Beside this I love every video you produce and this channel deserves more than 98.2 Subs. This is really a great channel. Also you have taught me that Abelton is so much more UI friendly than FL studio when it comes to grouping and bussing
Ableton UI friendly lol. Used it for over 10 years & now im laughing at people using it when thers Bitwig Studio as for user friendlyness... Its simply the best! Just Sayin' 👍