Second Guessing Your Mix Decisions? Why I DON'T Automate Gain Plugins!
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- Second Guessing Your Mix Decisions? Why I DON'T Automate Gain Plugins!
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And you can still „use the fader“/change the total volume of a track or bus by just inserting a gain/trim plugin after automation of the fader volume has been done 🙂
Evan keep the videos coming.
you're the goat
Some really good, and valid points!
I think the ability to "move on" with the mix and leaving automation to the last step is likely attained with experience and the confidence that comes with that experience.
I definitely don't have the confidence or refined hearing that you have (doing any mix takes me way too long!!), and I see that I need to overcome my "fear" of committing to a mix (oh man, I'm guilty of returning to a mix multiple times, then listen to version 1 and wonder how the hell I made it worse!)
I think your philosophy of committing to a mix in order to move on is actually really good advice!
Great video!
Valid points here👍. I usually just change the automation itself if I want to change the volume on it. If somebody takes over a project where everything is automated on gain plugins and the faders is totally different its gonna be harder for them to understand what is going on. But its good for people to understand how the signal flow works and that stuff like this is possible if they need it. Your explanation is solid for why people most likely should not do it that way. Keep up the good content👌
U think u can do a video about printing plugins on recording? I like the compressed vocals but I don't know if its stupid or not.
Very good advice, I totally agree 👍🏼
By the way after I watched this video I made the same mistake myself 😂 When rendering my mix the last minute was missing. Turned out to be a fade-out automation haha 🤣
I personally do find myself using the ableton utility plugin sometimes right at the finishing stages of mix to make an occasional final adjustment or two. Often on vocal levels - It prevents me from overthinking in other ways like digging back into my compressors... talk about chasing your tail... I do see what youre saying about visual organization tho you're bound to run into confusions
I mix on an analog desk so any automation is always pre compressors, once the gain staging is done correctly small automation moves doesn’t matter as much for the sound as you would expect. Small automation moves are only a few dB variation here and there which with outboard gear isn’t that problematic. At least for me it is.
I do not know anyone automating that? So strange that some do that.
"Automation? Where we're going, we don't need automation!"
(We're going to a place where the vocals are 1176-smashed and you can rarely make out the lyrics, lol.)
But, seriously... the idea of automating individual words seems hellish to me.
Actually for good upfront vocals it’s the best way to do it manually, some engineers even do de-essing and plop removals manually too. Takes some effort but it gets you the best results.
@@Studio22mix ya... unfortunately, i know. De-essing, I do manually but word-by-word level automation is where +I+ draw the line. (To the detriment of my audio fidelity, ofc.)
@@nilespeshay1734 Haha, I totally understand, I don’t do it either 😉
first comment lets go
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