Properly Balance Your Mix
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MY GEAR:
DAW (Music making software): Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Studio monitors (speakers): Yamaha HS8's
Headphones: Audeze LCD X (open back)
Camera: Canon 80d
Computer: Mac Studio with M2 Ultra chip and 2 TB hardrive
Midi controller (keyboard): Komplete Kontrol 61
Interface: Scarlett Clarett 2 pre
Desk: a cheap one from ikea
Chair: also a cheap one from ikea
My favorite plugins that I use the most:
XFER Serum
Sylenth 1
Nexus 3
Kontakt
RC 20
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Shaperbox 3
XFER OTT
Fab Filter Saturn 2
Fab Filter Pro C 2
Arturia Pigments
Baby Audio Comeback Kid
Output Thermal and Portal
LABS Soft Piano
Hardware that I use behind the scenes but not in videos:
Elektron Octatrack (my fav)
Elektron Digitakt
Korg Minilogue XD
I'm so thankful I got into mixing in the era of youtube. I've only really spent the las 6 months or so learning how to mix and my kicks kept getting lost in the mix because I haven't until now really focused on balancing. It's a fun journey. Thank you for being part of it.
This is legit the secret to clean mixes
Yeah "legit".
Not a secret, dude.
Your cat agreed on the peaking from the atmosphere! Great tutorial, Alex. Keep up the good work & I'm looking forward to the next video. Greetings, Emiel.
this basic technique changed my life and career
You are a really great teacher. Really quality information. I've been in radio for the last 20 years. Radio is all ABOUT getting people to stick around. You mentioned your retention numbers. You can improve the retention with teases. Tell them something you're going to show them during the video. Example: stick around because in the next few minutes I'm going to let you know the number one question aspiring producers ask me. It's crazy. You're videos are
Really Great!
I do that too to touch my speakers for the bass😂👌🏽
"Atmosphere's are, like, in the Dannnger zoo..." Meeerowwww -- I lol'd. Great vid -- learned things.
Talking pads? Some unique like serum ones are great, but a pain in the mix!
Seriously Alex, you don't know how much you help us artists man. I'll name one of my songs after you; AR. It'll have a double entendre.. but the real ones will know!!! Thank you!!💜💜
I’m late, but this changes everything. Thank you
Damn I felt like I could have took days off in between to do this. I'm always in effort to make a beat everyday. Without question, it's easy to overlook these highly important suggestions. Thank you Alex.
Love this tutorial man! Balance is absolutely crucial to a mix.
So for the last 3 or so years I've been dabbling in music production and within the last year really been devoting all of my free time to exploring this! I always could tell something was missing and I believe this is one of those ingredients! Thank for the vid, and yes, I watched to the end!
Best video ever. Thank you so much, is exactly what I needed to see today my man!
shit fam i've already mastered three albums going thru hell doin the exact opposite process. you just saved my life.
thanks man! keep doin this amazing work please
Alex, man, you look and sound so much different now! But always a PRO!
yesterday you told me on stream to work on my mixing. Today you upload this. You are doing gods work brotha!
Thank you so much for making this video, mixing definitely is a struggle for me, so it means a lot that you took time to make this video! :)
Nice explanation of balance in the mix. Please notice though. If you do use the true stereo pan pot option for stereo tracks. Notice your db levels will increase when you pan left or right. This is just due to the whole entire signal moving left or right. So you're actually never cutting or muting what s in the left and right channels. When you use the balance pan pot for stereo tracks. It's the exact opposite. You start to mute or cut stereo information out when panning hard left or right. Bottom line. You increase the signal more when you use stereo pan option but it's the best option.
Thanks for the shoutout. Not only did I watch the whole thing.. I watched it twice because I forgot what order to bring things into the mix.
wow. just the teacher I need, I am glad I found you. I love your teaching style!
So much value!! Thank you so much man it really made me relearn the mixing approach!
And as you stressed, always mix with a fresh set of ears! :)
Yo Alex, I love you bro. Thank you for all the help I wish you all the best
That lead is amazing. I'm gonna have to borrow it
I've been watching this tutorial every time I mix my tracks
Support over here man. It’s hard out their man I’m new to this in vision of become a full time producer but it’s definitely intimidating
Damn that beats actually good man. I've only heard your edm stuff
I like it that your tutorials are more serious than those from the comedy youtuber producers haha :) Really learned something today, thanks very much!
Thank you Stay Bless Bro .
bro im super grateful for this tutorial because i had a track that i could tell needed mixing and this is going to help my good ideas sound their best. thank you
Good stuff bro!! Man I’m hooked on your vids
Just started producing this year am doing it been quite an experience. My beats always sound unbalanced though but I appreciate this.
My balancing would be much better now
Thanks for the advice on where to place different elements in the mix. I’m surprised that few people have seen this video. One of the most helpful I’ve seen.
THANK YOU!!! REALLY OPENED MY MIND
I'm learning so much, thank you brother 🍻
Thank You Very Much !
🙂🙏
This is a spot on tutorial
Nice vid, good explanation. I think probably the most fundamental thing people miss with a mix down is gain staging. And a great place to start with it is pre-fader metering. Taming those levels is key to a great sounding mix down
Mad support bro I use pro x and you’ve been helping me a lot
Hey Alex,
Thanks for the video man, I will take a lesson from a teacher who is looking to educate over a teacher who is looking to entertain any day.
Way to keep it real man
Thank you!
As many beats as I mixed I always can use a refresher course on the main important part of mixing the balance to re align myself with some of the fine tune methods alll over again this was a good good video man 👍🏽👍🏽
Could you do another video like that, but do the balancing before putting any eq and such? It should be the first thing after gainstaging, but the effects make it sound a little bit different :D
Cool tutorial. Learned a lot. One suggestion that i have is that, instead of working on the intro maybe it would of been a good idea to balance on the chorus where most of the time all elements of the track are present 😊
I think now my mix will become more clean than before Watching your tutor. Thank you soo much man🙏🏻🙏🏻✊🏻👌🏻
I absolutely love this tutorial.
this is life changer
This is how it’s done period.
I watched the whole video :) great job as usual bro 🔥😎🔥
PhillipBerryOfficial I appreciate that man!
Hi Alex. That's all fine and good and for sure a value method for many people. I do think nevertheless you can't do such a video without even not explain the most important thing of mixing at all. Explaining how you achieve a perfect gain staging and what unity gain is and how you keep it constant during the whole mixing process, no matter how many plugins you will insert, is absolute essential. You should also explain why we do that and what and where the sweetspot of plugins are. How for example will you mix into a compressor, set up onto your 2-bus without permanently controlling those basic settings during your mixing process? Your advice is meaningless if this fundamental knowledge isn't understood. Cheers
I'm studying music production and I literally just told my gf next to me that I shouldnt be watching this video... Coz he didnt even apply any gain structure... Hes playing with the volume controllers that track will sound terrible when he bounce it to wave format
I was looking for a comment like this myself and I’m glad you guys brought up this point. I’ve never heard of playing with the faders for gain staging. You’re not supposed to mess with output volume is what I’ve learned. You need to gain stage with input volume. Of course that’s just what I’ve learned and that’s what works for me but I’m glad you guys caught this as well. I’m just a no-name producer with maybe 40 subscribers LOL but I have never heard of gain staging with a volume faders. I feel like a lot of people are being misinformed.
my biggest problem is not knowing how to balance vocals w the instrumental
Thank you Alex!
When you bring your volume down to almost off, the two things you want to hear are the vocal and snare - therefore your snare needs to be a bit louder than your kick.
Thank you very much! I'm OK at balancing tracks but this video made me more confident in doing so :D My track sounds sexier now! love you :D
@4:22 if you think about an analog drumset however the snare sounds louder a lot of the time and is closer to the player. So I think the snare might be able to sound louder than the kick drum actually.
Amazing Alex you are no doubt a genius
U have a good style of teaching dude. If u want the knowledge u gota go all the way. And that beat is prtty dame cool man.thanx for the knowledge dude. Peace.
I appreciate this video ! I'd love to see a video on you balancing vocals even if it's balancing vocals to a 2track !
Try this...set mono on the master ch...set all channels vol. levels down..then..add pink noise -6db to the master ch..turn it on...:) then...balance every channel solo.Start with the kick as Alex said...gotta hear the channel sound slightly above the pink noise. Hey Alex, please do a video for the base(808) levels before and after mix&master ?
Awesome pointers. 👍
Yo I need this haha
DJ Baker Ayyy dj baker!
Alex Rome great stream yesturday dude. It was refreshing to hear some actual constructive criticism. My channel just hit 6k today and I have a pretty loyal following. People are always telling me how much they like my music and stuff, which is good and fun, but sometimes I think I don't get any real advice.
In short, thanks for some great advice, I started producing from watching your vids and I keep seeing more and more growth on my channel!
same though then again i need a lot more lmao
Dude if those are hs8's then you shouldn't have any problem mixing the bass..cz they go deep enough to mix the bass
You earned a new subscriber
Love this man thank you
You need to be on Pre Fader settings first and then gain stage it. You need to know your input level and then balance your tracks to -12db. You are more than likely clipping and don’t know because you are in Post Fader. 😇 Let me know and I’ll explain
I want to follow the simple strategy of Rick Rubin. I don’t want a lot of sounds, I want few sounds that do a lot.
dude thank you so much, I'm a new producer/engineer and this was super helpful
Very informative bro.. Blessings
I found a way to make this fun for myself hahaha I love doing this for mixes but this definitey taught me more than what I was doing with this trick before thank you
Thank you so much. God bless you Alex.
Do you know if big producers are doinh that method to volume down everything at first
Ps: great video, super useful
lmaoooo i lost it when your cat interrupted you xD
Never tried actually feeling the cone lol gonna try that
Very helpful, subscribed!
Nice brother, please teach us about panning
So glad I came across this video
Super tricky sometimes to get levels right. Just gotta feel it out and make decisions with your ears first, and most times what you see visually will reassure you lol
Helping me out to this day man appreciate the video 🤙🏽
Nice! Appreciate this tutorial. I also appreciate the focus! I’m old!! I’m not interested in being entertained, I’m interested in being educated. ✊🏿👍🏿✊🏿👍🏿 I’ve watched this several times😂🤣
Yo...never thought of mixing this way 👀
Sick tutorial mate, nice work keep it up 👊🏻
very good advice this one.
You R Amazing Bro ☺
14:15 You left a fader down during your mixing process :D
That happens to me sometimes. Usually if I forget to bring it in when I'm mixing then it doesn't deserve to be in the beat lol
@@nineninebeats4623 agree
Lml
Good stuff. You should do a video o EQing.
Great video! Something I have been wondering about mixing is what volume should I be mixing my track with? I never know how loud to turn up my headphones with mixing and then it ends up too loud or too quiet
Dropping knowledge bombs! Thanks Alex!
man you must to work with audio book, so fuck thank you once more !
i definitely needed this haha, thanks
I love the video! This was awesome keep doing this! Only thing is, I felt maybe the bass was a touch too loud but hey thats my opinion and you probably have a better ear than I do. :P Either way this was an awesome tutorial! :)
dude this was super helpful! considering the course
Ur the best alex
Really helpful! Thanks for the help Alex!
Thank you for thisss
Either you took a teensy weensy bit of inspiration from my balancing method i shared in the discord, or I'm already doing it right! Either way, feels pretty good :P
I really needed this tutorial. Thanks!
Thanks 🙏 this very helped me. I think I’m gonna check out your website.👌🏽
0 is correct level of a balanced mix. you must gain stage to keep that balance correct. the key is gain staging.
Lit bro. I sat here taking notes the entire time :)
Great video!
Love how you did this after yesterdays stream😂