I can't tell you how much I like the calm and laid back style here. I get really worn out by listening to over the top and cringey videos when I'm just trying to learn something or get a second/third opinion on how to approach these problems. This is a nice rundown of the relevant information, presented cleanly. Also, I really appreciate you not telling me to smash that like button. Thank you for not abusing my ears, and for treating me like an adult simply eager to learn more. Liked and subscribed. Cheers.
its nice to see a tutorial from a woman's perspective. all the guy tutorials have very similar approach/technique and it beats the dead horse over and over with nothing new. your eloquent explanations is fantastic. thank you.
Wow! Thanks Sara. I will now have to spend a month going through what you did there. I notice that I can hear much more clearly what you are doing in my DT 880 Pro headphones rather than my Acoustic Energy AE-22 active monitors which go down to 60Hz. I don't know how far down the DT 880s go but I would recommend any other listeners to check out these subtleties through some low reaching headphones. Can't thank you enough for sharing this amongst the community. So kind.
This is very good, very thorough in the coverage. I'd suggest doing something like this but with the stock pro tools plug ins. Most of the plug ins, good to know about!, are OK but for some of us were just not going to look to getting them. Learned a lot about the structure which was productive.
I absolutely love your channel! I’m an intermediate student of the recording arts, and I spend a lot of time looking around TH-cam for good information about audio production. There are some other channels that do a good job, but I feel like these videos are on a different level. Easily paid content quality, you pack so much dense information into such a small, easy to understand package, no nonsense! But unlike many of the paint by number content creators, your excitement for the details and passion for teaching really come through, and it’s hypnotizing! I learn so much practical, useful information in such a small amount of time with your videos, and I’ve had revelations and learned approaches that have completely upgraded my mix process, so thank you! You don’t get enough followers or views, I’m spreading the word in my classes (we’re talking about gainstaging and vu meters today, and there were a lot of questions, all of which were answered in your video better than our professor could explain, so I passed your video around, 10-20 of the views from today were my classmates haha). Keep up the great work, and I really hope the best for you and that your videos keep getting deeper and deeper into the TH-cam algorithms!!
This video is brilliant Sara. I really like how you focus on explaining what each plugin does instead of just showing us the knob values. And that tip at the beginning referring to the frequency responses of headphones/monitors is really good. I didn't know how well mine were. That's also a a great sounding song!
I tend to use a Gate on distorted bass guitar tracks to cut out a lot of the noise that's introduced because when you compress it's going to bring out that noise even more. Best to hit the gate first, so the compressor doesn't make a big mess.
Great tutorial, so refreshing to listen to your calming voice. And none of the 'this mixing HACK is gonna change ur effing life!!'. Just solid advice, knowledge and ideas. Thank you.
A very knowledgeable approach. I am impressed with your sense of sound frequencies and where they belong in the spectrum, makes total sense. Hats off to you.
My dear Sara, your content is absolutely what I need to hear, but you are so kind, laid back and Lancashire Lass that I keep drifting off into sophorism. So keep up the excellent content but please try to stop hypnotising me. There is no criticism here, you give fantastic insights, which are eagerly lapped up, but.... I keep having to watch them twice because you are so calming. Much love Sara, you are one of the best tutors on TH-cam x
I had definitely been pushing levels way too hard trying everything to keep their summed values from clipping the master bus level with something always clipping over by a few dB and now I know it’s all because I start by setting my kicks too high usually trying to peak them out close to -6dB and then building from there. Then I tried the reverse of building instruments and vocals where they sounded lovely and seeing no clipping but by the time I added the drums back in the whole mix just sounded way too low at the mix/master bus. Can’t wait to try your method of gain staging levels and seeing how well my elements fall into place around gain staging the kick and bass. Thanks again Sara! Cheers!
Your story sounds similar to mine. I just didn't get on with trying to start from the vocals or main instrument. I hope you find it works for you, just keep an eye on the meter as you build the mix.
I came here after hearing you on a podcast. Maybe it was Recording Studio Rockstars? I honestly can't remember. But I enjoyed listening to you there and wanted to check out more of your content. Anyway, I'm loving this channel and am working through some of the older videos. Very useful stuff delivered clearly.
Really enjoying your channel Sara. I like how you explain things very clearly, and it's refreshing to see that you will use any tools necessary to achieve the sound you're after. Many folks will preach that if you're using too many plugins, then you're doing something wrong. Sometimes I'll have sparse plugins, and other times the mix is chock full of them. I'll do whatever it takes to get the desired end results.
Thanks for that! Yes, it's how it sounds that's important. Also, it depends on the tracks you're given to work with. Some need more "help" than others. There are no rules! 😄
Thanks Sara...almost feels like an asmr vid hehe. Great that you share your info and fast track others; good solid techniques. While its great to get super res monitors...I respectfully disagree with 15hz (genre dependent) but definitely on this type of track content, only 1 source can occupy that region at a time. Whilst there will be a very minute hearing of that on some systems, the rms requirement of low end power...especially in cluttered songs at that freq is a physics nightmare...12th order filtering at 30hz does a much cleaner job imvho unless there is something especially deserving feature. Its only my 2c but even at 30hz, the phase issues and flop caused by elements there are easily averted. Great plugs like DSM spectrum mapper or trackspacer are great at reclaiming space for transients there. Put another way...you have a fundamental open e playing on bass guitar, and a kick tuned to 55hz, spectral pushing that content out of the way but allowing it the rest of the time truly increases clarity...but maybe thats on another video of yours "-) What is also an issue is that most rooms are nowhere near big enough to manage the wavelengths that low...forget the monitors hehe. I have a reasonable sized room but having a fairly flat shaker mounted to the listening chair which lets me feel all that stuff down to 20 and I have to say...tactile is definitely a great extra way in really 'seeing' that space. Hope that is ok to say. I really do like your clean and uncomplicated approach...just polishing the essence and bringing out the best without ridiculous plug in chains that people think will magically make stuff translate into something it never was...just brightness, contrast and saturation for the graphic version :-) Great Work!
Really, really informative video. Would you consider doing a deep dive mixing tutorial for drums? Specifically, the drums on this track sound phenomenal!
Your presentations are incredibly effective, and what about the sound of your mixes,really powerful . I'm inspired as a guitar player now to follow you and improve the production side of things, cheers!
Ha, kick drum in the chest, this was always my fight with the foh engineers at club gigs. I had to have it on my kick, almost to extreme, so I guess sometimes they had a legit beef. I was an extreme hard hitter and making the crowd "feel" the drums was a big goal, because hearing them was already a guarantee, even if they muted me on the board..lol. Great mixing vid pointers thx
Good stuff again, Sarah! Particularly liked the idea of certain plugins only doing small adjustments, something I'm trying to get into, myself. I was wondering? In trying to keep my cpu, as low as possible, what are the advantages of using 3rd party eq plugins, as opposed to the stock daw ones?As a one-man-band, I'm grateful for all the useful tips and hope you're staying safe. Cheers Alex
Glad it was helpful! I think 3rd party plugins, on the whole, are much better than they ever have been, particularly the more well known ones. I certainly don't have issues with the ones mentioned here and I use multiple instances of them.
Great video Sara and well informed thank you, your a great teacher. I was wondering would it be possible for you to make a video of what Computer specs you use because my 2010 macbook pro is no longer able to handle heavy processing and causes system overload each time i try to mix and edit so i need a new Mac and maybe you could guide me and others who mat be having same problem. Thank you for your great tips. 👍
Thanks for your lovely feedback! Gosh, computer wise I use a Mac Pro trash can with 64 gig ram. Ironically, it's fine for audio work but the standard graphics card is pretty poor for video, passable but slower than my older 2014 MBP. So, I'm thinking of upgrading to the new M1 16" MBP which is due out this year depending on the compatibility of the M1 chip with my plugins and hardware. I highly recommend searching out the Apple Refurbished stock which is always excellent. The OTHER issue is that I'm stuck on Mojave because of my older Waves V10 plugins...but that's another story!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thanks for your reply Sara. Wow 64gb Ram!!! I'm actually considering the new Mac with M1 chip also but like yourself i wanna make sure my plug-ins etc will be compatible with it and Waves recently announced that their plugins will be compatable with the M1 so thats a plus. I will look up on the Mac refurbished site as you mentioned and go from there. Thanks again Sara. 👍
Great video but a little complicated with so many plug ins. Is there "dummies guide" version where you can get similar results using just one channel strip in terms of eq/compression to make the kick and bass sit well together?
Hi Sara, these videos have been immensely helpful, thank you. 1. Are you running the drum sub (LoAir) in parrallel? Can you recommend an alternative to the UA Neve 1081 plugin, please (I don't have a UA device)? And is there a reason you don't use the Plugin Alliance SSL again rather than the Waves when you're doing the Kick Drum processing at the end? Thanks so much for your time and help.
I'm glad you're finding them useful! Yes, the drum sub is in parallel. I do now use the PA version of the SSL 9000J because it's what I used to mix on back in the day. A great UA 1081 alternative would be VEQ4 by Waves.
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thanks so much, was just thinking about this actually whilst watching your new compression video. Everything you're doing is so helpful to me, thank you so much. And thanks too for the advice above. I'm struggling with my drum sub in parrallel as it's adding a lot of volume, need to play around a bit, I think!
@@jonthomas83 it sounds counter intuitive but are you high passing the kick drum? This will clean up the subs. It's a fine balancing act when you start adding drum subs in parallel! Sometimes I'll opt for a subby kick sample instead.
Hi Artur, I do use one template for most mixes and update it when I find something new to try out or something that has worked well in a previous mix and want to try again (so I don’t forget!). I have been trying out other simpler templates recently that are less complicated for these tutorials though, so they are easier to follow.
is there a spectrum analyzer out there that allows you to alter the track on the fly? without having to back track through plugins to do it? I guess FabFilter kind of does it
Didn’t really start getting to the point of the video until about 4:30. Good for you to show off all of the tracks in your mix but this was a video on ‘bass & kick drum. 5 minutes I’ll never get back. Lol! Thank you anyhoo.
Hey Sara, I like your videos and learned alot from them. I got a question regarding kick and bass, when you compress a bass guitar, do you use normal compression -to even out the performance or sidechain compression so it ducks when theres kick? or you use both of them - one after another?
Hi, it really depends on what tracks I've been given and how they sound. I'll start with using one compressor but if that isn't giving enough control I'll go to serial compression. Occasionally I'll try side chaining if there are kicks, bass and synth bass to control. I like to use parallel compression on bass as another option
Question. Are you saying that you route your audio track through the AUX and then the AUX to the Buss? As in the audio track never/doesn't route to/through the Buss? So it's: Bass Audio Channel 1 > Bass AUX > Bass Buss... for example
Great video and Breakdown Sara! New subscriber here....so the Brits win, you're all just better at music! :) I noticed you have a bunch of plugins on your drums, is this just more of an ear thing, and your just adding the plugin? Or are you going in to each one of these plugins and dialing all sorts of settings?
Thanks for the sub! I have a selection of plugins that I like to use for different reasons that are part of my template. I may use some, none or all of them depending on how the mix progresses.
Where you set a high pass totally depends on the tracks and how you want to use the overheads and rooms to build your drum mix. I often set it at 75Hz on the SSL actually, so it's all about the tracks used and how they sound. Thanks for watching!
Hi Sara! Loving your videos and learning a bunch of helpful stuff. I have a section of a song where the floor tom is playing an 1/8th note pattern and it really interfering with the bass, making it sound just awful. Sounding good aparr from that section. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Pro Q3 has a feature where you can see a visual representation of clashing frequencies to help you. Mastering The Mix has a plugin that does the same, Fuser?
I don't have the FabFilter ProQ, but Studio One 6 has a version very similar. I'll side chain the drums in on the bass track and try my hand at using the dynamic EQ feature. Could you do a video dedicated to using dynamic EQ? It's kind of a new concept to me. Thanks!
Great video. Silly question but my friend and I are having an argument over where your accent is front. He says Leeds, I say Newcastle. Either of us close?
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Whilst I don't cover much specifically about hip-hop, the EQing principles are still the same, so I think you would get something from my tutorials. Thanks for watching!
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I can't tell you how much I like the calm and laid back style here. I get really worn out by listening to over the top and cringey videos when I'm just trying to learn something or get a second/third opinion on how to approach these problems. This is a nice rundown of the relevant information, presented cleanly. Also, I really appreciate you not telling me to smash that like button. Thank you for not abusing my ears, and for treating me like an adult simply eager to learn more. Liked and subscribed. Cheers.
Thank you for your lovely feedback, and glad to help!
love your calm teaching style
Thanks!
its nice to see a tutorial from a woman's perspective. all the guy tutorials have very similar approach/technique and it beats the dead horse over and over with nothing new. your eloquent explanations is fantastic. thank you.
Thanks for your support!
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos 😀
Thanks for watching!
Wow! Thanks Sara. I will now have to spend a month going through what you did there. I notice that I can hear much more clearly what you are doing in my DT 880 Pro headphones rather than my Acoustic Energy AE-22 active monitors which go down to 60Hz. I don't know how far down the DT 880s go but I would recommend any other listeners to check out these subtleties through some low reaching headphones. Can't thank you enough for sharing this amongst the community. So kind.
Thank you!
This is very good, very thorough in the coverage. I'd suggest doing something like this but with the stock pro tools plug ins. Most of the plug ins, good to know about!, are OK but for some of us were just not going to look to getting them. Learned a lot about the structure which was productive.
Noted. Thanks!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Again thanks!
Sara, your produce like a pro course is very good. I am really enjoying and learning a LOT!
That's great to hear! 😁
Hi Sara. Thanks for the tips and tricks. You explained it well. I really learned alot.
I'm so glad!
Where have you been all my life? This is terrific - thank you!
Glad to help!
Thank you Sara, this was very informative indeed.
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching!
I absolutely love your channel! I’m an intermediate student of the recording arts, and I spend a lot of time looking around TH-cam for good information about audio production. There are some other channels that do a good job, but I feel like these videos are on a different level. Easily paid content quality, you pack so much dense information into such a small, easy to understand package, no nonsense! But unlike many of the paint by number content creators, your excitement for the details and passion for teaching really come through, and it’s hypnotizing! I learn so much practical, useful information in such a small amount of time with your videos, and I’ve had revelations and learned approaches that have completely upgraded my mix process, so thank you! You don’t get enough followers or views, I’m spreading the word in my classes (we’re talking about gainstaging and vu meters today, and there were a lot of questions, all of which were answered in your video better than our professor could explain, so I passed your video around, 10-20 of the views from today were my classmates haha). Keep up the great work, and I really hope the best for you and that your videos keep getting deeper and deeper into the TH-cam algorithms!!
Wow! Thank you so much, I'm so glad I am able to help in a way that helps you 😀
I’ve listened to this video like 15 times at work today so it stays on my brain lol probably my favorite TH-cam engineer who makes videos
😂 thank you so much
This video is brilliant Sara. I really like how you focus on explaining what each plugin does instead of just showing us the knob values. And that tip at the beginning referring to the frequency responses of headphones/monitors is really good. I didn't know how well mine were.
That's also a a great sounding song!
You're so welcome!
I tend to use a Gate on distorted bass guitar tracks to cut out a lot of the noise that's introduced because when you compress it's going to bring out that noise even more. Best to hit the gate first, so the compressor doesn't make a big mess.
Great tip! Thanks for sharing
Great tutorial, so refreshing to listen to your calming voice. And none of the 'this mixing HACK is gonna change ur effing life!!'. Just solid advice, knowledge and ideas. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You explain things like narrating in a documentary..💯💯👏👏
I appreciate that, thanks!
A very knowledgeable approach. I am impressed with your sense of sound frequencies and where they belong in the spectrum, makes total sense. Hats off to you.
Thank you!
Really learned a great deal about the Low End and how to achieve a much better result! Thank you Sara 👍🎵👍
Songwriter Till, thank you so much :)
Great video. I have been concentrating myself on composing and producing but watching your mixing videos is a real pleasure.
Great to hear! Thanks for commenting 😊
Great video. Very instructive.
Thanks Mark, and thanks for commenting :)
Brilliantly simple explanation of this sometimes irritating subject. Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My dear Sara, your content is absolutely what I need to hear, but you are so kind, laid back and Lancashire Lass that I keep drifting off into sophorism. So keep up the excellent content but please try to stop hypnotising me. There is no criticism here, you give fantastic insights, which are eagerly lapped up, but.... I keep having to watch them twice because you are so calming. Much love Sara, you are one of the best tutors on TH-cam x
You are so welcome (Yorkshire though, not Lancs!) You are only allowed to make such a mistake once 😂
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Oops!
Practical and informative. Thanks Sara!
Glad it was helpful!
Your videos are absolutely the most honest and informative about mixing. Easy to follow and enjoyable to listen and watch. Thank you!
I appreciate that!
I had definitely been pushing levels way too hard trying everything to keep their summed values from clipping the master bus level with something always clipping over by a few dB and now I know it’s all because I start by setting my kicks too high usually trying to peak them out close to -6dB and then building from there. Then I tried the reverse of building instruments and vocals where they sounded lovely and seeing no clipping but by the time I added the drums back in the whole mix just sounded way too low at the mix/master bus. Can’t wait to try your method of gain staging levels and seeing how well my elements fall into place around gain staging the kick and bass. Thanks again Sara! Cheers!
Your story sounds similar to mine. I just didn't get on with trying to start from the vocals or main instrument. I hope you find it works for you, just keep an eye on the meter as you build the mix.
Once again - a superb video. You explain things so clearly - thank you (again)!!!
Thanks Andy 😁
I came here after hearing you on a podcast. Maybe it was Recording Studio Rockstars? I honestly can't remember. But I enjoyed listening to you there and wanted to check out more of your content. Anyway, I'm loving this channel and am working through some of the older videos. Very useful stuff delivered clearly.
Welcome aboard! Thanks for your support ☺️
Really enjoying your channel Sara. I like how you explain things very clearly, and it's refreshing to see that you will use any tools necessary to achieve the sound you're after. Many folks will preach that if you're using too many plugins, then you're doing something wrong. Sometimes I'll have sparse plugins, and other times the mix is chock full of them. I'll do whatever it takes to get the desired end results.
Thanks for that! Yes, it's how it sounds that's important. Also, it depends on the tracks you're given to work with. Some need more "help" than others. There are no rules! 😄
Great video Sara! Very helpful info. There may be hope yet for my mixes!
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
I'm enjoying your videos! Great info and chilled-out vibe. :)
I appreciate that!
adore your channel, you explain everything in such a nice way that i understand, cant wait for more content, thank you
Thanks Mark, that's so nice of you to say😄
Excellent vid Sara! Great to have a descriptive and helpful walkthrough plus love the bucket analogy 😁
Thanks! Buckets...I know!! Haha!
Thanks Sara...almost feels like an asmr vid hehe. Great that you share your info and fast track others; good solid techniques.
While its great to get super res monitors...I respectfully disagree with 15hz (genre dependent) but definitely on this type of track content, only 1 source can occupy that region at a time. Whilst there will be a very minute hearing of that on some systems, the rms requirement of low end power...especially in cluttered songs at that freq is a physics nightmare...12th order filtering at 30hz does a much cleaner job imvho unless there is something especially deserving feature.
Its only my 2c but even at 30hz, the phase issues and flop caused by elements there are easily averted. Great plugs like DSM spectrum mapper or trackspacer are great at reclaiming space for transients there. Put another way...you have a fundamental open e playing on bass guitar, and a kick tuned to 55hz, spectral pushing that content out of the way but allowing it the rest of the time truly increases clarity...but maybe thats on another video of yours "-)
What is also an issue is that most rooms are nowhere near big enough to manage the wavelengths that low...forget the monitors hehe. I have a reasonable sized room but having a fairly flat shaker mounted to the listening chair which lets me feel all that stuff down to 20 and I have to say...tactile is definitely a great extra way in really 'seeing' that space.
Hope that is ok to say.
I really do like your clean and uncomplicated approach...just polishing the essence and bringing out the best without ridiculous plug in chains that people think will magically make stuff translate into something it never was...just brightness, contrast and saturation for the graphic version :-)
Great Work!
You make some very good points, thanks for commenting and thanks for watching!
Her voice IS very soothing, isn't it?
Really, really informative video. Would you consider doing a deep dive mixing tutorial for drums? Specifically, the drums on this track sound phenomenal!
Yes! I’ll take a look and remind myself what I did!
Your presentations are incredibly effective, and what about the sound of your mixes,really powerful . I'm inspired as a guitar player now to follow you and improve the production side of things, cheers!
Wow! Thank you so much 😊
Ha, kick drum in the chest, this was always my fight with the foh engineers at club gigs. I had to have it on my kick, almost to extreme, so I guess sometimes they had a legit beef. I was an extreme hard hitter and making the crowd "feel" the drums was a big goal, because hearing them was already a guarantee, even if they muted me on the board..lol. Great mixing vid pointers thx
Wow, excellent video! I learned so much about mixing as a whole!!
Great to hear!
You’re brilliant. Love these
Glad you like them!
I discovered recently your videos, it is really excellent and well explained. Thank you
Thanks for watching, I’m pleased you’re enjoying them!
Thank you so much, learning a ton, and really enjoyable too.
Great to hear!
wonderful explanation, great job it helps immensely
Glad it helped!
Great Video! Super helpful! Thank you for doing this Sara!
You're so welcome!
Thank you. Astonishing what small, sometimes tiny, steps can result in sum at the end :)
You're very welcome!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing :)
Great info, Sara, thanks!
Thanks Ed!
Sounds great Sara!!!!
Lu Rojas, thank you so much :)
That voice 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for the tips
Happy to help!
Isn’t her voice the most soothing ever?!
@@dpinskey absolutely!
This is a brilliant clinic, second to nothing else I've seen on this topic.
Thank you!
A great, great, beautiful video!!! Many thanks! PS: Your voice and accent are marvelous!!!
Thank you so much 😊
Lovely explanation. Thank you.
No, thank you!
Great video again Sara. Do you happen to know which drum library was used for the track ? They do sound amazing.
diggin the teachin...learned a gang of stuff...totally sub'd
Thanks!
Спасибо за урок. Всё наглядно, разумно и очень музыкально..
Thank you for watching! Glad to have helped
This is pretty cool thanks for the info
Thanks Jake, and thanks for commenting :)
Great videos! Thanks for sharing
reddbaron82, thank you so much :)
I just love your voice....you are awsome
Haha! Thank you 😄
Great!!! thanks for share your methods and technics!!! greetings from Argentina..
My pleasure!
Good stuff again, Sarah! Particularly liked the idea of certain plugins only doing small adjustments, something I'm trying to get into, myself. I was wondering? In trying to keep my cpu, as low as possible, what are the advantages of using 3rd party eq plugins, as opposed to the stock daw ones?As a one-man-band, I'm grateful for all the useful tips and hope you're staying safe.
Cheers
Alex
Glad it was helpful! I think 3rd party plugins, on the whole, are much better than they ever have been, particularly the more well known ones. I certainly don't have issues with the ones mentioned here and I use multiple instances of them.
Great video thanks for the tips
Glad I could help 👍
Great video Sara and well informed thank you, your a great teacher. I was wondering would it be possible for you to make a video of what Computer specs you use because my 2010 macbook pro is no longer able to handle heavy processing and causes system overload each time i try to mix and edit so i need a new Mac and maybe you could guide me and others who mat be having same problem. Thank you for your great tips. 👍
Thanks for your lovely feedback! Gosh, computer wise I use a Mac Pro trash can with 64 gig ram. Ironically, it's fine for audio work but the standard graphics card is pretty poor for video, passable but slower than my older 2014 MBP. So, I'm thinking of upgrading to the new M1 16" MBP which is due out this year depending on the compatibility of the M1 chip with my plugins and hardware. I highly recommend searching out the Apple Refurbished stock which is always excellent. The OTHER issue is that I'm stuck on Mojave because of my older Waves V10 plugins...but that's another story!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thanks for your reply Sara. Wow 64gb Ram!!! I'm actually considering the new Mac with M1 chip also but like yourself i wanna make sure my plug-ins etc will be compatible with it and Waves recently announced that their plugins will be compatable with the M1 so thats a plus. I will look up on the Mac refurbished site as you mentioned and go from there. Thanks again Sara. 👍
Loved it ...
Gazi KamalAP, thanks for watching and for the feedback!
nice tech with the bass i do that but make 2 copies of the original then i have low a med and only highs
Hi Sara. Thanks for the videos! Could you recommend a set of good quality headphones?
Great video but a little complicated with so many plug ins. Is there "dummies guide" version where you can get similar results using just one channel strip in terms of eq/compression to make the kick and bass sit well together?
I think I do that in my compressing bass video th-cam.com/video/NBRawdT-h_0/w-d-xo.html
Wow
Awesome video,super information
Thank you so much 🙂
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing welcome
I am new here mam... Love your evry work
Thanks and welcome!
Hi Sara, these videos have been immensely helpful, thank you. 1. Are you running the drum sub (LoAir) in parrallel? Can you recommend an alternative to the UA Neve 1081 plugin, please (I don't have a UA device)? And is there a reason you don't use the Plugin Alliance SSL again rather than the Waves when you're doing the Kick Drum processing at the end? Thanks so much for your time and help.
I'm glad you're finding them useful! Yes, the drum sub is in parallel. I do now use the PA version of the SSL 9000J because it's what I used to mix on back in the day. A great UA 1081 alternative would be VEQ4 by Waves.
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thanks so much, was just thinking about this actually whilst watching your new compression video. Everything you're doing is so helpful to me, thank you so much. And thanks too for the advice above. I'm struggling with my drum sub in parrallel as it's adding a lot of volume, need to play around a bit, I think!
@@jonthomas83 it sounds counter intuitive but are you high passing the kick drum? This will clean up the subs. It's a fine balancing act when you start adding drum subs in parallel! Sometimes I'll opt for a subby kick sample instead.
@Sara Carter - Great tutorials. Do you use a template for most of your mixes or does each have a different routing?
Hi Artur, I do use one template for most mixes and update it when I find something new to try out or something that has worked well in a previous mix and want to try again (so I don’t forget!). I have been trying out other simpler templates recently that are less complicated for these tutorials though, so they are easier to follow.
is there a spectrum analyzer out there that allows you to alter the track on the fly? without having to back track through plugins to do it? I guess FabFilter kind of does it
Didn’t really start getting to the point of the video until about 4:30. Good for you to show off all of the tracks in your mix but this was a video on ‘bass & kick drum. 5 minutes I’ll never get back. Lol! Thank you anyhoo.
Hi Sara...What do you think about side-chaining the bass and the drums. Do you think doing them would benefit the mix even more ?
It can, definitely, but you don't need to do that on every mix, only when you feel it's needed.
Hey Sara, I like your videos and learned alot from them. I got a question regarding kick and bass, when you compress a bass guitar, do you use normal compression -to even out the performance or sidechain compression so it ducks when theres kick? or you use both of them - one after another?
Hi, it really depends on what tracks I've been given and how they sound. I'll start with using one compressor but if that isn't giving enough control I'll go to serial compression. Occasionally I'll try side chaining if there are kicks, bass and synth bass to control. I like to use parallel compression on bass as another option
Question. Are you saying that you route your audio track through the AUX and then the AUX to the Buss? As in the audio track never/doesn't route to/through the Buss?
So it's: Bass Audio Channel 1 > Bass AUX > Bass Buss... for example
Great video and Breakdown Sara! New subscriber here....so the Brits win, you're all just better at music! :)
I noticed you have a bunch of plugins on your drums, is this just more of an ear thing, and your just adding the plugin? Or are you going in to each one of these plugins and dialing all sorts of settings?
Thanks for the sub! I have a selection of plugins that I like to use for different reasons that are part of my template. I may use some, none or all of them depending on how the mix progresses.
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Turned into a robot for a sec lel 4:59
At 22:01, on the SSL channel why did you put the High pass filter at around 45Hz on the kick? Isn't it too high for the kick?
Where you set a high pass totally depends on the tracks and how you want to use the overheads and rooms to build your drum mix. I often set it at 75Hz on the SSL actually, so it's all about the tracks used and how they sound. Thanks for watching!
Hi Sara! Loving your videos and learning a bunch of helpful stuff. I have a section of a song where the floor tom is playing an 1/8th note pattern and it really interfering with the bass, making it sound just awful. Sounding good aparr from that section. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Pro Q3 has a feature where you can see a visual representation of clashing frequencies to help you. Mastering The Mix has a plugin that does the same, Fuser?
I don't have the FabFilter ProQ, but Studio One 6 has a version very similar. I'll side chain the drums in on the bass track and try my hand at using the dynamic EQ feature. Could you do a video dedicated to using dynamic EQ? It's kind of a new concept to me. Thanks!
Great video. Silly question but my friend and I are having an argument over where your accent is front. He says Leeds, I say Newcastle. Either of us close?
Leeds is the closest! Newcastle is way off, my friend! 😂
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Then, Sara Carter is: an accredited Doctor of Neuroscience, best-selling author, and part-time College Professor on the weekends... 😂😆🤣😁😄😛🖤
Enjoying the videos, thank you! 😉
I'll tell her you said that!! Thanks 😂
So for the whole mix you put the VU meter on the mix buss? Not on each individual track uhm? Nice thanks
Basically yes, and on group busses and my mastering bus
What point on handset if that lower but speaker don't won't be no good then
Sorry, I don't understand
I make HipHop beats, question is can all of your tutorials apply for my genre of music?
Whilst I don't cover much specifically about hip-hop, the EQing principles are still the same, so I think you would get something from my tutorials. Thanks for watching!
Thank you and I will keep watching.
Why do my kick sound like a basketball hitting the floor 😂😂😂😂 And yes, I did lowcutted both the kick and the bass 😊
Girl, you do it well.Do you do heavy rock?
I do any rock, but I leave Metal to the specialists, too aggressive for me!
Hello ik ben hele lang vechten dit te worden ontrecht tegen gehouden om geld mee te verdien kunnen je help daar mee en mijn buur jongen heeft mijn macboek gestollen is maakt zijn eigen music er mee als word ik weg gehouden niet mee kunnen doen
Typical Studio Mix. I don’t like it.
That band should get a better drummer tbh.
Haha!