Got some great comments and questions from my last post, I mixed through a crappy speaker and all I got was this GREAT mix?!?, and I thought I’d share them with you. Let’s fire them off! Does mixing in means to export your mix in mono withoutpanning? No, it does not and thanks for asking! It...
I got inspired by one of Graham Cochrane’s post recently. It was the one about Derek Ali’s method of mixing on one crappy mono speaker. So I fired up one of the Dueling Mixes multitracks and started mixing on my mono Behritone one-driver monitor. At first I was just going to do the rough levels....
Got an email from a subscriber that was looking for a “template for mixing and mastering.” I looked at his email for a while and I didn’t really know what to reply back. On one hand I really wanted to help out. But on the other I didn’t really have an answer for him. A template...
I was asked a question about starting your mix the other day: I was taught in digital mixing to start by setting all tracks to approximately -18db to -12db through clip gain to make mixing and headroom better. Did anyone else do this? Maybe I’m just really bad at this but I don’t really concern...
A cool way to add some stereo imaging to your sounds without needing the fancy stereo plug-ins is to use panning, delay, the modulation within the delay and some EQ to make the delay sound different than the other source. The best part is it also makes it shimmer more in mono! Here’s what you...
I was talking to a friend of mine about how we mix the other day. He said that’s a very “reactive” process. He basically reacts to what’s going on in the mix and tackles it however he sees fit that time. The thing about that is that it can also be pretty different every time....
When it comes to mixing hip hop, rap and EDM, the guys over at The Pro Audio Files have got it covered. Matthew Weiss especially. His thoughts and training on mixing hip-hop are really useful, fun to watch and highly practical. A while back he wrote some articles on mixing rap vocals that I got...
As I’ve told you before, I like hearing student progress throughout the 5-week Mixing With 5 Plug-ins course. One of my students, Howard Rabach, was gracious enough to let me use his mix as an example of his results in the course. In week 3 we finish our compression video and at that point the...
As an exclusive preview to Mixing With 5 Plug-ins I thought I’d skip to the end and give you one of the most valuable lesson in the course. It’s all about listening to your mix on different speaker systems, jotting down what needs to be fixed and then going back to the mixing board for...
As far as mixing processors go, compression is the second in command after EQ as far as I’m concerned. EQ is simpler, and as we went over in yesterday’s post, a concrete approach and method to EQ’ing usually gives you some pretty good results. However, compression is a bit more complex but it’s also more...