Spectrum Analyzer | Audio Mixing Tips | How To See Your Problems
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00:00 - Tease
01:08 - Visualizer Intro
05:46 - MMultiAnalyzer
11:16 - Mid Side EQ Basics
14:17 - Span Plus
I've got some serious home studio mixing tips for you in this video. The biggest issue with mixing in a home studio is the inability to hear all of the frequencies in your mix properly. To alleviate this issue, a Spectrum Analyzer can show you immediately where your issues are. In this video I demonstrate 2 simple techniques with 2 great Spectrum Analyzer Plugins: MMultiAnalyzer from MeldaProduction and Voxengo Span Plus. If you want to learn how to use a spectrum analyzer, I've got some basics for you in this video.
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I was trying to get rid of all the sides . Im i wrong for doing this
I'm about to dive in with some major mixing and mastering so this vid was really relevant to me right now. Just goes to show there is always something new to learn no matter how long you've been involved in music. Thanks for another great vid Dan.
That's what we aspire to here at the Lonely Rocker. Just In Time Videos!! Always great to hear from you my friend. Happy mixing!
After years I learned that my biggest mistake as a begginer was trying to "see" my mixing mistakes when I had no clue what any of it meant. Now's the time💪
I believe in mixing with my ears...but an assist from a good analyzer certainly can help :)
Cannot believe this channel has only 9k subscribers with such qualitative contents!!
Thank you so much. Maybe UA-cam hates me or I need to do more videos like this. Thank you for watching.
Thanks for this Lonely Rocker! 🙌
My pleasure!!
Where were you two years ago? Lol. I’ve gone through every of the step you’ve described, trying to improve my mixes. You are a natural teacher.
I don't know...seems UA-cam has been slow to share my secrets!!! :)
Fantastic analogy at the beginning!
Thank you! Glad it made sense :)
Fantastic explanation! This is just what I was looking for, after trying to figure out the PAZ analyzer. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Cheers!
This is a class video and one I shall be using to help me with my total novice level mix downs
Thanks so much!! Glad you found it helpful. Cheers!
Genius box analogy! Priceless tips and visual analysis! Definitely subscribed!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you so much!!
Excellent visual aids to understand the tutorial. Very well done!
Using an analogy in explaining a complicated subject makes things plain and simple. Good work. Thanks Dan for this practical and helpful video!
Thanks so much! So glad it painted a clear picture for you. Cheers!
really love the way you illustrated this. Especially with the colored balls at the start..fuzzying up the Mix :)
Thanks so much! Glad it made sense 😂😂
Very clear presentation with great pacing. Thank you!
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it. 🎸😎
Awesome video! Very in depth - and very well explained! Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate your thoughts!
Others just talk but Dan shows!
Cheers! Happy you are enjoying my videos!! And thanks for the positive vibes!
Amazing, thank you so much for the great and easy to follow tutorials!
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very helpful video. Just exactly what I was looking to find. Thanks a lots.
My pleasure! Glad it helped!!!
Great visuals to explain this tutorial. Well done!
Can't wait to hear your next mix! 😝😝
Great instructional video, Dan! You're a really good teacher!
Thank you...you'll be an audio pro in no time! 😜
Awesome video, Downloaded both of them and trying them right away!
Thanks! Enjoy them. Hope they help you!
Awesome. I’m an electronic music producer, but your approach is universal. Thanks buddy…
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it. And yes...this certainly crosses all genres ;)
Thanks for this!!
Cheers from Texas!
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My pleasure! Cheers from Toronto!
If you got no studio, no decent monitors and want to make something half-way decent, this is a life-changer. I can't say for a proper studio, where you can hear all the details vividly, if this comes in handy there as I've never been to one.
Glad you found this helpful!!!
Even most big and well known studio have problems in their booth and control room
Really helpful video - thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! My pleasure....
outstanding tut
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it....
Great information! Love your production :)
Thank you so much!
BY FAR THE BEST VIDEO FOR MID SIDE EQ!!!!
Thank you so much!!
Excellent..! very useful, Thanks so much for your sharing! ✌
My pleasure! Glad it was helpful!
Appreciate your great teaching. You do have the talent to teach and explain clearly, keep up and God bless!
Thank you so much!
Really good content dude, thanks
Thanks so much! my pleasure!!!
Great video!!! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
this is really a great explanation. Nice Vid man!
Appreciate it! Glad it helped you!
Awesome video.thanks for the tips and tricks!very helpful and thorough.i will be applying this to my mixes.i treated my room as best I could with panels like the ones you made a video of.im still trying to figure out my monitors in terms of sound.hopefully this will point me in the right direction.thanks again.👍
My pleasure! Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your thoughts....
Great tutorial ! Thanks
You're welcome!
Great video Dan, I went digging on your channel for this and mid/side EQ after you spoke about both processes over on the Creative Sauce live stream. Turns out out I had both analysis plug ins already, just had no idea how to read them. Brilliantly clear explanation. Great channel also, looks like this is my next UA-cam rabbit hole.
Many thanks
Hey Zombie. Thanks so much for your kind words. Really appreciate it. Glad I can be here to help. That's why I do what I do!!
Thanks dude, really appreciate this tut
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
Just great. Thank you.
My pleasure!
Love this. And the mid side video
Awesome...thank you!!!
good stuff man, great as usual
Appreciate it!
Amazing video, game changer
Glad it was helpful! Cheers!
Useful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid, thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Great tips! Multi analyser looks great
Glad you liked the video. Thanks!
Well, this vid is a game changer ! I already new that mid/side approach was really important and tried to integrate it in my work. BUT, it's the first time I do it during my workflow, on each track and after a moment I started to hear nuances in instruments which I forgot existed ! The whole mix sounds clear, compact and smooth either at a low level or at a serious one. Thank you so much !
Glad it was helpful! Happy you it worked well for you. Thanks!
Awesome man thanks!
Glad to help!
You're amazing my friend. Just AMAZING 🤩🤘🏽🔥
I blush...thank you :)
Great, great, great! Thank you!!!
Thank you too!
A great video and I'd really like to see a deeper dive as you mentioned. As we all suffer hearing degradation over age, these are also great tools for just checking you're not upping the highs to the point of overcompensating. Love your videos dude.
Thank you. I'll give thought to how I can go deeper on this. Thank you so much for your positive vibes!!!
Good stuff, thanks..
Glad you enjoyed it
2nd video after subbing, and I learned something new in this one also. keep it up!
Awesome. Hope you find more videos thst you like 😎
thank you!!
You're welcome!
Mind blowing!! Awesome
Thank you so much 😀!!!
@@LonelyRocker new subscriber here thanks for the videos
Welcome. And thank you!
Bro this is the most helpful production wizz video in youtub i really appreciate it wishes u agood luck 🙏🏽
Thank you so much! Glad you found this helpful 😎
Yes 🙌🏽
Believe me, you are in the right place! Watch this with full attention
wow man! I had one free hour today to kill the time , kidding, I was just looking for videos on M-S Recording and luckily I found your video on M-S EQ (which was not what I was looking for) and I was blowwwwn!! Then I watched your videos on compression, gain stage and this one, the Spectrum Analyzer, and have to applaud you not only for the great information but also for the quality of how you deliver it. I love the daily life examples (sponge trying to fit a cup/toilet paper, straw on compression) and the well put visuals that make your videos really easy to digest. Thank you so much for your time on make the videos and if I could make a request for a future video, could you in the future make a video of how you mix OR master any song? Anyways.. what a gem I have found today! Subscribed!
I somehow missed this awesome comment! Thank you so much!! I'm glad you found value in these videos. I've shifted my channel a bit since these videos and lean more on my guitar player side...in a studio. So I don't really do mix tutorials anymore. I hope that doesn't mean you will lose interest now! ;-). Thank you for your kind words!
Oh man. What a big win on information! I finaly stopped messin' around in the studio a few months back and got really serious about my recordings. So now challenging myself to achieve quality mixes. Mid/Side EQing was a great breakthrough for me a couple of months ago, but man, I've been struggeling with the balances between mid and side. My room is treated and I have good near field monitors, but as you mentioned, "blinds spots galore" in my room. And I don't even dare to mix the entire track on my Headphones. Now, it's a bit stupid becasue I've had the spam plugin for quite some time but never understood what the yellow portion spectrum was supposed to be telling me. So after watching this video, I went back to my master bus and what did I find?... RED in the upper mids and RED reocurring again and again in the high end. Made some corrections to the side EQs of the e-guitars and pretty much stripped 80% of the lead vocals out of the sides at around 4k with a wider Q. The mix got so much air and the vocals just pushed up the middel. I even had to reduce the overall lead vocals by 2db cause they were just yelling at me. I love it! Lonely Rocker, well explained.. so that even I was able to get it . Thanks so much for talking... like directly to me. Oh yeah! Keep on Rockin'! All the best, Mick
Thanks for sharing your experience! It made me smile!! Glad I was able to help you with my video. That's why I do what I do. Not sure if you saw my M/S video but these two videos together really document my biggest AHA! moment in mixing. Really happy you've had a major breakthrough. I know how good that feels. Be well and Rock on!!!!
@@LonelyRocker Yeah, I watched the mid side video first. There you addressed the analyser video. Top notch!
@@michaelsorel4984 Sweet. Glad it was helpful....
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Very nice sir 💐🙏💐
Thanks!
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Great man thank yo for the tips, please make mid side tutorial in depth
My pleasure! It's on my list to do a mid/side video very soon. Look for it!
Bravo!
Thnx Again :)
Brilliant
Thnx!!
Uve earned a subscribe
Thank you and Welcome!
Great video! How did you set up your MMultiAnalyzer in a way that each track can be visible within the plugin?
Thanks! Just drop an instances of MMultiAnalyzer on every track in your project....
good videoooo 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thnx!
Great video and subbed because the knowledge is here.
Awesome! Thanks so much!! And Welcome :)
Thanks for the info. Looks like the collisions feature is only in the paid version of MMultiAnalyzer.
You’re welcome. Yes, that is correct.
"I just learnt a very valuable lesson from an analogy with balls. Blue balls, to be exact. And red. And green."
My 40-year-old self is pretending the 5-year-old in me didn't just say that.
Apologies for the funny comment, I couldn't help myself. Your videos are amazing, thank you so much for providing such value!
No apologies necessary! Love this comment. And glad my videos have found their way into your adult heart and your inner child :) Cheers!
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Are there any programs or ways to see music/soundtracks visually for the purposes of seeing phrasing, repetition, climax, etc.?
I have absolutely no idea ;-)
I greatly appreciate this fantastic tutorial. It is remarkably well-explained and immensely valuable. Just out of curiosity, around 16:45, you mentioned to place side frequencies within the green (mid) frequency area. Is there a specific reason behind this recommendation? I did some experiments and indeed found that placing side frequencies within the mid area produces a more pleasing sound, but I am eager to hear your insights on this matter. By the way, I also watched your tutorial on mid/side frequencies, which was equally impressive.
Thank you so much for your kind words! So glad it helped. Some small things I wish I could correct in this video like referring to a kick drum which typically is recorded in mono. I was using a stereo drum plugin so it had some rumble on the sides. Anyways. As far as the mud side balance this is the only Meyer I have found that does this. My guess is it is balance by keeping sides tucked within the range of the mids. Mids ate the sum of the sides so perhaps this is simply keeping those levels in check. If you listen to the mixes I referenced at the end of the video you get a sense of how that translates. Cheers!
@@LonelyRocker I appreciate your answer. It's logical that our attention should remain centered, with the side parts supporting and providing a sense of space. Additionally, I've been using Brainworx's Solo plugin to monitor the output from the center and sides. Your vids are awesome. Subbed!
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Thank you so so much!
Can you do a more detailed video about span please? For example how would i go about setting it all up
I've actually given that some thought. I had a chance to do a tutorial on this for Voxengo but it is quite complicated so I did a different plugin. I really just use it for the mid/side feature. If I ever get deeper into it I will consider it...
What makes your video apart from the competition is, your narration which is honest and serious, you don't try to be funny or to show how much humor you have as so many guys here on UA-cam which focus first to give the feeling how cool and funny they are, that is why to find something like you was difficult to find but now, I will check your videos because how you make them is exactly how it must be done. ! By the way, panning to the left and to the right is something that must be very common since music was first produced, however, checking how the mix is developing using MONO check, very often, those instruments panned too much, tend to disappear in MONO check, sometimes, not possible to listen at all while in MONO check, however, in STEREO, all seems to be fine, my question to you is if you understand what is my point, if you control your songs making a MONO check sound test to see if all instruments are there to be listened, please, elaborate on this if you think is valid what I am saying. Normally, I use Samplitude, and it has a great way to check the mixes using MONO check, for example, at times I fight a lot with some tracks which show up in Samplitude too much stereo and Samplitude warns me with a red sign that something is very bad with the track, indicating that so as it is, it will be not noticeable the sound when listening in MONO, etc., sorry for trying to explain my point, I wish I could write in Spanish for me to be better to explain, thanks a lot for such work and your fantastic videos! Greetings from Germany, Alfredo
I do have moments where I try to share some of my natural humour but I also know when to be serious. thanks for your thoughts and input. Glad to have you here!
@@LonelyRocker Hi there, thanks for replaying, you said nothing about the MONO Check thing I was mentioning in one of my posts, wish you a nice day over there in Canada! Alfredo
You have a lovely way of explaining thank you. Total amateur so excuse silly Q but why should the sides sit inside the mid? So what if for some frequencies they’re more audible on the sides. I’m not sure how or why that would make something sound muddy or wrong.
Thank you! When I say inside I'm referring to how the analyzer creates the visual for you. In reality the mids are the sum of the sides, there really are only two sides in stereo and everything else is relative to that. Muddiness comes from instruments ganging up in the same frequencies. You can use a stereo EQ to try and remove those conflicts or you can use MS EQ to get a little more surgical. Once you understand that it's a very effective mixing tool. Hope that helps!
@@LonelyRocker thanks so much for quick reply. I didn't make myself clear sorry. What I mean is why do you effectively say the amplitude of the side bits (as represented by the lower graph) should be less than the amplitude for the mids at all frequencies (represented as the sides graph sitting underneath/within/inside the larger mid EQ curve).? Effectively saying that if certain frequencies are louder on the sides than the mid section (sum) it won't sound right? Unless I've missing something sorry !
please respond does delay take place on the sides cause when i eq the red visuals my delay effect gets remove
If it’s a stereo delay it will most definitely be present in the sides. Perhaps bus your delays and EQ them separately.
@@LonelyRocker will doo :D also one more thing got any tips on how to put bass or 808 in the dead center i got tones of beats but cant release cause of mixing and mastering sadly i dont have equipment so with the right skill i can do it
@@geestarworld5181 Check Out My Mid/Side EQ video on my channel. That should help you...
Please answer me❤… (in the Mix) putting the spectrum analysis on the master track ? And using the mid side eq on every single track, right? And in ( the mastering session) we’ll do the same ? Thanks 😊
Yes, exactly. The analyzer looks at the whole mix and each EQ corrects individual tracks. You can but EQs on busses and the master too...just be careful and only do what it needs. You can get lost in this. Mastering is a whole different thing. I wouldn't touch any mid/side EQ in Mastering if it's mixed right unless you know exactly what you're doing. Keep the mastering stage simple...good luck!!
@@LonelyRocker
You are amazing thanks for your response , I noticed that the midside EQ doesn’t work with mono tracks, so how can I do that for base and kick drum? Thanks 🙏
@@karadytube My pleasure. Mid and sides only apply to stereo signals so just use a regular EQ. I know some people were confused because I used a kick drum as an example but you could use a M/S eq on a drum buss to clear out some frequencies you don't want...
@@LonelyRocker
Thank you 🙏 love you 🙏
Can overlapping frequencies still be a problem even if they are panned to different parts of the stereo field?
Did you watch my mid side eq video? If you watch the two together I think that will answer your question better than I can explain here. I believe it’s linked from this video.
@@LonelyRocker no i didnt, ill check that out. Thank you!
Awesome information. Any idea what happened to the Voxengo web site?
Thank you. You’re right. The site is down. Did you just notice it or has it been down for a while? I emailed the owner earlier this week and he didn’t respond. I hope all is ok.
I found this. Seems he's had a major leak with his server: www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=577959
@@LonelyRocker Thank you. Yes, it has been down for a while. I will keep watching his site and I hope everything is alright as well. Thank you, thank you.
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Downloaded your link not same plug in nice one for confusing me more
Sorry this is not a new video...is the link bad?
If I have a song and I want it to be mastered by you, I love your compassion already and you're just genuine, and I do have the pro 3 Fab I believe it's called, you know the equalizer if I have you first I guess I need to ask you to master songs and if I have you master a song could you tell me what you did how you use the pro 3 because I don't have a clue how to use it everywhere I go it gets confusing. I know it's the Great EQ it's a nice one but I'm just not sure how to use it especially like on my song and I really want to put out an album, like soon I don't have that much money. But I know I need to do this the right way at least the first time. I mean I got everything to master pretty much, I even got the speaker to listen to you know mono house music I do house music, and so I'm just wondering and if you don't do it you know who could. But I need to know what exactly what was done so I can go over it and redo the song myself you know what I mean with the EQ I appreciate you God bless you
Best to join my Patreon. Link to it is in the description of my videos. You can get a discount on my services if you sign up for the Gold Plan. Maybe I'll see you there!
@@LonelyRocker I'm in the middle of something, I'll come back to this. You're a blessing and for even getting back as you did. Have a blessed day.
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damn I pay thousands in plugins and don't have this, I have all Izotope and all Waves can we do that with those?
The Span plugin is the only one I know that shows mid side like that.
when are they going to make an analyzers that you can just adjust each track right there instead of having to put the eq on the track and go back and forth
Not everyone wants an all in one. And it’s not necessarily the best way to do it for everyone.
6:41 that looks blue to me... Now I'm paranoid I'm colorblind
😂Oh it's definitely purple...you may want to check your screen or your eyes 😁
Kitchen? Lol no way! Hahaha.
Did I talk about a kitchen in this video? My new studio that I'm in now used to be a kitchen... ;)
Doesn't this tool also have a vectorscope? I swear I WATCHED a video, And at the bottom of MMulti/ Another window flips out and there is vectorscope and something else... When I looked it doesn't say that is a feature? No way I tripped that out!
Maybe you saw it in a dream :))))))))
@@LonelyRocker So crazy because that was the day I subscribed to your channel went through my history no video lool
Brought this though, Plus SSL X Saturator. well good value in the deals.
Yeah I saw it somewhere haha But I brought this anyway not a deal breaker. Use Span also but that does crash out my DAW if I don't turn it off when I bounce a track out! Always forget as well to turn it off before doing it.
Grabbed this, And SSL X Saturator I like that but would only buy it when its on this type of sale! Glad that popped up also.
@@LonelyRocker ua-cam.com/video/GznqAvGCcPw/v-deo.html I'm not crazy I did see it lool
@@LonelyRocker It is insight 2 under that haha but that is a nice combo to look at.
I remember other youtubers said BoOsT YoUr SidE HiGhS AboVe 3Khz To GeT MoRe SteReO BruUv and I was ruining the phase all this time 🤡
I’m sure. It’s rarely about tricks. There’s a right way and a wrong way with everything. 😎