Hey everybody ... out of all UA-cam pro mixing tutorials, it is actually Warren’s that inspired me to calibrate my monitors even lower than I thought I should. In all of his vids, I kept noticing how nothing was ever ‘blaring away’, and caused me to think ... “Huh! Warren has such a good listening ear to catch all these frequencies at comfortable, lower volume levels”. So, in my smaller studio I have 2 sets of monitors for A/Bing (Focals/Events) calibrated at 75dbs, and now reconsidering 70dbs since my listening skills have improved by not cranking up volumes. His advice on headphone use is so good also. I’m aware that mixing at lower levels is not the same as producing the volume level, but The “Loudness War” of today’s music is unappealing to me - I remember in one of Warren’s vids he mentioned he sent one of his mixes to mastering engineers who remarked: “Why is this mix so low??” ... to which my personal thought was “Because Warren’s mixes are so clean with great imaging/phasing ... AND ... if Warren wants it louder he KNOWS easily how to do it!” I think pros like Warren down deeply are not happy about the ‘loudness trend’ of late, because they truly believe it’s all about good sound, a great mix, and NOT loudness. It’s only amateur culture that thinks “louder is better” IMHO. THANKS WARREN.
Ann C You actually have a very good point. I suppose I see so many vids out there like “How to make your song Louder”. But yes...I even use iZotope Ozone 8 advanced which can help master for different avenues since our mastered Final is going to get compressed again anyway by UA-cam, Spotify, etc.
Wow! Thank you ever so much Elias for your incredibly kind words! You are an amazing asset to our community! Encouraging others and sharing ideas is what we are all about my friend!
Yes, Ann. Platforms are definitely doing everything they can to 'even' out levels. The issue we have now is that if you smash your mix to heavily it will actually sound smaller and quieter!
I picked up Sonarworks Reference headphones version in their recent sale, since the demo was so good and my headphones have a calibration profile in there. It's only an EQ curve to boost and cut against your headphones' inaccuracies, but it's been transformative for me.
Another list of great tips. Keep up the marvellous work. Yes, EQ is your friend, get rid of (or emphasize when needed) what should not be processed. Don't forget that automation is also your friend - if you need that special effect with a long tail or whatever, automate the corresponding parameters in the rigt spot of the track, you don't need to keep hi values the whole time and spoil your mix.
Thanks so much Warren, I learn new things from every single video you make! Small question please: talking about listening level you mentioned (85db) how do I measure it in my room? Any advice on a good reliable db meter that I can use and trust?
So often I questioned myself what is the right soundmix for my song and the aswer I found is that there are many different tastes. So to reference to a good mixed song and mix with something familier is a great tip! Thanks warren - dr
Hey Warren, thx for the awseome tip! I tried it with an app but I must say 85 dB seems fairly loud for me. I reached only 77-79 dB and that was already too loud. Is that normal? Mixing HipHop/ RnB.
@@Producelikeapro : I haven't tried these apps, but I've read many comments/posts saying they are very unreliable and most readings are up to 10dB off. Better get a cheap device with +-1.5dB error margin ($20-30). Even better, one with auto-calibration (more $). Learn and respect procedure (distance, etc.)
Great info warren as always..I like to share one of the best purchases I have made for my studio this year has to be Sonarworks ref 4 calibration software. and I got to tell you. nothing has improved my mixes more than having a flatter reference monitors and calibrated headphones. I tried treating my room and all types of adjustments, but this is the number one thing I have done to improve getting great mixes without worry of how my mixes will translate on other systems. Plus I still seem to get a full accurate sound when running very low monitor levels saving my ears from fatigue. Thanks again warren for all that you do and sharing your knowledge with us. happy mixing!
I have to do most of my mixing at night when the family's sleeping, so I use several headphones, including earbuds, and to try to find a mix that sounds good on all of them.
It is very interesting what you have been saying about music Mr Huart, ever since I have subscribed. This has helped me immensely, with regards to my severe to profound deafness and my Hearing Aids, in understanding how sound actually works and why some of the frequency responses and phases etc, that others hear, affects me differently and more than others with normal range of hearing. I can't thankyou enough for being an excellent teacher, Cheers man !!!!!!!
Thank you for making this. I LC my bass at 33hz because my bass is tuned to drop G#, but in fact I can't really here the difference between LC at 33hz and 50hz.
Great Video!!! Appreciated the info on monitor levels and the High/Low Pass Filtering. Great reminders as I head into another project. Thanks again Warren. Cheers!
Nothing to say: it's always a great pleasure to watch your videos. Amazing explanations with simple words. Thank you so much! I really do appreciate what you do! Buonasera from Milan! :-)
Great info as always. "Get to know your gear" seems to be an advice that work on every equipment. And since i started to follow your very inspirational channel, ( yes, this one) I'm get more and more inte giving you 100% right in that. That together with that inspiration is key and that hard work is the rest sums it pretty well up for me so far, and i also realize that there is ocean of knowledge in this field yet to learn. Nice.😀👍
I'm thinking about writing a new song called 'High Passing Rules, Haters Drool'! Great inspiring tips as usual Warren. Thanks again and have a marvelous weekend!
Hi Warren, great video as always. I know the guys from In The Mix, I follow them for a while now on their YT channel. You explained it right regarding the headphones question. I don't own a studio, so late night I have to mix with headphones instead of my Mackie's. But I always do 50/50 when mixing: 50% headphones 50% monitors. Friendly regards, Emiel.
Hey Warren. Traditional engineer here (not a pro mixer) just a slight observation. I often see audio engineers saying that the room reacts differently at different volumes. This might be perceptually true, but it's defiantly not true in reality. You can try it out for yourself, record your monitors at low and high volumes and level match the recording. I think you'll be surprised how similar they sound. Technically, rooms are a roughly linear system (like eq)
Hi Connor, yes, agreed 100%! I may not have stated it properly when I was speaking about how low frequencies that aren't balanced at low levels get exaggerated at higher levels causing a different reaction. So yes, agreed, technically the room always responds the same way, the volume produces different levels causing it to sound completely different. Thanks for the great comment! You Rock!
Hey Warren love watching your videos bro. About to have a sandwich after playing all morning here in Alabama 100 degrees in my room! sandwich time watching this before playing an awesome event tonight. I'll be mixing in my headphones later tonight. Keep the Passion Warrren! 🎶🥁😎DC
Hi Friends, is your experience monitoring in your Room? Do you treatment? Do you listen loud for short periods of time? Everyone maintains about 85db, because that is where you get an even sonic landscape. Basically, everything sounds the way it should. When you turn your monitors up, it might be because you’re trying to compensate for excitement, you want more high-mids or it might be that you want to hear more low end. Please let us know your experiences!
Hey Warren, Love all the info you pass on!...I had an idea, hear me out..lol almost every mixer talks about using reference tracks.I have a hard time hearing certain things doing that so...my idea is that you could come up with a song that solos every instrument at some point in the song but also plays the whole song thru. even though it would have to be one of your songs i'll use "don't stop believing" as an example. you could play 12 bars of the whole song together, the next 8 bars could be just the Bass, the next 8 bars could be just guitar, the next 8 bars could be just keys, the next 8 bars could be just vocals, the next 8 bars could be just lead guitar, the next 8 bars could be just drums, in that song each individual drum is hit so we could hear what each drum sounds like separately and all together, and what each part sounds like by itself thru our own speakers, since the song would be already mastered we would get all kinds of great info, NOW THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULD BUY!!! I'm sure others would too!!
I noticed when I high pass alot my mixes seem really bright to my reference mix. So I've been backing off a little, letting the guitars and vocals have a little more low end.
Hey, nice Video. Very important too… but i dont agree on what you are saying about listening at a very low level. For me personally listening (better: controlling) on a very very low level is the best way to determine the balance between low end and high end in the mix. i always finish my mixes by listening mono at a super low Level, so the low and the high frequencies kind of "Frame" the mix. It's hard to explain, but with my Adam s3 h monitors i pretty pecisely can tell wether the Low/high relation is okay or needs to be tweaked in a way… I used to do this with genelec 1031a too… after my experience controlling the mix with such low level lets the low and high end frequencies stay audible while the mid frequencies are already "gone". Can anybody relate to this, or am i an anomaly? ;) While mixing i usually listen on a moderate level so my ears "last longer". I almost never listen really loud… only in a car for reference ;)
I always listen at Low, Mid and High levels. Low levels allows me to do small volume automation move, Mid Levels create balance of the sonic spectrum and high levels (for short periods of time) allow us to see how people hear in those situations!
Another great video, Been looking everywhere for a lossless version of "Woman in Chains" and am feeling very discouraged about the industry. The iTunes version of this has apparently been "mastered for iTunes" because all of the dynamics are gone. There were some version on YT, each with different compression artifacts that I could hear, then confirm with my eyes with different chunks missing out of the spectrogram. Someone apparently made a lossless copy of the original vinyl that is supposed to be spectacular, but it's not available for sale anywhere, and can't even be found through less than official channels anymore. This is so saddening to me! A masterpiece like this can't be enjoyed or used to teach others to do great work because of greed. So, what is the point of us going through all this trouble and expense to make exquisite sounding music if iTunes, Amazon, YT or whoever is just going to mangle it? I'm not saying that it's right for people to not support the artists that put their soul into their work, but corporate interest in the bottom line is killing this art form from every angle. There's got to be a way to reverse this downward spiral and get things heading in a better direction.
Ciao, pheraps I didn't understand well, but when you say to judge the sound response of headphones you need to listen much music you love with those cans, I understand the sense of using reference songs to compare for example the low end, but there is a bottlenck. If the quality of the audio system is not really neutral I will always have issues, I mean I cannot judge compare what I cannot hear ! I will miss crucial info so lost...
You can use a Sound Level Metter. There are a lot of them and not expesive at all. Use one with dBA calibration which is for human hearing. Smartphone apps can do it too. I download the SplnFFT Sojnd Meter is free or very cheap and do the work too. If you want to use it, remember use the dBA calibration
Hi Warren thanks again for another informative and interesting video. Could you please tell me how to set up a simple monitor mix ? I have been searching youtube videos but can't find a straight forward way of doing it. I would just like to be able to mirror all my tracks on a separate stereo aux channel. I have tried bussing my tracks individually to a stereo output but then i have to send all my fx and it takes forever. Thanks Warren Regards
Regarding the phase stuff, a curious thing happens while I am trying my hand at mixing the "Wide Awake" song. I put the BX-Control plugin on the master bus. It has handy functions to select only the left or right channel to play through the middle, or mid or side to play through the middle. When I enable the left or right only, the kick drum sound got massively larger and stronger. I have most of the included kick drum tracks enabled in the mix I haven't had the chance to scrutinize that, but my initial guess is that there must be some phase cancellation issues between some of the kick tracks, or that some may need to have their EQ adjusted to move the focus to another part of the frequency spectrum. Your thoughts? Thanks!
Fantastic question! I would have to open your mix up to see what could be happening. You do sound like you have a low end issue, the best way to double check is to pan to Mono. If you go to Mono and the low end disappears then you will have some cancellation in the left/right channels.
Thanks Warren. I hope to get something I feel comfortable submitting to Feedback Friday soon (though I don't know how to upload it yet. Are there instructions somewhere for submitting? I haven't found that.). The mix doesn't loose anything in mono, However, I made a mistake in reporting. The part of the bx-control plugin I was using was actually reversing the phase of the left or right channel, not monitoring it. When that phase reversal is done the sound gets very boomy and muddy, but definitely more power in the bass that way.
Ciao, how to calibrate the level of signal going to input headphone amp and its output volume too ? With nearfield I use a pinknoise and a phonemeter as usual. How for headphones ?
I was thinking one might listen back and forth to try and identify accentuated or attenuated frequencies in the listening environment compared to flat headphones. Or do you think the nature of the two are too different to get any useful result?
Haha maybe they are away at the moment? I'm sure they will be back! Haha It's quite alright! We know that we are doing something right my friend! We are blessed to have such an amazing community of people here!!
JCS PTY because they are! Haha both of the sets of monitors are tilted on. Maybe it isn’t apparent to you? However they are both tilted in to the perfect listening position. We had the room rung out and the speakers placed in the optimum listening position. Have a marvelous time recording!
Not selling anything! Just helping people and we also are talking about a mixing competition! You can download the files, mix or remix the songs yourself! Best of luck to you!
Hey everybody ... out of all UA-cam pro mixing tutorials, it is actually Warren’s that inspired me to calibrate my monitors even lower than I thought I should. In all of his vids, I kept noticing how nothing was ever ‘blaring away’, and caused me to think ... “Huh! Warren has such a good listening ear to catch all these frequencies at comfortable, lower volume levels”. So, in my smaller studio I have 2 sets of monitors for A/Bing (Focals/Events) calibrated at 75dbs, and now reconsidering 70dbs since my listening skills have improved by not cranking up volumes. His advice on headphone use is so good also. I’m aware that mixing at lower levels is not the same as producing the volume level, but The “Loudness War” of today’s music is unappealing to me - I remember in one of Warren’s vids he mentioned he sent one of his mixes to mastering engineers who remarked: “Why is this mix so low??” ... to which my personal thought was “Because Warren’s mixes are so clean with great imaging/phasing ... AND ... if Warren wants it louder he KNOWS easily how to do it!” I think pros like Warren down deeply are not happy about the ‘loudness trend’ of late, because they truly believe it’s all about good sound, a great mix, and NOT loudness. It’s only amateur culture that thinks “louder is better” IMHO. THANKS WARREN.
Ann C You actually have a very good point. I suppose I see so many vids out there like “How to make your song Louder”. But yes...I even use iZotope Ozone 8 advanced which can help master for different avenues since our mastered Final is going to get compressed again anyway by UA-cam, Spotify, etc.
Wow! Thank you ever so much Elias for your incredibly kind words! You are an amazing asset to our community! Encouraging others and sharing ideas is what we are all about my friend!
Yes, Ann. Platforms are definitely doing everything they can to 'even' out levels. The issue we have now is that if you smash your mix to heavily it will actually sound smaller and quieter!
Great comment buddy. You understand it!
Emiel333 Official Thanks, Emiel 🙏
I picked up Sonarworks Reference headphones version in their recent sale, since the demo was so good and my headphones have a calibration profile in there. It's only an EQ curve to boost and cut against your headphones' inaccuracies, but it's been transformative for me.
Thank you warren for all of your help and creating this amazing community!
Darlene Sheffield thanks ever so much!!
Another list of great tips. Keep up the marvellous work.
Yes, EQ is your friend, get rid of (or emphasize when needed) what should not be processed. Don't forget that automation is also your friend - if you need that special effect with a long tail or whatever, automate the corresponding parameters in the rigt spot of the track, you don't need to keep hi values the whole time and spoil your mix.
Thanks so much Warren, I learn new things from every single video you make! Small question please: talking about listening level you mentioned (85db) how do I measure it in my room? Any advice on a good reliable db meter that I can use and trust?
So often I questioned myself what is the right soundmix for my song and the aswer I found is that there are many different tastes. So to reference to a good mixed song and mix with something familier is a great tip! Thanks warren - dr
awesome info, I think I have to find out at what fader poistion I reach the 85 dB!
Agreed 100%! There are Apps available for iPhone! Plus other options.
Hey Warren, thx for the awseome tip! I tried it with an app but I must say 85 dB seems fairly loud for me. I reached only 77-79 dB and that was already too loud. Is that normal? Mixing HipHop/ RnB.
Thanks ever so much Twilight Biscuit! Agreed 85db is pretty darn loud in most situations!
@@Producelikeapro : I haven't tried these apps, but I've read many comments/posts saying they are very unreliable and most readings are up to 10dB off. Better get a cheap device with +-1.5dB error margin ($20-30). Even better, one with auto-calibration (more $). Learn and respect procedure (distance, etc.)
Great info warren as always..I like to share one of the best purchases I have made for my studio this year has to be Sonarworks ref 4 calibration software. and I got to tell you. nothing has improved my mixes more than having a flatter reference monitors and calibrated headphones. I tried treating my room and all types of adjustments, but this is the number one thing I have done to improve getting great mixes without worry of how my mixes will translate on other systems. Plus I still seem to get a full accurate sound when running very low monitor levels saving my ears from fatigue. Thanks again warren for all that you do and sharing your knowledge with us. happy mixing!
I have to do most of my mixing at night when the family's sleeping, so I use several headphones, including earbuds, and to try to find a mix that sounds good on all of them.
That makes perfect sense to me my friend Algabatz! I hear you!
Hay, I happened to ask the first question sometime ago. Great to see it addressed :D
Great question my friend!
It is very interesting what you have been saying about music Mr Huart, ever since I have subscribed. This has helped me immensely, with regards to my severe to profound deafness and my Hearing Aids, in understanding how sound actually works and why some of the frequency responses and phases etc, that others hear, affects me differently and more than others with normal range of hearing. I can't thankyou enough for being an excellent teacher, Cheers man !!!!!!!
Thanks guys
I've learned so much from your awesome channel
Peace and love from Bristol, England
Thank you for making this. I LC my bass at 33hz because my bass is tuned to drop G#, but in fact I can't really here the difference between LC at 33hz and 50hz.
Thanks for sharing your insight! I really appreciate it!
Great Video!!! Appreciated the info on monitor levels and the High/Low Pass Filtering. Great reminders as I head into another project. Thanks again Warren. Cheers!
Thanks ever so much Luke! You Rock my friend!
I use alot high/lowpass fliter on my mixes. I use highpass on kicks around 30 to 40 hz. and 120hz highpass on scratch cuts.
That's amazing to hear Statos!
well Im self learn after watching your channel and others. I sub your channel.
Nothing to say: it's always a great pleasure to watch your videos. Amazing explanations with simple words. Thank you so much! I really do appreciate what you do!
Buonasera from Milan! :-)
Thanks ever so much Georg!! You Rock!!
My pleasure! :-)
It really means a lot Georg that you are so supportive of our community! Thanks for being such a huge asset to us!
Great info as always. "Get to know your gear" seems to be an advice that work on every equipment. And since i started to follow your very inspirational channel, ( yes, this one) I'm get more and more inte giving you 100% right in that. That together with that inspiration is key and that hard work is the rest sums it pretty well up for me so far, and i also realize that there is ocean of knowledge in this field yet to learn. Nice.😀👍
Agreed 100%! Best to have less gear you know than tons of gear you don't know!
I'm thinking about writing a new song called 'High Passing Rules, Haters Drool'! Great inspiring tips as usual Warren. Thanks again and have a marvelous weekend!
Woman in chains sounds amazing! I did not know her. Thanks, as always!
Hi Alberto, yes, amazing song! Wonderful mix!
Excellent information as always Warren! Cheers
Thanks ever so much Stephen! You Rock!
Amen to 85db or Less on monitoring.
Thanks my friend!
Hi Warren, great video as always. I know the guys from In The Mix, I follow them for a while now on their YT channel. You explained it right regarding the headphones question. I don't own a studio, so late night I have to mix with headphones instead of my Mackie's. But I always do 50/50 when mixing: 50% headphones 50% monitors. Friendly regards, Emiel.
Hey Warren. Traditional engineer here (not a pro mixer) just a slight observation. I often see audio engineers saying that the room reacts differently at different volumes. This might be perceptually true, but it's defiantly not true in reality. You can try it out for yourself, record your monitors at low and high volumes and level match the recording. I think you'll be surprised how similar they sound. Technically, rooms are a roughly linear system (like eq)
Hi Connor, yes, agreed 100%! I may not have stated it properly when I was speaking about how low frequencies that aren't balanced at low levels get exaggerated at higher levels causing a different reaction. So yes, agreed, technically the room always responds the same way, the volume produces different levels causing it to sound completely different. Thanks for the great comment! You Rock!
Produce Like A Pro right! Thanks for the clarification. Awesome advice for monitoring.
Hey Warren, some friends and I were discussing and we’d like to get your advice please: Should we release a full album, an EP, or just all singles?
Hey Warren love watching your videos bro. About to have a sandwich after playing all morning here in Alabama 100 degrees in my room! sandwich time watching this before playing an awesome event tonight. I'll be mixing in my headphones later tonight. Keep the Passion Warrren! 🎶🥁😎DC
I monitor right at a peak of 86.5 db. I find 87 a bit too loud, and 86 a bit too soft... :-)
Hi Friends, is your experience monitoring in your Room? Do you treatment? Do you listen loud for short periods of time? Everyone maintains about 85db, because that is where you get an even sonic landscape. Basically, everything sounds the way it should. When you turn your monitors up, it might be because you’re trying to compensate for excitement, you want more high-mids or it might be that you want to hear more low end. Please let us know your experiences!
Thank you warren for all of your help and creating this amazing community!
Darlene Sheffield thanks ever so much!!
Even in listening to other artists music on CD or vinyl, 85dB will do the job fine, so I understand 85dB is ideal for mixing.
Thanks Warren, have a good weekend!
Thanks ever so much Martin!
My recommendations for ver good reference songs:
° Roundabout by yes
° Tarkus by Emerson lake and palmer
Woman in Chains! That was definitely one of my favorites by Tears For Fears. Will definitely add it to my Steely Dan-heavy reference playlist!
amen to that. Roger Nichols who did much of the earlier SD engineering was amazing. My go too's along with early Supertramp.
John Luis, early Supertramp... God, how I loved to read it!! Hi from France man!
Another track for terrific separation and clarity is "Eye In the Sky" by Alan Parson Project. It's quite a stunning track, sonically.
Hey Warren, Love all the info you pass on!...I had an idea, hear me out..lol
almost every mixer talks about using reference tracks.I have a hard time hearing certain things doing that so...my idea is that you could come up with a song that solos every instrument at some point in the song but also plays the whole song thru. even though it would have to be one of your songs i'll use "don't stop believing" as an example. you could play 12 bars of the whole song together, the next 8 bars could be just the Bass, the next 8 bars could be just guitar, the next 8 bars could be just keys, the next 8 bars could be just vocals, the next 8 bars could be just lead guitar, the next 8 bars could be just drums, in that song each individual drum is hit so we could hear what each drum sounds like separately and all together, and what each part sounds like by itself thru our own speakers, since the song would be already mastered we would get all kinds of great info,
NOW THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULD BUY!!! I'm sure others would too!!
Thanks Warren.. Learnt alot. And Yes the Mix Competition ;)
Great stuff Limaonen!! Yes, please join in the mix competition!!
The Unity Rocks are incredible! Unported too. I was heavily considering buying them, but a little bit pricey for me at the time.
Agreed 67Stu! You Rock!
I just got a pair and they are amazing.
I noticed when I high pass alot my mixes seem really bright to my reference mix. So I've been backing off a little, letting the guitars and vocals have a little more low end.
Thank you Warren
You're very welcome Jason!
@ around 4:40 - there's a saying: "Speakers are like friends - you have to know them, before you can trust them!" ;-)
Wonderful comment!! Thanks ever so much!
Thanks Warren!
You're very welcome my friend!
Another great Friday of Questions!
Thanks ever so much Eric!!
My reference track is "Smells like teen spirit". Thanks for your attention.
Great track Dan!!
I somehow ended up with a really unorthodox way. Rough mix, using only Samsung Galaxy S6 earbuds and critical listening in studio (APS Klasik)
Wow! Fantastic stuff!
Hey, nice Video. Very important too… but i dont agree on what you are saying about listening at a very low level. For me personally listening (better: controlling) on a very very low level is the best way to determine the balance between low end and high end in the mix. i always finish my mixes by listening mono at a super low Level, so the low and the high frequencies kind of "Frame" the mix. It's hard to explain, but with my Adam s3 h monitors i pretty pecisely can tell wether the Low/high relation is okay or needs to be tweaked in a way… I used to do this with genelec 1031a too… after my experience controlling the mix with such low level lets the low and high end frequencies stay audible while the mid frequencies are already "gone". Can anybody relate to this, or am i an anomaly? ;) While mixing i usually listen on a moderate level so my ears "last longer". I almost never listen really loud… only in a car for reference ;)
I always listen at Low, Mid and High levels. Low levels allows me to do small volume automation move, Mid Levels create balance of the sonic spectrum and high levels (for short periods of time) allow us to see how people hear in those situations!
Hi Warren, thank you for FAQ Friday 13th wha wha ha ha! sorry, fantastic vid and very helpful as always, all the best, Darren Ross.
Thanks ever so much Darren! You Rock my friend!!
Any thoughts / experience on binaural recording, also interested in surround sound mixing, any chance of a special vid please? Thanks from the UK.
That's an amazing question! Definitely a great idea for a future video my friend! Hello in the UK!
Thanks, I appreciate your reply & look forward to viewing - maybe with some ideas on kit for a "home studio" for these types of recording & mixing?
Good ol’ Fletcher Munson curve!
Haha yes indeed my friend!!
Another great video, Been looking everywhere for a lossless version of "Woman in Chains" and am feeling very discouraged about the industry. The iTunes version of this has apparently been "mastered for iTunes" because all of the dynamics are gone. There were some version on YT, each with different compression artifacts that I could hear, then confirm with my eyes with different chunks missing out of the spectrogram. Someone apparently made a lossless copy of the original vinyl that is supposed to be spectacular, but it's not available for sale anywhere, and can't even be found through less than official channels anymore. This is so saddening to me! A masterpiece like this can't be enjoyed or used to teach others to do great work because of greed. So, what is the point of us going through all this trouble and expense to make exquisite sounding music if iTunes, Amazon, YT or whoever is just going to mangle it? I'm not saying that it's right for people to not support the artists that put their soul into their work, but corporate interest in the bottom line is killing this art form from every angle. There's got to be a way to reverse this downward spiral and get things heading in a better direction.
Ciao, pheraps I didn't understand well, but when you say to judge the sound response of headphones you need to listen much music you love with those cans, I understand the sense of using reference songs to compare for example the low end, but there is a bottlenck. If the quality of the audio system is not really neutral I will always have issues, I mean I cannot judge compare what I cannot hear ! I will miss crucial info so lost...
This may be a silly question but i want to know the answer....how do i know that i am listening at 85 db or lower or above ?...
You can use a Sound Level Metter. There are a lot of them and not expesive at all. Use one with dBA calibration which is for human hearing. Smartphone apps can do it too. I download the SplnFFT Sojnd Meter is free or very cheap and do the work too. If you want to use it, remember use the dBA calibration
Hi Karthik, yes, there are many Apps and other options available! Protect your ears and listen evenly!
Hi Warren thanks again for another informative and interesting video. Could you please tell me how to set up a simple monitor mix ? I have been searching youtube videos but can't find a straight forward way of doing it. I would just like to be able to mirror all my tracks on a separate stereo aux channel. I have tried bussing my tracks individually to a stereo output but then i have to send all my fx and it takes forever.
Thanks Warren Regards
tq bro
Why'd he put the reverb on the bass drum... HE WANTED TO!
;)
Haha yes indeed Clay!
Regarding the phase stuff, a curious thing happens while I am trying my hand at mixing the "Wide Awake" song. I put the BX-Control plugin on the master bus. It has handy functions to select only the left or right channel to play through the middle, or mid or side to play through the middle. When I enable the left or right only, the kick drum sound got massively larger and stronger. I have most of the included kick drum tracks enabled in the mix
I haven't had the chance to scrutinize that, but my initial guess is that there must be some phase cancellation issues between some of the kick tracks, or that some may need to have their EQ adjusted to move the focus to another part of the frequency spectrum.
Your thoughts? Thanks!
Fantastic question! I would have to open your mix up to see what could be happening. You do sound like you have a low end issue, the best way to double check is to pan to Mono. If you go to Mono and the low end disappears then you will have some cancellation in the left/right channels.
Thanks Warren. I hope to get something I feel comfortable submitting to Feedback Friday soon (though I don't know how to upload it yet. Are there instructions somewhere for submitting? I haven't found that.).
The mix doesn't loose anything in mono, However, I made a mistake in reporting. The part of the bx-control plugin I was using was actually reversing the phase of the left or right channel, not monitoring it. When that phase reversal is done the sound gets very boomy and muddy, but definitely more power in the bass that way.
😊
Thanks Audrey!!
Cheers 🎼🎤🎸🥁
Thanks ever so much my friend!
Ciao, how to calibrate the level of signal going to input headphone amp and its output volume too ? With nearfield I use a pinknoise and a phonemeter as usual. How for headphones ?
Can you analyze a new room by using headphones as a reference?
L. Scott Music not that I’m aware of? Not sure how that would work?
I was thinking one might listen back and forth to try and identify accentuated or attenuated frequencies in the listening environment compared to flat headphones. Or do you think the nature of the two are too different to get any useful result?
Interesting, I would have to think about how that could work!
I like to EQ the reverb
haha i just noticed: the 2-3 "dislike" guys seem to be on vacation…maybe together... ;)
Haha maybe they are away at the moment? I'm sure they will be back! Haha It's quite alright! We know that we are doing something right my friend! We are blessed to have such an amazing community of people here!!
Why your monitors are not in angle ?
JCS PTY because they are! Haha both of the sets of monitors are tilted on. Maybe it isn’t apparent to you? However they are both tilted in to the perfect listening position. We had the room rung out and the speakers placed in the optimum listening position. Have a marvelous time recording!
I really don't get what you're trying to sell here? Theres Good music and there isn't. Regardless, genre such a thing no longer exists...
Not selling anything! Just helping people and we also are talking about a mixing competition! You can download the files, mix or remix the songs yourself! Best of luck to you!