One thing I recommend is to put a limiter on the mix bus… not to actually use as a limiter, but to use as a mix checking tool. Often mastering will uncover issues with a mix. While you can try to fix them during mastering, if you can fix the big ones during your mix process imo you will get a better master. So when your mix is ‘close’… turn your limiter on and crank it up a bit. It will give you a sense of shrill spots, volume issues, etc.. Turn the limiter off, fix issues.
Just tried it. I'm really impressed by the power of the volume adjusting technique. It really forces you to choose the position of each element, and the constraint is helpful to go ahead. And it's soooo fast .... thanks for the vid! (watched a bunch of yours these days)
Yes! I think that's where it's really powerful, just picking one and moving on. And if something is still out of whack you'll hear it later and adjust accordingly
As someone who needs to get confident with mixing these videos lets me know that you do what sounds best to you. And while that's different for everybody you do pick up on stuff watching others. Thanks a bunch. Share the knowledge and love brother.
Hey there friend. Just wanted to chime on again and let you know that this video got me over the hump. I watched Uta. Few different times while working on this album where the mix was just driving me crazy and your tips really saved my life man! I can't recommend this video enough for simplifying what has often been a very complicated process for me. Thanks friend!!!
Perfect timing, man. Just finished a track and am about to start the mixing process; I have a bit of a workflow currently but I never really feel like I have a clear direction forward. Definitely going to try your method here as a framework and see if it helps me get a good result with less guesswork.
Your videos have been so helpful for me in the lab. I'm always struggling with my mixes but you really simplify the process so I can really understand it. I hate the mixing and mastering part of the process. I just want to play with my toys and record col shit, but this makes it a much less painful experience! Thanks Friend!
Another tip: for generic reverb, that's just meant to push things a bit wider and back in the mix, use a single send channel effect for all those sounds. Saves on cpu, gells the sounds as they are in the same 'space'. Also eq out the low and low mids on the effect send. The reverb is just meant to be some top end sparkle and the overall mix will be more transparent and less muddy
Great technique to stay away from perfectionism that can often ruin the mixes! Simple yet genius approach. Massive thanks for this video and your time Ricky!!!
Sup, man, very neat vid, as always. One more tip for a smooth buttery bass is to use a multi band compressor on bass in your 25-50 range and add a vintage optic compressor (like LA-2A) and push it to "overdrive" just a little, so you almost don't hear the OD from compressor, just a bit of dirt. ~1 dB of gain reduction and you are set.
I’m a mixing engineer myself who came through university studying it. While there is a lot of crap, generic mixing tutorials on UA-cam that teach you nothing but bad habits, Ricky’s tutorials are absolutely fantastic. This is probably the most helpful music mixing tutorial I’ve ever seen! I wish I’d have come across something like this when I started. I’ve just downloaded that gorgeous apogee limiter too. Thanks Ricky !!!
Just watched a recent @Bthelick video and he's a huge advocate for no compressors for mixing and also really pushes for not needing mastering either. If you can make a good enough mix you won't need mastering. It's a pretty awesome goal to shoot for.
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its so nice to see somebody actually making it simple and not trying to sell tons of plugins. thanks for that, bro!
i've always firmly held a belief that eq'ing for each timbre (so they're allowed to occupy their own space) is far more effective than compression ad nauseum
Holy crap. I usually reference pink noise and mix my levels against that. It works ok. But I just followed your suggestions in this video and got my levels sounding AMAZING very quickly.
Yo dude, don't make me take notes to your sessions :-D Killer tips to get in the ballpark. I've been struggling with mix lately because I went too far ahead of my skills with my ambitions. Get back to basics - start with volume and EQ and arrangement and let those build the tracks. This is exactly what I needed in this space of time. Appreciate you!
yes! some of my best "mixed" tracks are on my old MPCs which only had volume adjustments haha. But what really helped them, I think, was the final output of the L/R outs. I have a hunch that it glued it all together well. Where a DAW might try to leave it as transparent as possible. Either way, volume, EQ, some effects to add width. done!
while using meters to get you in the ball park, I'd still dial in some fine level adjustments using your ears, the clap is a bit hot at -12 in my opinion and should be around -14/15, always use your ears, also mix very low monitor volume, you can hear when elements appear and sit in the sound bed, mixing is all about practice and knowing your monitors, always good to leave space on the master bus around -10/12 db for the Mastering stage, also good to have a Reference track to compare against, no matter what genre youre mixing,
Thank you so much for sharing these tips! It helped me a lot! I was usually struggling to set the levels right and now I can do it not only by ear and the results are great! Sending love!
thanks dude. been wanting to move a bunch of stuff out of my digitakt and this has been a daunting part of this process. appreciate your candor and vids man
I used to use something like this way back... In the mid-90s, Tascam dbx NR cassette 4-track of about 12 or so instruments - rock stuff...gtr, keys, electric bass, a Boss DR-550 mk1 and all sorts of little percussion things - into a Dolby C NR Sony tape deck (metal tape), to manually make my masters to run copies off of. I learned it somewhere, may have either been my training on 2" 16 tracks or the Home Recording book by Peter McIan and Larry Wichman. You make great vids with an honest take on things - thank you!
Amazing timing. I've been devouvering mixing videos the last days and this came just when I needed it. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge Ricky. Love
I refrain from moving the mixer level at all and do everything with utilities. It allows you to boost way above like you mentioned, but then you can just throw effects on the line after utility.
Great video. I was sceptical at first about looking at the peak meters instead of using your ears. But your argument about removing decision paralysis is really legit and i can see it speeding up my process. Gonna try it soon!
I generally try and stick to 1 reverb (Vintage Verb) on a bus for my drums and instruments. I used to use individual reverbs on inserts when i started out, but found it would make my mixes opaque/foggy. I use a bigger ambient verb with a low blend on vocals.
This is gonna be a game changer for me. Creating beats to edit my vids to has been a challenge because I'm always towing the line between having elements that sound interesting and sit in the mix well without getting annoying or distracting because the main focus is the video. Using this as a guideline will help bring so much more consistency to the tracks, keep up the great content!
That's why it's so difficult for me to make music for my own video haha! It's like to competing things playing at once. I applaud your efforts in that goal
The -6db thing with just peaks doesn't actually make sense though. For example, if you saturate/clip your kick and compensate for the peak volume, the perceived volume of the kick is gonna be louder, while the peak stays the same. If you use samples, you have no idea what kind of saturation or other dynamic processes have been done to the samples, so just using -6db peak differences for the mix is just gonna give random results. Peak metering in general is not at all useful for judging how people hear things, it's just there to help you not clip the master. Loudness based metering like LUFS or RMS is much more useful for judging how people actually hear things. I am a professional mixing engineer and there really aren't almost any tricks or workarounds besides having good monitoring and experience. That said, the best actual "trick" is to just use reference mixes and compare your mix to them and try to achieve the same punchyness/balance/groove.
Sweet video man, I use a VU meter for this, especially getting the kick and bass balanced. It works a lot better than peak meters because sometimes the perceived volume is louder or quieter and it can be tough to get the right balance with those elements. For example, -3 on the VU meter can show a different peak value for the kick depending on the sound of it. So the VU never really lies like the peak. For kick bass, try kick at -3 on the VU and then when bass hits with the kick they should peak at 0 VU. Give it a shot!
Wow new to the channel and production love your videos been here for the last two and im learning stuff so good. Will have to go into the archives and look for more mixing vids but more of that mate fantastic! Thankyou
Such a useful video that I will definitely keep coming back to. Interesting that your initial mixing process goes from the kick through the percussion then onto the bass.I must have watched 100 other videos where the kick then the bass take priority.
I like to get the drums nailed down, That to me is the most important for my house music. It is one instrument, it also should be able to live on its own without a bass or chords or main sample. If all elements turn off in the middle of the track and the drums are groovin' the dance floor don't stop
I really enjoyed your video, they are super effective tips for putting a mix together! As for the pans, do you leave everything a little in the middle so that the sound passes correctly in the club? otherwise, thank you again for your nourishing and always positive spirit dude ! d;-D peace
I first saw the "separating sounds in groups 6db apart" method in a Hainbach video, but I don't think he went into so much detail, showing the process from end to end. This is awesome @RickyTinez. This works great for dance music in particular, where we kind of expect certain sounds to be in a certain place in the mix. Probably still applicable to other genres, but I would be careful about that. As I was watching the video I was like...hmmmm, he could use a clipper here and there to tighten the sounds, and boom, there you have it, apogee soft limit. Baphometrix has an amazing in depth tutorial series into using clipping at different stages of the mix - even though I'm not ever producing tracks in her hyper-loud genre, the overall "clip to zero" strategy helped me be more conscious of how peaks that were NOT there are created all the way through the summing of instruments, busses, etc.
it 100% applies to all genres. It's basically just balancing the mix. 6 dB is kinda nice "preset" value, but you can tweak it to what you think sounds best. In every genre you don't want to have all parts right in your face. Even in hardest EDM, trap or dirtiest garage lo-fi diy punk kraut rock. Setting up right recording levels, panning elements, and balancing the mix properly is like 50% of good mix. Then you fix the problems with subtractive eq, work further on placement of elements by using compressor and space effects. And after all this ground work is done, you go to the best, most fun part of mixing - creative effects, saturation, neat tricks and automation. But without properly set balance it's not gonna be that much fun.
@@Quimmoo maybe my message did not come across, I guess what I was trying to convey is you have to be careful of not following this mechanism as the end-all/be-all of balancing instruments in a mix. For example, there are many genres where the kick drum is not the most prominent instrument in the mix, so it would not make a lot of sense to build the mix using that as the baseline. Or, there may be times where, irrespective of genre, you are just going in a different direction/aesthetic. A famous example of that is David Bowie's "Heroes" where Tony Visconti purposely left the kick drum very low in the mix, because he wanted to give the music a lighter/more ethereal vibe. In the end its all about what feels right, I know it sounds cliché, but we have to keep reminding that this is supposed to be an art form, not a formula.
@@cadetesespaciales yeah, sure. I've been working on a song once, client gave me midi track of drums, and asked me to put some nice sounding samples, since he didn't have any "cool" "expensive" sounds. I took all the finest shit from my library, just to finally end up with a stock logic drum kit, and all toms being really muddy low tom sound. I've sent the first revision of the song to him and he said "nah, those drums are too bright and too prominent". Dude wanted his record to sound as dark and monotonous as possible, so I've put most drums far back, even tho it was a rock/new-wave song.
Thank you, Ricky! Just what I’ve been looking for. The creative inspiration is deep. Would love to see a video on making bass patterns using Ableton stock sounds. Recs for go to bass’s. ❤
I can hear some phase weirdness from those high Q factor EQ settings. I would suggest using lower q factors unless there is a need for surgery. Using a lower q factor and setting the frequency a little more extreme + adding a little volume to make up for the loss near the cutoff is a better plan for normal situations.
hey I think iferget cuz lookin at a screen mix is dif when ya do it by feel like with the ears not the eyes or maybe both I dunno..I miss mixing on a console where look at vu meter and pin the f out of it
Interesting about not going off faders, that they are maybe not accurate representation of amplitude. Maybe this is why all my tracks are stupid loud 😢
have Apogee just started charging for soft limiter because you made this vid? Awesome video btw, learn't a lot. My mix engineer is prob gonna read this now and worry ;) EDIT. Appears you can download and install for free even though it's advertised as $99
Step 3 was taught to me by @CraigWilliamsMusic who also has a really good video on mixing here -ua-cam.com/video/NwnMGZ0jKhE/v-deo.html
PLEASE DO MORE MIXING VIDEOS!!! this is so helpful, ive never understood mixing more than i do now after watching this lol
I second this
You, my friend, are an excellent presenter and teacher. I love your style. Thank you.
One thing I recommend is to put a limiter on the mix bus… not to actually use as a limiter, but to use as a mix checking tool. Often mastering will uncover issues with a mix. While you can try to fix them during mastering, if you can fix the big ones during your mix process imo you will get a better master. So when your mix is ‘close’… turn your limiter on and crank it up a bit. It will give you a sense of shrill spots, volume issues, etc.. Turn the limiter off, fix issues.
Just tried it. I'm really impressed by the power of the volume adjusting technique. It really forces you to choose the position of each element, and the constraint is helpful to go ahead. And it's soooo fast .... thanks for the vid! (watched a bunch of yours these days)
Yes! I think that's where it's really powerful, just picking one and moving on. And if something is still out of whack you'll hear it later and adjust accordingly
As someone who needs to get confident with mixing these videos lets me know that you do what sounds best to you. And while that's different for everybody you do pick up on stuff watching others. Thanks a bunch. Share the knowledge and love brother.
Hell yea! Thanks for the kind words @phyxirian ! Dope name too btw
Hey there friend. Just wanted to chime on again and let you know that this video got me over the hump. I watched Uta. Few different times while working on this album where the mix was just driving me crazy and your tips really saved my life man! I can't recommend this video enough for simplifying what has often been a very complicated process for me. Thanks friend!!!
Perfect timing, man. Just finished a track and am about to start the mixing process; I have a bit of a workflow currently but I never really feel like I have a clear direction forward. Definitely going to try your method here as a framework and see if it helps me get a good result with less guesswork.
Your videos have been so helpful for me in the lab. I'm always struggling with my mixes but you really simplify the process so I can really understand it. I hate the mixing and mastering part of the process. I just want to play with my toys and record col shit, but this makes it a much less painful experience! Thanks Friend!
This is actually the best short-form mastering lesson on the internet. No joke.
Another tip: for generic reverb, that's just meant to push things a bit wider and back in the mix, use a single send channel effect for all those sounds. Saves on cpu, gells the sounds as they are in the same 'space'. Also eq out the low and low mids on the effect send. The reverb is just meant to be some top end sparkle and the overall mix will be more transparent and less muddy
Great technique to stay away from perfectionism that can often ruin the mixes! Simple yet genius approach. Massive thanks for this video and your time Ricky!!!
needed this video like 2 years ago 😭🙌
Sup, man, very neat vid, as always. One more tip for a smooth buttery bass is to use a multi band compressor on bass in your 25-50 range and add a vintage optic compressor (like LA-2A) and push it to "overdrive" just a little, so you almost don't hear the OD from compressor, just a bit of dirt. ~1 dB of gain reduction and you are set.
I’m a mixing engineer myself who came through university studying it. While there is a lot of crap, generic mixing tutorials on UA-cam that teach you nothing but bad habits, Ricky’s tutorials are absolutely fantastic. This is probably the most helpful music mixing tutorial I’ve ever seen! I wish I’d have come across something like this when I started. I’ve just downloaded that gorgeous apogee limiter too. Thanks Ricky !!!
This is the most eloquent explanation of mixing that I’ve heard. Thank you so much
Just watched a recent @Bthelick video and he's a huge advocate for no compressors for mixing and also really pushes for not needing mastering either. If you can make a good enough mix you won't need mastering. It's a pretty awesome goal to shoot for.
its so nice to see somebody actually making it simple and not trying to sell tons of plugins. thanks for that, bro!
i've always firmly held a belief that eq'ing for each timbre (so they're allowed to occupy their own space) is far more effective than compression ad nauseum
Love this! I’ve gotten so lazy with mixing. This is a great reminder that it really doesn’t need to be complicated.
Hell yeah Wedgehead Pinball.
Holy crap. I usually reference pink noise and mix my levels against that. It works ok. But I just followed your suggestions in this video and got my levels sounding AMAZING very quickly.
your videos are so great Ricky ! - cheers Rio / Brazil
This is public service, Ricky. More than that! Thanks!!!
You are Mr Uncomplicated - in the best sense. What a great straightforward video. Thanks!
Excellent advice, thanks...
Ive mixed stuff since the early 90s, and this still teaches me "new basics". Well tweaked!
Yo dude, don't make me take notes to your sessions :-D Killer tips to get in the ballpark. I've been struggling with mix lately because I went too far ahead of my skills with my ambitions. Get back to basics - start with volume and EQ and arrangement and let those build the tracks. This is exactly what I needed in this space of time. Appreciate you!
yes! some of my best "mixed" tracks are on my old MPCs which only had volume adjustments haha. But what really helped them, I think, was the final output of the L/R outs. I have a hunch that it glued it all together well. Where a DAW might try to leave it as transparent as possible. Either way, volume, EQ, some effects to add width. done!
while using meters to get you in the ball park, I'd still dial in some fine level adjustments using your ears, the clap is a bit hot at -12 in my opinion and should be around -14/15, always use your ears, also mix very low monitor volume, you can hear when elements appear and sit in the sound bed, mixing is all about practice and knowing your monitors, always good to leave space on the master bus around -10/12 db for the Mastering stage, also good to have a Reference track to compare against, no matter what genre youre mixing,
delicious with pleasant presentation. long live 'haws musik.'
This method works for me. Thanks for the Gem.
I've watched a fair few mixing videos, but this has been the most easy to follow and understand. Can put into use straight away!
Thanks Enrique! ❤
THIS IS.. SO GOOD! Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so much for sharing these tips! It helped me a lot! I was usually struggling to set the levels right and now I can do it not only by ear and the results are great! Sending love!
thanks dude. been wanting to move a bunch of stuff out of my digitakt and this has been a daunting part of this process. appreciate your candor and vids man
I used to use something like this way back...
In the mid-90s, Tascam dbx NR cassette 4-track of about 12 or so instruments - rock stuff...gtr, keys, electric bass, a Boss DR-550 mk1 and all sorts of little percussion things - into a Dolby C NR Sony tape deck (metal tape), to manually make my masters to run copies off of.
I learned it somewhere, may have either been my training on 2" 16 tracks or the Home Recording book by Peter McIan and Larry Wichman.
You make great vids with an honest take on things - thank you!
I really enjoy your videos every saturday, it’s like a ritual.
Amazing timing. I've been devouvering mixing videos the last days and this came just when I needed it. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge Ricky. Love
i think this is one of the best videos you've made. Nice one! Thx
I refrain from moving the mixer level at all and do everything with utilities. It allows you to boost way above like you mentioned, but then you can just throw effects on the line after utility.
The real magic here is how well you mix your voice-over with the rest of the track.
Lol so true
It's probably a little side chain compression 😆
You give so much in one video, thank you)
This was great, thanks!!
Thank you.. what a great, informative video. Massive simplified help.
Oh my days Ricky!! This is so helpful!! Thank you ❤
I like how 2 minutes into the video you get so into your own track that you forgot what you were going to say - sign of a good session
Great video. I was sceptical at first about looking at the peak meters instead of using your ears. But your argument about removing decision paralysis is really legit and i can see it speeding up my process. Gonna try it soon!
I generally try and stick to 1 reverb (Vintage Verb) on a bus for my drums and instruments. I used to use individual reverbs on inserts when i started out, but found it would make my mixes opaque/foggy. I use a bigger ambient verb with a low blend on vocals.
This is gonna be a game changer for me. Creating beats to edit my vids to has been a challenge because I'm always towing the line between having elements that sound interesting and sit in the mix well without getting annoying or distracting because the main focus is the video. Using this as a guideline will help bring so much more consistency to the tracks, keep up the great content!
That's why it's so difficult for me to make music for my own video haha! It's like to competing things playing at once. I applaud your efforts in that goal
Sick video G🔊
Thank you🙏👊
i appreciate you deeeplyyy, im never too too dissapointed in my mixes but i know this gon help tha level up
s/o ricky, much love to you gang
Great vid. Really helpful when you gave specific -db per element. Thank you 🎉
break Down! ,, thank you sir,, super valuable info
The -6db thing with just peaks doesn't actually make sense though. For example, if you saturate/clip your kick and compensate for the peak volume, the perceived volume of the kick is gonna be louder, while the peak stays the same. If you use samples, you have no idea what kind of saturation or other dynamic processes have been done to the samples, so just using -6db peak differences for the mix is just gonna give random results. Peak metering in general is not at all useful for judging how people hear things, it's just there to help you not clip the master. Loudness based metering like LUFS or RMS is much more useful for judging how people actually hear things. I am a professional mixing engineer and there really aren't almost any tricks or workarounds besides having good monitoring and experience. That said, the best actual "trick" is to just use reference mixes and compare your mix to them and try to achieve the same punchyness/balance/groove.
Beautiful track, please release this one 🙌🏽
Sick track! ❤
Cheers for the info shows another take how to approach mixing. Have a good one. ✌️✊
Good tips!
Great video! I've bookmarked this and will be referring to it again. 🙏
Good lord... this is a perfect feel good mixing lesson. 🤝
The tricks in this one definitely helped with a track of mine, thanks
Thank you! Perfect timing for me 😇
Cool idea and nice tips. I'm gonna try this out later. Thanks a bunch for the info
Great track and great mixing tips! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Ricky!
Awesome content Ricky. This video could have been epic if it were a live stream.😂 Love your stuff.
good stuff
I’ve been using logic on the iPad pro for film cues and sound design with killer results too!👽✌️
Great content, thank's Ricky!
great tutorial, sweet track!!!
💚🙏🏻💚
Great stuff, man!
Sweet video man, I use a VU meter for this, especially getting the kick and bass balanced. It works a lot better than peak meters because sometimes the perceived volume is louder or quieter and it can be tough to get the right balance with those elements. For example, -3 on the VU meter can show a different peak value for the kick depending on the sound of it. So the VU never really lies like the peak. For kick bass, try kick at -3 on the VU and then when bass hits with the kick they should peak at 0 VU. Give it a shot!
Exactly what Tejada was telling me! Do you have a preferred VU meter? He uses a plug-in I can't remember the name of
Klanghelm VUMT bro @@RickyTinez I like your technique better though as it works well with all the other elements in the mix
Wow new to the channel and production love your videos been here for the last two and im learning stuff so good. Will have to go into the archives and look for more mixing vids but more of that mate fantastic! Thankyou
Welcome! And thanks for the kind words @Locket104
I have to rewatch this video over and over again !
The real MVP.
Need arranging video of this track. Ricky pls !!!
Such a useful video that I will definitely keep coming back to. Interesting that your initial mixing process goes from the kick through the percussion then onto the bass.I must have watched 100 other videos where the kick then the bass take priority.
I like to get the drums nailed down, That to me is the most important for my house music. It is one instrument, it also should be able to live on its own without a bass or chords or main sample. If all elements turn off in the middle of the track and the drums are groovin' the dance floor don't stop
I really enjoyed your video, they are super effective tips for putting a mix together! As for the pans, do you leave everything a little in the middle so that the sound passes correctly in the club?
otherwise, thank you again for your nourishing and always positive spirit dude ! d;-D peace
I learned so much, wow
Track is bangin man, really sick tune.
A good segway video would be mastering this same track :)
I first saw the "separating sounds in groups 6db apart" method in a Hainbach video, but I don't think he went into so much detail, showing the process from end to end. This is awesome @RickyTinez. This works great for dance music in particular, where we kind of expect certain sounds to be in a certain place in the mix. Probably still applicable to other genres, but I would be careful about that.
As I was watching the video I was like...hmmmm, he could use a clipper here and there to tighten the sounds, and boom, there you have it, apogee soft limit. Baphometrix has an amazing in depth tutorial series into using clipping at different stages of the mix - even though I'm not ever producing tracks in her hyper-loud genre, the overall "clip to zero" strategy helped me be more conscious of how peaks that were NOT there are created all the way through the summing of instruments, busses, etc.
it 100% applies to all genres. It's basically just balancing the mix. 6 dB is kinda nice "preset" value, but you can tweak it to what you think sounds best. In every genre you don't want to have all parts right in your face. Even in hardest EDM, trap or dirtiest garage lo-fi diy punk kraut rock. Setting up right recording levels, panning elements, and balancing the mix properly is like 50% of good mix. Then you fix the problems with subtractive eq, work further on placement of elements by using compressor and space effects. And after all this ground work is done, you go to the best, most fun part of mixing - creative effects, saturation, neat tricks and automation. But without properly set balance it's not gonna be that much fun.
@@Quimmoo maybe my message did not come across, I guess what I was trying to convey is you have to be careful of not following this mechanism as the end-all/be-all of balancing instruments in a mix. For example, there are many genres where the kick drum is not the most prominent instrument in the mix, so it would not make a lot of sense to build the mix using that as the baseline. Or, there may be times where, irrespective of genre, you are just going in a different direction/aesthetic. A famous example of that is David Bowie's "Heroes" where Tony Visconti purposely left the kick drum very low in the mix, because he wanted to give the music a lighter/more ethereal vibe. In the end its all about what feels right, I know it sounds cliché, but we have to keep reminding that this is supposed to be an art form, not a formula.
@@cadetesespaciales yeah, sure. I've been working on a song once, client gave me midi track of drums, and asked me to put some nice sounding samples, since he didn't have any "cool" "expensive" sounds. I took all the finest shit from my library, just to finally end up with a stock logic drum kit, and all toms being really muddy low tom sound. I've sent the first revision of the song to him and he said "nah, those drums are too bright and too prominent". Dude wanted his record to sound as dark and monotonous as possible, so I've put most drums far back, even tho it was a rock/new-wave song.
Wauuu this tips are dope ❤🇩🇰
Great job. I made a similar video some months ago and I’m happy we do things in same ways. 🎉
I used my question to Rick ruben about hi hats and he had nothing to say. Thanks, this was the question I didnt know to ask!
6dB is almost double amplitude, and -6dB is almost exactly half
Then what's 35dB?!
@@RickyTineznot sure where you're seeing 35, but 36dB is 6 * 6, or 6 "doubling"s of amplitude so 64(ish) times (2^6)
@@AMTunLimitedyuppp
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20:02 there’s media offline in the video.
Thank you, Ricky! Just what I’ve been looking for. The creative inspiration is deep. Would love to see a video on making bass patterns using Ableton stock sounds. Recs for go to bass’s. ❤
3 or 6 db would be standard fader markings since +/-3db is is double/half loudness…
I can hear some phase weirdness from those high Q factor EQ settings. I would suggest using lower q factors unless there is a need for surgery. Using a lower q factor and setting the frequency a little more extreme + adding a little volume to make up for the loss near the cutoff is a better plan for normal situations.
hey I think iferget cuz lookin at a screen mix is dif when ya do it by feel like with the ears not the eyes or maybe both I dunno..I miss mixing on a console where look at vu meter and pin the f out of it
nice video.
Is that apogee soft limiter plug in discontinued? I can't find it.
Interesting about not going off faders, that they are maybe not accurate representation of amplitude. Maybe this is why all my tracks are stupid loud 😢
bassline reminds me of Luke Scoffield's all night bassline moved over by a beat
Ricky!
have Apogee just started charging for soft limiter because you made this vid? Awesome video btw, learn't a lot. My mix engineer is prob gonna read this now and worry ;) EDIT. Appears you can download and install for free even though it's advertised as $99
I’m never sure when people talking about dB levels if they mean peak or RMS? The white line in Ableton is peak and the green bar indicates RMS?
do you mix before or after you arrange?