Mix Bus Plugins & Tips with Sara Carter
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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00:00 - Start
00:43 - The mix bus and session layout
02:35 - Get these multitracks FREE from the Pro Mix Academy website
02:52 - The mix bus plugins
04:46 - The two phases of mix bus processing
05:09 - UAD Neve 33609 plugin demo
12:12 - UAD Fairchild 670 plugin demo
13:23 - Studer A800 or Ampex ATR102?
19:46 - Phase two: Mastering and fairy dust
20:00 - Softube Curver Bender plugin demo
21:57 - McDSP ML4000 Multiband plugin - plugincentral.com/?s=ML4000+v...
24:28 - Oxford Inflator plugin demo
27:44 - Waves L2 Ultramaximizer plugin demo
31:52 - Mix bus plugin demo on a finished mix
Today we have the wonderful Sara Carter joining us to share her Most-Used Mix Bus Plugins!
Sara is an audio engineer and audiophile totalling 18 years experience recording and mixing music.
She believes that all independent bands and artists should have the same broadcast quality releases as major label artists. Everyone deserves a genuine, professional record-making experience, with releases that sound expensive A.F.
Sara had a fantastic experience mixing music at the BBC in London for nearly 7 years. She worked with artists across all genres although now, her expertise is rock, post-punk, indie and alternative music. At the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, she worked on hundreds of sessions for Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra, and 6 Music, developing her skills by assisting the best audio engineers in the business.
Through a set of circumstances and meeting new people, it became possible for her to move near to London, and go to the SAE Institute and gain an audio engineering diploma. She was 34 years old.
Shortly after leaving SAE, she saw the BBC advertising for Trainee Studio Managers in their radio operations headquarters at Broadcasting House in London. This was her chance and she went all out to make it happen. At BBC, she worked hard and met some amazing people but she eventually decided to leave the BBC in 2009 and tool a complete break from music and audio.
Through some unlikely circumstances she was able find her way back to music. This is where we find her today, with renewed vigour and passion for mixing music with some amazingly talented people and mentors!
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What are YOUR favourite Mix Bus plugins? Comment them below!
SSL Bus Compressor
EQP1A into the Townhouse then maybe the Kramer Tape. 🔥
Slate Virt Mix Rack with the Custom EQ and FG-N, into the FG gray, into Softube tape, inflator and Ozone 9 Maximizer until it's ready for mastering
Bettermaker EQ
Fabfilter Pro Q3, Pro C2, Pro MB and Saturn. Ozone Exciter, Imager and Maximizer. Bettermaker EQ232D and Flatline clipper.
Not only is she a wizard, but her voice is amazing as well! I feel like she’s reading me a classic story about mix bus processing
Haha, Thanks!
Sara is so amazing. I really would love to see a pro mix academy "Mix a song from the scratch" course done by her. Thank you, Sara and Warren, for this great video.
Thanks Marc! Stay tuned! Yes, Sara is wonderful!
Thanks Marc!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing you Rock!
The icing on the cake of this brilliant video is Sara's familiar, approachable, northern accent and easy style which just makes this a joy to watch and listen to! Thanks Sara & Warren.
Thanks Adam! Yes, Sara Rules!!
Not even got to the first minute yet but I'm so excited for Sara Carter on the channel again!
Yes! Sara rules!
She is awesome!
Can't agree more !!!
Thanks Lee!
@@nathanielbrice8725 yes! Agreed
As a yank, these accents really que my ears into the content a little bit extra! It's feels like a special storyteller who is teaching me! Love the content! Thanks Warren and Sara!
Thanks ever so much Aaron! I really appreciate it
Thanks for watching, that's a lovely thing to say!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing marvellous! Thanks for making this great video!
Thanks a lot Sara, really! Going completely over board with plugins finally paid off! I made a 2022 version and threw in Gullfoss live at the start, then the 33609 C, Fairchild 670 (with the option of going Manley Vari-MU), ATR/Studer, switched out the ML4 with the Eventide Split EQ, then the Oxford Inflator and finally I switched the L2 with bx_limiter True Peak and saved it as a mix bus template. I do not go as hard on the Oxford inflator, but kept most of the other settings to get in the ballpark before tweaking to taste. Sounding great! Again, a big thank you. :-)
Fantastic video, Sara. Your ability to give understanding of complex interactions of audio and plugins is in a class by itself. Thanks for your selfless generosity of knowledge!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Good morning, I am a blind engineer and can’t seem to follow long all the way since Sara doesn’t go over each parameter exactly, since I can’t see too well is there any chance you could tell me each setting of each plug and since I have all of them would really appreciate it. Thanks man🎙
Thank you Sara, love all your videos! Your explanations are always so easy to follow. I will be trying your mix bus chain on my next mix. Thanks Warren for having such great contributors to the Produce Like A Pro family.
Great to hear that from you Karen! Yes, Sara is fantastic!
Brilliant! Thanks for watching
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing love what you do! Great seeing you here on the channel!
@@thesongacademy5017 Thanks!
That was really helpful - thanks Sara. I like that each plugin plays a unique, discrete role in your process. Cheers.
Thanks Dave! Sara Rocks!
You're very welcome!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing you Rock!
I learned a ton here, the part about the multiplicative effect of chaining compressors was like "oh, of course!". Light bulb moment! Very enlightening, thank you Sara! 🤘🤘🤘
You're welcome! Glad you learned something useful 😃
What a great video! I believe it's the best, most approachable and comprehensive mix bus walk through I've seen. Sara's explanations of her individual steps and every plug-in's purpose and character are fantastic. Thanks Sara for doing this and thanks Warren for making it happen. Extra kudos for the transatlantic content (or rather cisatlantic, from my point of view).
Wow, this is really cool Sara. Very clear, precise and detailed. Very pleasing to listen to with your gentle way of talking.
Love how she explains everything!
Just the thing she said in the intro made the entire video worth watching.
Starting a mix by using "broad strokes" and attacking the busses first, and process the individual tracks only if you need to get more surgical, instead of starting the other way around.
I've always started my mixes (after prepping the mix with panning, volume, limiting etc.) with the kickdrum, but perhaps this "broad strokes" could save me a lot of headaches!
I no longer need anti stress tapes when I try to rest, when you have been in the studio recording your heart out and walk into the control room and hear that voice....Safe hands. Thanks Sara, your the best. BTW great info!
😂Thanks Angelo!
Great stuff Sara (and Warren). I generally don't do a lot on the mix bus if any but after watching this I'm gonna have fun experimenting. Thanks so much.
Fun is the nae of the game! You don't have to have any mix bus plugins of course but they can be fun as you say!
Thanks for this Sarah and Warren. Nice mixbus chain.
I use the MC77 compressor, T37 tape, Waves ssl4000e channel and Ozone 9.
I love Sara! Always well explained! Thanks for having her
Thanks ever so much
Thanks Brian!
Love this tutorial. I have tried all but the Chandler as I don't have it. All my mixes (3 at since yesterday) I have added this to have the sound I have been searching for. As I am mixing my first album this at least helps me get consistent sound out of the tracks too. I like the line the Pro's share secrets. Thank you very much for putting this out.
Sara's voice is soothing!! Fantastic overview of chain. I especially liked that fairchild high gained at 50%mix, got to try that 👍
Yes, Sara is amazing!
Thank Andrew Scheps for that!! Lol 😂Glad you liked the video.
Really enjoyed this. Great advice, well explained, and to cap it all - delivered with a wonderful Yorkshire accent.
Aye! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it 😁
I personally like to mix into my mix bus chain as well. I love to use the townhouse compressor from plug-in alliance in the same spot that you use the 33609. It’s so true, people are just used to the sound. Everything just sounds good, especially rock and metal which is what I do 99% of the time.
Sara is an amazing member of the Produce Like A Pro community!
Yes, she is!
Thank you so much!😊
Wow. Sara thank you so much. This is the pace and amazing lesson I need right now and is missing from so much of what I can access. Sometimes when I am looking for something it appears. God bless the Universe for showing me this and God bless you for taking the time for sharing your amazing knowledge. Just awesome. If I can’t learn from this then I should give up, but now I won’t. Mix bus plugins for a purpose. Of course!! Thank you.
Nice! Great explanation, lots of plugins, but each working really subtlety and giving a cumulative effect you’ve got loads of control over. I’m always too overzealous with this, love your approach, some brilliant stuff to try here!
Great stuff! Thanks for the feedback
Another great video, Sara. When are you going to give us a demonstration of a vocal chain? Many of us really need that!
Yes! Sara is wonderful
Fantastic like always!!!!! Sara is the master!
Yes! Sara is amazing!!
I stumbled on her channel earlier this year and subbed straight away. A great teacher for sure.
Fantastic
Thanks Dave!
again, nicely explained, thank you Sara
You're welcome Mark!
Oh, Miss Carter, thank you, thank you, thank you. This Video made my mixes so much more musical. I don't have the same plugins as you, but the philosophy is what helped me that much. So, again: thank you very much!
So glad to have help you, that's exactly what I hoped to achieve
Enlightening. Great Tutorial. I discovered myself the marvel of the 33609 just recently.This video proves once more its use.
Excellent, glad to have helped!
I had my mix bus set up following an Andrew Scheps approach.... been like that for ages. Thought I’d rework it following Sara’s video - glad I did. Don’t know why it hadn’t occurred to me to add a tape machine (I used the Waves J37) but that made a big difference. Thanks!
Fantastic
That's great, glad to have inspired the move!
Very well narrated process chain. Thanks a ton!
Thanks Arshan!
Thank you!
Superb info, thanks for the deep dive!🤟🏻
Really great thanks Sara
Sara Rules!!
The Inflator is magic! I totally agree!
It’s that magic button.
Really excited to see what & how you lay out these step by step..... !👍🏅
Thanks Rezi!
I tried out the mixbuss chain, except I used the IK Quad Comp instead of the ML 4000 and the brainworks true peak limiter instead of the L2, also some alternative versions of the first 2 UAD plugins and I think this is an awesome plugin chain! I really love it!
Oh my lord I could listen to her talk about mixing for hours! What a lovely voice
Yes, indeed! Sara rocks!
😂Thanks!
Thank you for such a great video I took your suggestions and added to my Set up and it sounds awesome thank you
Marvellous
That's briliiant!
Sara is wonderful! Great video
Thanks! So nice of you to say!
Sara the Legend! Glad to see her on the channel :)
The Legend! 😂
Thank you Sara and thanks Warren! There is one thing in common with you and all your guest's. Excellence personified! I have learned so much from you and your guest's and I'm so grateful! Happy Holidays to you and yours and to all the PLAP family!
Thanks ever so much Michael!
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Sara. Some great tips.
Thanks Gary!
Thanks Gary!
Thank you Sara and PLP.
Thanks ever so much
Very well explained and very informative.
Thanks! Sara rules!
Thanks for watching!
VERY nice video and Sara rocks! definitely great content, thanks!
Thanks Alex!
Agreed Alex! Sara does Rock!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing You do Rock!
She’s great. Love her channel.
Me too!
Love Love Love
I've not heard of Sara until now
Sara Rules!
Thanks for watching!
@@Producelikeapro indeed
this video is amazing
Great description of your workflow Sara. Thanks PLAP :-)
You're welcome Chris!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thank you :-)
Awesome! Great explanations, makes it easier to apply with good reasoning :)
Agreed! Thanks ever so much!
Excellent! Glad it was helpful
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing you rock!
That’s a fascinating chain. 🎛🎚 A very informative video gratefully received. 🤓 Thanks Sara
Super informal 🔥 ty
Thanks for watching and glad to help!
Good info from Sara! I came away pulling out Waves Vitamin (which she mentions she sometimes uses in place of the McDSP plug-in) and with more of a desire to grab the Neve compressor.
Thanks for watching, hope the Neve works out for you although it is a very different beast to Waves Vitamin
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing thanks, Sara! Still waiting to see if it goes on sale before Friday. For the time being, I’m enjoying the bx_townhouse compressor on my mix buss (big fan of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, who recorded at Townhouse). Vitamin is a sleeper for me. Amazing for getting the tonal balance right. I’ve had my eye on the McDSP plug-in as a fan of Tchad Blake, too, but I’ve never pulled the trigger. Maybe one day :) Hope to see more videos from you!
Ik think i realy enjoy Sara
Great video. I recently ditched UAD, but I do miss their tape and Fairchild emulations.
Already relating to Sara's routing. It's almost 100% like my own. It's good to see this hahahaha
Brilliant! Thanks for watching 😁
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Yaaaay! Thank you for the content. Cheers!
What a nice song!
Thanks very much!
Love your videos! Do you offer services to review mixes ?
Great video!! I’ve been struggling knowing how much of each track to send to my mix bus. A lot of people seem to run everything at full tilt, but I can’t seem to make that sound good. Some instruments just don’t like it :/
Great tips from Sara. And I was recently looking at the ML 4000 which I'm curious about testing.
It's a really powerful plugin that you can use all over the mix, got to be worth testing!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thanks!
Excellent tips from Sara as always. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, Sara is amazing
Thank you Sara and Warren!! Sara you are such a bad-ass!! Kindest greetings from Seattle!!
Haha! Thanks Evan!
Thanks ever so much Evan! Agreed Sara Rules!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing you rock!
Nice to see a vaguely familiar interface, it's a slightly different arrangement from Ardour, but I feel at home with it :) 2mins in and I'm already loving the way Sara explains things, so I may well check out her channel after this
Because I'm on Linux, I use the LSP multiband compressor in a very similar way. I actually use 6 bands to get a bit more control and also use the mid-side functionality to centre the bass and push the top end out beyond the speakers. I also use x-42 plugins on the mix bus because they are so clean. What I have to work harder for is the tone colouration. Sara gets my vote here because I'm not left wondering what these plug-ins do, which makes it a shed-ton easier to figure out suitable substitutes
@@timflatus Thank you so much, glad it made sense to you!
Hi, Sara, Great Video. Learned a lot. Can you please advise on what is your Mix Bus level for the electronic song that you mixed - plugins activated and then with L2. Thanks in advance.
Some good suggestions in theory and practice. I don’t have or use any of the plugins you have on your buss but like the overall concepts.The idea of subtle use and coloring is a good one. I do have plugin Alliance versions of some the ones you use so maybe ill play around with them in my chain. Im still tweaking my sub master chain and its currently a mix of plugin alliance and izotope plugins. I always have an ssl channel strip which i often just use for warmth and don’t always use any of the compression or EQ. I just added the new eventide split eq and am testing that out on a track im working on. I also add eq and compression all along the signal path in smaller stages as im mixing. Because im mixing and mastering my own tracks i tend to get everything to a good enough point then bounce down. It’s usually weeks to months before i go back to it and do a final mix/ master session. This way I’ve distanced myself from the track and can make better decisions. I usually listen to the rough mix along the way to decide if i even still like the track enough to want to spend time doing a final. Thanks for sharing the great tips and suggestions.
Great advice! thanks for watching
Hi Sara, great tips here, thank you! What do you think about substituting the Avid Pro Multi Band Dynamics for the McDSP ML4000? I don't have the ML4000, but functions look to be very similar.
I love the results I have obtained by using your (slightly modified version) mix bus chain. However, on a more recent video, I noticed you have made some changes to your chain. I would love to see an updated version of this video using your current mix bus chain.
Thank you for sharing this Sara, and congratulations on the spotlight you deserve. Why can't I get my head around mix bus processing? Are you constantly checking the levels of the processes on the mix bus with every mix decision you make? Is it virtually set and forget even before level balancing? I've heard from CLA before that he likes the 'needle just being touched', but don't you find later that's ended up as 4 - 6db of compression you weren't aware of?
Having a template with my group busses and the dynamics processing already active helps, as well as making sure the tracks themselves are in the right ballpark, level wise. You can do as I suggest in this video and start with the threshold all the way open and then set it once you're part way into the mix.
So, I cloned this signal path with stock UA/logic and free plugins. It has helped so much. Thank you.
I know I can move whatever I whenever I want etc. just curious why the tape isn’t at the end of the line like it would be if you were using real tape.
this was cool!
Thanks ever so much
Nice job! My only gripe is that it would make comparing the chain easier if there was a gain plugin at the end to level match after all the processing.
yeah, hard to compare what something is doing when engaging a plugin makes it louder...
Currently On my mixbus I go with Fab filter ProQ3. Waves Factory Spectre, IKMultimedia 80 tape machine, Acustica Audio Gold 4 and Acustica Audio Gainstation 2 and then Gullfoss
Nice!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing You DEFINITELY know what you’re doing. I wish I could afford your services
I love the way she thinks
Sara is incredible and has an amazing course over at Pro Mix Academy
Great video thank you so much. So just to confirm, when we see you working on that mix bus, is that your ‘master’ bus? Or would you add these chains on all sub buses (i.e. guitar bus, piano bus, etc.)?
Thanks!
No, just the final mix bus
Thank you Sara and Warren for that great video!
But may I ask what Sara's settings for the Ampex ATR102 would be?
Thanks ever so much!
I'd go through the same process as on the Studer and listen to how the tape formula, speed and calibration effect the overall sound. I start with the default.
Fantastic video, Warren and Sara - thank you!! It's good to see that I like a lot of similar versions of the same plugins - mainly Waves stuff, admittedly, but things like the AR mastering console for the EQ, tape simulation, the Puigchild 670 and all that... One question though - isn't this the definition of 'top-down' mixing? I was under the impression that was generally frowned upon (even if the end result still sounds good!)
Yes, I guess it is. It makes sense to me though. I didn't realise it was frowned upon, I just do what works!
Thanks, Sara - it does make sense… I’m guilty of doing it a bit as well, but have been trying to make a conscious effort to avoid it. But then, if the end result is good, I suppose that’s all that matters!
😊❣️ Thanks!
Thanks Audrey
You're welcome!
Interesting, I do some similar things. I also use a 33609 with 100ms release, but I've been using the Arturia plugin. I also dial it in slightly differently where I'll dial in the limiter first to get the needle bumping a bit and then the compressor also bumping a bit. I like the sound of a little analog emulated limiting before my digital limiter. I use the UA Studer pretty much the same. I don't really like the Curve Bender tone that much and tend to use the Black Rooster Pultec plugin and I use it before the tape, but that is probably a side effect of back when I had the opportunities to use analog gear. Finally, I was using the Ozone for limiting but have since started using the bx true peak option. Ozone, and the Curve Bender for that matter, do something to the midrange that doesn't suit me.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! It's all about taste isn't it. That's the great thing about music production, otherwise everything would sound the same.
7:12 this is my exact mix philosophy
Favourite.... none. I use to mix into a chain and now prefer nothing on the mix bus. I find it better reveals issues that need to be fixed on the individual channels and when the mix is sounding good, then a stock EQ, and a tiny bit of compression/limiting to give it the final touches.
This is a great approach too. Compression can close down a mix, even if used gently. Thanks for watching
I've never heard anyone say waves vitamin in the brit pronunciation, that was great!
Vit-ta-min! As opposed to Vide-da-min?
Haha! But the English way is the right way, right? 😉
Gullfoss, Clarihponic Kush, AR 1 kush, and Hammer kush
I was recommended Sara's channel a few weeks ago.And now it's like '' Come on, Sara ...do another video !! '' level of fandom.It was nice to see the 33609 , which I think is a bit ignored, on You Tube, anyway.
Thanks!
umm, dither shaping adding sparkle/punch at 24bits?
Sara's voice makes me think back to BBC's Rock School of the mid 80s and imagine that Victoria Wood had a guest spot, looking at audio engineering.
Serious information, but with a sensible approach and the skills to back it up.
It might be grim up North, but we know how to make good music.
I loved Rock School! I lived in Carlisle for two years, loved it, played a lot of clubs, wasn’t grim at all for me! Was the best time of my life!
Why don't I remember Rock School? Feel like I should have been all over that!
Fantastic. Clear and to the point. Great demonstration. BBC Maida Vale always gave me the feeling that I was in some sort of nuclear bomb shelter!
YES! It's stuck in a time warp, I love the energy there. Thanks for watching!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Yeah, and so much beautiful music has come from there.
could I use Elysia Alpha instead of the Neve for colouring on the mix bus?
You can use anything you like, but the Elysia would be a nice one to try
NIce!
Thanks ever so much!
PA Neve 354 is my new goto on the mix bus.
Thanks for sharing
Oooh interesting!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing I have Glue, Townhouse and Neve 354 as laternative when mixing. :) Thanks for your great sharing, Mrs, Carter.
Accent alone has my attention.
Haha Sara Rocks!
Haha! thanks for watching!
mcdsp plugins are awesome!
Yes! They certainly are
@@Producelikeapro highly under rated
What other plugins have the same quality with the low CPU usage?
It's funny, i don't think twice about how i set up my guitar gear, i do what I know sounds good etc, but when it comes to producing/mixing i always feel like there's a proper way to do it. But people just use what they find to sound good.
I have the exact same UAD2 Neve plugin but mine has a different GUI, how is this even possible ?
Thx.
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Elloooo 👊
Hello!
Ay-up!
First!
congratz
Its incredibly hard to concentrate because I love her accent so much
Haha! Thanks for trying!
Interesting, but I must deplore that it is impossible to hear the real difference between before and after as the after is not gain staged to be equivalently loud.
Sorry to disappoint, but it's always going to be the case when using plugins for adding gain and that's why they are on my mix bus after all.
Inspired by Andrew Scheps
When I first recorded with Dave Jerden in the late 90’s he showed me the technique of using multiple busses on the SSL which he had be doing since the ‘80s. It’s great to see people, like Andrew and Sara adopting it inside of a DAW.