How To Mix Beat Stems in ProTools

How to Mix Beat Stems or Tracked Out beats in ProTools. Setting up your session in ProTools, Sample Rate and Bit Depth. Organizing your audio with AUX Tracks, Grouping, Track Color, EQ and Reverb and get your session ready to start recording vocals.
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[@lifeguardryantv5846]

Dope

[@UgatonTV]

Thanks for this

[@topklasstutorials]

No problem

[@thatboycooks]

first video i watched on beat making in years, great explanation man and succinctly put. n

[@topklasstutorials]

Thanks! Got some more videos coming soon!

[@Vintage27]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@TopKlassEnt]

You're welcome Vintage27

[@Nashid550]

Great video bro!

[@topklasstutorials]

Thanks Nashid! If you have any questions or request for future videos don’t hesitate to ask. Also don’t forget to like share and subscribe. 😎✌🏻

[@LuiCambio]

Nice! 🔥 thanks!

[@topklasstutorials]

Yessssir 😎

[@lifeguardryantv5846]

I’m on that’s track it’s

[@REALAHVE]

Hey, nice tutorial, I have been getting into mixing and I’m curious about how your fader moves, are they set to protools classic? Also, I see you turned the clip gain off, are you gain staging with the limiter? I have been having trouble mixing my beats are and getting a nice balance on the spectrum analyzer and good tunnel balance. Any info would be great and thanks.

[@topklasstutorials]

Thanks, my faders are moving together when they are grouped together. My meters are set to sample peak. I suggest using reference tracks to compare mix's and using tonal balance or a spectrum analyzer to guide you. Your ears should be the final step in deciding if something sounds good. I made a video answering your questions, enjoy ua-cam.com/users/liveHrwsgNujZWg

[@bjotbeat]

I missed it, at the end do you keep your original master track muted, or do you play both of them together to create a kind of merged effect?

[@travisdjackson]

During the tutorial I go back and fourth between my mix and the original mix of the producer. There is a stereo audio track with the mix from the producer that I solo to listen, then mute the track to listen to my mix. At the end of the video I have the original mix muted. It would be an interesting idea to try and create a mix with both versions.

[@t.w.o_2]

I think I know the answer so this might be a dumb question, but I have to ask...why try to mix the trackouts to sound like the full stereo mix if you have the stereo mix?

[@topklasstutorials]

Great question. The benefit of having the stems is the ability to adjust individual elements which are not possible with the stereo mix. For example if the snare and hi hat are too low I cannot adjust them separately in the stereo mix. Also most stereo mix's have been compressed and limited so the dynamic range is drastically reduced causing the vocals to sound like they are on top of the beat and not a part of it.

[@JHAVA]

i thought you would get into panning compression etc

[@topklasstutorials]

I did not feel it was necessary for this beat. Maybe I will attempt on another project soon.

[@makinoize]

So you mix in 24 bit, do you record vocals & master in the same bit depth?

[@TopKlassEnt]

Typically I will work in 32-bit 48 kHz for all my projects and convert to 24bit 44.1kHz when I bounce the project. Most streaming services accept high fidelity files so it’s becoming more common to use higher sample rates when possible.

[@justjohnmusicchannel8327]

Why is every track Normalized? There is No headroom to work with so how do you mix this without distortion?

[@topklasstutorials]

This is how the track was sent. In most cases I will normalize files to look more uniform. In the beginning of the video I have a limiter cutting off all sound that exceeds 0db to prevent clipping my speakers. In the digital world clipping is not really an issue you can adjust the gain of each audio file and also use the faders to adjust the volume.

[@meadgarfield8320]

Hey I noticed you kick drum is not pants in the center is it because you like it sounding better this way?

[@topklasstutorials]

Great question. Typically for a kick I will pan both knobs to center. It really helps the kick sound more punchy and centered in a mix. I also check the stereo image by summing my speakers to mono or using a plug-in before I do.

[@cursxr2583]

Can't you just split into mono and delete the stereo and 2nd mono , leaving one mono that is centered?

[@sgsamuelgerad]

nice but you didnt pan any of the instruments, why not?

[@topklasstutorials]

I did not believe panning was necessary for this track.