Ableton Mixing Tip | Make it Mono | Will Marshall
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- In this mixing tip, Pyramind instructor Will Marshall demonstrates the importance of converting stereo tracks to mono tracks, and the most effective way to do this in Ableton.
Many producers narrow the width of a stereo track instead of making it mono - Will uses examples to show why this can be problematic.
He also discusses general mixing theory regarding stereo, as well as different panning techniques.
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Been producing for 10 years and this literally cleared up so much for me
He just blew my mind with that utility left/right-channel to mono, thing. I always wondered why the mono option messed up my sounds.
I've been trying to figure out a solution to this in Ableton (as well as understand the problem) for a while now and you explained how it works and what to do so perfectly. God bless you Will Marshall.
Freakin will marshall blowin my mind with this stuff. I swear he is by far the best teacher ive come across yet.
Mitch S ikr!
Infidel! Clearly you have not witnessed the power of the almighty Dan Worral as seen on many a Fabfilter video. I would like to explain more but this is all I have time for today.
Man , this is really helpful. I've been trying to beef up an instrument in mono in Ableton and was wondering how to do it and by just selecting the left or right channel in the utility plug-in did the trick as you recommended. Thank you so much, great tip and insight!
I've been writing music for 15 years or So on Ableton. Every now and again I still cruise through old vids on UA-cam
Refreshing on some tips and what not... I'm so excited because I learned something new on this video today thank you!!!
I've never really heard Anyone explain how ,or what, to Pan Correctly. so I was always a lil confused, and you cleared it up completely, so thank you!
Really good tutorial, been producing for years and this helped lots still.
I love all your metaphors , the visualisations and imagery really help my brain understand all this................. One of the best tutorials on the subject ever, this has helped me so much...................... many, many thanks Will ! :)
I now see where i have been going wrong..........After learning that sounds should best be mixed in mono for clubs and pressing etc. I have been mixing stereo leads, basses etc. into mono channels . Not realising that this was causing phase issues, and that is why a lot of my mixes sounded huge in stereo, but really weak when playing back in mono ! ................... I have a heap of tracks to rework now LOL.................... thanks again Will.............. this is huge for me.
you literally just saved my mixes, i've been dragging the width down to 0% and it was ruining everything. your a life saver
Ableton needs to implement that panning algorithm in the options
+Germo Staalfeldt Maybe something like 'Flux Stereo Tool v3'
+Kinsella Music that doesn't work in the same way. It just turns down the volume of R/L whereas Flux Stereo tool will pan the stereo image - you loose how 'stereo' the image is if you just turn down the volume on one side (in Ableton).
***** I was talking about stereo. I know what mono is, and yeh panning mono will work fine native.
You can use Reverb/Delay and an LFO or automation for automatic panning. Algorithms are like premade automations or macros if you so desire. Ableton gives you the basics. Rest is up to your imagination.
What about the built in Pan effect?
Doesn't that have all those options already?
you have given me a lot to think about. i never even use mono tracks. this opened my ears. thanks.
I have been noticing that flange like effect when using mono plugins for ages, also the loss of crispness but didnt know how to fix it , just applied this knowledge to one of my newest trax and .. thank you so much :)
Thankx for breaking it down.. great tutorial for beginners
i thought this video would suck and just be you saying "mix in mono" like everyone else on the internet... but this was awesome! thanks!
+Anthony Niemira I had the same expectation...really good info in here tho cheers for the video !
Me too, and I learned a heap of stuff I REALLY needed to know ............... Wow, !
Yeah this is great advice here!
reaaaally good explanation! been watch pyramind videos every time i eat (since producing and eating is a mess lol) and its been helping me out so much
you covered a lot and i kept up with your explanation the entire time thanks you and great job!
He's so good at what he does.
Wow, thanks for this, I'm a newbie and was confused as to what all this mono/stereo stuff was about, I mean I understand basic two channels but all the more complicated stuff, people mention PA's and such being in mono and phase issues, this has helped me a lot, perfect!
Thanks for the video, very helpful and well explained. Off to make so soft
Very interesting I was always using Utility wrong it seems, time to change. Thanks
WOw thank you for that awesome explanation. You sir are a gifted teacher. I have watched a lot of your stuff on different aspects of music production and a lot of them are GOLD!!!
Grateful and thankful for the knowledge
my goodness. Thank you. Been looking to get cleaner transients. this is it!
Wow! Love tutorials like that! Real knowledge! Useful tip!
My stereo samples have been giving me a pain and I've been struggling to find the answer to get rid of that flanger sound. Out of pure chance I came across this video so thank god.
This is one of the best tutorials thank you for this!
Anytime!
Great tips! That Track Stereo Pan plugin is cool.
This was awesome! So much great knowledge packed into 12 minutes. Thanks!
this is awesome, thanks for so much wisdom
i never saw this guy but in the first 15 seconds id learned a whole lot that made me stop the video and think, ahhhhh! Of course !!! Top tips my friend. thank you
Now Ableton got Mono and Stereo channel just right click on pan , select Stereo Panning! You are done! 😇 (Correct me if it's not really the mono / stereo channel) 😇
Very helpful video, thanks for taking some time out to make it.
Thank you man for sharing this stuff
Loving the MMW sticker on the case in the background. Much respect! Also, this video was super informative :D
this is great video, now i know how to make my music richer!!! THANX
Very well explained! Thanks
Any time!
Very articulate explanation. Thanks, I learned something.
Instand subscribing to your channel. Clear explanaitions and this video is really an eyeopener for me :D
So helpful, Great explanation!
I AM SUPER GRATEFUL BRO...THIS IS LIFE CHANGING!THANK A BILLION.
Hey, nice tips! Following Bruce Swedien's lead, I do think there is a happy medium with the utility plugin... As you point out, not all sounds are mono compatible. For many sounds though, there's a point where one can narrow a sound without introducing phasing artifacts. With that in mind, I encourage folk to narrow the width by ear and to experiment with placing stereo images across the sound stage, listening to the narrowed stereo images in context. Why? Well, at least for me it opened up a whole different world, so I'm sharing. Hear, hear to Ableton giving us more pan options. That said, thanks for the M4L plugin recommendation! Peace.
This one is awesome, this guy's an Ableton ninja.
So good! Thank you.
works perfectly, thank you
Really nice video, thanks.
Top of your game me old sunshine! Fluent and educated!
Awesome tips man, thanks a lot!
really clear explanation about the basic concept of mixing, thanks for sharing m80 subbed
"because that's true mono, you're not adding two thing together causing potential problems"
Amen. Just like in real life.
Love this tutorial! Very straightforward, u got yourself a sub!
on another note, I notice people go to pro tools to get the " mud" out of a mix by using a one pass EQ at 400hz. This is a frequency that most of us dont hear well and so it makes no never mind. However, most notice the difference once the filter is applied. I used a one pass for all my audio by exporting it to audacity applying the filter and replaying the audio. The max for live plug in seems like sound sound advice. I downloaded the RT3 avantone mix cube plug in and mixed to that and it help however my speakers are crap and it takes multiple references for my mixes to sound good on different systems.
Could you please talk more about the mono stars and wash. Or at least direct me to a video that talks about this more. When listening to professional tracks I always listen to the sounds that come from different directions. They seem isolated in their own space and are completely unaffected by all the other sounds. Panning always makes my sounds sound like everything is pushed to the outer reigns of center, left and right but the star sounds you talk about can sound closer to you and even close to center without being interrupted by the spectrum or the other frequencies. Can you show how this is done and maybe talk about some of the techniques used to achieve this in Ableton? I really need to understand what is happening there. I've searched forever on the topic and you are the only one that has ever mentioned it. I also like how you described it. Great video and thank so much for the work you do!
This was incredibly useful. Thank you sir.
very well explained!
thanks!
thank you, exactly what I was looking for
well you just saved my life mate, been looking for some real tutorial about Stereo / Mono issue and you just explain it so well, Huge thanks Will !!
One question about MONO COMPATIBILITY. ive done a pretty decent work on the drums, but im having troubles adjusting panning and stereo field for reach pads and Lushy background noises, can't get them to sound good when check master in mono. Any tip you can give me would be much aprecciated.
Huge thanks again.
Amazing Tips, thank you !
Is it just me, or was the last tip, just the exact same thing as the second last tip?
I think it looped.
loool
Definitely.
it was two different takes and they edited them together lol
I though I was having Deja Vu
I think there was a slight glitch i the matrix with how the video was edited. At first I questioned whether I was experiencing short term memory loss, but not every video is edited perfectly. Will Marshall is the man, he could record this on a potato and I would still take the knowledge. Release it on VHS, even 8 Track
Nice video, it works!
Thank youuu so much!!!
Very well explained
Gold video
Esko Carl seconded
absolutely essential................. I learned a heap of stuff that I should have known about 10 years ago !
I love Will great explanations
Wow it was really helpful thanks
You the man, Will!
Nicely done. Thanks!
Wow! thx for the tips!
Great video, Thank You
Simple question. Should kick be in MONO? And should the kicks plugins all be in mono...?
Great tip
Thats Fantastic! Thank u for that f´great trick
Thank you!
this is gold
excellent tips
The utility clarification fixed my life lol
nicely done..!
thanks!
whoa this is informative. Thanks!
Brilliant tip thankyou
Circular and triangular is what he's talking about i think at 8:15. FL does circular by default, but can switch between the 2.
I’ve been bouncing my tracks in stereo out to mono and dropping it back in. it’s so much easier
will this be the equivalent to just hear the sounds in one monitor?. thanks
everytNice tutorialng, I really would pay for a webclass
Panning is positioning the sound Left or Right adjusting the volume in channel L or R is called balancing!
informative, articulation !!!
one thing is balancing, and the other thing is panning.
Ableton native pan control is actually a balance control, using the Max4Live patch you turn it into an actual pan control.
Very nice tip using only one side of a stereo sample! Thanks.
Not sure if I follow the tip using the stereo pan m4live tool on a mono sample. This simply boosts the side by around 4.5db (when I tested it) compared to abletons default behaviour boosting the side by 3db when panning (-3db pan law).
Now i feel like a ping-pong delay ;D
great tip thks
Will is great
Master of Metaphor!
I didnt know Steve Austin was a mix engineer before WWF! jkjk
You really explained this well. GG (Our carry is a noob) :D
Does the new utility mono button give you true mono or is it still summed?
I started making soft recently, I was wondering if you wanna do any features.
The Track Stereo Pan plugin doesn't work on AL 11 Standard version. Is there a similar tool for that?
Gracias!!!
Nice.,.Thank you,,,
One noobie trick:
Don't duplicate an audio track with audio files for an obvious reason: editing. Instead:
1. Leave the audio track untouched (don't put a plug-in on it), only change its output routing to "Sends only".
2. Create a new audio track and put "Utility" on it.
3. Change the input routing in the new audio track to the untouched track that you want to monitor.
4. Duplicate the new audio channel and change "Utility"'s settings to your liking.
5. Switch on/off the audio track that you (don't) need.
This way you can change your initial track without having to duplicate it over and over after making changes. ;)
Pan law = any signal of equal amplitude and phase that is played in both channels of a stereo system will increase in loudness up to 6.02 dBSPL.
You said in the video the sound was down by 3 dB when pan right/left. it is against the law Pan...
The standard setting is minus 3db.
That is - precisely the opposite of what you say;
The sound becomes weak at 3 dB when it is in the center
Why not just use the Mono version of the utility that is supplied in the drop down?