A Better Way to EQ, Better Way to Compress & Better Way to Reverb [Podcast 004]
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2019
- Can you get better at audio in 30 minutes or less? Justin Colletti thinks you can. Glean some production wisdom from these 3 breakthrough tips that will give you better frameworks for mixing.
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This is the first time I have heard anyone explain the pre delay on the reverb in the 8 years I have been attending UA-cam University. The piece I am currently working on has several reverbs peppered throughout the tracks. Your method of determining a rough estimate of the pre delay length has helped this piece significantly. The only "advice" I have really heard up to this point is 1) make sure the reverb gets out of the way before the next note that uses it; 2) always use an EQ after the reverb to fix whatever the reverb messed up in the mix. Once I cleaned up the reverbs, I noticed tiny artifacts that the previously muddy reverbs were hiding. This piece has been exceptionally challenging for me. I am not the fasted arranger/mixer/whatever else you want to consider me, but I know this piece has turned into a classroom of serious WTF moments that I am determined to break through and get right. Thanks as always for making these concepts easy to understand and achievable.
Awesome to hear! So glad to be useful.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!! And absolutely inspiring. I enjoyed every second of this podcast. In my opinion your presentations are second to none, and I mean it! Thanks ever so much Justin, and warm greetings from Berlin!
One of the most underrated podcasts when it comes to audio!
Whenever I start to question my fundamentals in mixing for a specific problem I can't tackle in my mix, always come to your channel to look out for what I could have been missing. So helpful 🙏
YOU ARE THE BEST AT TEACHING THIS STUFF
Justin really does some of the best advice on the net for engineers and producers!
Content starts at 05:17 Excellent tips! Thank you. When I hear that "only use reductive EQ" maxim, I head for ze hillz! Sometimes a 12dB boost is just what you need to make a snare or kick sound just right. Regarding reverb, FabFilter Pro-R has the option to set your pre delay in notes rather than milliseconds, which is nice. In fact, once you get to know Pro-R you won't ever want to use another reverb. One thing that I think is a great addition to the advice on compression is to use saturation first. Decapitator works well for this, though I prefer Saturn or Klanghelm SDRR. This has a great way of decreasing peaks while making them sound louder. The reason I like Saturn so much for this, is that it has great multi-band features, so you can sometimes take care of most or all EQ and compression goals all in one place. Love this channel. Your courses are quickly moving to the top of my short list.
Thanks, Justin. Your approaches to mixing are encouraging thoughts for ear training. The ear is the foremost subject.
Justin, I appreciate your philosophy on mixing. I've learned to look for the WHY in my creative life. Thanks!!!
Man this deserves more views. I've been holding myself back with mixing thinking I really do need to hit the exact frequency every time or I'm failing.. easy to lose sight of the bigger picture I guess. Thank you Justin, I keep coming back to your videos, they're some of the best out there.
I've watched the first two, and they were fantastic. Thanks, for these.
These are amazing podcasts! All great and are useable
Such great advise. Well done. Thanks
Just saying thank you for all your efforts and sharing this with us. I've watched 5 of your videos and you've resolved years of confusion in the areas you've addressed for me. God Bless man.
Thanks Justin! So glad I can continue my SAE education with sonic scoop. Thanks for you work at the school and here!!!
Justin, such a great podcast. Just keep on doing it!
You sir are not only incredibly informative and helpfull but also calming, thank you
Justin, your videos are an absolute goldmine or wisdom and knowledge. I love the way you present the material without dumbing it down and yet easy enough to follow for anyone who's got the basics down. SoundScoop has become my go-to resource for mixing and mastering tips. Thank you!
Very good info! Thanks for explaining in a very common sense manner.
this is brilliant, thanks.
This is a very clear, easy explanation. I am 100% guilty of the EQ sweep. Such a noob over here.
Such a great video!!!
sick compression advice
This is excellent. Thank you.
Wow, I feel like I been to Church! Thank you very very much!
This is great!
Very useful information, thank you Justin. :)
Thanks Justin, your recent videos with SonicScoop have been a big help. Also, nice beard you used to have 👍
Glad you are liking them! The beard would probably be even whiter now, so I'm going to have to skip it unless I really want to go for the audio wizard look.
-Justin
Great video, thank you!
this video is gold and basically how I work since years
Your videos and presentations are excellent and pleasing because you don't incorporate all the annoying sounds that plague many others. For example: Smacking and swallowing are terribly annoying to the point where it is worth not watching in order to not torture yourself for the sake of the info. Especially with heavy crappy compression going on! I consider this very unprofessional and it manifests some of the critical differences between a trained speaker and an amateur. It is shocking when audio engineers of all people of all professions ignore this. I KNOW I am not alone in this. Thank you for this! It makes all the difference.
Been following you for some time and I appreciate that you share your knowledge with us, love the podcast. The only issue I find is 5 minutes of promo at the beginning is a bit too much maybe. Also adding some images or video snippets from time to time to show what you are demonstrating would be really nice -like you did some years ago in the other studio- . Anyways lots of great tips thanks again!!
13:05 maybe you meant + or - 10 hz? 😉 Thank you, this is awesome content. Just applied the predelay trick to the track I'm mixing, HUGE difference.
Quick maths.
Thank you for the helpful advice! :)
Great advice. I don't do EQ cuts for anything I can't hear in the mix. In solo, I find things that don't need cutting in the mix context but waste my time. I use solo to identify which track the nasty is coming from. You're shaved now but this beard looks like mine with the same grey patterning. Ha Ha.
Excellent advice, Justin. That's the way to do it!
Can you do a video on automating eq curves and cuts? I think that'd be awesome.
Thanks for the info. Have you made any videos about routing effects? Im wondering specifically about reverb. Are there some scenarios where putting a compressor after a reverb makes sense?
Like it!
Great tips, thanks for the video. Btw, why didn't you specify about Release like you did for Attack?
Thanks! Lack of time really. I'm trying to keep these solo podcasts to 30 minutes so I don't get too long winded. And lack of clutter. I think ion we can dive really deep on 3 ideas, I can give better takeaways than if I gloss the surface on a dozen ideas.
i actually eq backwards. i sweep the frequency field to find where it sounds good and boost there. if you have to cut any frequencies then you didn’t engineer it as well as you should. Treat the room get better gear and position the mic right. if you do that then you won’t have to take out bad frequencies and you’ll only be left with good stuff. But then I found that once I was able to do this the most musicians especially guitar players and bass players pretty much have their EQ and compression already dialed in to their tone so if you can capture that then you can have a much better recording.
Sweeping for bad parts is generally only effective on intruments which werent recorded very well (cheap instruments, poorly set amps or mics, etc). Times when you have little choice except to repair.
Loving these podcasts!
Question: Would it be a good idea to shorted the duration of sub frequency notes, say of an EDM kick, so that the room modes of consumers dont muddy up the sub-bass as much? Ive noticed in my room that some frequencies ring out up to around 3 times as long as they are actually being produced by my sub. Is shortening sub tones a technique? If so, what would be your way of thinking about it?
Thanks a bunch
Hi! I think that a option could be use a Multiband Compressor as Expander -Fab Filter has a very good one-.
You set a slow attack, then when the sound be below the treshold it will be reduced without being eliminated.
- Sorry for bad english! I'm a Spanish Speaker
Bought the mixing breakthrough 2.0 based off of this video
Awesome to hear! You’ll get a lot more like this in there :-) Hope you enjoy!
Some reverb IRs have a pre-delay recorded in. So check if yours does already before adjusting it.
Bring the beard back!
Good stuff.
For 99% of us with small studios, which piece of hardware has NOT been designed and built to provide the best quality audio at a given price point?
Your room.
It seems like the only way to really hear the mix is with headphones because isn’t it near impossible to get a perfect room. Also does the human brain learn to ignore most of the indirect sound bouncing off the walls or do we just hear everything in the room. I’ve tested my room in the past and got crazy peaks and dips but they don’t sound that bad when I listen to music. Hard to find info on this but great advice
Had the Segway down two years ago haha
I'm doing all 3 things, does that get me an award?
YES. My admiration. I am impressed and want to work on your tracks now.
more beatboxing plz :D
We will keep this request in mind for future podcasts! :D
Awrsome
Who all laughed at "Kick Snare REVERB"?..
This isn't a podcast tho, it's just a video
Why can't it be both? There's a video version of a lot of podcasts :-)
If you prefer the audio only version, check out Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. Just search "SonicScoop".
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sonicscoop-podcast-music-production-audio/id1448330690
Hope that helps!
-Justin
@@SonicScoop i didnt mean to say it was any less! just a category thing that cuaught my attention, a podcast is more of a live thing while this is. astandard educational video format to me. but i love the content! thank you very much
@@SonicScoop i hope u got to read that, i just feel thankful for all this knowledge
If the signal was recorded correctly in the first place you wouldn't need filters.
Learn correct recording.
Start with 1 mic, one MONO recorder, one basement.
LEARN.
00;11:34, you say.... point one dB....
Wait, WHAT ?
POINT 1 decibel ?
That's TOTALLY inaudible !
ONE dB is the smallest detectable change in level by the human ear !
Drugs can make people grow beard, dye their hair and wear the strangest clothes while unaffecting their mind.
ad is over at 5:20
7.5 minutes of plugs and ads. Really!?
Good content I have to say, but Geeeez!
I'll be skipping ahead 5 minutes from now on, and stopping the video as soon as you start again at the end.
You have great content and advice, but your taking over 5 minutes to do what most guys get done in 30 to 45 seconds.
Listen to the Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman podcast sometime. They've often got more than 10 minutes of ads!
At least like half of the first 7.5 minutes is actually setting up the episode itself :-)
Future episodes do have a more streamlined sponsor section though. This was the 4th one. We're at 145 episodes and counting today. They probably average around 3 minutes between intro and sponsor shoutouts now.
Thanks for the feedback though!
-Justin
Your pronunciation of the colour claret is bizarre! Neither like like English or the French.
one long advert...bad
There's about 90 seconds or so of advert in a 30 minute video....
Everyone else loves his stuff