How to balance your volumes properly
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- As a total beginner you might ask yourself: how do I set the volumes of my musical elements right? What's too loud, too quiet? Well, in this video I tell you the simplest method that will work 90% of the time.
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Contents:
0:00 How do I get the volumes of all my elements right?
0:30 the real answer
0:55 balancing by ear
1:39 relative volume
2:47 the blessing of laptop speakers
3:39 referencing to reset your ears
4:44 Pop quiz: name that statue
5:28 Tripping through Seoul with Billy
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Thank you! I’m at the beginning of my journey, and even with all the books I’ve read and tutorials I’ve seen, no one else put it exactly like that. In fact, I somehow got the impression that all channels should be equal in volume. Glad you set me straight. 😊
Thank you I began 1,5 months and this is very difficult, all your videos help me a lot !
Nice to see you guys having fun😊
Hey Oscar, looks like you are having fun on your trip, well deserved after putting up so much useful information for us! Have you thought about making more breakdown series like the SNTS ones you did before? Also would like to see more arrangement videos as I believe this is the hardest part of making good music and finishing tracks.
Solid advice, as always, and a nice format talking to us from different live locations. Thanks for sharing!
You're such a great teacher! Thank you for your enthusiasm and knowledge!
Thx Oscar...❤☮☯
TIP !!! If you work with headphones then put your headphones on the table and listen to your track. It's a geat way to hear if your volumes are at a good level. And try to mix at low volume levels.
This is a great video, and in particular covers an aspect of mixing that I feel is under represented in the music production tutorial space. I basically had to figure out what you teach here on my own, even after watching half a dozen great mixing tutorials. Great video as always!
I'm surprised that you came to Korea! Good to see you in here
These are exactly the videos we need!
this is the video i neededd!!!!!!!!
Using pink noise is an old trick that still works
Great to see a beginner lesson. Your clear explanation will help a lot of producers yet again.
Here are some tunes to start everyone’s week: “RIOT CODE - Devils Daze” and “Gabriel Le Mar - Bob”.
Thank you very much!! Exactly the video I needed.
It seems like you are having a happy trip to Korea, I hope you have a goodtime in my homeland👍
wish to see you by coincidence 😁
Excellent !
I use the 3DB rule. One of the tricks I learned in the years I produced music is to imagine the sound in a room, the smaller its amplitude, the further away it is, if I want to bring that sound closer, I have to increase the volume. I also use this rule to apply reverb! It is very effective
Thanx a lot for your content!
nice video very helpful
Loved the end 😁❤
great vid!
Great video Oscar!
Hi im doing your foundations course (great by the way) I was just wondering about balancing midi, I thought this when I did your lesson. In the discussion on the site they said that the midi drums are probably already balanced but does that mean then that you dont have to give them headroom? Thankyou
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Hi awesome video I wish the school to taught this way I think you should do a video on Chreast factor I feel like it's something not talked about on UA-cam or explained well but can distractingly change the volume of your instruments without giving any audible difference
I just finished creating my track. So this video is basically what I need next?
Can you do a video explaining how to have highly reverbed lead sounds, especially fast arp'd ones, without getting muddy? I got the liquid synth sound I was going for but some of the distinctiveness of the melody has been lost
Reverb send, duck the reverb, EQ the reverb. If you're not great on CPU TAL-Reverb is free and comes with a duck parameter and filters.
So my question is how can we compare a premaster mix to a fully masterized mix released on Spotify?? 🤔🤔🤔
What about using Pink noise too bring everything to an even Level at the beginning?
I Start at about - 12db for my kick and add the other tracks in order of importance for the track (Bass comes nearly everytime on the first place after the kick). This leads to about -8 to -7 db of headroom left for mastering.
Thanks for your Tips, i love this Channel 😊
Hello oscar, hope you're having a great trip. One quick question when we create headroom, do we take just the kick to -12db or to all sounds and then bring them up ?
Bring the kick to where the peak of its volume is around -12! Then all other volumes should be set relative to that one kick, by ear! ☺️
Just gotta be careful because Comparing a premaster mix down to a fully maximized and loud master, even at volume compensation, can lead to over smushing your mix
What about using span to set volume?
HEY Oscar , so smart ,like usual ;p
ok, but if my kick drum (full of lows) is my reference, my louder sound, how can my tiny speakers would teach me the good amont of the level for the other elements ?
It happens to you like it did to me, Oscar: that our little brothers got all the hair in the cast. 😂😂
When did you come to Korea?
The building is in Korea
I’m adding heavy guitar over techno-type sounds but balancing is difficult.
Hey Billy! *waves*
Nice korean background, nice lesson
Oh, are you in Korea?
Yeah! 😁
Reference reference reference you NOOBS 😂
Beep, beep,... bong bong...
There is no heart/soul in electronic music...
Thats whats failing.
lol sounds like you are the one without a soul
Too many engineers, not enough artists.