Your Magic Frequencies video series Has changed my entire mixing process and improved my mix by 3x even if im producing EDM a lot too !! Labels are reaching for me a lot more now since I started to sound better !! Keep going and thank you, Ill be there to support you !!!!
Thanks for the video, really love the fact you listened to us requesting this one. I was quite surprised you didn't mention anything about the area around 500hz which usually is what I always find to be the most problematic for me to tame, but again maybe it's a matter of different contexts I guess, those two piano tracks were nice sounding right away. Cheers
Great share! I still play my upright almost every day! So a lot of what you're sharing here links back through to the natural tonalities of the instrument; 5K Boost ~ Overtones; Sometimes if I'm mixing or mastering I might use an multiband expander here depending on the hammer action , if I want it to poke a bit harder depending on the setup of the piano or articulation of the player; The 1.5K boost ~ Fundementals of 2 octaves above middle C can also be a really useful cut to make depending on how well balanced the pianist can balance themselves in a performance; I often find during fast runs or transitions between chords piano players have a lazy right hand, where they either get a bit heavy and things can get a bit too loud or attacky in that range or it's they struggle to make the movements and the notes are a bit weak and you need to boost them; 100-200 ~ Lot of the body and tone from the bass clef; great overall balancer depending on the arrangement Smart move using the automation into the heavier parts of the mix; those overtones that are present in the piano are a great lil’ cheat to pull through some clarity without over processing
I'm a graphic designer & practicing mix engineer. I'd be happy to update the Mixing cheatsheet for you... just throwing it out there. Thanks Jordan for this brilliant video!
glad you showed the automation for the eq too...definitely what I'd do for the first track on the intro so that it still sounds warm, but then automate the low end cut and the midrange boost when the rest of the track comes in.
i really like your approach of mixing, people are really afraid of pushing things so much that they do not do half of it and it turns mixing a nightmare for them.
Been waiting for this forever if you could add this to the cheat sheet. balancing the pianos and guitars are very important. Thanks a bunch please add pads as well along with the the frequencies. Love your channel you do great videos and they transfer to any genres of music. Very cool!
Hey Jordan, I was looking for EQ points to differentiate rock piano vs ballad piano and here you are with the right frequencies - and my answer: boost for one, cut for the other. As always thanks for your excellent channel! 🙏 Much success!! Gi
My friend, thanks for the tricks. As a doctor, I can tell you you need to rest near the sea for a week, you may be tired. I hope your health is fine and I'm wrong. Respect for your insights, it really helps work on the tracks.
Great video, thank you. I've mixed a lot of piano - often in a metal context - and it's been a challenge each time to find those magic frequencies, especially to sit just right in a dense metal mix.
While you were saying "piano is not on my list" I was writing this info on the list lol. I did security way back at a rock festival for Emery (if we're talking about the same band) Awesome guys. Didn't talk to them much because I was with Brian Welch. Love this series of info. I do future bass. 2 years in.
Great Video. My approach is really similar but with acoustic pianos (and also the library ones) i tent to put the eq in dual mono, unlinking so i treat the mid and lows in the left (also left of a really piano and hand, where this mids an lows are) and the right (where the hi mids and high are) with a different boost and cuts.
please create magic frequency content for synth keyboards and strings.. I'm from indonesia and I really like your contentand I really like your content
Do you send back or not take up sons that aren’t arranged well, or lack a good performance? With this song I feel like instruments aren’t aligned. So do you fix it yourself or send it back? Also main reason for the comment is, how does one build a template? What do you save under a template? I use a lot of samples with my drum kits, only cause the recording quality in India isn’t too great maybe, and I’m also still new to this. Still figuring out my workflow and goto plugins.
interesting, I've been doing this in live mixing for years now but was never completely happy with it, especially during piano intros or other sort of laid-back songs 🤔
@@similarsubstance4885 nope pretty much the same, which shows fundamentals are fundamentals - Even Jordan's chain is the same SSL 4000E > 1176 > Pultec > Decap.
Grab your free Mixing Cheatsheet to learn the go-to starting points for EQ and compression in heavy mixes: hardcoremusicstudio.com/mixcheatsheet
Your Magic Frequencies video series Has changed my entire mixing process and improved my mix by 3x even if im producing EDM a lot too !! Labels are reaching for me a lot more now since I started to sound better !! Keep going and thank you, Ill be there to support you !!!!
Love the cheat sheet. Ready for version 2 with the piano 😉
Thanks for the video, really love the fact you listened to us requesting this one. I was quite surprised you didn't mention anything about the area around 500hz which usually is what I always find to be the most problematic for me to tame, but again maybe it's a matter of different contexts I guess, those two piano tracks were nice sounding right away. Cheers
Been waiting for this! At work, but definitely gonna watch when I get home 🏠 Thank you Jordan & Co 🙏
Great share!
I still play my upright almost every day! So a lot of what you're sharing here links back through to the natural tonalities of the instrument;
5K Boost ~ Overtones; Sometimes if I'm mixing or mastering I might use an multiband expander here depending on the hammer action , if I want it to poke a bit harder depending on the setup of the piano or articulation of the player;
The 1.5K boost ~ Fundementals of 2 octaves above middle C can also be a really useful cut to make depending on how well balanced the pianist can balance themselves in a performance; I often find during fast runs or transitions between chords piano players have a lazy right hand, where they either get a bit heavy and things can get a bit too loud or attacky in that range or it's they struggle to make the movements and the notes are a bit weak and you need to boost them;
100-200 ~ Lot of the body and tone from the bass clef; great overall balancer depending on the arrangement
Smart move using the automation into the heavier parts of the mix; those overtones that are present in the piano are a great lil’ cheat to pull through some clarity without over processing
I'm a graphic designer & practicing mix engineer. I'd be happy to update the Mixing cheatsheet for you... just throwing it out there. Thanks Jordan for this brilliant video!
glad you showed the automation for the eq too...definitely what I'd do for the first track on the intro so that it still sounds warm, but then automate the low end cut and the midrange boost when the rest of the track comes in.
Yeah, this is sooooo underestimated
i really like your approach of mixing, people are really afraid of pushing things so much that they do not do half of it and it turns mixing a nightmare for them.
Been waiting for this forever if you could add this to the cheat sheet. balancing the pianos and guitars are very important. Thanks a bunch please add pads as well along with the the frequencies. Love your channel you do great videos and they transfer to any genres of music. Very cool!
So glad you did this video.. it was the one thing missing from your cheat sheet.
I like those Nick Johnston mix insides
Pls do some more🙏
Hey Jordan, I was looking for EQ points to differentiate rock piano vs ballad piano and here you are with the right frequencies - and my answer: boost for one, cut for the other. As always thanks for your excellent channel! 🙏 Much success!! Gi
My friend, thanks for the tricks. As a doctor, I can tell you you need to rest near the sea for a week, you may be tired. I hope your health is fine and I'm wrong. Respect for your insights, it really helps work on the tracks.
Thank you for this!!! More magic frequencies for many types of mix elements!!!
The best series mang.
I love your approach, less is more, eye-opening stuff
Great video, thank you. I've mixed a lot of piano - often in a metal context - and it's been a challenge each time to find those magic frequencies, especially to sit just right in a dense metal mix.
While you were saying "piano is not on my list" I was writing this info on the list lol. I did security way back at a rock festival for Emery (if we're talking about the same band) Awesome guys. Didn't talk to them much because I was with Brian Welch. Love this series of info. I do future bass. 2 years in.
you just fixed my mix xD I knew exactly what I was looking for when I got back to the project I'm mixing of a Guitar/piano duet. Thank you!!
Great... I really like Magic Frequencies. I always enjoy watching them and practice and then make them presets.
Same thing I’m doing here. Just discovered this channel and I’m pretty much doing your comment too man. 🙌🏾
Wow can you do brass and wood winds?
Yes! So happy to see another one of these
Do these tips work for synths as well? An update to the cheat sheet would be excellent!
Great Video. My approach is really similar but with acoustic pianos (and also the library ones) i tent to put the eq in dual mono, unlinking so i treat the mid and lows in the left (also left of a really piano and hand, where this mids an lows are) and the right (where the hi mids and high are) with a different boost and cuts.
This song sounds killer. The guitars are so tasty
please create magic frequency content for synth keyboards and strings.. I'm from indonesia and I really like your contentand I really like your content
I agree
Hello fellow Indonesian
Great tutorial, also Which snare was used in this recording ? This is the snare I was looking for a long time
Super helpful - I want to try this on my Roland ds 88
thank you
Please, a video about how to EQ over and HH drums
Can we get a magic frequencies for synths/pads/strings?
Maybe sidechain a dynamic low shelf cut to the bass so the piano is thick whenever bass not playing?
I am surprised you did not talk at all about the high and low pass filters, which I saw in use, but not mentioned.
Do you send back or not take up sons that aren’t arranged well, or lack a good performance?
With this song I feel like instruments aren’t aligned. So do you fix it yourself or send it back?
Also main reason for the comment is, how does one build a template?
What do you save under a template? I use a lot of samples with my drum kits, only cause the recording quality in India isn’t too great maybe, and I’m also still new to this. Still figuring out my workflow and goto plugins.
Waiting for the strings!
_Idem_ !
how to clean harsh on very loud vocals??
please.. help me...
Finally lol
Thx again for the help j
Also j will this work on rhodes
Great. can you make a video for clean electric guitars?
He has already done it for electric guitars, mentioning even clean ones
His free mix cheat sheet , has clean guitars on it.
Synths?
interesting, I've been doing this in live mixing for years now but was never completely happy with it, especially during piano intros or other sort of laid-back songs 🤔
What's weird, is I literally watched your video on this from 7 years ago about an hour ago 😃
Curious if the approach is different.
@@similarsubstance4885 nope pretty much the same, which shows fundamentals are fundamentals - Even Jordan's chain is the same SSL 4000E > 1176 > Pultec > Decap.
Nice pianos though,
It gets interesting when some use those plastic fake one's.
And heard big veterans use them on some records.
Piano is always so hard to get right. So many different frequencies in that instrument...
finally
this track is fucking beautifully sad
promo sm