Mixing Masterclass with Jacquire King [MixCon 2020]
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2020
- In this MixCon Masterclass, Jacquire King cracks open a mix inside of LUNA to show us his step-by-step process to balancing levels and getting final, polished sounds that still feel organic, inspired and authentic. Catch the Live Q&A here: • LIVE Q&A with Jacquire...
Jacquire is a 3x GRAMMY winner who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Shania Twain, Norah Jones, Cold War Kids, City and Colour, Buddy Guy, James Bay, and many more.
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CLA mixed one session I recorded.
It was piano, violins, double bass and female vocal.
It was some kind of jazz (funny to seen CLA having a fight on this).
I was so proud because he just used a tiny 4khz boost on the piano and nothing else….
No compression, huge automation process to ride the dynamic.
When I asked why he just used one EQ he told me I did a fantastic and perfect job during the recording.
I didn’t use a single EQ during the recording but I find the perfect mic spot to my taste for each musician.
A great experience
"eliminates differed decision making...painting as you go...dont leave an open book" great advice!
yes!!! what i love about that is that it is an artist's approach, as opposed to an engineer's approach. not only is he a hybrid, but he records and mixes like one.
This truly was a masterclass. Many throw that term around loosely, but this is 90 minutes of cracking open Jacquire's thought process. He identifies the things he wants to accentuate and fix, and exactly how he does it. It's one thing to know *what* people are doing to achieve great mixes, but so rare to have someone so eloquently articulate *why* they made the decisions they made. This was time well spent. Thank you, @sonicscoop and Jacquire.
Regarding printing to tape certain sounds: I totally agree. All we have to do is imagine someone like Robert Fripp, or Jimi Hendrix saying “no, let’s add the effects postproduction“. Not only does it make zero sense musically, the emotional life would be nonexistent. After all… What is music, without a transmission of feeling? You just can’t manufacture that in postproduction. Loved this video.
Lol didn't expect to see someone like him using the Infected Mushroom plugin on a mix like that, that's dope
This was solid! 👊 💥 I really appreciate content like this. Thanks for sharing.
Anything Jacquire King does is just pure perfection man. This guy is my hero.
Jacquire is absolute gold.
i LOVE the idea of that space echo effect _going in._ that's like letting the actor hear the soundtrack as he's coming to a key scene, just to see what it inspires in him, as opposed to how it is done, where the actor is blind, acting out black and white words from a script, having the music added later.
i love that.
Listening. That is what I have been doing wrong. Listening to the song. Listening to the individual elements. I've been blasting through mixes just to get to the finish line, and not really happy after hours of work, wondering why it isn't working. I discovered a few great techniques here, but more than that, it's what I have NOT been doing.. Thanks you for sharing the knowledge Jacquire , truly inspiring.
Beautiful! Much appreciated :D
Thank you for your time and energy Jacquire!
Great stuff , love hearing these insights from these guys. :)
I love this guy. what a great dude.
This information is brilliant. I completely understand this concept of painting a picture as you print. I give this post a five star. Thank you Jacquire King for taking the time to share your style and personality to the world!
Cream of the crop! I really enjoyed every single second of this mixing masterclass. Jacquire is absolutely great and I am very impressed with his way of thinking and working. I also do short rough mixes in the pre-production phase to get an impression of whether I'm moving in the direction I have in mind for the song to be produced. It seems that as a budding producer and mixer I am already doing one or two things right when it comes to good sounding recordings and mixes. :) LUNA seems to be a very good DAW. It's a great pity that this application is not cross-platform, I would have loved to have a closer look at it. Anyways, thanks a lot to all of you for this incredible opportunity to enjoy these free masterclass videos! 🙌 Best regards, Frank
This one is amazing, already watched and came back to remember some observations about the mixbuss processing. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the quality content Justin!
Such a likeable dude. Lots of great philosophical stuff here, he’s well considered and thoughtful
Thank you Jaquire, you have become one of the most eloquent mixers out there, content and context well balanced!
Jacquire has so much knowledge. This is a great mixing class. I've watched it twice now.
Glad you enjoy it Paul!
-Justin
Great content 👍🏾
He explains so well. Thanx!
Wow. This really is a true masterclass. Thanks!
Thank you very much for this!
Thank you for sharing!
Wow! Thank you so much for this lesson! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
What a great guy, it was a pleasure listening to him...thanks SScoop
Always to the point. I hope to see more content from Jacquire.
Jacquire is one of my favorite mix engineers. I get so much knowledge & ideas to try in my mixes from Mr. King, this was awesome to see. Thank You! =)
I love your new image King. That's how u too look..u look like a real engineer now.love the image..keep up the great works mr. KING.👍
Thank you for sharing!!! The concept it's simple but deep at the same time.
Excelente!!! 👏👏👏
Best 90 minutes I've spent in a long time...
Killer vid ...I like the way you recap it all at the end for note takers ...cheers
Mr King, Waves and SonicScoop thank you for these great vids.
So helpful! Thanks a lot for that masterclass 🙏🙏🙏
UAD promotion time
This is a fantastic insight into how to approach a mix, regardless of the fact it is a plug for UAD.
I’m a year late here, but I gotta say that Jacquire shared in such a way as if he were personally mentoring. I’ve been a Pro Tools guy for about 18yrs, and considered Luna … but still waiting for those extra improvements to make it more tempting to switch (or use both). Right now, with Apollo 8 and x16 and dBox and 2Bus +, it all works great with Pro Tools and UAD Console, etc. But things keep evolving for sure. Thanks for the fantastic video!
Very good at sharing his thought process
Thank you
Yes, I agree! Very well organized video of how he goes about doing a mix and explaining why he does what he does.
great video, thank you!
Wow. Jacquire, love this. You taught me so much! Thank you! Your philosophy is already burned into my mind. Aces!
also, i LOVE that juno track. this is some stuff that Daniel Lanois did with U2. he is making a sauce from the recording's own juices. i love it!!!
Incredibly interesty ! Thanks Jacquire, UA, SonicScoop !!
Thanks a lot. Very nice one, 🍀🙏🦔🤓
Jacquire and SonicScoop, Thanks for posting this. I have fallen in love with LUNA and am switching almost all my projects over from ProTools. This is a great video to give some context to how to use LUNA uniquely from the perspective from someone who knows a lot more than I do about mixing.
Nice!! I’m using Luna and getting amazing results! Definitely copped the IMP after watching this.. great plugin as well 🤘
What a privilege! Thanks JK and SonicScoop!
THE VOCALS THO!!! WOW!!!
Good choice thank you
Country Music! Cool.
Great mix, I love the sound of that Space Echo for ambience behind the acoustic guitar! Any chance you could share the settings?? Keep on rocking!
Whoaaaa
OMG!!!!!!
Let's not forget about the extremely high level/quality recording... when talking about mixing.
Super important for sure!
-Justin
Its amazing what you can get out of ITB especially with at least 48k 24bit files
I got an ad for Masterclass on this Master Class.
Very useful, very nice and man! let me tell you, so good you cut your hair. :-)
OK this is truly amazing BUT...
...can we all admit that the glass of water is truly the protagonist in the storyline?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i am barely 14 min in... but i will never see that glass of water the same. xD
Nice Luna promo ;-)
Exactly, Luna promo in moderate mode, subconscious message is buy Luna, but that is ok. Unfortunately for me I am not among those group of targeted future costumers.
Excellent video here. Would have been great to zoom in on what you were changing when you engage certain plug ins or change parameters. Hard to see what your cursor is doing.
I'd like to know how you got those relatively clean echo tracks from the acoustic, they give so much depth and character(very modern sounding and add so much character) - I tried doing this with my sends from my apollo aux and sent them to input 3 -4 but they were also heavy with the signal of my guitar
compression do the trick
I'm wondering who were the other 63 people on the queue at the beginning of the video premier.
Great Masterclass.
I was one of them :)
I wish I was one of them ;)
Its time to get Luna for Windows! Next year?
Thank you for teaching... This with mixing, is almost as difficult as walking with the lord in this late time, :-) excuse my goggle translation, god bless you.
Sound great! The bass panning was really cool. What’s the name of the song??, really really good!!
Would have loved to know which preamp /compression choices he made in recording , esp for vocals and guitars
I really would have hired a session bass player to take this tune into the promised land. But, that's just me. Aside from that, good info, Jacquire.
Totally agree, I'm picturing a fantastic organic bass line in some parts it would really make the low end better.
Good to see and thanks for sharing. Would have been very insightful to see the tracking session as well.
The noise, is that from the tape and neve summing? It's unusually high level of noise but yet not actually that audible so when the meter says -60 in the fabfilter eq that may be a bit misleading?
-60 is pretty quiet! Darn near inaudible,which is why reverb times are usually expressed in how long it takes them to drop 60dB (“RT60”).
Yes, the noise is a feature of some of the analog modeling going on.
@@SonicScoop Good to hear. It looks so much more than I usually get from similar plugins (Tape, Channel Strips, Compressors) but probably just unusual for the eye. Thanks for answering.
Can someone explain how the panning is done for instruments in this song (particularly guitars) as that's also a important part of overall sound.
Great video, but man, I really need to listen to this type of videos in a good pair of headphones. Hard to appreciate the work on cheap earbuds
a link to the track please. sounds cool
trop bien continue !
great session and vid. would just wish the cuts like from 9 min on would be slower. man the camera jumps and cuts are reminiscent of a music vid. :) keep it cool. we focus on what he says, no need to jump from cam to cam every 2 seconds. it gets distracting fast
Thanks for the feedback. We are trying to cut most of the "ums" and uhs' out but might have been a little overzealous this week. Will try to dial it back on future videos!
Great Stuff !! Can you let me know when and where the WLM Meter was used ??
Just started the video but on the mix buss or master channel most likely. It’s a limiter that’s used for mastering 99% of the time.
@@zacbarber8944 Thx for getting back to me . Im thinking its the { Waves WLM Plus Loudness Meter } ??
That’s correct
Man... I have so many questions... One of them for example, would be: why not roll off the lows directly on the mic instead of doing it later on Pro-Q3?
Could someone explain to me, how the DAW can sound well. I mean, of course, the extensions in Luna have a sound, but the DAW just naked, without anything shouldn't have a "sound", other than maybe Pan Law compensation might be different. I'd love someone to elaborate on that. Since Mr. King also said, that Luna would sound nice.
Maybe he's referring to the built in summing options that's modelled after a Neve console. Judging from the demo on UAD's website it sounds more or less like other per channel console emulation inserts from other companies.
Or maybe he's getting paid to say it.
BTW, Admiral Bumblebee has a series on the different sound of DAWs. He's pretty obsessive about this stuff.
I come from an acoustic-music perspective. Before the plug-in chain it sounded natural. It sounded like humans playing music. It felt immediate and real.
With the plug-ins there became a space - a buffer almost - that obscured the immediacy and "realism" with studio shimmer.
I hear mixing engineers talk over and over about adding "excitement". That suggests (to me) there's a serious shortcoming with both the source material and the performance. This song, for instance, is not terribly interesting musically, lyrically, or melodically. That's the real underlying issue in the "excitement" concern.
But, again, I have a very heavy bias toward live group performance which has it's own unique energy. I really appreciate this video though and the expertise. It gets me thinking for sure!
Waves Analog button just adds hum. So don't touch it better, just no point. You can see so much digital hiss on FF Pro-Q's analyzer here.
Thanks for sharing us! Great video overall.
Ok, yeah but tell us WHY you added the kick samples please :)
Gee how nice would it be to have the Sans-Amp plugin in other DAW’s 😅
Big fan of Jacquire! I would love to know what he would think about LUNA though if he did more editing.. :( If there were only an option to disable the "track grouping" of ALL TRACKS that happens when you click your mouse pointer in the ruler bar at the top of the edit window! How many of you have done that, and not known you'd selected "ALL TRACKS" (Because LUNA only adds a tiny little light blue line around the tracks in the mix window then they are grouped 😭). -
Many times I've been working in LUNA at a super fast pace, having a blast, and thinking to myself "I F---ING LOVE LUNA!" BUT!!! Like I do often, I'll add a plugin on a one track - ... and.... LUNA freezes..... and starts to load 89 instances of that one plugin to 89 tracks!!! UGH! So Dumb! Why Can't I disable that!?
Ok... sorry to rant. haha.. this was off topic AF. Love Jaquire! And Love y'all!
I have luna downloaded and tried tracking a quick thing in it once but haven’t really checked it out further yet. I do look forward to it at some point, but waiting for a little more development, especially control surface support.
I'm really liking that tape emulation. I'm never completely satisfied with the J37 or Kramer. The Kramer almost gets close to the feel but it's not all the way there plus it doesn't have enough features. J37 has the features but in my opinion it misses on feel bigtime. I end up mostly using it as an effect. UAD seems to have nailed it with that Studer. I'll have to eventually try a UAD interface. MOTU kinda ruined it for the competition. I don't know what it is, maybe the converters. The fidelity is just ridiculous, other interfaces I've used sound straight up lo-fi in comparison. I'll give UAD a shot though. Tired of missing out on plugins.
I never understood what mix engineers say about setting the release on a compressor. If you set the release so that the level recovers before the next event, might work for a 1/4 note but then later some notes might be 16th or 8th notes in which case the release would not allow the level to recover before the next event and it is not as if you can set the release depending on whether 16th or 8th notes are being played.
U can definitely automate your compression..
@@dablizzoduve4576 automate for every 8th and 16th and quarter note in the whole track?
On longer notes, a quick releasing compressor will simply bring up the sustain. You want the release set to accommodate the fastest subdivision on the track, generally speaking. Hope that helps!
Fucking gold here
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This feels like a big fat ad for Luna without you disclosing that it's an ad for Luna. Did UAD pay anything or give you anything to make this video with him?
Exactly my feeling. That without mentioning he is praising a plugin that was released/hosted under PureMix tutorials company (Sugar). Where he is a mentor. PureMix Online whose have a partnership with UAD. As he seems also to be (according to how many promotional videos he made with them without mentioning the PureMix vids that are also in partnership with UAD as mentioned). I am not against a little bit of promotions, that's fair. But the first 40mins are almost only focused on Sugar/UAD stuff (and a few mixing philosophy like rough mix etc.). It's a bit too much here for me, but no disrespect to his work tho'. He is great.
@@WheelieMix He clearly carries sincere conviction with LUNA (which I think is pretty cool) but I do think you are mistaken about your reference to him talking about Puremix's/Fab's 'Sugar' plugin. Rather, the Plugin in this video that I believe you are referring to is actually by Waves ('Infected Mushroom Pusher'). Though, they really do look similar. Still, it sort of torpedo's the notion of a trifecta - Puremix/UA/Jacquire conspiracy of insurgent capitalists. #therehadtobeasecondspitter
Ha damn you’re right ! I stand corrected ! Mea culpa !
KRK G5’s RP7s👌🏾
The amphions are nice too ;)
Why are all the guitars (Or the whole Music Playback actually) distorted? Is that how it meant to be or is that a problem in the UA-cam delivery?
Newbie Question: Why create a Mix Bus instead of doing that processing on the Master Bus?
A good reason to have a mix bus is if you use a reference track you don’t want the limit or
effect your the reference track in any way as comes through the master bus
I see. Well In Ableton I can set the track output directly to the physical outputs of the audio interface, so it bypasses the master bus. Is there any other reason for it you think? One thing that has occurred to me is that it’s a much easier way to control the overall level of a mix.
@@KapaDeFreitas that and you can also create different bounces. A lot of mix engineers get asked to bounce an Instrumental version, acapella version, and a kareoke version along with the full mix. Then you could render all four at the same time, and not go back and mute channels every time.
Edit: that being said he's obviously not dong that here so idk
Ehats that peice of equipment directly in front of his keyboard?
It's a monitor controller.
Does he record in 48k more then 96k?
I know for a FACT there is a little time stamp god in this comment section. Come on guys... I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!!
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Jacquire kinda reminds me of Fred Durst in this video 😂 ... Awesome vid!!
This is what real music looks like 🔥
What defines "Real music"?
@@simonegelund2832 the whole track . including words and melody .
@@simonegelund2832 my opinion this is a beautiful piece of music . recently we don't hear anymore something beautiful like this one .
Tried Luna. Editing is not fully developed.
Luna has potential it sounds great but there is a reason why he prepared the Mix in protools
In the chorus there are doubled electric guitars, pianos, wurlitzer and doubled acoustic guitars and a piano and you can hardly hear any of them :(
I've watched countless hours of music production videos and my music still sounds like shit :(🤕