Mixing Monitors vs. Mastering Monitors | FAQ Friday - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2018
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Are mixing monitors different than mastering monitors?
Yes and no. I’ve been to a lot of mastering studios where they have very expensive monitors but they’re also the same very expensive monitors that I’ve seen in some very expensive studios where people mix.
One of the best, most exciting experiences I’ve had mastering was to have Bob Ludwig master The Fray’s second album. I flew out to Portland, Maine and I sat in a room with Bob while he mastered their second record.
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Produce Like A Pro is a website which features great tips to help the beginning recordist make incredible sounding home recordings on a budget.
title question at 19:51, but don't skip the whole part! :)
Thank you
You tha real MVP
The double mic technique is gold! 👌 Thanks Warren!
Hayden! You rock my friend!
I can watch Warren's videos all day. Such great information.
Thank you John! You rock!
This video is so informative. This was a real good one!
Awesome vid. Watched a few of your great videos, but its now your hair and the intro that earned my subscription!
Hi Friend! This week for FAQ Friday we had some wonderful questions!! And I get to answer some hair tips questions!! haha Please keep the amazing questions coming! Just ask them below and I will do my best to get to as many as possible! Have a marvellous time!
Wonderful video warren!
Thank you so much Warren!
Darlene Sheffield thanks ever so much!
Mia Sampaoli you’re very welcome Mia!
So much knowledge on mixing/EQ in this one. Good stuff Warren!
Hi warren, I must say you are one hell of a great guy for doing all you do for us, thanks bud, your amazing.
Hi aw shucks Darren Ross! You’re very kind my friend!
You never fail on sharing with us the best information. A HUGE thank you Warren!!!
Thanks ever so much Alan! You Rock!!
Thanks for your time sir.
Hi Matthew, thanks ever so much!! You're very welcome!
Genius and so simple. I had an issue with some bass frequencies popping out above the rest in some notes, hadn't thought of multipressor
Very helpful on this one I had mud last week. Added new virtuals.
Great FAQ Warren. Thanks!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Have a marvellous weekend!
Thanks ever so much Warren for yet another highly informative video. Question, I would be interested to know if you have you used any of the liquid mix emulations from Focusrite. If yes what were your impressions of them? Thanks again Warren till next video.
Hi Red Monkee Productions, I haven't used the Liquid Mix Emulations! Sorry I don't have an opinion on them! Thanks for your wonderful comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you so much Warren!
Mia Sampaoli you’re very welcome!
Thank you ever so much Warren for another marvellous video and have a great weekend :)
For the bass volume automation check Waves Bass Rider!!
Sweet, new video! I'm guessing diagonal SM57's is going to be a bit tricky on my closed Framus 412 cab :/. Great vid, would LOVE to hear those Zappa stories, brother.
'Hair today gone tomorrow' !! LOL! Wonderful Video as usual Warren
Haha thanks ever so much Darlene!
You're hair is lovely. I wish I still had mine :(
Haha thanks ever so much J. W.!!
I think you meant to say his hair looks....."Marvelous" 😆
anyone who is ADHD'd the fuk out on his hair when he is dropping so much knowledge is going to be in the exact same place they were5 yrs ago in 5 yrs from now lolll :D
I saw the comments in the past, about your hair. Just smiled about it, and thought. Here is a guy, giving not only the best advices but also being a great person. And all the comments boiled down to was; Whats up with your hair.. I cant believe that tunnel vision.. Have a great day, love your vidoes and all the great stuff im learning each day. Thank you so much Warren. Best Regards Thomas, Denmark
Haha thanks Thomas! Yes, I am take it all in great jest and I am aware that my job is to give the best possible advice I can! Thanks ever so much for your marvellous support!
Hi Warren,
Thank you for sharing this video! My recent purchase lead me to give it a view.
I just received my NS10Ms and P2200 today. After reading the manual and searching the web I still feel uncertain about connecting my mixer to the P2200.
My mixer has 1/4” and PIN 2 hot/ PIN 3 cold outputs. The amp has 1/4” and unbalanced XLR inputs. Aren’t 3 pin XLR cables balanced? I think if I plug in the XLRs into the mixer and amp something bad will happen. Will you please explain what I should do in order to connect them correctly?
Great hair Great vid 🎸🎼Happy Friday!
Happy Friday Ryan!
Hey warren, great vid and great hair as always ;) I'd like to ask about your opinion on cheaper compressors, such as the ART Pro VLA II? What are some good alternatives to the Distressor? Thanks alot!
Hi Aleksander, haha thanks for the hair comment! The ART is a go to compressor for Ulrich Wild and I love what he does!
Thanx again Warren...!! Great great!!
One of the better, if possible, sessions Warren. I particularly believe informing "the community" to depend on their ears, and not what the stinking waveform looks like, is the best lesson of all. It has served no small number of our heroes forever, but it doesn't seem to ring true with far too many today. Thanks for all your contributions.
Hi Ron, exactly my friend! Listen with your ears not look with your eyes! Great comment!
I would say, "learn to see, with your ears" !
Haha yes indeed!
I learned through HiFi listening, this is different though.
I'm listening for different and unfamiliar (to me) details.
+ my hearing is not as good now (age).
SirEggbertfartalot - Don’t fret about missing a few frequencies due to age. Since you’ve been “critically listening” for ages, your mind makes up for what you think your ears can’t hear any longer. I learned that from the guy who invented the Distressor, Dave Durr, at an AES conference a few years ago. Besides, consider geniuses like Al Schmidt, my friend Geoff Emerick, and myriad other “older” engineers who keep creating magic despite the natural hearing loss of high frequencies.
Loving the burns ! :-)
thanks as always warren for your generosity and great content. would love a video on getting good tones with amp simulators and your cheapest electric , or some of your own personal mixing tips for virtual amps. see alot of videos you mention where the information seems to be leading me the wrong direction, maybe some eq tips on clean guitars or pluck guitar clean, if you get chance haha, blessings warren
i mean the other videos on youtube on the subject, i trust your opinions
Hi warren i've just signed back up for another year in the academy and i can't download the multitracks for your mixing in the box course. i can see others have had trouble and have had the issue resolved. is there anything in particular i need to do??
Thanks your a legend BTW
Your hair is great. Thanks for the information!
thank you Warren your just to cool
The first time I recorded at Sonica in Atlanta they had a whole wall of guitar amps of every kind. The engineer asked me what I wanted to play through and I pointed to a little brown tolex Fender Vibrolux. He said, "Yea, that's the money tone!" Now all I want is a Vox AC15, so things change.
Can you talk about producing vs songwriting? How the two intertwine with each other, as well as how they're kept separately. Cheers from Texas! ✌🏼
Sorry for being a bit of a wanker today. Love the show. Thank you!
I figured out 2 years ago it was how often you doff and donn headphones (and sharing was the goal not vanity). Signed, reformed hair commenter, Michael B
Any mastering monitor recommendations for larger size well-treated room (8 meters by 17 meters)?
Hey Warren, I was looking at the join page for the Academy, you had mentioned for a short time we could join for a cheaper price for monthly. I could only find the option to pay for an entire year. Am I missing something? I would like to try for a month first being as I have a good amount of knowledge already, and I wanted to make sure it was at a sufficiently high level before I committed for a year. Thanks 🙏
Could you please give us some tips on how you balance working 12-15 days while having a family life? Especially early in a career where you are really burning the midnight oil to try to get established.
when high passing guitars, does it make sense to use linear phase instead of natural phase just to keep the energy distributed better or is that just not necessary?
Whoever asked the HP guitar question thank you for doing so!
So. What if you hi pass too much on the recording end, and get to the mix and find you need more low end? Just eq it back in? Or is there another method that might work better?
Wouldn't have thought of micing directly opposite on an amp speaker. That's very interesting. On the topic of amps, actually, what are your thoughts on solid state amps? I'm currently using a Boss Katana-50, and while I like it, I'm always mildly worried about not using that "truly alive" tube sound.
In the analog world, a high pass filter with a very sharp cutoff will ring (and that resonance can be good or bad). So, 6db per octave or 12db per octave is about the max. I haven't researched the digital filters (except from listening), but it seems that you can cut at 24db per octave without any ill effects. How do you like the slopes of your cutoffs? Gentle or Hard?
The hair works great!
Haha thanks ever so much Chris!
Another hair comparison I saw made during the live stream the other day was David Tennant from Doctor Who. Of course, the difference is, you don't mumble when you speak.
Not the worst thing to be compared to Alvin Stardust. Feel like Buddy Holly is still one of my favorite songs of all times giving ma goose bums whenever it is on the radio. Great lyrics and a goto song to answer the question how to write a hit single.
Hi Willi Schirwa wow! I wish I was compared to Buddy Holly! I’m also a huge fan!
Adding a lewitt, I hope it goes well with my voice. It's similar to Tyrese not quite as deep.
I like the new camera angle.
Thanks ever so much!
Thanks ever so much!
Maaaaaaaarrrrrrrvvvvvveeeeeeellllllloooooouuuuuuusssssss!!!!! Thanks for another splendid video! :)
Hello Warren, First and foremost thank you for all the great content and videos greatly appreciated. What is the best way to contact you, I have tried a few times?
The only 'law' in hi or lowpassin, imo, = check phases in multiple cases
I agree 100% Projacked!! It is ALL about Phase/Polarity!
I love how you roll with the bad hair comments!!! It's always good fun to make fun of yourself.
Anyway, great channel!!! I'm a big fan of your knowledge... And your hair!
Do you add your effects pre or post recording guitar?
HI Andy, I love recording guitar with effects! However, if you want to try delay effects etc and vary them, then you can use Delay Plug Ins inside of the box.
Produce Like A Pro I like the pre better but the producer on my first album wanted to do them in the "box". It was hard to get use to. Thanks for the feedback and as always you rock brother!
I agree Andy! I love printing the effects!
Hair has character!
You are a charismatic cat... and a friend of Dave Jerden. I love it!
Hey, so you talked about not using your eyes but then you showed us the high pass example with your hands lol. I know the default logic and pro tools eq show highpasses very differently. What dB/octave do you define as gentle?
Hi Jonathan Page hahahah funny! Then the best answer to your question is ‘use your ears’ haha However, I do start with the lowest value and then slowly move it up until it does exactly what I want to hear! Gentle is better than not at all! I hope that helps?
Multiband Compression in low end 😊 that’s it
What kind of speakers are behind you?
Because you keep speaking about it I am requesting the song "She's always in my Hair" PRN but u know. I didn't know there was no video, save the live version.
A quick research shows that Bob Ludwig uses EgglestonWorks Ivy Signature monitors-which he took part developing with EgglestonWorks. Around 55,000 euro each. But hey, they go down do 13 Hz according to specs. Something for the bassheads to drool for.
I find some master engineers prefer using "hifi" speakers instead of active monitors. I believe the EgglestonWorks speakers e.g. are probed to the high end consumer market. (Hifi market being a completely-yet very interesting-discussion to have on another forum I guess...
Wow Corner Liston! Thanks ever so much for your amazing comment, incredible information and insight!!
Regarding monitors, I know you have said not to use generic HiFi speakers, and in general I agree.
But what about old "good" speakers like, (just 1 example), Kef reference 104 ab's ?
I know they were used in some (maybe smaller) studios in the UK back in the day (1970's -80's), along with old Tannoy's and Heybrook's.
A re-cap is usually all they'd need to get back to near enough factory spec.
The drive units are usually still fine after nearly 50 years ! (IF they've been looked after).
Some of those old REAL High Fidelity speakers were rather accurate, especially the Reference ones.
They were designed not to add or remove anything to/from the sound source.
Coupled with a 50 watt per channel amp, would be ok I think, if you're sensible at home ?
Would a pair of modern lower priced, powered 5" or 6" monitors really be better (especially the low end without a sub) ?
Sorry, I'm just an old fart, tightwad, who'd rather recycle / re-purpose if possible.
I don't want to open a can of worms, I'm just interested in your opinion.
For the younger generation just getting started, I'd say stick with Warren's Advice, get powered monitors, A) it's easier, and B) you get a warranty.
My question is more of an older guy's curiosity thing.
High pass on drum overheads?
Hey, your hair is just fine. I cut mine every six months like a true hair farmer. Keep doin what doin! Appreciate your "realness". Is that a word? Have great wknd my friend!
You are too kind! haha! Hair Farmer!
Huub83 Drums haha! Like minds. When I do cut my hair I update my profile pic.
I get sheered every spring, like a sheep. I let my hair grow pretty long to keep my head warm in the winter, and then cut it really, really, short come baseball season. I let it grow and grow through the winter and then repeat the process.
Haha update your profile pic!!
Haha every Spring sounds good to me!!
I have never seen a B&W speaker in a music studio but many use them for mastering. Why?
The recording studio I assured in for a few years has a pair of B&W’s that they use for mixing and mastering in one of there rooms. The B&W’s sound amazing and are very detailed Hifi speakers.
Whats the deal with something like the Shure A15HP ? no one dose videos on them....
Hallo Warren, i like to Know, how Jaco Pastorius has record his Old Fender Jazz speziell on Joni Mitchell Sessions
Well now I'm intrigued, and a little distracted. 🕵️♀️ You guys and your hair talk. Makes me remember my man. 😊 Then I just can't think of anything else.
Audrey Sims hahaha I don’t care about my hair! Haha that’s the point! It’s a recording show, not a hair show! Hahaha
Only rockers and great scientist have crazy hair , rock on warren .
Awesome FAQ’s 😎 it’s really very simple. Gentle High Pass is your friend. If you don’t understand that you ain’t a mixing engineer. Sure, you won’t need to high pass everything but if you have a lot going on, high passing clears up the low end and creates room for the Kick & Bass. If you have read this, join Produce Like A Pro Academy to learn properly. I have 😎
Please ignore the dumb comments, you are wasting your time giving them what they want... a reaction. your time is more important than that. thank you for all the great tips and techniques.
can you master on auratones?
I have a question (and it isn't about your hair or a vaguely sexual pun). Could there be a potential fix, in these newfangled "bone-conduction" headphones, to the age-old conundrum of vocalists having to either track with headphones that make it hard to hear themselves, or with monitors that make for a lot of bleed into the vocal tracks? Basically, these headphones go on your cheekbones or the bones behind your ears, transmitting the sound to your eardrums without blocking your ears the way regular headphones do. They are marketed as a safety thing for people who operate forklifts, or as a convenience for people work in busy offices where they need to hear stuff, and most are bluetooth, but I think panasonic makes a wired set for remarkably cheap, cheap enough that I'd get a pair exclusively for that application if it would work. Thoughts?
Steve Jones Professionals album is a prime example of clashing phase.. can't listen arrghh. Now THAT is in prime need of a remaster
On the old stuff I had to make the sounds
If abraham lincoln and elvis presley had a a kid it would be you lol, good video btw
Nice tips! ps. Looks a bit like a "punk rock hair style", I like it!
Hi Knobsandsound haha yes, indeed!
Adam Faith man!
I love Adam Faith!
Lol at the intro!
garret765 Hairtastic!!
i love your hair
comment @ 6:12 is the best!!!
That's what I have been doing volume automation and playing with velocity, remember I am programming it like Dan the Automator. All the tracks where only meant as a sketch pad..I posted some, and they become quite popular with some thirsty hombres. Yes they where all copyrighted and the took anyway. Now I am in music therapy.
DAVID TENANT
Wow! I'll take Dr Who any day of the week! Huge fan!! Thanks Richard!
King 👑 Huart
Haha!
Richard Boateng you are far too kind my friend!! You are a huge part of our community!!
Great Video. Today I'm among the guys who comments your hair. You're a lucky guy. On my head there are strange things going on. My hair has started a competition. It's about getting grey or going bald and I fear the bald fraction is going to win. So, regardlessly what the blokes say 'bout you hair, at least you've got some. ;-)
Egglestonworks Ivy's I think about $100k.
start 1:37
Warren, old chum. Please try not to be insecure about your physical appearance as you need not be - you always look great and in top shape!
hi warren, sorry not been able to watch this cool vid yet but I thought you might be interested in a new plugin by hornet plugins ,its called the thirty one auto eq, you put it on the mix bus , please check it out if you can its fantastic and definitely worth a shout out. be well friend and I hope to watch this later , thanks again and i really appreciate the course, one day when money is not so tight your academy is on my list to join if you don't mind having me. all the best, Darren Ross.
And a bit of Timothy Olyphant.... may have spelled that wrong.
15:32 Crazy Frog ;-)
Yup synth issues. Solana, and semv
But they are cool
how do you keep your concentration level up for twelve to fifteen hours a day??? I am totally burnt out after eight hours of my day job and I am younger than you. And I don’t hate my job.
Haha I LOVE what I do! Plus I have to feed my wife and kids and pay the mortgage! Haha
That was my falsetto
your hair is Rock purity
its rock and roll man who cares lol hair what people really care about, Warren is just as cool in person great guy thanks for giving back brother.
Everyone said 47 best singers mic so... Giving it a shot.
Give your children a music education world, I would have been in the hall of fame. I use to hit every note Howard Hewitt could do.
Yes I am in the box dam it don't judge me,lol
I hope my hair is still that good when I'm your age! forget those haters. Their mothers didn't hug them enough as children.
Hey, you have nice hair. Just be happy to have some!💂😌
Haha thanks Sidney! Yes, happy I still have some too! Thanks for your wonderful comment!