5 Quick EQ Mixing Tricks - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2018
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1.Bass Guitar EQ Multiple sources differently to create one great sound.
i. With the first source, the DI, control lows and highs with EQ filters- Using a stock plugin, set around 170-200Hz, and everything above that is low passed away. After that is another EQ, which is a less than 60Hz (this can drop lower to 40hz) and gently sloping, controlling the low end, giving room for the Kick Drum.
ii. With the Bass Amp High Pass at the same point around 170-200hz allowing the high end of the Bass Amp to give the sound personality.
iii. You can also duplicate the Bass Amp and follow the same steps above but also use to add additional Saturation or Distortion to help it glue together with the guitars.
2.Brighten Electric Guitar and Controlling Excessive High End 8:37
3.Creating a great Kick Sound Using Multiple Mics 11:41
4.Carve out Low Mids and high pass Low End from Room Mics to create room for your Kick 14:41
5.High and Low Pass your reverb Sends 17:36
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Hi Friends, thanks ever so much for all of your incredible support! I love being able to share ideas with you! You all give me such great insight into what you're working on and how you create music. We are so blessed to have such an amazing community here! I hope you enjoy these EQ tips and please share some of your own!
Warren you are a crazy mad scientist! That kick drum trick was a work of pure genius!! The "all in" drum section you showed (kick with the rest of the kit) reminded me of the drum sound on "I am the resurrection" by the stone roses
Hi Tyson, thanks ever so much! I'm so glad to be able to help! Agreed finding those ugly sounds helps massively!
Aw shucks that's very kind of you The Capsicum Kid!! I love the Stone Roses! Amazing band!
Amazing video Warren! So informative!
Marvellous Info !! Lol
Man now that we got Warren we must have a "Automatic Like" button man
Warren, I wanted to personally thank you for taking time out of your busy day and talking with my studio recording class last week. I'm one of the students enrolled in the recording arts program at Butte College. I really learned a lot of valuable tips as well as some insight into what I should expect being an engineer. You're a genuine, funny, transparent and overall awesome guy! There needs to be more people like you in the industry! Cheers 🍺
Wow! Thank you ever so much! That really means a lot! I started Produce Like A Pro to give back and help people, I am so glad to be able to do that and getting a message like this makes my day!!! Thank you ever so much!
Your how to mix low end video literally made my mixes sound so much better. Thank you for dispelling all the high passing myths because so many of us don't know any better.
Wow!! Thanks ever so much!!
This video is great for people who like to watch videos.
Hahaha yes, indeed!!
Warren you're a mad man...don't you ever change.
Thanks ever so much Brad! You Rock! I don't intend my friend!
I could never thank you enough for all the information you give us all, but Thank you sir. I hope you are doing marvelously well yourself.
Wow! Thanks ever so much Brad! You are too kind my friend!
NO RULES!If it sounds good, it IS GOOD, so leave it BE!!!!
Exactly my friend!!
That guitar got life when you put the Eq back. Great tips as allways.
Thanks ever so much!!
Warren, these 5 quick tricks series are amazing. Thank you for sharing your insight with us and such an easy to understand way! legend
Jay, you are very kind my friend!! I am so glad it came accrues ok! Haha
Amazing tips! I can't believe how many of these you have!!!!
Thanks ever so much Matthew! You Rock!
Damn, your material is amazing. You do your channel name justice. This is the stuff I’ve always looked for but couldn’t find. Until now that is...
You're very kind my friend!! Please check out the website as well if you can www.producelikeapro.com
Produce Like A Pro Thanks, I will!
Thanks very much!!
That de-essing tip is golden! Never thought of that and I can think of a ton of places I could have used it.
Cheers!
Thanks ever s much Justin! You Rock!!
@@Producelikeapro De-essing tip is helpful for me too!!Thank you Warren!
@@Producelikeapro For better control / precision, a dynamic EQ like TDR Nova is great.
Warren, I never miss one of your presentation. I'm listening to this one from Sarasota Memorial Hospital ER with my buddy Wyatt Earp Kurtz
My Service K-9. Hope to be out of here soon. But this presentation come at a good time. I learn and it's a distraction of being in the ER
Hi Ricky, I wish you and Wyatt all the best and a speedy recovery! Get well soon!!
What I took away from this is "high-pass and low pass all of your low end elements". I love your videos sir. Can't wait to see more.
J Bonez51 thanks for the marvellous comment! Although there’s definitely a lot more than that! Haha thanks for support!! I really appreciate it!!
My brain will have to soak this in with a few more listens. ☺️
Hi Audrey, please download the cheat sheet and come back and watch the video!!
Well I tried to download on my iphone and did not get the “save to” dialogue. It may have downloaded into mysterious place in the iphone that I can’t get to, but I will never know. Usually I save things to USB Disk Pro app in the iphone. I checked there for unknown items and found a copy of the “Thank you” page but that was it. I checked the new ios 11 “files” app, but was not in there either. I had gone to the bitly link from within you tube. It’s a puzzle. 😊
Ah yes, ye old where did it go into my iPhone trick! Haha I know that one! God bless it! Haha When you get it use to read against the video, I wrote while watching the video to try and clarify my ramblings! Hahaha
Get your high pass on!
Haha thanks Dave!
U r the best in this area of mixing and mastering..... #respect
That is extremely kind of you!!
For someone who's done mixing for years, I don't always learn new techniques from these videos, but I do learn different ways to do them or gain more confidence in the fact that professionals use similar techniques to my own. Great video and thanks for what you do!
That really means a lot Rob! I agree! I'm not an expert, just trying to remind us and point people in new directions! Thanks for your wonderful comment!
I'm surprised all the record companies don't try to have you lynched for giving away all their secrets! The only difference I would make in your channel is to be able to watch you working in FL Studio. I know, it'll never happen, industry standard and all. FL 20 is excellent though I must say, and the lifetime free updates means I'll never likely switch. But I digress. Excellent job my dude! Keep it up!
The bass guitar eq tip can be heard clearly on car speakers. Thanks for the tip!
Again on car speakers the kick drum tips are clearly heard. Other Warren tips on use of subwoofer with monitors. Beginning to understand what he means: need to hear low end to check it. Thanks !
That’s amazing to hear
@@bocook6167 wow! Thanks ever so much
I feel like I find myself high passing a lot of my tracks at around 100 and cutting at around 400 like 2db, this video made me feel a little better about doing that
HI Chris, yes, 80-100 on a lot of things is very prevalent! Your Mastering Engineer will thank you! You can use a gentle slope of 6db per octave, no need to be super aggressive, it's just about creating room for the bottom end to breath!
You're a recording genius...thanks for these invaluable EQing tips.
Thanks ever so much Steve!!
Thank YOU for clearing up the High Pass BS out there!
Thanks Apple! I know I've been getting so many emails from people who are confused, so I hope we can help people out and make great music!
This is absolutely brilliant and then at 9:33 "in solo that is the worst sounding schnizzle I've ever heard in my entire life" - I choked on my drink laughing at that. You should have double the subscribers, this is gold dust
Haha thanks ever so much! Well, it's ok I don;t mind owning up to something not being as good as it should! Haha Glad it made you laugh!
Very impressive, we missed you😊
Thanks very much AMB!! You Rock!
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warren you are hitting it out of the park with this video!! A M A Z I N G !!!
Thanks ever so much Harmony!
Warren has just proven with this video why you shouldn't obsess over what your favorite artist gear is or what gear was used to record the music. The mixing and manipulation of the individual instruments just to get the song to work, is proof that what was recorded in..is often what's not being mastered out.
dimllc definitely! There’s a lot more to it than just copying! We can all create our own sound and reinforce our individuality with our own tools!
Nobody get that good sound after this type of heavy processing on kick. But you nailed that. Sounds good, its good.
You are so excited about your EQ.
Haha YES I am!!
You should have used that comment on his "5 ways to use an enxciter" video lol
I'm excited too🤗! This is awesome
that EQ on reverb trick is fantastic, what a difference that makes
Thanks ever so much
4:38 On one hand, correlation vs. causation ;) And on the other hand, the main thing is, phase cancellations and whatever other comb-filtering effects might happen, are far less noticeable / objectionable, the higher you go in frequency. In the low end, given the longer wavelengths, even small delays (ie. phase misalignments) can and do lead to quite obvious / dramatic effects.
Extremely well put Khron!! I hope everyone gets to read this! Thanks for this extremely well written and to the point paragraph!! Got to be my favourite thing you've posted! I'll quote you!
thanks Khron !! great explanation !!
Flattery will get you nowhere! ;D Jokes aside, while i appreciate your words, i'm only quoting facts (and as you should know by now, i'm a bit of a nitpicker when it comes to technical things - physics and its effects qualify, of course).
That being said, things like these could easily be shown / demonstrated with a couple signal generator plugins, and a spectrum analyzer one (with a peak hold function).
I know you are quoting facts my friend! It's just there's so much bad information out there confusing people so it's wonderful to see people giving great info!! Please feel free to post this everywhere!!
What a great video! Thank you for your awesome generosity of spirit. I'm 50, a fairly experienced bedroom producer and I learnt something from this. That doesn't happen every day👍
I've been using the bass eq since I first saw you do it. I usually just have an amped signal, so I duplicate and send the high end through a virtual amp. I'm finding the bottom end doesn't need so much compression. It's totally sorted my bass sound out. Thanks!
Thanks ever so much! I’m glad to be able to help
The day I learned a about the famous abbey road reverb trick was a revelation - using reverb has never been easier :) I usually even put some EQ after the reverb to further tame low mids or annoying hi end.
Thanks for the reminder with the lo cuts and the bass trick, gotta practice that some more!
I am still looking for approaches to mix upright bass, especially with (picked) acoustic guitars, they seem to get in the way of each other a lot!
You're very welcome Jan Minor! Agreed! That trick is wonderful!
Yes, there are multiple tricks for mixing low end on Stand Up Basses!
amazing advice warren !! showing us how to use high passing properly is God send !! this really helps cut through the dis information out there !!
You're very welcome Darlene! I'm so glad to be able to help! Yes, too much misinformation unfortunately! Mastering Engineers have been noticing the problem the most, so hopefully we can help people make better music!
Hey Warren, You're a great guitarist! Love the intro to the Produce Like A Pro show.
Aw shucks thanks ever so much Glenn! You are very kind! I started on guitar! That's what I love to do!
What do you think of EQing on Garage Band?
I haven't done much on Garageband, but what I have done is easy to do!
Love tip #3. This is one of the reasons I love the API, SSL, etc. emulations, because you don't have a visual to deter you from using odd or extreme EQ if it sounds great.
samsound exactly! Then there’s none of those self proclaimed ‘experts’ telling you can’t do it because it ‘looks’ wrong!
Very nice! Brighten, then DeEss!!! I forgot all about this technique... thanks for refreshing my memory on that!
Yes, I love that trick!!
The trick on equalizing 2 areas from the bass was a game changer for me. I have a small studio; I do not have a tube amp for a bass, nor I ever recorded more than one track on the bass, coming from de DI, but I decided to give it a try using my Acoustic practice bass amp with a SM57. Now my bottom end is WAY clearer and the bass more present. Thank you, Warren!
That deesser trick is fabulous!
Many thanks Warren! When I first heard you mention this technique for bass, I tried it immediately with an old mix and it knocked my socks off as I had no idea how muddy my low end was prior to. I went back and applied to all of my old mixes and it's a standard template for my new works. Your information is invaluable and because of your resume, I take you and your advice more seriously than ANYONE on UA-cam.
You're the man Warren. I've been dealing with tricky low end phase issues. This is just the video I needed!
Jon Acord fantastic!! Thanks very much!! Glad to be able to help!
Dear Warren, thank you so much for this amazing video.
You made my mind explode because, I’ve had some of the same problems you actually cleared in this video.
You have no idea how happy I got when i went back in my mix and did some of these tricks...
Omg what a difference.
Thank you so much!
I wish you the Best.
Thomas
Thanks ever so much Thomas! I really appreciate it! I am so glad to be able to help!
Great points Warren! I will focus on those.
Thanks ever so much!
one of the most helpful videos online regarding this subject. i feel like i just took a master class. thanks for posting!
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it
Another slam-dunk video
Thanks ever so much Paul!! You Rock!
Bookmarking this video, it's the kind of resource that helps maintain confidence in my EQ decisions. Warren, thank you lots from Atlanta, GA
Thanks ever so much Eddy! I am so glad to be able to help!!
Great video Warren! 🎶🎸🎧
Thank you ever so much my friend!!
This is new to me. I learned a lot here. Thanks.
Thanks very much Tony! Glad to be able to help!
Very interesting as always, Warren!
Thanks ever so much!!
Fantastic. This 5 tricks series are very usefull and handy
Hi Alejandro del río thanks ever so much! So glad to be able to help!!
im so blessed with this video wow warren
Thank you ever so much Eugene!
Hey Warren, watching your videos is like going to class in an audio engineering school. Thanks ever so much sir for lessons, I know each one of your lessons is worth its weight in Gold. Thanks a ton again, I've improved by miles since I started watching your vids
AW shucks thanks ever so much Kiran! I really appreciate your kind words!! I am so glad to be able to help!!
Absolutely great advice!
Thanks ever so much John!!
A very important video on eq . Thanks Warren!
Hi Warren, this is one of the best "mixing tips videos" I ever saw. Thank you so much. Many greetings from Germany !
STOFFEL AMP aw shucks you rock!!
So one mixing trick I learned. Well, let's start at the beginning. When I first started mixing, my mixes were awful. Just stuff was not good and I was really troubled as to why. I was a musician but mixing seemed like a totally different discipline. Well I logged into a mixing group on Facebook and asked them for advice and one producer told me "use your ears". Since then my mixes got MUCH better. Almost instantly. Things just... clicked.
Hi Jordan, yes, indeed! Trust your ears! It's marvellous advice!
Warren, you are the man! I’m a huge fan and admirer of your work, as well as Tim Palmer. Any chance of having him on your show soon?😊.
Marvin Espinoza aw shucks thanks ever so much!!
De-essers are such a useful tool. Great on splashy/tinny cymbals in drum overheads, too.
Absolutely
Thanks so much Warren - your generosity in sharing this incredible information is greatly appreciated. You're a top class teacher and clearly an all round heck of a guy! Love your bright energy. Thanks again, you're really helping so many of us.
Thanks ever so much Allan! That's very kind of you to say my friend! I'm so glad to be able to help!
Thanks again Warren. As ever, amazing videos. The only thing confusing the hell out of me is ,on tons of videos I see talk about gain staging, plug ins works best at -18 or whatever ,and then I watch videos from professionals of your caliber and I see - 3 signal in EQ ,or many, many times, plug ins going in red .Not sure what to trust . I know there are no rules ,just trying to wrap my head around basic stuff like that.
Grupa ToTaL' yes!! There is so much emphasis on things that don’t matter, especially how things look, not how things sound!! Trust your ears!!
So useful, majorly helpful information, thanks! 👏🏾👍🏾
Thanks ever so much
I used the bass technique yesterday. Love it.
Fantastic Justin!!
Hi try doing a blend of bass tracks say two one clean, punchy, thick, maybe a touch of chorus, the other a littke clanky growly. Nicely balanced will impress you but get the right sound going in, so they come out like they went in, like Chris Squire did on many songs.
I love watching these mixing tutorials where there's loads of boosting going on : ) One of the first things I "learned" years and years ago was "Never boost, only cut" and it's taken me a long time to get past that. Watching people like yourself do it with great results is gives me the confidence to experiment and break rules that I picked up at the beginning.
Tim Palmer from Tin Machine... " Tin Machine, Tin Machine, take me anywhere, somewhere without alcohol and goons with muddy hair..." Brilliant !
Fantastic advice! I'd love to see a whole video just around EQing effects.
Thanks ever so much Derek!
This really answered my question from last week thank you
Warren, thanks so much for your detailed presentations, and kudos to you for your professionalism when interviewing others. You're the man!
Wow! Thanks ever so much
Haha love your voice Warren :) thanks for the good contents
Aw shucks thanks ever so much Enam!!
As a newbie, there are so much to learn. Thanks for the excellent coaching. :)
Awesome video! I really like this Schnizzle
Thanks ever so much! So glad go be able to help!!
This is so Very useful. Especially the first one for me. Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks ever so much greengo!
Fab Warren, another great video to help us all. Nice one my friend from Scott in Essex.
Thanks Sala in Essex! I really appreciate it!
Fabolous video Warren You are an exxelent and super inspiring Teacher;)
jorgen landhaug thanks very much!
Nice clarification on phase and high-passing. And de-essing guitars saved my skin a couple of times in the past, it's great that you shared this trick! Thanks Warren!
noisesoundtonevibe thanks ever so much! I’m glad to be able to happy!!
I tried. It Worksheet phänomenal.Thank you very much.
Thanks ever so much!!
Great advice, thank you Warren!
Ynnoxmusic thanks ever so much!! Glad to be able to help!
The bass and kick tricks, of splitting the sounds to avoid phase cancellation, will be super handy - will try out with a DnB track I'm working on with immense bass that is getting slightly muddied in mix. Great that a lot of this can apply to all types of music, not just rock! Thank you!
ErisianLib thanks very much! I’m so glad to be able to help!
Brilliant tips, thanks for the video!
This is so helpful. Thank you!
So good thank you! Already my bass sound is tighter, stronger and stays out of the way at the same time.
Superb tips! Very good examples. Many thanks!
Amazing! Thank you very much!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
You're very welcome Les!
Great video Warren...very informative skill sets.
Awesome and very useful video on EQ tips! Thank you!
bueena pulento, muchas gracias!
Awesome trick, thanks man!
This channel is making my mixes instantly better. Great stuff!
Really cool info! Never thought of using a deesser on guitar and utilizing the pass filters in such a strategic way. Just found your videos and can’t wait to watch more. Thanks!
Thanks for this video!
Warren, this was super useful and easily understood information. Thanks very much. :)
hi warren ,thanks for a great video .
Darren Ross you’re very welcome!!
This is a gold mine! Thanks a lot for your videos and tips&tricks :)
All of your videos are amazing!
So many good tips all the time! every video I learn at least 1 new neat trick to help my mixes!
Great job again!
You're very welcome Edward!! So glad to be able to help!!
I actually do have a question, if you don't mind me asking:
I do understand why a lot of people do use the de-esser to control the high end, and everyone says the same thing, that it is essentially a high frequency multi-band compressor. The idea behind is is pretty clear.
What I don't fully understand, is why not use just a multi-band compressor? Just because of the ease of use and knowing what the de-esser is doing, or do you think it does sound different from other multi-band compressors like C4, PRO-MB, etc?
Hi Edward, I find the DeEsser is a finely pointed high frequency multi band compressor, with a C4 etc you can vary the width of the Frequencies selected, so it might be more useful in that circumstance where you have multiple high end issues!
Thanks, Warren! Great lesson again!
This is so needed. I knew pro mixes had a different philosophy and now i at least understand a little more. i sure would love an opportunity for live q&a with you sometime, Warren. I’m sure most of us would agree on that. How can i get connected like that? TH
You are simply amazing..
Much thanks to you, Warren.
those tips are something I've been doing in my mixes for a while, and I'm aware I learned them all from your previous videos. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Haha Yes!! A Douglas Adams quote!! You win the internet today!! You Rock!!