7 Mixing Techniques That F*CK New Producers & Mixing Engineers
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Hello, I'm Nicholas Di Lorenzo, Studio Owner, Mixing and Mastering engineer at Panorama Studios.
I'm an Italian-Australian born and raised in Melbourne. I've been a creative professional for 10 years managing some pretty awesome projects for artists, labels and producers all around the globe.
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I used to scoop low mids excessively and also boost way too much top end. I ended up with mixes where you could hear everything very clearly but it all sounded thin and harsh. As I've advanced, my mixes are getting warmer and darker. It's a balance, however. Now I sometimes find that I've gone too far in the opposite direction.
That is exactly how to find balance! :)
Cutting the low mids and mono'ing the bass from the master are definitely in my top ten.
Wtf
@@mirkomarkovic3438 Thoughts, concerns?
Great stuff!! 😁
De-ess reverbs
Setting attack for vocals by turning down the volume on the interface to a whisper
Not enough saturation
Not enough compression
Using exclusively HPF instead of cutting with low shelves
Great tips, can you explain point 2?
@@OlympusOdysseus basically, when u turn down the volume of ur interface, and listen to what the compression is doing when adjusting the attack and release times, it is SO easy to hear what the fuck is going on...
Thx for the video, all tips very welcome as we continue our search for the perfect mix
Glad you enjoyed it My pleasure!
This is more a tip for producers/electronic music artists (but could be very handy in the mix as well), and tieing perfectly into what you say about using de-essing on vocal or other harmonic exciters. When using aggressive distortion/saturation on bass or synth lines, you can also use a de-esser on these to tame the harsh area of the added distortion/saturation just in the same way you would use it for vocal saturation, and it works REALLY well, giving super buttery smooth top end, on an otherwise gnarly distorted synth/bass, without loosing any of that low-mid or low end crunchy growl.
You will probably have to tune the de-esser a bit differently than for vocals, so it helps if you use a de-esser where you can change the band at which it is applying de-essing (harshness is often around 7k for distorted synths, but not always).
Definitely; that's a pretty neat-trick!
Soothe = perfect for this!
All true. Great job, thank you, sir!
Very welcome
So you said your (ALL) regions are gain staged to -6db as the channel strip responds well to that signal level, should i assume you then trim to taste? (my thought process behind this is that trims are output and in most cases are independent of the input. So when you trim the signal it would still retain any color or mojo gained from the input stage) I've never really thought of it like that with channel strips but i do it with tape emulations linking the record level and the playback level then trimming to taste. I'm gunna try this today.
Using a steep highpass just below the kick and bass fundamentals is one i see everybody doing
Yes, I need an assistant 🙂 (or at least a check sheet)
That tip about hitting the SSL channel strip with the right amount of Peak level is Golden! I wish I known that when I was starting out 🥲 I watched a Tom Lord Alge tutorial and I think he said the same for his SSL G Console. It seems that -6 is the sweet spot for SSL style plugins especially for drums. As for me, I use Acustica stuff so I have to go lower at -12 peak level.
Can somebody explain what peak sub level I could use for club friendly tracks? Or should I just reference @-6dBFS and use that as my target?
Can you do a full video on tip number 4 sometime?
Of course!
Is there a faster way of finding the true peak value in Ableton- I usually play the clip and listen all the way through?
Not sure!
I like to cut mid lows on a lot of instruments cause many do sound muddy there. But then i will have lofi instruments that have focus in the low mid range and they fill up the space perfectly for a full and powerful mix
Fair enough!
From my limited experience, it's definitely situational. Sometimes, I will cut what is necessary there, and then if I find the entire song is lacking the low mids, then I'll boost it in the master. Take that with a grain of salt though, as I'm still learning.
If anyone has objections to that, please speak up because I'd like to learn where I can improve, in the groove, dude.
Salud!
@@nacnudselrahc420
The issue ur running into, when adding those frequencies on the master, is that ur adding them to every instrument. Which will cause resonances and many other issues . The best way is to make sure that only the right instruments where cut down there. It’s great to boost things on the master - just to see what the mix is lacking, then going into the mix and fix it. I hope this was helpful :) all the best to you
Absolutely. You should only do subtle attenuation and boosting on a master@@Prodbykahlert
@@nacnudselrahc420 What V8 said, plus:
Try not to make too many timbre/eq decisions in solo. Often times those tones that sound horrible in solo are what give something its niche in the mix.
Hi my audio interface records at 48Khz but i have only 44.1khz intrumentals, should i record my vocals at 44.1khz too? Or should i upsample the instrumentals to 48khz? And if i upsampled them it would change the sound and make it faster or something?
Yes, record at 44.1 khz the vocals and then just ginish everything at 44.1khz
For tip 5, are you saying that you will process your individual channel a certain way, and then you'll make any changes a client asks for on a parallel track?
No I will process from the get go on an individual track (More for heavy based processing / fx)
I listen to the charts a lot and i must say you have that top 40 sound thats how the songs sound to me like i'm listening to the charts
Thanks man! I appreciate it! :)
@@panorama_mastering #blessings i'm learning a lot of things i actually wish i knew from you so blessup!!!
Why do you hit your analog emulations at -6?
0vu equals -18 not -6 so why don't you hit them at 0vu?
If I hit my analog chain at -6 they would distort, so how did you come to this conclusion?
Plugin-doctor and set-up my SSL channel strips in there and figured at the HOTTEST when a signal peaks at -6dBFS it's introducing as much harmonics and sharing the dynamics as far as I'd like it to!
@@panorama_mastering ok makes sense. I use Console 1 so you can just turn up the drive until it saturates a certain way. Would the THD knob on the bx SSL4000E do the same thing?
if you could make your template also in studio one i would buy it asap
I wish I knew how to use studio one! P
Nr. 2, 3 and 7 is so important. You hear fake YT producer/mixers say you always have to remove all the low end on everything to give room for the bass. No, that's not how great records sounds like. They sounds full in the low mid, there's where the energy is. Same with the drums, they should have impact, they should sound solid. You get that from the low frequencies. I hate that harsh vocal saturation everyone started to use after Drake. It sounds so harsh. I get it if you have a dense beat and you need those upper frequencies to make the vocal pop, but I'll hear it on lots of beats where there's lots of space for the vocal. You never hear it on older records though
Where can we get that “Dear future mix Assistant” video ? 👀
Dear Future Mixing Assistant; Here’s How I Set Up My Mixing Sessions!
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@@panorama_mastering thanks m8
im not going to lie i had to stop cutting the lows alot. Now i just try to scoop around it or massage it lol
a low shelf can usually do the trick if it's too excessive;
thank you!!! @@panorama_mastering
Instead of using aggressive deessing to balance out the saturation on vocals, just manually deess for a much better result.
What's the song? Like it.
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I really feel like I know nothing when I see your videos 😜
Would you be able to give an opinion on a track I did in terms of mastering and mixing? :) palllleeeaaaasseee
Sure thing! Ping it through via email!
I do master before I mix.
So 9 equals 7? :) =]
I scrapped 2 in the edit.... smh...
@@panorama_mastering Happens to the best of us, mate 😉
babe wake up
I'm awake. Thank you!
I wish I had an assistant to do all this stuff. My mixes would sound a lot better. LOL
HA ! :) It helps a bunch!
I must say my girlfriend loves when it's very wet, and i usually keep adding loads of it
thanks for sharing!
let me tell you something ab this whole industry learn every possible daamn thing and do whatever the fuck to make your stuff sound good and fuck the rules but don't say that after you've learned every god daamn detail
Worst timestamps ever 😢
Who else likes to add noise to their mixes? 🤣
nice flex bro, we all have an assistants to do that for us, maybe next time get him to do the videos since he is doing the work.
Great idea!