I don't see where all the hate comes from. EZMix2 can be an invaluable tool regardless of what your recording needs are. I'm self-recording a metal EP right now, and while I definitely prefer all analog signals, for an amateur recording engineer like myself, getting a punchy and beefy metal tone that I'm 100% satisfied with takes A LOT of hard work. Metal is not like hard rock where you can stick a single SM57 in front of a Vintage 30 and be done with it. If you want to do metal guitar recording right, you need to throw 2~4 mics at a 4x12 simply to get everything you hear from it. In some cases this just isn't possible for most people, especially since you need to be recording at volumes that will "disturb the peace". With EZMix2, you can simply browse a library of tones that get you close to what you want... and then if you don't like it... it won't kill your tracks to add some additional EQ to get it "right". If it's properly mixed and all your other tracks sound good too, who cares at the end of the day if it gets your head banging and raises your blood pressure like good metal should?
Oh, and for those of you that want a solid amp-less direct-in recording option that is still all-analog: I recommend the new Yamaha THRs or use an ADA GCS-3 Cabinet Emulator with your favorite distortion pedal. Both will make you happy.
Agreed.. it is a solid mix and the guitars sound big and detailed enough. The lead guitar wasn't the best but hell, with some tweaking I bet i could find a sound i liked.
I personally bought this because of Ola, and I can say that if your recordings being DI are channeled strong with a decent preamp, you can match the sound EXACTLY as shown, but it all starts with a decent setup. Take Ola's word, he knows what real men use.
You're right bro :) I've finished a recording and a mixing course, but still sometimes I just don't have time to fiddle around and experiment with mixing, I just put these EZMix plugins and have a decent sound in (really) 5 minutes. Thanks, Toontrack! (And also thanks for EZDrummer, my best friend drummer for 5 years :D)
@jaredbroider You're welcome. Another solution is to plug straight in and run insert an amp sim, but this is only advisable if you have next to no latency when it plays back the affected sound. The reason I say mixer instead of DAW is because most studios I use have the inputs running into a big console to record to the DAW.
I used the same presets on the guitar, but mine sounds like shit. im using a 2014 epiphone les paul custom pro into a focusrite scarlet solo into pro tools, using ez mix. Can anyone help me?
Sounding like shit could mean a lot of things, but I'm going to guess your pickups probably aren't as nice as the ones that Ola is using (assuming you're using the Epiphone's stock pickups and that you are going for a similar metal sound).
If you're asking about EZMix expansions specifically, it looks like he doesn't have anything besides EZMix 1 and EZMix 2. You can tell by the far right column with the label "Preset Packs" when he pulls the EZMix 2 screen up.
@jaredbroider Yes, the DAW. Let's put it this way. If you were to record your guitar part straight into the DAW completely clean without amp whatsoever and then applied the sims later, it would sound bad. This is because you're playing changes under distortion, even on a subconscious level. The way reamping works is that you're plugged in to an amp for reference. That doesn't always get recorded. The completely dry guitar does though so you are technically right.
@itowedin Soon it's going to be 32bit sound standart (Audio DVD) and mixing for 32bit 192kHz quality will be difficult. So we all will listen to awesome music with awesome quality.
@jaredbroider No. That would be insanely messy. He would play through an amp as a reference but reamp a DI of the guitar into the mixer, so it records it unamped.
I didn't know 1800's prospectors wrote metal tunes. You left out a "consarnit" though. :) I bought this product. It's actually quite helpful for people who want to focus their time on writing and recording, rather than toiling with the rigors and frustrations of mixing. I was quite impressed with a lot of the presets in this thing. It's kind of drag that you only have at most two parameters to play with at any given time. But I guess that plays into the whole cutting down on decisions thing.
use a m-audio fast track or something like that :) works great. What I do is run it in through the fast track, process it with Logic and then use the headphones out to send it back to my amp. Means it pretty much bypasses my amp head!
you can add a stereo widener or enhancer in the group channel to make it more wide. Delete the track which is in the centre. Its unnecessary CPU usage.
I dont know why lot of people saying that these presets sound bad with their cheap guitar.I have a cheapest schecter basswood omen with duncan distortion on bridge and full shred on neck (weird combo i know) but i get pretty sick tones .I dont have di box even.guitar goes straight to my focusrite to reaper. If anyone wants to check I can post a song here.Or may be what i think is good is not actually that good or even pretty bad compared to standard tones.
You've already got quite a bit of stuff in Cubase (how much depending on what version) and you don't need anything to distort vocies or put effects on the bass. But EZ Mix seems to be a quite good and easy thing to use to get some nice sounds (haven't tried EZ Mix myself though).
I have enriched the sound of my drums with EZ mix beyond comparison with what I had before,guitars also have some cool distorsions but you'd have to tweak it a bit to get where you want to. I like the approach Ola took although it didn't work for because of the difference in equipment but EZ mix is certainly a tool that can,with a little patience and effort,help you with mixes ^^
@fearedse ...and it will be a great tool. Eventually as tools like this evolve on both the amateur and professional levels respectively, I'm worried about homogenization in heavy music. Not unlike what happened with electronic music with Reason and to some degree, Ableton. Like EZ Mix, both of those programs are great tools as well. I would rather have these tools than not have them, but it's totally ok to have these concerns and hope people use these tools in a forward thinking way.
Question...sorry if it`s a dumb one...So, you will need to record (bass /guitar) without any type of effects..meaning clean guitars, clean bass and then add the effects (say distortion) with EZ Mix...OR...record my guitars with my favorite distortion (mic cab amp) as usual???....sorry again..I`m fairly new to this cool stuff...and I would love to learn more
ola how do u make the guitars sound so wide, ive been trying using the tse 50 but i cant seem to get it to sound wide enough, 3 tracks 1l,1r 100% and 1 dead center
im getting a lot of hiss from this with palm muted chugs. im using high and low pass filters with eq, a noise gate and ez mix 2 misha presets. it might be my epiphone les paul special 2 pickups. im not sure. what do you guys think?
+InASpiralState Yes, that or your cable also depends on where you point your guitar. You will notice if you back away from electronics you get less hiss and you shouldn't need a noise gate and only eq out the low end on a guitar.
thanks for the reply dude! since i posted that comment i actually bought a seven string schecter and it sounds amazing. the hiss i encountered before was actually using too much gain and not enough noise reduction xD it took me a while but i figured it out, so everything is running smoothly now. thanks broski
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Please tell us what sd2 snare you´re using. Thanks!
hi ola when i use ezmix the distortion sound so far away in the mix and low is that because im using a cheap squier bullet or what? doesent sound that good and can't hear the guitars almost at all
+Mirko Burroni (I'm not Ola but) If you're using a single coil pickup with old strings on the bullet then probably yes, definitely try putting up the gain on the interface until its around -6dB average, and make sure you don't scoop the mids on the amp or in EQ, or the guitars will just become completely lost
Funes -kvn If it's DI guitar then yes. Plugging your guitar straight into a DI box will produce a clean sound only. That is the sound coming straight from the guitar.
you get a lot, but there are expansion packs like the metal guitar gods that give you even more options. i just got ezmix2 with the metal bundle(6 pack) and it's awesome! also, i think all of the presets he uses in this video come with the base ezmix2 if that helps you out. \m/
Im new too but I think that you create a new track in you're DAW and load EZmix and through EZmix pick you're tone which is all being run through youre DAW No separate windows. and just hit record and play.
I'm getting a lot of static in most of these presets, how do I handle this in EZMix 2? It's mostly on the distorted stuff. Clean is okay, very faint, but tolerable.
Sounds like your signal chain is dirty, it might be an issue of improper guitar/preamp grounding, ground loop or just a bad preamp/audio interface. Or maybe you have the misfortune of living close to a cell phone tower or have some other EM pollutant in your vicinity your gear is picking up.
avrilinblood well based off that statement, it could be two things. One, the guitar is going right into the computer and two, I live RIGHT next door to a substation. But my amp works fine.. So maybe I need something to plug it into before it goes into the computer
Robert Laughman "So maybe I need something to plug it into before it goes into the computer" - most definitely. I assumed you are using an audio interface with dedicated "instrument" e.g. high impedance input. Problem with guitar is it has very high output impedance, and if you plug that into a regular audio input (which is usually low impedance) you get huge signal drop and a hell of a noise. Get a cheap 2 channel USB audio interface, they all have inputs, suited to guitar pickups. Plus the come with low latency drivers.
Im a bit confused, does this mixer really contain all theese cool things used in the video? Im new to recording my music in cubase and looking for a bunch of tools like voice distortions and bass effects. This thing here looks like it has a lot of everything? The bass effect and voice distortion are on the "to buy" list so to speak. I allready use Guitar Rig, but this here neat tool seems to even contain some decent sound effects. Is it as awesome as it seems? :o
Do all those effects, distortions and amps come with EZ Mix? It looks like it's the only tool you need and no more amp simulation plugins. Is that correct? Thanks.
Aristowi You get many from ez mix even more from ex mix 2. you'll need to get the expansion packs like metal guitar God's or metal amps and so on.. check out toontrack.com"
OMG Ola's voice has changed a lot through these years
That’s just the almighty power of EZMix. Normally his voice is panned hard right. He EZMix’d it to the left this time and cut the lows.
The accent too...
Presets used:
Guitars: 51 DVM (EZMix 2)
Bass 1: Bass (EZMix 1)
Bass 2: 51 VH
Clean Guitars: Jazz Guitar Chorus (EZMix 2)
Lead Guitar: Lead Guitar (EZMix 2)
Vocals: Hard Metal Vocals (EZMIx 2)
Clean Vocals 1: Clear Up Vocals (EZMix 2)
Clean Vocals 2: Ambient Vocal (EZMix 1)
Drum: Drum Room 44% (EZMix 2)
Master: Master Limiter (EZMix 2)
@itowedin just see it as a great tool for people who is new to mixing and don't know ehere to start!
I don't see where all the hate comes from. EZMix2 can be an invaluable tool regardless of what your recording needs are. I'm self-recording a metal EP right now, and while I definitely prefer all analog signals, for an amateur recording engineer like myself, getting a punchy and beefy metal tone that I'm 100% satisfied with takes A LOT of hard work. Metal is not like hard rock where you can stick a single SM57 in front of a Vintage 30 and be done with it. If you want to do metal guitar recording right, you need to throw 2~4 mics at a 4x12 simply to get everything you hear from it. In some cases this just isn't possible for most people, especially since you need to be recording at volumes that will "disturb the peace". With EZMix2, you can simply browse a library of tones that get you close to what you want... and then if you don't like it... it won't kill your tracks to add some additional EQ to get it "right". If it's properly mixed and all your other tracks sound good too, who cares at the end of the day if it gets your head banging and raises your blood pressure like good metal should?
Oh, and for those of you that want a solid amp-less direct-in recording option that is still all-analog: I recommend the new Yamaha THRs or use an ADA GCS-3 Cabinet Emulator with your favorite distortion pedal. Both will make you happy.
Agreed.. it is a solid mix and the guitars sound big and detailed enough. The lead guitar wasn't the best but hell, with some tweaking I bet i could find a sound i liked.
Also, it's great for people like myself who have no drummer
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
I'm never going to master* izotope or any programs like that, so this is invaluable to me. *see what I did there...
I personally bought this because of Ola, and I can say that if your recordings being DI are channeled strong with a decent preamp, you can match the sound EXACTLY as shown, but it all starts with a decent setup. Take Ola's word, he knows what real men use.
You're right bro :) I've finished a recording and a mixing course, but still sometimes I just don't have time to fiddle around and experiment with mixing, I just put these EZMix plugins and have a decent sound in (really) 5 minutes. Thanks, Toontrack! (And also thanks for EZDrummer, my best friend drummer for 5 years :D)
Just got EZ Mix 2 recently and I have been impressed with the quality. This was a great example! You have earned a subscriber sir!
And i was disappointed. You got couple presets and almost no option for tweaking them
I usually just use other effects in my DAW to dial it in. Mainly the equalizer. @@mlody969
Is Matthew McConaughey from Dazed & Confused narrating?
Didn't know that mater was a producer :P
Ha. It IS Mater!
Why does the same guitar preset sound so solid state for me but so great here?
@josueatthebb just guitar -> interface (HiZ input)
This is the most amazing plugin ive ever seen!!!!
@spider041 Logic 9!
@BeyondtheEndMetal People who have watched all my videos have heard me talk... it's not mystery ;)
@renthal971 Easy... Find Scott Griggs on Facebook!
WooooooOOooo! That's was a mighty fine pickin' an-a mixin'!
@jaredbroider You're welcome. Another solution is to plug straight in and run insert an amp sim, but this is only advisable if you have next to no latency when it plays back the affected sound. The reason I say mixer instead of DAW is because most studios I use have the inputs running into a big console to record to the DAW.
i like ezmix so im excited to try number 2!
love your voice..you also convinced me to remix all of my old stuff
I used the same presets on the guitar, but mine sounds like shit. im using a 2014 epiphone les paul custom pro into a focusrite scarlet solo into pro tools, using ez mix. Can anyone help me?
Sounding like shit could mean a lot of things, but I'm going to guess your pickups probably aren't as nice as the ones that Ola is using (assuming you're using the Epiphone's stock pickups and that you are going for a similar metal sound).
try and use a high and low pass filter on your guitars. itll help
If you're asking about EZMix expansions specifically, it looks like he doesn't have anything besides EZMix 1 and EZMix 2. You can tell by the far right column with the label "Preset Packs" when he pulls the EZMix 2 screen up.
@jaredbroider Yes, the DAW. Let's put it this way. If you were to record your guitar part straight into the DAW completely clean without amp whatsoever and then applied the sims later, it would sound bad. This is because you're playing changes under distortion, even on a subconscious level. The way reamping works is that you're plugged in to an amp for reference. That doesn't always get recorded. The completely dry guitar does though so you are technically right.
Man I'm gonna get this when it comes out!
love it dude, nice track
@itowedin Soon it's going to be 32bit sound standart (Audio DVD) and mixing for 32bit 192kHz quality will be difficult.
So we all will listen to awesome music with awesome quality.
Good to see Matthew Mcconaughey still getting some work.
funniest and best tutorial of ezmix 2 ever!
@jaredbroider No. That would be insanely messy. He would play through an amp as a reference but reamp a DI of the guitar into the mixer, so it records it unamped.
yes you have to record it clean and then add the amp sim from ez track
I didn't know 1800's prospectors wrote metal tunes. You left out a "consarnit" though. :) I bought this product. It's actually quite helpful for people who want to focus their time on writing and recording, rather than toiling with the rigors and frustrations of mixing. I was quite impressed with a lot of the presets in this thing. It's kind of drag that you only have at most two parameters to play with at any given time. But I guess that plays into the whole cutting down on decisions thing.
His voice is madly hilarious!
This is absolutely insane!
Very nice, I'm impressed. Keep up the good work dude!
use a m-audio fast track or something like that :) works great. What I do is run it in through the fast track, process it with Logic and then use the headphones out to send it back to my amp. Means it pretty much bypasses my amp head!
@Gedesorbet21 :D
Raw guitar tracks sounded very harsh and digital in the begining but they sounded pretty good in the mexed end result. Great job.
hello, can you send me the template of the session just for the settings?
you can add a stereo widener or enhancer in the group channel to make it more wide. Delete the track which is in the centre. Its unnecessary CPU usage.
Can you zoom in when you open up a sub menu.
We can't see the setting or effects you're selecting.
I dont know why lot of people saying that these presets sound bad with their cheap guitar.I have a cheapest schecter basswood omen with duncan distortion on bridge and full shred on neck (weird combo i know) but i get pretty sick tones .I dont have di box even.guitar goes straight to my focusrite to reaper. If anyone wants to check I can post a song here.Or may be what i think is good is not actually that good or even pretty bad compared to standard tones.
dude i luv the sound of your voice hahahaha your awesome by the way! how do u record that clean?
miguel lopez "his voice" lol ok
haha.. How did you get Scott Griggs to do this?? haha.. he's awesome! Always got a kick out of his videos.
Best narrator ever!
Can anyone tell me if both volume levels for the bass tracks should be the same or should one be higher than the other
That's the best Scott Griggs impersonation I've ever heard
@spider041 He's using Logic Pro
that guy's voice is amazing haha! Any chance he's doing any voiceovers per request? does he have a website or anything? thx!
think he's with this feared band? anyway, i found his voice really entertaining too, really cracked me up haha
Nice job dude! I like your style \m/
You've already got quite a bit of stuff in Cubase (how much depending on what version) and you don't need anything to distort vocies or put effects on the bass. But EZ Mix seems to be a quite good and easy thing to use to get some nice sounds (haven't tried EZ Mix myself though).
EXMIX2 sounding awesome.
I have so much trouble getting the good bass tone too much frequency madness!! Can anyone help?
@ExplodingTrafficCone maybe because I am?
@ExplodingTrafficCone Haha, look at the description. He got a friend to do the voice over for him :)
Amazing drums sound
Hi can you show me how ezmix2 work in standalone version? Thank
@rockrenegade thank you very much man! im trying to get into production so im gathering all the knowledge i can. thank you!
Hi. as you achieve the effect you use the voice , 2 minutes into : 41 ??? thanks
I have enriched the sound of my drums with EZ mix beyond comparison with what I had before,guitars also have some cool distorsions but you'd have to tweak it a bit to get where you want to.
I like the approach Ola took although it didn't work for because of the difference in equipment but EZ mix is certainly a tool that can,with a little patience and effort,help you with mixes ^^
the voice cracked me up so hard
@rockrenegade so technically that's a yes..right? and by mixer do you me his DAW?
@fearedse ...and it will be a great tool. Eventually as tools like this evolve on both the amateur and professional levels respectively, I'm worried about homogenization in heavy music. Not unlike what happened with electronic music with Reason and to some degree, Ableton. Like EZ Mix, both of those programs are great tools as well.
I would rather have these tools than not have them, but it's totally ok to have these concerns and hope people use these tools in a forward thinking way.
How did you get your preset amps to sound like that? Mind sound nothing like yours for some reason.
GREAT video !
any chance to get the Superior Preset for Avatar?
another great video! Where can I dawnload your EZ superior drummer preset you use?
Please help me, who is the vocalist in 2:21-2:38 (3:53-4:23) ? Thx. :)
That's Mario the singer of Feared
Ola Englund Mario Bros. ?
No, Bang bros
Question...sorry if it`s a dumb one...So, you will need to record (bass /guitar) without any type of effects..meaning clean guitars, clean bass and then add the effects (say distortion) with EZ Mix...OR...record my guitars with my favorite distortion (mic cab amp) as usual???....sorry again..I`m fairly new to this cool stuff...and I would love to learn more
ola how do u make the guitars sound so wide, ive been trying using the tse 50 but i cant seem to get it to sound wide enough, 3 tracks 1l,1r 100% and 1 dead center
Any preamp are being used ? The "clean" guitar (dry), it is only the guitar put on the interface and played? Thanks.
can you load 3rd party impulses into it? like redwirez and stuff?
YOU KNOW WHATTAM SAYIN?!
way to go man!
check to make sure your daw you're using is the same bit (32 or 64) as the plugin.
Are you just inserting midi tracks to your DAW and then using EZ Mix to mix it?
im getting a lot of hiss from this with palm muted chugs. im using high and low pass filters with eq, a noise gate and ez mix 2 misha presets. it might be my epiphone les paul special 2 pickups. im not sure. what do you guys think?
+InASpiralState Yes, that or your cable also depends on where you point your guitar. You will notice if you back away from electronics you get less hiss and you shouldn't need a noise gate and only eq out the low end on a guitar.
thanks for the reply dude! since i posted that comment i actually bought a seven string schecter and it sounds amazing. the hiss i encountered before was actually using too much gain and not enough noise reduction xD it took me a while but i figured it out, so everything is running smoothly now. thanks broski
Please tell us what sd2 snare you´re using. Thanks!
Is there a way for me to listen carefully to the results? Can you put the track...or a part of the track online?
how did you get that fast vibrato on that lead guitar what had a harmony addition?
Can anyone help me? I'm wondering if you have to manually set the volume for each track, or does EZ Mix do that for you?
I wonder what kind of processing did the drums had before applying ezmix to it? did it had the processing on your drums tutorial? Can you tell us Ola?
hi ola
when i use ezmix the distortion sound so far away in the mix and low is that because im using a cheap squier bullet or what?
doesent sound that good and can't hear the guitars almost at all
+Mirko Burroni
(I'm not Ola but) If you're using a single coil pickup with old strings on the bullet then probably yes, definitely try putting up the gain on the interface until its around -6dB average, and make sure you don't scoop the mids on the amp or in EQ, or the guitars will just become completely lost
At first before you add anything thing with the ez mixer are the distorted guitars just clean ?
when i put the amp preset on for just the guitar sound it doesnt sound as awesome as when u do it
I tried ezmix 2...though the amps sounds really weak and no-gain...any idea?
My big question on all this Amp emulators is: Do musicians really record guitars with a clean sound?
Funes -kvn If it's DI guitar then yes. Plugging your guitar straight into a DI box will produce a clean sound only. That is the sound coming straight from the guitar.
Funes -kvn musicians will do everything, but the "default" way of recording is Guitar > pre effects > amp > mic > post fx > interface.
Ola, how do you make the Midi drum tracks? you write it or you use patterns form groovemonkee, EZdrummer, etc, etc
you get a lot, but there are expansion packs like the metal guitar gods that give you even more options. i just got ezmix2 with the metal bundle(6 pack) and it's awesome! also, i think all of the presets he uses in this video come with the base ezmix2 if that helps you out. \m/
@boomeri So in other words it sounds like Jack Black?
ola, what do you use to change your voice like that?
that was totally amusing, Thanks
Im new too but I think that you create a new track in you're DAW and load EZmix and through EZmix pick you're tone which is all being run through youre DAW No separate windows. and just hit record and play.
I'm getting a lot of static in most of these presets, how do I handle this in EZMix 2? It's mostly on the distorted stuff. Clean is okay, very faint, but tolerable.
Sounds like your signal chain is dirty, it might be an issue of improper guitar/preamp grounding, ground loop or just a bad preamp/audio interface. Or maybe you have the misfortune of living close to a cell phone tower or have some other EM pollutant in your vicinity your gear is picking up.
avrilinblood well based off that statement, it could be two things. One, the guitar is going right into the computer and two, I live RIGHT next door to a substation. But my amp works fine.. So maybe I need something to plug it into before it goes into the computer
Robert Laughman "So maybe I need something to plug it into before it goes into the computer" - most definitely. I assumed you are using an audio interface with dedicated "instrument" e.g. high impedance input. Problem with guitar is it has very high output impedance, and if you plug that into a regular audio input (which is usually low impedance) you get huge signal drop and a hell of a noise. Get a cheap 2 channel USB audio interface, they all have inputs, suited to guitar pickups. Plus the come with low latency drivers.
avrilinblood thanks! I'll look into it. This was very helpful.
Check the ground!
Sounds like Not Falling from Mudvayne.
Javo Roma it absolutely does.
Im a bit confused, does this mixer really contain all theese cool things used in the video?
Im new to recording my music in cubase and looking for a bunch of tools like voice distortions and bass effects. This thing here looks like it has a lot of everything?
The bass effect and voice distortion are on the "to buy" list so to speak. I allready use Guitar Rig, but this here neat tool seems to even contain some decent sound effects.
Is it as awesome as it seems? :o
Hey Ola, could you do an update on your drum process? :D
@Gedesorbet21 xD that's not Ola, read the description haha
How were the raw parts recorded?
Do all those effects, distortions and amps come with EZ Mix? It looks like it's the only tool you need and no more amp simulation plugins. Is that correct? Thanks.
Aristowi You get many from ez mix even more from ex mix 2. you'll need to get the expansion packs like metal guitar God's or metal amps and so on.. check out toontrack.com"
Ola, are you using any expansion packs for this, or are all the presets in this video in the standard package of EZ Mix 2?
@fearedse Wow! Thanks man! =D
Is Ez mix Free to install?