Wow, thank you so much. This really puts me at ease. It makes me feel more confident. I just started using FL studio coming off of GarageBand mobile and I’m just now starting to get the workflow making a beat and now I can focus on the mixing and leveling. After I get this down then the next step would be mastering. Do you have a video on mastering? You can send me?
I just like to use Fruity Waveshaper, if you use a half-sine shape you can make things louder without really distorting it. It adds like more frequencies or distorts the sound in a way that makes it sound "fuller" without destroying it.
Most people aren’t using extremely fast attack settings when compressing which actually emphasizes the transient even more. Clipping handles suddenly peaks better on certain elements and is why it’s used for peak control.
Great explanation! 🙏🏽 I had them in the wrong order and now I understand what I was doing wrong and also WHY it needs to go the other way. very helpful and I feel like I understand the purpose and funcitionality of each and how to use them. much appreciated.
Lowering the volume makes them quieter. That defeats the purpose of setting the initial levels of everything in the first place. Clipping maintains that perceived loudness, but just brings down the peak level if done lightly. If your mix peaks lower, but sounds just as loud as a mix that is peaking higher you can now turn the whole mix up more without even touching the limiter ceiling. Creating more headroom while maintaining the same loudness allows you to turn the entire mix up more.
I started out looking to just write and sing the songs and have someone else produce and mix and master. but in my country, never really got anyone who could give me the kind of production I want so I set up my own studio and learned production. My very first song I produced has the so called pros wide-eyed and when I tell them that I produced it when I did not even know all the basics of Cubase 5 they don't believe me. Now I have done the production and the rough mix impresses everybody. Didn't want to mix because I know how switching to your technical mind shuts down the creative mind, but I cannot help it. every third party mix engineer I have tried has turned out mixes that sound worst than the rough cut that I have. so again, I am back to learning another aspect of the music production work chain - mixing. I will make it and still be productive. I've given myself six months to grasp the basics and once i do, the rest is ears. I'm not afraid of losing creative time because I have thousands of compositions and even as I am learning mixing I am composing
Great! Thanks! You are one of the best on the game to make serious content about FL Studio, really technical and easy to understand, that’s my opinion. Keep making! 👍
Nah son i have seen a lot of videos but never seen someone who can explain not only different but away better, Good explanation always gives a vibe wich never puts you in a disappointed situation, in future if I could make myself a good mixing engineer i ll create a RU-vid channel and i ll name it mix with tom, peace ✌️
