Hi I’m Ed, I started this channel to help DIY bands and self producing artists level up their home recordings.
There’s a lot of information out there these days… but when it comes to learning there’s no replacement for shadowing a professional. And I make these videos with that in mind.
So there’s no cheat codes or mixing secrets. Just good techniques I use everyday in my mixing and production work. If there’s something specific you’re struggling with let me know in the comments and I’ll try to make a video about it.
Hey Jan, thanks so much for the kind feedback. Just starting a full series on how to mix guitars. Let me know if you want anything else covering. If you want to know I'm sure other people will do too. Thanks again!!!
Very interesting. One thing is not clear for me: you're adding the high end with the HF channel but other information too because you're not high passing on that SSL. Is it used for overall volume of the vocal too?
That plugin is a strange one. The greyed out means the buttons are depressed so they are in shelf mode. And when you press it and it goes white that means the button is sticking out, aka not on. Weird decision in terms of UI. At least that's what I think 🤣
waaaaaait… does black box have auto gain??!! like the m/s version??!! Man I hope you’re right! Love the content and presentation, my dude! Random fun fact: i’ve been using black box on my FX bus, as a subtle tone shaper, light saturation, and stereo width expansion. All 3 in one awesome simple plugin that just sounds so good
I have a problem sending dry track outs with no effects because of built in effects on the VSTs, if I take that away the sound change so drastically I don't know whats going on.
@@mixinghertz Effects come on there own and part of software instruments, for example reverb on Arturia presets but that was the basis of building the music now I have to go through each plugin and remove effects, thats not only a slow task its a difficult one especially whe those effects are part of the actual sound and removing them basically change the sound so drastically whats the point of tracking out like that?
@@mixinghertz I rather have My effects separate, all theses new plugings miximg different things together to make it look and soumd new but its mot new.
I always took My music creation very seriously however I haven't really made any money from it so there for can't say I'm not a hobbyist. This hurts My Ego but its true, I am not successful. If I'm not making money from My music then I'm not going to spend extra money paying someone else to fix My music but if I did My music would have more chance to make money. A catch 22.
I don't think there's anything wrong with being a hobbyist. If you are able to put your passion into something and it rewards you that's amazing. If you can let go of it affecting your ego you'll have a brighter outlook and that will definitely help.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Yeah. that's true but it will provide you an outlet. You could have a sole crushing job and no passion for music...Maybe you can create a routine and some deadlines so you can release more music. Your own music can work very well as a showreel....
@@mixinghertz The only solution is success in music, I'm not interested in wasting My life away in a shxx day job. The work and time taken dont stop with the 40 hours a week, there travel, maintenance of stuff. The early nights because to tired to do anything else and certainly no energy to do music at all.
I use logic x 10.4.8 i make ambient music some classic but most ambient and new age . so how can i build a steady template for my sjanger. and how to do it?
@@IvarFritjofHansen Oh sjanger is a genre? I would start by breaking down what your core repeatable elements are. Then I would create auxiliaries (busses) to send these to. After that I would make presets out of common sounds I like. If you know you use the same reverbs or a lot of reverbs in every production I would create those too. Then save all of that as a template! Does that help?
You have to label everything in the I/O 😭 if you DM me on insta I'll send you a vid on how I do it. Thanks mate! Any content you want let me know and I'll try to make it. Always need good ideas💡
Discerning viewer needs hard proof! Sorry, you can download the template for free and try it out yourself if you have all those plugins. Or alternatively if you incorporate the ideas into your own workflow you'll end up with something even better.
I tend to clip and then do a dB or two of bus compression. I might use a transient designer before or after the clipper too. Also my.mix bus compressor will be emphasising transients too.
You sure could, the only thing you need to be careful of is things lining up back in the box. You may encounter intersample drift if you decide to send kick, then snare, then overheads in separate instances. If I had a mono 1176 (which I do) for example. I might send a parallel mono sum of my close mics or entire kit out to it whilst mixing (which I do). This can be committed to and is unlikely cause too much issue if lined up properly.
I have a question, why do ppl mix the entire "kick-snare-hats" instead of mixing everything separated? I'm pretty sure that it'd sound way better than mixing everything together 🤔
This is only the kick microphone from a multi mic drum set up. So all of the snare and hats you are hearing is bleed. Do you work with drum samples normally?
Mixed results with that tbh. Sometimes it doesn't do it as well as I can. And I don't find phase aligning time consuming, unlike editing for timing or tuning vocals.
instead of doing a HPF and a High Shelf boost. find a good center frequency and just use a tilt EQ point. Then turn those small dips into a single 24dB curve since they are close in frequency dip them, then after using the tilt, set it to dynamic to grab an extra dB if there's any spiky tone. Since this isn't a heavily distorted guitar part, I'd also use a compressor for shaping before EQ... but hey...whatever works to get the end result.
