5 years self taught recording and mixing engineer. On this channel I document my experience working with local artists as well as provide information on how I mix songs. I also provide mixing services to anyone online, email me or contact me through my socials.
i see this video is 11 months ago, but i found it in perfect time.. just started using protools like 5 days ago. definitly purchased that template last night lol. im using all protools plug ins rightnow and it work great for me so preciate that bruh
@@keithwillems9786 thankfully there’s plenty of good recording gear on the market now a days. However, I think if you are serious about recording music and are surrounded with multiple professional artists or you want to reach for that same level of quality, there’s nothing that beats the top of the line equipment. These are pieces of gear that are hand built to last decades and the quality you get with them definitely backs up the price.
@@8BKV the 1073 definitely has an exaggerated top end that can be too much sometimes. The vlc has more of a smooth and musical top end when the high boost is turned up. I'm not too familiar with the ssl pre but all of these are great options. However, I find more flexibility with the vlc and I can typically pull out whatever tone I want with the built in eq.
You are wrong about having to allow the engineer to do whatever he wants on OUR song… its our song for a reason. What if he wants to do lo fi on the beat for the last hook but the artist likes the beat how it naturally already was? What if the artist doesnt want to be drowned out with reverb. You are wrong, the engineer should ask if you want it instead if just doing it
@@SorryBoutThatBuddy if the artist doesn’t like an effect there is always an opportunity to undo. I’m not saying the engineer should take over full creative control on a song but rather try out opportunities and if the artist doesn’t like it we can always go back to how things were. You’ll never know if someone doesn’t like something if it was never done in the first place. At the end of the day, it is a team effort.
@@zachpitt9249 I typically record at a higher format 48khz and convert it for other formats if I need to. This doesn’t make a huge difference but play around to hear what conversion sounds better.
Hey man do you have idea how mixing engineer make vocals modern sounding airy is it in mixing or hardware equipment in recording? Cause when im watching mixing tutorials from pro they add minimal plugins only eq, compression and they don't saturate vocal but how vocals comout sounds so modern polish.?
@@zachpitt9249 it’s a mixture of a good vocal performance with a good recording technique. Hardware does help a lot when used correctly to enhance a performance. However, in the mix, eq and compression is mainly for dynamic control and tonal shaping, so when engineers use barely any plugins, it usually means during the recording process the source already sounds 90% finished. You can try boosting 10-16k for air but if there isn’t much frequency content up there to begin with, then boosting up there isn’t going to help you much. I’ll make a video soon about this to help explain the topic better.
@@zachpitt9249 there’s several things you might be doing. You could be recording too far from the mic, cutting too many lows, or boosting too many highs.
I got more mix breakdowns coming in the future. For the meantime, check out some of my other mix breakdowns on my channel. I got a few that are breakdowns to a type beat. Thanks again man, I’ll be sure to make some more tutorials in the future.
Yea thats a good idea for those who still learning like myself cuz on everything, certain beats are low and high and in some theres tooooo much bass and its hard to make it sit well. Better off learning how to make ur own beats and learn to mix 2track instr. Help us out bro. I got beats thats hella low and idk if i should turn my pre amp down or just record it loud and then gain stage it turn it low and at the end of the mix on the master use tue L2 to boost back the volume @jakintoh
I’m with u on that. I can still hear the boxy sound. I see what he was tryna do but he should have done more subtractive eq and used an analog compressor style plugin to add body back in it.
Just updated the waves template to include this as part of the mixbus. It will start as inactive, as having it active during the recording process will cause latency issues.
