10 Mixing Tips That Changed My Life 

You saved me time thank you 😇

Jeez I’ll stop watching now thanks. Lol

GOAT

should have a mention to panning though can't do much without understanding how a soundscape works to a degree especially for live let alone studio

@@harrythompson6977 most people mix in mono live.

@dj Kplus you're still going to have to mix the entire song at the end.

I usually run a 1-2 hour timer to remind to get off, do smth else for a bit and return again, switch audio outputs and have a listen

@dj Kplus that's what I do. It's something about hearing it improve as I record it

Yep, producers block sucks real bad. I tend to do hour on hour off. You dont realise how much you over-do yourself with production until you hear back the next day or after 2 - 4 hours of rest.

I learned this the hard way. And I used to not use reference tracks too. And I wondered why nobody took me seriously even though I put hours and days into everything.

Hi Bro, cutting the reverb means putting a EQ in the mixer chain After the reverb or there are ways to cut the reverb Just by tweaking some features in the reverb plugin itself ?

@@iAmJoshC most reverb plugins should have a "high cut" and "low cut" feature - if yours doesn't, I suggest switching to something else. there are a lot of really nice freebies out there, just have to do some digging :)

@@AshrZ It's true but especially when you are still learning it's helpful to actually visualize what are you cutting . I might be wrong but usually many reverbs have a knob but it's not like a surgical EQ in specific frequencies. The knob usually does a generic LowCut / Highcut

yeah, totally fair

Dont start doing it on everything now, be careful, new technics are addicting.... only cut if needed, Filter Slopes cause aliasing and phasing or something. I heard anything more than 6db slope causes phase (canceling/loss of energy dip) ....Learn what you can do (tools/mixing), then only do what you need/want to. Lots to learn

"I got older, burned out, started a family" UH OH STINKY LELELELELELELELE

welcome back

I agree! It’s also great to see other producers encourage each other in the comments section. So refreshing

My man...my dude...you've got it all Nathan. You might like to ad "on point", "thanks for the heads up" and or "bro" a little more in future, ok? Keep it up.

Hi @Alex_Rome, all this above mentioned was happend after replying You and Nathan's collab video. I am very depressed by this issue. No offence Rome, I am just telling so that others won't become victims like me.

@prod lucas Are you a mask wearer Lucas?

Damn anything nathan is hyped on must be good!!

BRO THIS MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD MY SOUL LEFT MY BODY💀💀💀

Lol

Dead ass though 🤣🤣

my man

omg 😂😂

THAT IS CALLED PRE DELAY, almost. all delay has a pre delay knob, no need for side chain. But if your reverb is suuuper long sidechaind + pre delay + eq is a good idea.

@@dhruvalance1323 side note we are talking about reverb not delay

figured this out on my own i feel so smart

@@dhruvalance1323 pre delay and side chaining are very different

@@FreshBagelz yes they are!

gonna give this a shot! Thanks!

absolutely correct

I do this exact thing as well. You get tunnel vision when you mix for too long. The next day you hear your mix and think "wtf" lol

okay chester LOL

A/B everything!!

Big THANK YOU for all that game fam

Yeah, it's a great way to get some really creative sounding reverbs too. Or to gate them.

i prefer to always send my reverb to a send incase i wanna add more layers to it. for sure helps

Sorry, noob question but what does sending a reverb to a send mean? Literally putting it on its own channel and side chaining to it?

@@TheRealMacAndCheese Well most DAWs literally call it a send function afaik, but you're pretty much correct, yeah. You create a channel with nothing on it except for a plugin chain, and you send the dry audio (or processed depending on your goals) into it, so you can manually mix it, duck if necessary, widen up only the reverb etc

@@radiofloyd2359 OH OK, so putting the reverb literally on its own channel and mixing from there.

Does creating a Track Stack not have the same effect as creating stems for the purpose of consolidating layers?

Haha well said

It is called Sonarworks Reference 4 and removes unwanted coloration from your speakers and headphones

I never use refence tracks. They are somebody elses mixes and songs.

@@torchbearer3784 the point of a reference isn’t to just copy the mix lol. you’ll see few very few mixing or mastering engineers not using a reference. Saying “I don’t use references cuz it’s someone else’s song hurr durr” just shows you don’t understand what they are even for and that somehow putting yourself at a disadvantage because of misguided principles makes you feel superior. Which you know, more power to ya. All of his other tips were pretty good but that’s not how you really use a reference track. You’re using it to check your frequency response and RMS across the entire spectrum which is particularly useful when mixing for a certain sound and doubly so for mastering, when you want to compare the actual real world levels and bring a song up to commercial standards in terms of loudness without destroying the mix. Side note I absolutely love the rampant attitude of “well actually I know how to do it right” or “you should and shouldn’t do x y or z” that exists in the music production community coming from people that do not and never will be paid for their audio work telling people that do in fact get paid for their work how to do things. The irony is amazing. It’s similar to how people talk about cooking. Mfers that can’t scramble an egg always want to tell people what is and isn’t the right way to make a dish or how to prepare food lmao.

Having flat headphones or monitors doesn’t really matter. Either your setup is perfect or it isn’t, with pretty much no in between. Whatever gear you know the best is the best gear for you. A shitty pair of $10 headphones will yield an infinitely better translating mix than reference monitors if you know those shorty headphones inside and out and how to compensate for their frequency response. People constantly parrot the “use flat monitoring” thing ad nauseam but leave out the fact that learning and adjusting to a flat response takes a lot of time. It’s the same reason why a lot of professionals can bang out a near perfect mix with a pair of normal AirPods on a noisy plane. They know those AirPods, how to compensate for their frequency response, and how to make mixes translate well from them. No I’m not saying don’t use or worry about having reference gear, I’m saying most people parrot that sentiment without understanding why or what is actually best or most practical in application. If you have 2 sources of reference no matter what they are you can make a good mix with skill and knowing those sources well. The best mixes I’ve personally ever done were with ab old turtle beach Xbox headset with bass so loud mids so muddy you’d think you were listening to literal mud. I also had them for like 12 years and knew them perfectly. Even to this day with only 1 driver working in them I still pass every mix I do through them despite having a pair of adams and several reference headphones. You’ll notice a lot of professionals have a poopy but well internalized set of cans or speaker to test mixes and it’s probably a pair they’ve had or decades

Bro do you got an instagram or email

How did you start the mixing freelance business?

@@BeatsByEverest mostly cold calling and emailing artists and small recording studios. I also had a small following here on RU-vid and Instagram from which I got a lot of ghost production and post production work.

@@AlexRome Thank you so much for the response!

Hey. Appreciate the vid! If you balance in mono will this not then make the sound overpowering when listening back in stereo?

​@@jbettellJust asked the same question? I am not a big fan of that idea, especialy in todays music. I agree that the kick should be in mono but for other instruments....

always

*at least

Bro what?