5 Tweaks That Will AUTOMATICALLY Improve Your Mixes

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Mix better and faster - and actually enjoy your time in the studio - with these 5 habits.
☛ Learn the go-to starting points for EQ and compression in heavy mixes with my FREE Mixing Cheatsheet: mixcheatsheet.com
Watch this next: 17 Noob Mixing MISTAKES to Avoid • 17 Noob Mixing MISTAKE...
Music I’ve Worked On: open.spotify.com/playlist/6I7...
Website: hardcoremusicstudio.com
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MY FAVORITE GEAR:
Computer / Interface:
Mac M1 Studio Max sweetwater.sjv.io/anOMOo
Avid Carbon sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQ6M6g
Apogee Duet 3 sweetwater.sjv.io/y2qXqb
Monitors / Headphones:
Avantone CLA-10a sweetwater.sjv.io/WqyMyZ
Audio Technica ATH-M50 sweetwater.sjv.io/PyOMON
Microphones:
Shure SM57 sweetwater.sjv.io/daOMy7
AKG D112 sweetwater.sjv.io/Kj0MBy
Sennheiser e604 sweetwater.sjv.io/DKyvWa
Shure SM7b sweetwater.sjv.io/5g5vk3
AKG C451b sweetwater.sjv.io/jre9Rv
Shure SM81 sweetwater.sjv.io/eK1LnD
Audio Technica AT4050 sweetwater.sjv.io/JzKMqr
Preamps/Outboard:
API 3124 sweetwater.sjv.io/eK1LRD
EL8 Distressor sweetwater.sjv.io/XYmMd4
Favorite Plugins:
BSA Clipper blacksaltaudio.com/clipper
Escalator blacksaltaudio.com/escalator
Low Control blacksaltaudio.com/low-control
Waves SSL Bundle waves.alzt.net/dMd4q
Waves CLA Compressors waves.alzt.net/0va0P
Waves Platinum waves.alzt.net/jxz2M
Slate Trigger 2 sweetwater.sjv.io/MmAM53
SoundToys Rack sweetwater.sjv.io/xkLgyd
Auto-tune Pro sweetwater.sjv.io/OreMYr
Vocalign Project sweetwater.sjv.io/xkLgyA
Cranesong Phoenix II sweetwater.sjv.io/PyOMrz
Instruments / Amps:
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare sweetwater.sjv.io/1r9vDR
Gibson Les Paul sweetwater.sjv.io/B0nvz1
Evertune Guitars sweetwater.sjv.io/WqyM6P
Fender Jazz Bass sweetwater.sjv.io/nLX5R6
Sansamp Bass Driver DI sweetwater.sjv.io/OreM9Q
EVH 5150 sweetwater.sjv.io/4PGvr9
Mesa 2x12 cab sweetwater.sjv.io/75avGA

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@ScottyWiard Год назад

Once I started trusting my gut and not worrying about specific frequencies, my mixes got 10x better.

@Zachfitz33 Год назад

love u jordan i have only been getting better at mixing and crediting it to you even though we mix completely different genres, thats how helpful youre mindset has been to me

@christophergreene13 Год назад

Great stuff, dude! 3 reading recommendations for anyone really digging in with the last tip: So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport Deep Work - Cal Newport Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

@catloverextreme Год назад

Jordan I just moved over to the ssl uc-1 plug-in controller and not only am I not looking at the screen as much but my mixes are sounding waaaaaaay better from just using the knobs and my ears. Great vid as always. -Glaves

@rickyhorton7269 Год назад

Jordan, you have helped me overcome so many fears when it came to mixing, I had no idea how much it was holding me back. Thank you so much.

@vincentemerald2574 Год назад

Thank you Jordan for these simple tips!!

@strakhovmixing Год назад

Great advices 👍thank you, Jordan

@darkmoon_dawg Год назад

Your very first tip is one of the most validating things I've ever heard. Almost every producer I know mixes on studio monitor speakers - but I don't have those - and I've always felt like I didn't need them? To me, I can better hear things on headphones - listening on external speakers I feel like the room ambience is effecting my listening. And I listen to music almost exclusively on headphones. Obviously I'm careful not to use headphones with bass boost or anything - but yeah.

@Lasantha. Год назад

This guy is one of the few good teachers on RU-vid. Cherish him! and start applying.

@bijan.sadeghi Год назад

So good, thanks for your work Jordan

@JuMakesRiffs Год назад

Really cool tips ! Thanks Jordan

@reekoblakk Год назад

You’re right big dawg thank you 🙏🏿 for this you’ve helped me improved my mixes

@noahford533 Год назад

Dude I love when you make videos like these because it’s very non-genre specific and just great advice in general. I realize most of your stuff is geared toward rock and metal engineers, but just know that there are singer-songwriters and pop producers who are getting a lot of value out of these videos as well. You’re really getting to the core of what makes a music production great.

@daniel.ferraz.music.youtube Год назад

Loved the video, thanks

@billyhughes9776 Год назад

Great tips -- I've been making a concerted effort to not use plugins with visual tools and I can honestly say it's improved the sound of my mixes and the workflow. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@degenerateluck Год назад

Can't even begin to say how SPOT ON you were with this video! Perfectly stated and explained. Well done!

@johnmichaelpeel151 Год назад

Good Stuff! Thanks

@barbierash2137 Год назад

good stuff brother!!

@angledcoathanger Год назад

That first quote, and a lot of these ideas, are in Atomic Habits. Great book, but the way you've applied the general ideas in it to specific mixing practices is even better. Great video!

@crustophiles Год назад

Awesome. Thanks!

@dksdmusic Год назад

For the past 3-4 projects, I haven’t used a single visual plugin, only Analog modelled stuff like Virtual Rack by Slate Digital or SSL Channelstrip and my mixes have improved tremendously. I do this for EQ, compression as well as limiting. The benefit of not having visuals has been a major improvement in critical listening. Also, the tendency to go surgical with EQ with visual feedback was a big struggle for me. Nowadays, I spend 95% of the time I mix on plugins with no visual feedback and a short test to see if anything bothers me too much(200Hz range mostly). I think the biggest thing I’ve learned from you is to not be afraid to do something major, like a huge EQ Boost or massive or even no compression at all. I’ve really learned a lot from your videos and your efforts have helped many like us get better at the craft. Thank you!

@MarcusSt0ne Год назад

These tips are great. I’ve been using my old over-ear Beats Studio 2 headphones a lot. I’ve also been making big EQ moves by looking down at my keyboard or to the side. That way I stop boosting when I feel it’s right.

@GCrozariol Год назад

Amazing tips! Especially the last one. We're constantly driving our attention to things that aren't getting us anywhere (IG, FB, etc), and the sooner we change that, the better. I know people that are stuck in life because of social media, and it's scary. This was for me the best piece of advice in this video. The others are great too, for sure haha

@mpsounddesign Год назад

I agree, the visual tools are great and allow for some super surgical EQing but I love to mix with my 4-band analogue EQ first because it makes me use and develop my ears when there are no visual cues to go by, and I think as audio engineers our ears are the most important tools or assets we have. Thanks for your awesome videos too, you have helped me improve and grow more than anyone else in this space.

@leearmitage Год назад

great tips

@MarcelloDiLorenzo Год назад

Good staff!

@tastyveganbites Год назад

Such great tips Jordan, I’ve been doing most of these things (the mistakes!) myself!!! Mixing is seriously involved I’m beginning to find this out the hard way!!

@tastyveganbites Год назад

I love that quote you said “I wouldn’t try to judge a painting with my ears!” Awesome!!!

@hextatik_sound Год назад

Great advices! Been following similar ideas for years now.

@googlesucks7473 Год назад

Fantastic

@sensaivers Год назад

Great video.

@PV-ks2hu Год назад

So good

@mitchellgamer1700 2 месяца назад

You are selling pure gold my friend.

@ProducingInTheBox Год назад

Jordan that’s brilliant haha I did the SAME THING recently. Putting my phone on black and white was such a powerful hack.

@christopherharv Год назад

Number 3 hit me right in the chest. I'm just a guy trying to do everything myself with my own music, cuz I can't find bandmates who want to do what I want to do. So nobody else ever holds me accountable for anything. I need that DEADLINE, and I set them myself and it's better than not setting them at all... but it's still not nearly as effective as a REAL deadline that others would hold me accountable to. I guess the best thing I could do is make big social media announcements (to all of my 150 followers) that the new LP is coming out on X date.

@earledaniels4539 8 месяцев назад

The visual cue response is very powerful. I was once EQing a guitar track. Probably spent 15 minutes on it and could physically hear the changes as I visually looked at my EQ plugin. After all that time, my EQ was in bypass mode so my eyes had tricked my ears. The EQ changes I had thought I had made had no real affect on the sound whatsoever ☺

@rudigerk Год назад

Your last Point reminded me of a quote by Swami Vivekananda "The Difference between great People and ordinary People lies in the degree of Concentration." Best Regards

@Zachfitz33 Год назад

i was just about to say i deleted all social media off my phone 3 yrs ago, but literally deleted my accounts for everything bc social media is useless anyway, and my phone is never in my mixing room, but then you showed your phone and youve gone to the same extreme as me except i dont even have social media. all you need is calls and texts. it is so free knowing that i can mix, not even having an account on any social media.

@cristianibarraOfficial 5 месяцев назад

One of my biggest issues is when I mix anything listening to my monitors, and another thing completely different is mixing using my headphones, my monitors are a Thonet and a Vander (yes, I KNOW,), that have three knobs: low, hi and vol. The volume knob is more than clear that I raise or lower it, but the other two I don't know in which position to leave them so that they are "decently"

@slash196 Год назад

Uh, that clean DI sound was actually REALLY nice. What preamp/DI box were you plugged in to?

@tebilus2277 Год назад

Waves fairchild and neve eq UAd impressed me they are so musical

@DerekPower Год назад

1 - I still enjoy doing the "car test" because ... driving can be fun =]. But I have also found just listening to my stuff on an iPhone using the speakers or with headphones I know pretty well will also help in it. 2 - I would agree and disagree. Yes, you should definitely move forward on what you are making. In fact, to dovetail on what you said, you get into "analysis paralysis" where you start evaluating everything you have and you just get lost in choice. The disagreement will come if you are working along on the mix and you are still dissatisfied with some element of it. I think there are instances where you should go back and re-track a part if you think you can make a better result. In fact, doing "last-minute overdubs" *can* be a bit easier because you are really doing a very specific thing for a very specific purpose. It's not like "starting over" completely. Hopefully, this will mean other adjustments are more manageable or, at least, more focused. 4 - Something I try to do is to close my eyes when making EQ moves (to some extent compression too). I have even done this with the so-called "simple plugins" because seeing frequency markers can also make it seem like I'm mixing to numbers rather than mixing with the source.

@robertsimpson5801 Год назад

Good morning, Jordan! Quick question for you in regards to your monitoring solutions. Are NS10s still at your primary monitoring method, while mixing, or have you switched over to the AirPods as your primary listening device while mixing?

@lordgraga Год назад

"make it easy to do the right thing" sounds like the recent interview with the Nickelback engineer. Great interview.

@blankidfan Год назад

I use Slate VSX that thing is a game changer

@nedim_guitar Год назад

One key thing, connected to the first tip: Know your speakers/headphones. Tip #4 is great! Tip #5 is great for every day life!

@polarisproject1568 Год назад

The final tip alone is what I have been trying to tell people for years.

@neuroxik Год назад

Tape Head -> What company makes this? I saw it used on Adele's vocals for Rolling in the deep and really want it now

@Darkest_of_Winter Год назад

What are your thoughts on the whole “spatial audio” processing and its impact on mixes? I use AirPods as you recommended for 30% of my mixing, but when I check the mix in Spatial Audio, it loses all life. How do we plan for that?

@VCVRackIdeas Год назад

familiarity with consumer listening device will play devil's joke with mix engineer anyway, just my exp

@cristianibarraOfficial 5 месяцев назад

and the other question, when BSA it's when you're gonna release an EQ plugin?

@angermanagementstudios Год назад

Track simply, arrange smartly, commit on the way in, use just a few plugins, uninstall the rest, spend TIME PREPPING/EDITING/TUNING/TIMING. Keep your project obsessively neat and ordered. Bounce everything to audio. Import to a new mix session. Do all this and mixing is usually a productive, enjoyable and all around much simpler experience! Oh yeah, turn off your phone.

@spherodite5208 Год назад

Jordan, when do you typically use your earpods, meaning in what stage of mixing? In the level balance and panning, or mixing individual elements like drums for example?

@666dreamboat Год назад

When you're happy is when you should swap, if you set your static mix on your monitors and you like it, then it's time to change to buds and reappraise!

@666dreamboat Год назад

Then do the same with planning and prep and polish, repeat, repeat.

@mostafaben Год назад

👍👍👍

@Odihmantich Год назад

cool

@matzo570 5 месяцев назад

So it make maybe sense to buy an Plugin (for example the SSL G-Channel????) and use this instead of all the EQ`s and compressors in the DAW? I use Cubase, there are a lot different EQ`s and compressors, but all with a lot optical feedback.

@rzutyjenkin398 11 месяцев назад

In general, I don't listen to music on consumer gear because I hate how it sounds.

@slipo0toni Год назад

about mixing with your eyes... even if you don't have graphs for frequencies a fancy gui (or even better.. made by a manufacturer that pros use) does exactly the same. i swear that my waves ssl bus comp sounds so much better than the reaper stock compressor, therefore giving me a much more professional result! (kidding of course!)