Andrew Scheps | Mix Buss Processing 

This is a very well presented tutorial. I really appreciate you taking the time to break down all of the processors. Thank you!

Wow, this made a huge difference to my mix. Thanks a mil!

This channel is great. Always go straight to the point and very informative. Love it!

this is pure gold guys!

Excellent! Thanks for sharing this

Excellent video, thank you!

I'm a minute in, but I can already tell this is great!

Great explanation. Nice song as well!

Good tips! Thank you 🙏🏼

Great video and mix. It's often hard to evaluate the very subtle changes some plugins can be used for when they're being used on a bad mix, or a drum kit... hearing them on a great sounding mix is most helpful. Thanks!

works for me,great stuff...bravo

Can't say I love what the Pultec is doing, but everything else sounded great. Thanks for the vid.

Really cool. Very helpful. Cheers.

works really good

That was just perfect! Until then I was reluctant to put anything on the mix-bus but it just changed my mind thanks! Make a mastering video please!🤩

Muchas gracias por compartirlo !! saludos desde Ecuador

Great vid. Love it. Thank u

Thanks mate!

Great stuff

thank you boss. my mix improve a lot.

The beauty with Studio One is a that you have fantastic console emulations already built in to the master bus which is effectively the same thing. 😎

Thank you!

such a good tutorial thx

Nice job Joe!! Thx fr the insight. This is a great chain. Salute to Beast Scheps! One of the take homes is the #1 rule . I saw it in one of Andrews videos before too I believe. no matter what the chain is: mix into the master chain so u know how it’s gonna sound. even if u bounce out final mix n open it as a master file which is standard, it’s wise to mix into it before so u know what it’s gonna sound like generally when done And …….I really want that Oxford limiter now 😀

Hi Joe, here's a mix tip for you and it can be used in conjunction with the Brainworx digital V3. Get the TBproaudio ISOL8 free plugin. Stick it on your mixbus as the final Insert. Basically this plugin allows you to mute or solo individual frequency bands of your mix. I find that muting the low mids and then unmuting them you can hear where the mud is happening and that's where you can then alter it the mud in the Mid side of the Brainworx V3

This definitely works wonders✅ Get the static mix and balance first. Then setup the mix buss with the plugins, then move on to sub group processing, and then individual tracks. Gets that professional sound💥

VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU

Great video! what would you use to replace the oxford if you had to?

Fantastic! I've been transcribing hours of Schep interviews to pull it all together, but you've already done it. This was SUPER helpful. Many thanks to you sir. Subscribed. ✌️ One question: It seems he's using his Omni Channel these days a lot. Most likely, on the individual tracks before the Buss? Any thoughts on this? Have you used it?

Thanks! Would you do a tutorial on mixing that particular song? Sounds good!

Glad to see your using Studio One

Good stuff as usual! just a suggestion. when you bypass plugins on and off. try not to do it right after a song change (ex: verses to chorus, or bridge) because its hard to tell the difference of the processing. using loops of same 3-4 seconds is the best because or brain can process it. else its too random

thats super clever

Thanks for so clear explanation Joe! love the tape emulation and the BAX EQ. Do you think are a go-to inserts?

Joe, Love this… I want to give this a try on a mix but I don’t have any slate plugins. Any alternatives you could think of for the slate lift and neve emulation plugins on the mix rack? Waves, plug-in alliance, UAD, Fabfilter?

That a pretty good mix. by the way.

This is great! Thanks for this tutorial. Now I have a question: Most people are OK with using compressors and some analog hardware simulators on the mix buss, but using EQ is generally not encouraged (to mix the song through it), as normally it would seem like you're trying to boost or cut some frequencies that you should boost or cut on the individual tracks. So what exactly are you trying to achieve with an EQ in the mix buss? (I understand the usage of a stereo widener though, it's just the eq shelves that I don't exactly see the benefit to mix the song through it)

good

Would love your opinion on Acustica plug-ins like Pink 4 + Scarlett & Erin. Think they give demos of everything.

I literally use this exact mix bus and the only thing I do differently is by using an Atr-102 as well.

Very good mix! My question is: are you bounce the mix with the plug-ins engage in for mastering? Or that’s the master chain already? Thank you

« Nice snap with the Neve » 😅 the transients have just been taken out of the picture !

Really useful video, thanks for this! Just wanted to ask, I saw in an interview Andrew said that he tends to default to some mix widening on the master bus, any idea which plug-in and the kinda settings he tends to rock for that? No worries if not! Cheers!

there's any plugin that sounds close to the Fairchild from UAD? i would love to know some alternatives with a similar harmonic enchancement

Dear Joe.. Wonderful content as always.. Could you kindly clarify 2 things please.. 1. Why use the BX Digital EQ for sides & the bass tilt while using a pultec? Can't we only use the BX Digital for stereo enhancement only ? And if we intend to use the BX Digital at the Mastering stage is it still okay to use it at mixing stage like this ? 2. Any alternative for the Neve 33609 ? Many thanks & please keep up these wonderfull stuff rolling out !! God Bless.... 🎉🎉🎉

Hello: Thank-you for sharing these tips and techniques. I think that your examples would be MUCH more effective and informative if you played the same musical section when A/Bing the processing. Thank-you.

When your using a limiter on the master buss should you put it on 0 db or leave a -6db head room for mastering?

I have all but the oxford limiter. Can anyone recommend another limiter instead or any one will do?

Nice video. I have a question about the oxford limiter in the chain. Would you still use this to create a stereo track and then send for mastering ? I just caught part of the answer reading below. You said you do not use the limiter. So you by pass the oxford all together. You have a very nice sound. One last thing is I thought there a was a different order of the plug in chain from when I originally heard about this?

one thing about a great mix you must have a great arrangement and writing. no amount of plugins or gear can save the mix. you have that in this track

If I use ssl bus comp on drum bus for glue can I use it also on the mix bus? And the Pultec is stereo or mono version. Great video thanks

Brainworx EQ on the master, oh yes. Pensado is proud

Thank you very much for the video, I think it helps a lot to understand what Andrew Scheps does. However what you recommend to replace Slate processors? I tried to replicate the same principle with Tapedesk from Overloud but I don’t know if it is the right tool. All the others plugins I’m using already. Thank you again! Best regards and stay safe from Portugal

In the slate digital cla course, steven slate himself refers to the virtual mixbus/console as the vcc so youre definetly not in the wrong there.

Is it final touch in the bus mix of all tracks routed or is it mastering? Looks like mastering

Andrew has updated his template. As of 2021 he no longer uses the 33609 or the Fairchild. He added TVerb as a mastering reverb to glue the mix, and he switched to Elevate for his limiter. If anyone knows his settings for Elevate, please share! :)

Hello Joe, I was wondering if one should use a Preamp on your mix buss (or) Stereo Buss ?

Are your instruments already mixed when you were showing us your mix bus processing?

Yo is mix buzz and mastering same??? If not then what is the difference🤔🤔🤔🤔

What other compressors can be substituted for the 33609? I think I have every emulation but that. Lindell 254E? Vertigo VSC-2?

Instead of the brain worx control, would an imager achieve similar results?

Hi! Question.. Question... the effects that have to be on the mix bus or on the main ?(master). 

Please can you mix just vocals with VMR on Mix a Bus thank you

Great info, but the star of the show is this song and the mix for sure

Just as a person has a glass of whiskey or smokes a cigar they know it could possible harm them but does that tranquility they receive in that moment worth the risk ?!? I have a similar feeling when I do post bus processing...I have an analog chain just for my mix bus & equate the feeling I get almost to a guilty pleasure. I may be doing myself a disservice but in my case making a drink & sitting down for that last 10 percent of the mix is like a Christmas unwrapping & I finally get to have fun with my toys. A desert I’ve been savoring that I can only have after dinner !!! ( my songs only though not for clients ironically lol )

That was the difference coming from reasons to studio 1 you have to learn how to manipulate sound with analog plugins. Reasons was my first daw so recording mixing and mastering everything sounded analog and good. Then I started using studio one with its stock plugins witch are good but my sound changed. Then I learn how to manipulate sound and color it with plugins I already had. Like you have to mimic the SSL don't have a UAD but you have all the plugins they use in there preamps. Basically you have to learn how to color your sound with these analog plugins they really work. On my studio 1 mixer channels I use a Renaissance EQ then preamp through a 1073 then run it through a SSL then compress it through a 660 Fairchild run then add reverb with a plate or room reverb. Then on my master bus I would use a master bus or a 1073 then a 660 Fairchild then a stereo imager and maximizer. But that's the thing you learn coming from reasons how to manipulate analog sound that you lost using another daw.

you use the mix buss and then send it to master with the mixbuss track on or you send your mix with the mixbuss and then you master it? I have this question because it seems like there is very little headroom after the mixbus

How loud should the mix be before it hits the mix buss processing?

Ha! I've just done all the processing to my individual tracks and thought "hmm, what about the mix buss", first thing you said "don't do this after!" doh! Well I guess I've learned for the next song :((

I have a pretty dumb question, what are you sending to the mix bus? Is every single track or just the buses?

What DAW is this??

Scheps has taken out the compressor from his mix bus.

not to be pedantic, but the oxford enhance slider isn't anything like what the inflator does. the inflator adds harmonics with no changes to dynamics. enhance does the opposite.

what kind of daw is that?

You forgot to add the magic( tape machine )

science.

Thanks, I am a little confuse!? Is Mix Buss Processing the same thing as Mastering? (let's use your mix as an example) If you have everything just the way u have it in the mix, "all the tracks routed to the busses" "let's say u have a vocal bus too" would you then do another bus and make it like a pre-master track with all the busses going to it before the Master or just leave it like that and just proceed to the master channel and work the processing of the mastering in general. Hope I make sense please excuse my poor English. LOL

How do we know if its his exact chain. and not yours ?

is a master process ???

it's his old approach, so it's... a-la...

lol not a single waves plugin

Or "Top down mixing", it works well for some but not for me. I leave the finishing touches to the mastering engineer.

Or "Top down mixing", it works well for some but not for me. I leave the finishing touch to the mastering engineer.

Andrew Scheps doesn't really care about how a mix sounds in mono!! Those are his words!!

louder is better, if you don't match the volume there is the risk to not be objective...

I feel it's too much, liked bypass more than everything on.

overkill..if you have to to bring flowers, cookies, necklaces and an amazon gift card to your date ...you ain't got game or ....girth ;)