FL Studio: Mixing a song from Start to Finish! 

Awesome video, I didn't notice any stuttering or anything ahha this type of video is what I love to watch especially on a Sunday morning. Thanks again man

@@justincase3307 Thank you... my type of stuttering is that I often repeat complete words a few times whilst thinking and of course the worst parts are edited... :-)

This is great matthias! I have watched hundreds of videos online and bought courses, yet this is one of the best explanations on how and what to listen for when mixing a track. Ofcourse loads of topics could be explained in more detail, but since you already have such detailed other videos on most of these topics one will easily up their level! i have said it once, and now again... You are one of the most rewarding "teachers" on RU-vid to learn from. This channel has been so insightfull for me and others you cannot imagine the huge impact it has on all of us. In fact, my first release will soon be announced ,which wasn't possible without your help.

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@@flstudiotricks6903 How can I support you mate? For you great videos with such a clear explanation. Do you have patreon or contrbee?

@@flstudiotricks6903 Ignore my comment. I'm just blind. Probably because of excitement. I see in a description your patron! One more subscriber and one more patreon coming now!

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@@flstudiotricks6903 Oh You doing very well thrust me. The thing that You're channel haven't bust open trough the 'ranks' yet is a bummer. You present the points in electronic music creation that not only are not the type of 'how to sound like *not me*'' or 'you just like twist te third knob here and the firs one down there and your set', but are just CRITICALY IMPORTANT, specially when you into 'building the foundations' stage. I really wish You a waaay bigger audience. You're literally at the level of expertiese WITH THE SKILL TO PRESENT IT in convienient way in TOP 3, or rather top 1 alongside Dan Worrel, and Gregory Scott :) Keep it up man!

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It depends of the type of sound but for percussion I like it often better...

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I wasn´t sure and just had an A/B in the project: It doesn´t create any additional low end at all... at least not with my minor settings... Basically Distrotion is not able to create stuff "underneath"... it can just add stuff "above" as harmonics cannot be underneath the fundamental...

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Your mix need low end everything need low end. Just know how to deal with that. Some famous engineer hp only at 36hertz on all instrument. This tutorial is how to get a steril mix

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Please drop me a mail at: morflstricks@yahoo.com Perhaps that´s an interesting topic for others too!

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I just brought in "Loudness" in general ...not just for streaming services... The LUF system correlates to the db system so all you have to do for streaming services is to pull the Master fader down to -1db before rendering the version you want to upload where -1db LUFS is demanded...

Yes this can happen depending on your settings... As a filter is at the very end a delay it adds one wave cycle to the signal which is at low frequencies already quite some time... Nonetheless I never went into trouble as I always first treat the kick and adapt the bass to the kick...

Thank you... The higher you go in the frequency spectrum the less isues you get with overlapping sounds especially if they are so short like the click if the kick... Second: The only issue you have to take care of is that overlapping sounds can raise the volume in this area... Luckily especially the use of a clipper works very well as these frequencies are so high that hardly any distortion will be audible and clipping works fantastic on short sounds like the attack of a kick or of a hihat...

I personally mix the kick to about -10db peak and level all other sounds to the kick...

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Watch my video from here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LwdDZYPNeXw.html or perhaps better the whole one if you are not familiar with the plugin database

You have mixed it up with the volume after I have boosted the 50Hz region... Just the HP filter didn´t change the volume at all! Please watch again from minute 4:00... About the rest: The kick has a much higher priority than the bass and they are not playing together (Bass is sidechain ducked)... IF there are any frequencies in the Kick you don´t like, these you can EQ to make more space for other elements but you will never reduce/limit/ or otherwise reduce wished frequencies in the kick to make room for others...

As I said later on you can of course use anything you like... a normal compressor, LFO tool, the Envelope Controller or Peak Controller and automate a volume control in FLS... I just like Shaperbox the best...

I probably will make some new videos about them but for now you can use this link to inform yourself: forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=284604

@@flstudiotricks6903 Thank you!

Normally my template master chain is made of 3 plugins: -Fruity Limiter with default settings except Limiter Attack to 0ms - Voxengo SPAN (plus in my case) - Psyscope from fx23.net The only purpose of the Limiter is to catch extreme overshots (can always happen!) and to be an additional volume control which I normally pin to the blank space on the top right hand side... I work normally at a level of about -10dbFS... My audio device is very simple and not very good in amplifying so I use the Volume control of the Limiter to temporarily raise the volume of the song...

@@flstudiotricks6903 is the -10dbfs achieved by turning down the master fader by 10?

@@melorams22 No, I mix the individual channels to a lower volume that I get a sum on the master of about -10dbFS... A peak level of -10dbFS translates often to about -18db RMS which is the mostly the best input level for analog modeled plugins just in case I need one 🙂

I made a little list: YouLean Loudnessmeter 2 = freeware... no option natively Shaperbox2 = I explained in the video what alternatives there are natively Voxengo SPAN = freeware ... you could use the frequency analyzer in the native plugins like PEQ2 or Maximus but at the very end SPAN does the job much more easy with realtime readouts for the point you hover over etc... GClip = freeware... Maximus does the job just fine too Shaperbox 2 Multiband feature= just use the Envelope Controller on the Frequency Splitter... MDynamicEQ = There are some Patcher presets for... Limiter No.6 = freeware... there is no option for a true peak limiter in FLS but at the very end you can give a shit on true peak limiting ... it´s BS anyway and just use Maximus... But afterall (as I said in the vid for the Dynamic EQ, there is i.e. the freeware "Nova") don´t limit yourself too much ... I already used just stock plugins where it made sense and having 3-4 3rd party plugins (all freeware) in a project isn´t something to worry about... more the opposite!

At which time in the video??

@@flstudiotricks6903 anytime you open the Parametric eq 2, its like a custom setting you have there

@@melorams22 Now I know what you mean... I have made my custom preset with High and Low Pass filter enabled instead of the standard shelving filters FL Studio comes with... I use the steep 4 settings for the order and have set the highpass by default to 30Hz and the Lowpass by default to 17500 Hz One thing you have to do though if you change the settings from the default preset: If you change the default shelving filters to high and low pass you have to reset the bandwidth knobs for Band 1 and 7.

@@flstudiotricks6903 thanks so much sir, hope you do more videos soon, im learning alot. they are well appreciated

@@melorams22 You´re welcome!

L oudness U nits F ull S cale... db is just a scale for measuring sound pressure in general... But we have different "points" where and what to measure... I.e. we have peak level which just tells you how "loud" the loudest peaks of the material is... But peak level doesn´t tell you how loud our hearing feels it to be... Our hearing reacts more to the "average" level than to certain peaks... Before, RMS level was there to measure the actual "Loudness" but RMS measurement has certain flaws when it comes to more bass heavy material... Because of that, Loudness Untis were developed to bring a more accurate measurment on the table...

@@flstudiotricks6903 thank you! 🔥 Have you a video of performance mode? Somehow I cannot understand multiple tgings corelated with PM and most of the videos are messy explained on the yt - seems like you are the chosen one to clearly explain me this 🔥 much peace!

@@rvsk.y9542 No, not my cup of tea tbh...

Yes I am fine, thank you... Sadly I cannot tell really what will happen with this channel... Time will tell!

@@flstudiotricks6903 I understand... I'm really keeping fingers crossed to see a video or two your when FL21 drops and even some original songs :)

@@flstudiotricks6903 Oh no! 🤔 … maybe… 🤔 … ….just uninstall Ableton and come back. 😉 I did - it was fine, trust me. 😂 (Thanks again for the perfect guides here. 👑)

@@LUFS For me it wouldn´t be Ableton but Bitwig... 🙂 I always keep an eye on FL Studio and when the next beta drops I will revisit it again... maybe... 🙂

@@flstudiotricks6903 Oh, I see (and understand). 😃 You should put your time in your favorite tool, that’s for sure. If there is a Bitwig channel in the future let us know. ;-) I use two DAWs, one is (way) more productive and manageable in larger projects and the other is… FL Studio. ;-) I don‘t know… - it’s simply more fun and free. … yes… it‘s „fun“ - but not very productive to get lost in a patcher experiment instead of composing. And without noticing it‘s bed time - three chords done. 😂 But I enjoy my FL Studio time the most of all DAWs - and (even if slowly and sometimes I dont‘t understand the priority/order) the right features appear in FL. In my next holidays i‘ll check out Bitwig for a while. I love exploring DAW und plugins… I just need more time to spare. This industry simply exploded in terms of tools in the last 10 years. It‘s insane. All the best to you!

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@@flstudiotricks6903 anyways, thank you for the long and well explained video!

I am sorry... I can only use what I got :-)