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You helped me so much with my music. In fact my song was put in a major playlist and got 100k streams in a month and I don’t wanna sound too cheesy but really thanks to you haha! Love your vids and positive attitude! 😍💪🏼
Months of research and this is the first clear explanation of what gainstaging is and how one goes about this in understandable terms... You just made my music a whole lot better! Thank you 👌
By presenting it with so much fun, making it look simple, you give your viewers confidence that they can handle Ableton too, almost like a hidden strategy 👍😉 You are a very good teacher and I thank you so much for this hard and well structured work 🤗
Surely putting all the tracks to -12db ruins the levels of the track? E.g. white noise samples that should be quiet in the mix getting super loud when put from say -24 to -12.
I believe that the signal flow starts post fader and not the 1,2,3,4 example that you posted. If that were the case then there would be no amplitude increase in the volume meter when a change is made during the processing. The metering that you see originally on your channel meter is post fader... in order to understand gain staging you also need to understand pre and post fader and how those effect the signal changes. Great video though :)
Thanks that was very good. For anyone who is interested to dig deeper I suggest learning about Linear vs Non-Linear audio effects. The differences between them and how it relate to Gain Staging.
Thank you so much for your concise but at the same time comprehensive explanation. My question is if this technique applies also for film post-production where I have to mix apart of music and dialog, several foley recordings. Foley recording might be very quite (depend on the effect). Do I need to set them at the same level of -16 to -12? It sounds me too much.
I absolutely LOVE your videos. Learning music production that is accessible, succinct, and easy to follow. Sharing your knowledge has really helped me learn more about music production, thank you!
Thanks for all the help. I’ve actually been producing and arranging for a long time but always felt daunted and bored by the mixing process but I decided it’s time to learn properly.
this is really good, well presented, great for newbs like me. I like how you show the details, like those little input/output eq's on the plug-in's, super important detail I would have never figured out otherwise. Keep it up!
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Hi Liana, which level you recommend after the first instance (for example a drum loop) and than following through the advice chain ? -6, -8, or - 10 ? Your video helped me a lot, thank you !!
is there any drawback on lowering the clip, wav or sample volume rather than the channel fader? I've always learned to decrease the sample/instrument volume in its sample editor then using the channel fader to make adjustments and panning before mixdown to balance levels between instruments and channels.
Dear LNA, I kindly want to inform you know that the signal flow that you have presented is incorrect. The fader of a channel comes after its effects. Stay safe and keep up your awesome vibes!
This is great info!!!!!!!! I still struggle to gain stage with the hardware mixer and synths that i have... I know with an analogue mixer it's best to go for -18dbs instead of -12dbs, but i'm still not sure if i'm doing it correctly sometimes... On another note, i think i read somewhere that it's best to set a hardware synths master volume to maximum... Does that sound right?? :-/
this is great - how much eq'ing and other effects are you carrying through into your stems before this process? I tend to muck around with my instruments as i'm building my initial loops.
When I move the channel slider down it does not change the input meter in the effect. I don’t understand why. If the signal goes from track channel to effects to master why does the channel volume effect the master channel meter but not the effects?? I’m confused about this.
Hi Sorry to sound silly.. but are we actually mixing the volumes of each instrument track via the gain staging only? Without having to mix using the channel mixers?
@@LNADoesAudioStuff Thank you so much, now I have a much better understanding of gain staging, loving your tutorials on mixing very informative and straight to the point, looking forward to the next stage 😀
@@LNADoesAudioStuff Of course, you'll still need the knowledge of EQ'ing and proper compression (no offence to sidechaining), but using a limiter to set up your tracks will definitely help you. Thanks.
I was taught that the final production sound is 90% in the Mix and 10% in the Master. If the Mix isn't leveled, EQ'd, compression'd and balanced then there's nothing in mastering that will save the track.
Just a note, headroom isn't as important if you're working at 32bit and the mastering person is working at 32bit. 32bit projects basically have infinite headroom. If you sent a 32bit mix to a masterer and your levels were too high to work with, they would just turn it down and work from there.
interesting... care to explain what 32bit means to an audio noob like me? I know when you export a track, ableton gives you the three options of exporting in 16bit, 24 bit, or 32 bit. I just thought each higher bitrate would make the track sound better but take up more space as a result.
@@cherian5700 Bitrate determines the dynamic range. If something is 1 bit, it can either be fully loud or fully silent. As you increase the bitrate, it increases the number of loudness levels. This might help or might confuse more: www.sounddevices.com/32-bit-float-files-explained/
This was a good bit from that link: "The dynamic range that can be represented by a 32-bit (floating point) file is 1528 dB. Since the greatest difference in sound pressure on Earth can be about 210 dB, from anechoic chamber to massive shockwave, 1528 dB is far beyond what will ever be required to represent acoustical sound amplitude in a computer file. "
@@user82938 thanks so much for the info man! really appreciate it. I recently binged a Mr.Bill video about the same topic after my confusion over it the past two days and that video really cleared things up for me. here's the link to it if you want more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z--3MArikY0.html&ab_channel=Mr.Bill once again, thanks for your help man
Good course and explanations overall in each episode, easy to follow, but too much advertising, out of 12-15min, 4-5min is advertise to Distrokid. I just skip to min 1:00 and then last 3-4 minutes I don't watch it.
yes it's guidelines. Many guidelines can differ.. in the end you need to learn to trust yourself in it. There is no "right or wrong" in mixing/production. (well science is correct, everything else is just guidelines and perspectives)
What the heck was that? 8 minutes of ad 3 minutes of "course" the rest was just intro and outro. You got 20k subscribers and with that, you became an advertiser. This is just sad.
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