Hey! You might not see my comment, but I really appreciate your dedication and passion to upload all of the videos that you've been doing for several years. The last time that I watched your tutorial video was almost 3-4 years ago. The time is moving so fast!
I've listened to you on and off for some years now, and I find your content so valuable for learning. I make tracks for my church since our band is smaller and we want a bigger sound, so I lay down electric guitar frequently. After doing it for a few months starting early-ish last year, I found that there was too much rumble muddying up the electrics at large, and someone pointed me to a multiband compressor that I've found very useful, so I set up a template to use on my tracks. But I've since found that I went overboard in pulling out so much of the warmth and left the guitars sounding thin. I'm sure no one else here pays much attention to that sort of detail, but I also like to do bits of stuff on my own, so that's somewhere I've wanted to grow. I see you had various EQ on individual guitars here as well as the group at large. From what I picked up here, you used the group to clean up some of the ultra-low end (per kick/bass) and did more of the warmth/higher work individually. Is that right, or did I misunderstand? I put a chunk of my cuts around 330 when I set up that template, but I've since reduced the cuts and my tracks are sounding better. I've also made a new patch on my modeler that I think helped a bit with the source (yes, I've listened to you a lot), but I'm still evolving on this particular area.
Hey Joe! Great video as always. I mix for a living so this is all information I know, but I keep coming back because 1.) It’s always good to review the basics and 2.) I think after a certain point mixing is all about philosophy and I really like your approach to considering the different elements. Sometimes us engineers tend to over complicate things unnecessarily. Doesn’t have to be that way if you just focus on what’s important!
Hello, Where can I learn about the approach? I'm a new beatmaker,mostly sample based. My mixes so far are good-ish to upload to YT,but now I'm working on a Beat tape to get on Spotify and I would to provide a good experience to the listener. I just go to the EQ after working on the levels and most of the times the beat sounds worse than it was :(
Good job man. Very helpful Been looking out for your videos now. Back into recording after 13 years of being offline with life. So heaps refreshing to get back in.
Some excellent stuff here. I want to try that center panned fuzz guitar thing now. I think the bass sits great here but what I’ve noticed in one song I’m working on where the bass is playing melodies in the verses with more of a sparse guitar arrangement compared to the slightly busier keyboards is that the melodies aren’t cutting through unless I boost the mids between 250 to about 400. So, now the bass melodies are being heard but it’s taking over the mix. I need the bass melodies to be heard but not over the guitars. Also, how would you get a melodic bass to cut through in something like a Green Day track where Mike Dirnt tends to play more melodic lines to Billie Joe Armstrong’s rhythm guitars? I’m thinking that Billie Joe’s sound tends to be kind of scooped in some tracks, letting Mike get in there a bit on the mids? I’m not sure.
