How To Fix A Muddy Mix Fast With Spectral Ducking

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★ SKIP TO SOMETHIN’ ★
0:00 Intro
1:05 The Example Mix Session
1:47 What to Listen For With Masking
3:36 Solving Vocal Masking with FUSER
7:23 How to Level Match
8:30 How to Set Up FUSER Manually
11:16 How to Phase Align Layered Kick Drums
14:55 Getting Clear Drums: Kick vs Bass
19:00 How to Set Attack & Release With the Delta Signal
20:31 Sidechain Ducking the Mid Instruments to the Snare Drum
22:21 Outro
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@precisionsoundworksstudio 3 месяца назад

So many channels try to do new plug-in demos, but they don’t really know what they are doing; they just click around and noodle. No you, though. This was a very impressive impressive tutorial. Instant new Subby.

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Thanks for that. I very carefully select and research the plugins I represent, and they have to pass a rigorous test in my own workflow. Only after reading the manual, thoroughly understanding all the features, talking with the developers, and battle-testing them in my real mixes & masters do I make a video on the tools I use. Glad it shows. Thanks for subbing to the channel! Stay in touch.

@PilzE. 3 дня назад

Beautifully explained, Sir. Thank you very much for sharing the knowledge.

@warpacademy 2 дня назад

My pleasure! Happy music making!

@machinemademan Месяц назад

from the initial description of the track i wasnt expecting so much funk. what a unique idea for using ai in a song. nice video edits. seeing masking in the sides is neat! this seems more surgical and tweakable than soothe which is what ive been grabbing lately for sidechaining things when kickstart doesnt sound right(hardly ever i love kickstart) or im using something else as a trigger that isnt the kick. but its so cpu heavy. this looks way better thank both of those. actually seeing the collisions youre ducking out is amazing! seems like a lot less work than grouping sonible stuff and sounds better out of the box

@warpacademy Месяц назад

Right on. Glad you enjoyed the song, the video edits, and the plugin. All the best with your music!

@gravity00x 10 месяцев назад

Super cool topic, plugin and video! Thank you! I have to say, you have become very good at this over the years. I've been following you for so long now, I think ever since you started making Massive Dubstep Bass tutorials! Been a long way and it shows!

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Wow, thanks! I appreciate you following my videos for so long. And I'm glad I've been getting noticeably better over the years. Cheers!

@drongomala 9 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation and breakdown - thanks!

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Cheers!

@BrainDeadTX 26 дней назад

Good plugin, great video!

@warpacademy 25 дней назад

Glad you like it!

@hettovennik2887 9 месяцев назад

Great walkthrough!

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@djrandalldean 3 месяца назад

Many thanks! I've been way underutlizing this one .

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Glad I could help!

@artuvwar 3 месяца назад

Excellent....definitely found value in this tutorial

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

@tekis0 Месяц назад

Great track and concept with the "AI voices," lyrics and live instruments!

@warpacademy Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed that. Cheers!

@mandytjart 10 месяцев назад

Babe!!!! The back (& front) of the studio looks so sick, all lit up like that on video! I’m so stoked for you. ❤

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

So nice to be working in the new room. Thanks!

@MatthewSantosOfficial 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for the breakdown, this was super helpful!

@warpacademy 8 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful! Excellent music and channel BTW. Congratulations on the Grammy nominations.

@MatthewSantosOfficial 8 месяцев назад

Thank you bro!@@warpacademy

@warpacademy 8 месяцев назад

Keep it up!

@trancodingertranscodinger387 3 месяца назад

Great Video!

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the visit

@pbenson56fran 10 месяцев назад

I will save this. I learned a lot today. Wow,!!!!! Thank you

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@philippgrunert8776 Месяц назад

This exactly what I am using soothe for. It was a game changer for me. Having M/S functionality though... Wooohoo

@warpacademy Месяц назад

Soothe is great too. M/S is definitely a big plus. Thanks for the visit!

@modernmabuse 9 месяцев назад

Awesome tutorial 💫💫💫💫💫

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it.

@sarahtonin4649 3 месяца назад

I do this all the time, usually ducking some upper mids in guitars or keys using Waves F6 active EQ sidechained to the vocal. I just never called it "spectral ducking" before. 🤓

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Right on. Glad you're using the technique. Spectral really just means dynamically frequency specific. Lots of ways of doing that, such as dynamic EQ with a sidechain input. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@swanjaymusic 3 месяца назад

Wow thank you great lesson......

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Glad you liked it!

@ItsWesSmithYo 10 месяцев назад

Just in time….while my MacBook acting a fool today 🖤😎🍭😜 solid walkthrough 🙌🙌🙌

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!

@tekis0 3 месяца назад

THANK-YOU. This is a much better tutorial than Matering the Mix's!

@warpacademy 3 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@greim3516 8 месяцев назад

Magnificent

@warpacademy 8 месяцев назад

Cheers!

@mcdove 10 месяцев назад

I learned to do this with the Fabfilter ProQ3 as a eQ matching technique then adjust the Cue & Dymanics. The same process just manual.

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Yeah they’re similar techniques with some nuances that are different. The spectral attenuation is different than a dynamic EQ node that pulls down an entire bell region. Also Pro-Q3 has no attack and release and no level match. No ability to phase align. But yes, before this I was using Pro-Q3 and getting good results. This happens to be way faster which I like.

@mcdove 10 месяцев назад

@@warpacademy there is a way to do it by clicking outside of the volume button marked Auto then adjusting the sidechain and attenuation... you can get more into fine tuning by selecting individual points and adjusting.... I'm going to look more into the tool you're using to see if it's worth buying.

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the reply. That function in Pro-Q3 where you deactivate Auto mode and see the slider is only for the threshold of the dynamic EQ gain reduction. It's not an attack or release control and it doesn't make Pro-Q3 spectral. Spectral ducking and dynamic EQ with a sidechain input are still different. For example, if you set a node up in FUSER, but there is no frequency masking happening in that range, then FUSER will do nothing. However if you do the same thing with Pro-Q3 it will duck the full range of the node, triggered by the broadband sidechain signal. This is very different behaviour.

@trevorreaveley3388 2 месяца назад

Great video, but the one thing missing was a before and after example at the end.

@warpacademy 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the suggestion.

@EdThorne 9 месяцев назад

This is a fantastic walk through of a revolutionary plugin! Thank you. At 17:50, did you find the length of the sample caused problems getting the quick release time you wanted?

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment. Yes, exactly. I found the sidechain signal kick drum was quite long and was triggering ducking for too long in FUSER. So it benefitted from a shortened sample but with the same frequency spectrum to allow shorter ducking with a quicker release.

@loubot3332 5 месяцев назад

I'm not sure a out revolutionary ;) it's basically track spacer with phase control

@warpacademy 5 месяцев назад

The phase alignment control is BOSS. I would buy the plugin just for the phase alignment. Also, while Track Spacer is cool and I do use it still, you can't set nodes to mid or side. Only the whole plugin. So FUSER definitely offers some new ground here.

@guymorrison4800 9 месяцев назад

I’m forever trying to resolve masking with multiple synths so this looks good. Might have to use AI grey matter to get a handle on this plugin. Mastering the Mix’s Animate plugin is worthy of mention - I reintroduced it to some pieces the other day and got the general sound set sorted - there’s alot better than the supplied mastering presets if you fiddle round.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Yeah big and wide synths with lots of unison can often be the sources of significant masking.

@dominikperkovic3058 10 месяцев назад

Hey there, lovely video, love the studio as well 😍... Are those verum 1's on the table, if they are, could you do the review and how they conpare to audeze line up, im really torn between audeze lcd x, mm500 and verum 1's, also how would you eq them to be more neutral for mixing and mastering purposes ?

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

They are indeed Verum 1s. They certainly sound much better than their price point. The bass extension is the best I’ve heard in a planar mag so far. Build quality is much less solid than Audeze but they’re in very different price points. Sound is pretty impressive. Some people have had quality issues with channel imbalance. Mine seem fine.

@dominikperkovic3058 10 месяцев назад

@@warpacademyhey there, thanks for the answer ! I am really thinking of buying them, I also work on bass heavy music mostly and I would love something that I can trust when it comes to mixing and mastering, do you think they are good enough for that role when it comes to purely sound, also why is that you use them instead of audeze's or some other higher end headphones ? Because of that bass extension or ??? Thanks again :)

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

They’re definitely adequate for mixing and mastering. Perhaps with some EQ. You can contact them for parametric EQ settings.

@marksinger5954 6 месяцев назад

Nicely presented but honestly, I was very disappointed at the lack direct A/B comparison. That said, it was a good how to so thank you.

@warpacademy 5 месяцев назад

It has A/B now. Check it out on the MTM site.

@PaulRamos-Entrepreneur 9 месяцев назад

That song has sticky stuff to it love it! awesome - is there a link?

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Thanks! It's not out yet. But coming up for release soon.

@ProAudioIQ Месяц назад

👏👏👏

@warpacademy Месяц назад

Thanks for checking out the channel.

@US3Rofficial 9 месяцев назад

Question - with your approach with side-chaining inside Fuser - is that not the same thing as sidechaining within Soothe?

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Similar, yes. I think there's a different approach between the two. FUSER allows you to be quite targeted with the nodes.

@dougr5187 10 месяцев назад

Really good video tutorial (and excellent plugin by MasteringtheMix). However, purely with the phase matching section of the layered kick in this video around 14:20, tbh it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the phase rotation section that just came before it in your video. I suspect that this is due to the artifacts that the MasteringtheMix developer himself described on the relevant GearSpace thread today about the phase matching function currently. As such, I would heavily advise using the phase rotation function (which sounds great) instead of the phase matching function at the moment,and particularly with low frequency layered sounds such as your kick which sounded weird as a result of your 'B' choice. Very helpful tutorial overall. Cheers

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment and info. I've always gone with the Phase Rotation version of the processing as well. I would say both make an improvement, but I also prefer the Phase Rotation method. Cheers!

@cryptout 10 месяцев назад

Nice headphones, I also own a pair of those. Great for audio work.

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Right on. Yeah just got them. Really light and the bass extension is crazy.

@ethanhenleymusic6341 10 месяцев назад

what are they?@@warpacademy

@PaulRamos-Entrepreneur 9 месяцев назад

I think I tried these at NAMM this year but forgot the brand could you advise@@warpacademy

@ZOgrameMusic 9 месяцев назад

@@warpacademy what are these?

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

They're Verum 1s. The same company is about to launch a crowd funding campaign to make the Verum 2s as well.

@pbenson56fran 10 месяцев назад

Would there ever be a conflict with vocals against other instruments? Thank you. Maybe, you answer this but I missed this. So, if you feel I should listen again I will do so.

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Hey Paula. Yes for sure. It’s most common for the vocals to conflict with piano, synths, horns and other midrange.

@pbenson56fran 10 месяцев назад

@@warpacademy Oh, thank you very much.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

You're welcome Paula.

@Tom-tv4ok 10 месяцев назад

What AI website did they use? great use of the vocals

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

They turned out pretty good hey? Convincing. They used a combination of tools, some of which are proprietary. That's Evo Heyning's department. I wasn't involved in the voice and lyric generative processes.

@Essential-Electronic-Music 9 месяцев назад

Melda MSpectralDynamics does more or less the same thing I guess, but without EQ nodes... somebody comment it? Why wouldn't spectral ducking be applied to whole range, wherever the mudiness came from? Also Sonible Smart:EQ3 comes into my mind. So I wouldn't really say Fuser is the first plugin doing this thing, or am I missing something, it all seems quite similar to me...

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Hey there. I haven't yet used MSpectralDynamics so I can't comment on that. But Sonible Smart:Comp2 does full range spectral ducking that can be bandpassed with HP and LP filters. One key feature is the ability to do mid-side processing. Smart:Comp2 does, as does TrackSpacer. But their implementations are different. They have no automatic "Resolve Conflicts" function. It's a manual setup.

@camstanley 10 месяцев назад

How do you find this compared to Trackspacer?

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Trackspacer was my go to for this a long time ago. They were one of the first (may the actual first?) to offer spectral ducking. It's still a very good plugin. To compare and contrast, here's what FUSER does that Trackspacer doesn't: -Allows more surgical precision with multiple bell nodes vs. just HP / LP bandpassing filters for the spectral ducking region. -FUSER has the automatic resolve conflicts feature. Trackspacer must be configured manually. -FUSER allows each node to be mid side, or a combination in between. Trackspacer is all mid OR all side, and that's it. -FUSER has the phase rotation feature, which is very nice and extremely useful. -FUSER has FIR filters and Trackspacer is only IIR zero latency (I believe). -FUSER has Level Match.

@mrflynn01 10 месяцев назад

1st 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Boom!

@thevibe2985 9 месяцев назад

do you think this works better than soothe 2

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

They're different. This is more surgical and controllable. I think both are useful in your toolbox.

@johnmills8200 10 месяцев назад

How would this work in Luna ?

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

All you need to do this is a VST host that can run FUSER and then you need to know how to route something into its audio sidechain input. If you’re not sure how to do that, reach out to support for Luna.

@hertzouttahell 9 месяцев назад

i read alot that fuser crashed cubase 12 pro. ill have to wait until its comfirmed to be stable with it.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

You could always try the fully functional demo and see how stable it is before committing to buy it. Cheers!

@krisissupercool1 10 месяцев назад

MixGPT will be doin homework and mixing for us in the future, there won't be anything left for us humans to "fat thumb" anymore! lmao i've never heard that expression before, but A.I. is already taking over.

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

I agree that many things done by humans will be able to be done by AI soon. It will be very interesting to see how things unfold.

@krisissupercool1 10 месяцев назад

@@warpacademy it's going to be very interesting lol. Are you hopeful it will turn out as more of a positive thing for humanity?

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

I would think we're all hopeful about that. But yes.

@milkyway10097 9 месяцев назад

this plugin is a monster preying CPU

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Really? I haven't noticed that on my end. I'll have a closer look.

@milkyway10097 9 месяцев назад

Yup. when i use trackspacer, it goes up by 1-2% and this goes up by 6 or 7% (my cpu is 5900x)@@warpacademy

@warpacademy 4 месяца назад

I chatted about this with them. I believe they’ve patched that now.

@serrtucheserrtuche 10 месяцев назад

like reso kinda

@warpacademy 10 месяцев назад

Yep. Similar look to the plugin. Kinda similar-ish approach with the "resolve conflicts" feature. But where RESO is about high Q dynamic attenuation, FUSER is all about masking. 2 different mix issues, unrelated.

@oh515 9 месяцев назад

You are talking over everything so it is impossible to hear anything of what is happening.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Noted. I was experimenting with a new style of shooting. I usually stop the music, talk, then restart transport. I think it can sound a lot more seamless with the music playing constantly, but I'll need to adapt my style to allow more time to hear the changes. Thanks for your feedback. I'll keep that in mind for future videos.

@oh515 9 месяцев назад

@@warpacademy If it was meant as a walkthrough only I do understand. But for me it would be more interesting to hear what it does.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

For sure. I'll keep that in mind. Cheers.

@Nerthexx 9 месяцев назад

That's not what masking is.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Masking is when one sound interferes with the perception of another sound in the same frequency range or adjacent frequency ranges. Plain and simple. This is spectral masking. See below. blogs.qsc.com/live-sound/auditory-masking-and-its-effect-on-our-perception-of-sound/ "Auditory masking occurs when the perception of one sound is affected and compromised by the presence of another sound. Auditory masking in the frequency domain is known as simultaneous masking, frequency masking or spectral masking. Auditory masking in the time domain is called temporal or non-simultaneous masking. For this discussion, we will focus on simultaneous masking which occurs when a signal, the sound we want to hear, is compromised by a masking sound that is present at the same time."

@mikelo303 9 месяцев назад

This is not spectral ducking as far as I know. This plugin is not spectral.

@Essential-Electronic-Music 9 месяцев назад

Spectal means it attenuates the signal across many many bands, right? Why do you think this is not the case here?

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

It is spectral. Spectral just means that the plugin reads the incoming sidechain EQ spectrum and applies subtractive spectral dynamic attenuation. This is certainly the case with FUSER, but the spectral effect is restricted to the area covered by the inserted nodes.

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Exactly.

@mintyswirljoy 9 месяцев назад

Ugh! Stop talking at some point to audition the audio. It's like showing the brush and not the painting. Kinda annoying, even with a good tutorial!!

@Essential-Electronic-Music 9 месяцев назад

I think we had fair chance to hear the difference...

@raverone909 9 месяцев назад

Ugh! Stop being lazy and get a trial for free and try it on your own material. It's like yelling at the TV when the remote is in your hand. Kinda annoying, even with a good mixing engineer such as yourself!!

@warpacademy 9 месяцев назад

Glad to hear that. I was experimenting with a new style of shooting, while letting the music run constantly. Perhaps I could tweak the shooting style and let the music run for longer without voiceover. It's important to hear the changes, but I was trying to strike a balance. Cheers.