Just discovered your channel, great work! One more tip for widening: auto panning can really give you great results, often working wonders on hats and especially arpeggios.
Hi Anthony - great tip!! I also love doing this with shakers and tambourines to help the mix move a little in the background. Thank you for taking the time to share with everyone - knowledge is power :)
Second video of your's that I'm watching. Really nicely prepared and I really enjoy listening to you :) The main thing you could mention is that the stereo (wide feeling of sound) is about differences between left and right channel - it's the easiest way to understand why wider sounds are softer etc. You have to hear almost the same sound of a kick in both stereo channels to feel the punch in the middle of your head - making it wider would make difference between left and right, so it would get a bit moody like in the middle of the forest or behind the wall...
I've been on the fence about subscribing to yet another music production tutorial channel but YOU ARE just SO GOOD! It's not only your content but the way you explain that makes you stand out (dope diagrams btw). Subbed and belled. Thank you
I personally recommend to everyone Wider, a free vst audio effect from Polyverse (Infected Mushroom crafted, they're amazing producers imho) i think it works way better than ableton utility, wide-spacing wise, no gain and no mono bass but more handy. I have also a very noob question...am I the only one that instantly decrease volumes when widening sounds? Feeling like they got so much more perceived loudness and I am curious because might be just personal taste or maybe something wrong in my studio acoustic treatment
Thank you so much for sharing ! Will definitely check them. Funny you say that, I have this issue with one plug-in in particular which is the TAL-Chorus. Try the same thing with headphones on and then you’ll be able to tell whether it’s your room acoustics or just the effect :)
@@NoizeLondon Yes, please keep them short! I feel that videos of more than 12-15 minutes needs to look really interesting for me to dedicate my time to them. While the ones I have seen so far from you have rather taught me a lot of stuff with minimal effort. 8-9 minutes is perfect :) (Then again, I'll probably also watch your longer ones eventually if you make some and keep the quality/usefulness at the same level.
Once you learn how to identify sounds out of phase, you'll want to mono almost everything. I tend to fill out the sides with luscious reverbs, delays, ambient sounds and transition effects.
In a style like drum n bass where you could have a lot basses with a bit of dimension expander could you eq the sides down on the master channel early on in the chain?? So the kicks and basses go mono without longing it out?
Yep absolutely but having control over individual elements is helpful from the get go. Try and control things from the root rather than later on. You might find a side cut at 200hz on one bass sound good compared to another at 350hz. Ultimately it’s about having more control.
I was looking at your Genelec monitors and wondering, don't you think they lack some bass? I've had the opportunity to work with a pair of 8050Bs and every time I checked my mixes there I couldn't hear almost any punch in 808s, kicks, specially on the 250 to 400 Hz range, Which leads me to the question, how can you get used to a certain pair of speakers, any tips? Props for your work, greetings from Portugal!
These are very small so they don't go very far down in hz (can't remember what number exactly) but when set up properly in a good sounding room they are amazing. I have the 8020b in case you are wondering. Would you like me to do a video on setting up your speakers correctly?
@@NoizeLondon Please! That would be awesome! We have so much information about that topic at our disposal in the internet that everything becomes so hard to process...
I dragged a utility to an audio track that just has a kick in it. All I see is it saying panorama with a C in the box and a width percentage box under that. Mine looks different than yours.
@@jeremya9675 ableton live 9's utility doesn't have a mono button, but it let's you change the stereo width. Default is at 100%, set it to 0% and you get s mono signal.
Thank you. I’m applying these rules and for certain my mixes got better and better, but I don’t get close to professional wide mixes that sound more than stereo, they come out of the speakers.
Simpler Delay! switch to Time in Ms, set to lowest Ms with the dry/wet at 100% then adjust the Ms to taste. Eventually as you go beyond about 15- 20ms the effect eventually becomes a delay but very short stereo delays give enormous width. Also known as the Haas effect. Microshift does something similar with some interesting modulation to create a doubling effect.
@@Cosmonaut1999 Haas effect is shite on its own, it phases like fuck and most times summed to mono loses any power. Little micro shift has a dry wet so you constantly have the original blended. Put your desired sound in mono and create a rack and blend the haas signal over the top or create a send. Don’t use it on its own unless you’re literally microshifting below 10ms. At the very least bang a utility on afterwards and put the width down to 0 and go up from there till you get desired space. On Fx fair enough or layers that don’t matter when summed to mono, I’d use auto pan on a very quick note value to clear out the middle all day over Haas 😎
It's a love/hate relationship. They are great when they have the space to breath. But when they are tucked away in the back like they are in my studio, not so good. Great for travelling though. I would recommend them to anyone who is looking for some small and fairly accurate speakers.
6:23 is the OG vocals from the song “summer mist” by the artist DEADLIFE, am I right? I’ll give you all my money if you show me how to get that vocal effect.