Learn How To Mix - Part 3 - Gain Staging - Static Mix - Leveling Tracks - LearnReason.com 

Smh I feel so dumb.... this is the greatest reason tutorial teaching how to start the mixing process.... you are the man. Thank you for this series... binge watching has just begun lol

I do not know any more helpful tutorials than these ones. Mixing process is presented for everyone to understand it

This is so basic and yet so effective.Can't believe that no-one explains this and assumes everyone knows.Great Stuff!

WOw!! I have watched mixing lessons, books, and all that but this course is perfect. It explains it very well. Thanks for this.

Just following up. Since I've started gain staging and leaving all the headroom, people have complimented me on my mixdowns. Mastering doesn't have enough dynamic range to work with if you max everything out from the start. Great video... do this.

man, this is the best! You don't come off as cocky and arrogant. Great job!

Game changer. Now I'm second guessing all the mixing tutorials with the faders all over the place :D

I completed my Diploma in Music Production Let's just say teaching is not for everyone you're on a different level. You should definitely make more videos. can't get any better than this.

Watching again 4 years later learning to become better Mix Engineer. Thanks Matt

I appreciate these videos Matt. You've taught me a lot. I have been mixing wrong for years man. I appreciate you taking your time to make these videos for me and others man.

these are the most helpful tutorials that I've even seen. thanks a lot

Awesome! I'm learning a bunch of new stuff here! Thank you!

Mind Blown !! I gotta redo everything now. The vocal demo with the input gain made a huge difference as opposed to using the fader.

Wow, this is just gold. Thank you

Definitely learned something. This is the first explanation of this subject that let me think I could do it. I don't know why everyone makes it seem complicated.

Excellent ! Thank you

I love your enthusiasm and it's obvious you are really into the art of mixing. This is a really great thing you are doing for us who hope to be able to obtain a respectable mix some day....

Man, I'm totally grateful for your time in all of these videos. i love that you are so easy to follow and understand. That goes a very long way!! Thanks!

Quality information! I developed a pretty bad EQ and Compression habit, chasing the good sounds, never getting anywhere, probably partly because I wasn't doing THIS!! Thanks man :)

Thanks Matt!! Actually I'm working with FL Studio but i find your videos very helpful!! appreciate it man

This is kind of something that I did semi habitually but only in theory, this is a slow but important breakdown of proper mixing, nothing is left to assumption, i like that you go through each instrument and show the process as one long example, sometimes there needs to be in depth examples of this kind of stuff because a lot of content creators here on youtube sift through their own tutorial videos so quick they're not giving fool proof examples, like-- "you the point👉 cool cool anyways thanks for watching like and scribe for more" And I'm left without any new understanding. So while this video progresses almost too slow as you're going through literally every sound, placing it back into a group, hearing it alone, then in the whole song, Honestly that's kind of how deep professional mixing goes a lot of the time, it can be quite a grind, you have to take the time and just sit there and listen and tweak and listen and you can't rush it otherwise it's going to sound rushed. I guess what I'm saying is great tutorial, thanks 😂

Thank you! So good and Pro Teacher you are!

One of the most helpful tutorials on RU-vid for Reason. Thank you so very much Matt :)

Thanks lot.... brother.. may GOD bless you

Man thanks times a billion. Seriously!

I've learned some new nice techniques from watching your workflow. Great, Thanks

THANKS THIS REALLY HELPS ME!!!

your videos are great. hope to see more uploads soon

i really cant thank u enough for this stuff!! thank u!!

Thanks man, good to know.

wow I really hear a big difference! keep up the good work!

Dude all I can say is you are awesome! so easy to understand ad i like your demonstrations! I have subscribed!

really cool song :)

This an awesome series. Wish I knew this a few years ago. Thank you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

Hi! I really really appreciate you Mat. and your explanation is better than others. but I still have a same problem with peak. I keep my channel faders right around 10 but still peaking. May be becuse of my audio interface. I use M.audio Fast track. after everything keep right around 10 then I bring up master bus fader above 20 peaking peaking. I watch carefully all your videos. I am really sorry for all the time keep asking same question. thanx Mat

very helpful data!

fantastic video.

What an incredible series, thank you. I used reason from all the way back when it was still called rebirth, but stopped around Reason 5 and never played with record. I switched to Ableton, but just came back to reason for reason 10 and I'm relearning it and this tutorials incredible as I've never mixed with the console before. It seems like you don't gain stage the buses, is that correct?

What a scary song.. Perfect for mixing tutorial 😀

thanks

Question... Why did you use the compressor on that bass instead of the gain knob to turn it down? Or better yet when SHOULD I be compressing the track instead of using the gain knob and fader?

Ok I found video 2 in the playlist, duh!

Hey Matt, is there anyway we could get a reason file of a song like this and you could purposefully mess up the levels and see if we could correct them? Or even stereo imaging wise kind of like a pop quiz/test? Thanks for all of your help!

First of all thank you for all the knowledge! Ok, this question is going to reveal that I am indeed a novice. After you've layed down all your tracks in what order do you go about getting the mix ready to exported? Do you level everything first,then set up your gain structure, mix, eq, master? I just want to know if there is something set in stone on how to put together a whole song sound wise. Thanks

Thank you for all your tips. I have a question and I would like your advice, I have a drum track which has repercussions on the peaks of my final song (I'm talking about the kick and snare) and it considerably reduces the volume of my final piece exported (at least that's what I see if I'm not mistaken). when I compress, I lose the punch of my drums and that has an impact on my entire song. I know you have probably dealt with this type of situation. what do you recommend ?

Why not add more gain from the rack?

Why did you compress the synth bass vs just turning down the gain, if it was too loud?

Awesomeness!!! ;)

Alright this must be the third time I'm watching this (awesome) video, but I still don't get a few things: 1. Why exactly do you use a limiter on the bass at 5:30 instead of leveling it with the gain knob? 2. If you use gain staging to get all tracks equally loud, when and how do you set the volumes in relationship to each other? Like, let's say I have a bass and a guitar both at -10db, but I want the guitar to be generally quiter than the bass. Can I just move down the guitar's channel fader for that?

Hey man! Love your tutorials! :) Just one short question: How do you manage to use the Input section of your main mixer in a seperate small window (same way you use inserts/sends in ProTools), instead of always having to scroll up and down in your main mixer window???

nice tutorial

love your videos, one question though: How do you turn the rack around?

Matt, how did you pull that Dynamic section down to the faders (around 6:13)?

one thing i noticed is that you don't change the input gain when you create a parallel channel and I believe reason doesn't do that by default.

What is the title for part 2?

I know this is a dumb question, but what about preferred levels? For example, if I go ahead and set all my levels at -10db, but want my strings a little louder, would I then use the fader to increase the strings volume?

why do you put the master out to ctrl room out? and why was it in the master out bye default

When I do this my hats are way too loud, and my kick and bass are almost non-existent even though everything is at the same -10. What am I doing wrong? I am making techno and currently working on Dark Techno track which requires a lot of compression on kick and bass to make them sound right, maybe that is a problem? I tried removing compressors from kick and bass and they become louder but the sound is not even close to what I want. How do you work your way around this? I also tried bumping them up to 0 instead of -10 and they become loud enough to compete with the other tracks but then my master spectrum analizer shows low end at least 20db louder then the rest of the track, thats wasting space right? So what do I do? I tried but couldn't figure it out myself. Sorry for big comment, and thanks!

I heard you should leave all your Faders at zero for perfect mastering. If you want to adjust the volume, you should play with the volume of the actual sound or instrument itself. Any comments or opinions on this?

Hi! I love your series and I was hoping you could help me with this track! I'm stumped. I've been producing for a little over a year now and I can't seem to fix this issue. The shifted clap in my track peaks at an extremely undesirable level and when I turn it down to a more appropriate volume (leveling-wise) it's almost inaudible. I thought I'd been mixing at too much volume but I turned the mix channels down to around -30db with the same results post-master. The sample does have a bit of reverb and transient shaping applied, and I'm beginning to think one of the two are the culprits (especially considering the reverb is at such a low frequency range ('bout 50-60hz)). I did have quite a few compressors routed up, but I've removed all but two aside from the drum bus compressor itself. I don't have much high end at all so I'm sure that can't be the problem. Also I've made note that it "peaks" at the undesired volume but the green level gauge does not. For instance, my kick drum hits at about -12db and the same indicator for where the clap hits is at that same level, with the peak indicator much higher. Very confused at this point. I've just started using Reason 6.5 in the last month or so. Any suggestions?? Here is the track in question (might sound fine, but post master is where I'm having issues); soundcloud.com/ninelines/uncover/s-dr5tI Thanks a ton in advance!

Sorry I meant gain knob.

how are you detaching the top of the channel strip to view simultaneously with the volume fader? I haven't seen this done before and can't find it online. Is this an effect with the video?

My speaker is M. Audio AV30. is this good for mixing or creating music? what is your suggestion?

so what are chanel faders for?

Late post...how do you make that small window below 🔳

Great Tutorilals, Thank you! At what point I do reverb sends and how would I be dealing with the levels then? I mean do I send first and then do the levels or ...? Thank you!

Question, would you normalize audio before adjusting the trim knob?

great video I have a question and hope you can help. in reason 8 how or can you separate the drum loops on the Dr Rex Octo to there own mix channel

Static mix and gain staging is same thing?

Can you explain me please, why you have decreased level of master out ? i can't undertand because of my bad english(

hey, thanks for your awesome Videos. but can you tell me why you choose to have the tracks around -10 db and the sum at +6? why exactly this numbers, what do they mean? thx in advance!

How do you bounce a wav file of the mix to a separate channel?

I recently recorded some vocal tracks and they came out a little bit too low but could I use the maximizer in the leveling of the tracks to bring up the volume of the vocals

how do you create a drum bus?

Are those -10 at dbfs ?

Yeah, part 2 is not in your video uploads. Am I kissing something also?

Learn how to mix ??? you put your bass in stereo ... come on !! this is not serious