Mixing Beats - Mixing From A Producer Perspective 

This video just helped understand mixing music as a whole. Including vocals too sound is literally our instrument 👏🏼

Thank you so much for making so detailed mixing videos, there is so much to learn from them, and this is so clearly explained ! One question though : the beat you produced sounds very cool, but the second chord in the rhodes part is a D major chord, over an E note at the bass. For sure, having this kind of chord ( D major over E) is absolutely fine, but, from a music theory perspective, keeping a low D note in this D major chord for the rhodes seems to create a big clash with the E note in the bass part. In that case, what we learn with the help of music theory for composing music is to dispatch the chord differently in order to avoid two low notes (in that case, E and D) being too close from one another...Or, the bass would have to play the same notes as the rhodes low notes ( C, D, E progression) as a second solution. Did you leave this harmony "clumsiness" on purpose ? Just a genuine question, as I'm far more competent on the subject than mixing (reason why I'm so glad a youtube channel like yours exists !). Thanks again for all this shared knowledge ! As some other comments say, this is pure gold

Excellent video. Well thought out and well executed. Useful, practical and insightful, thank you.

The track is sweet!

dammm dope beat

thanks boss dope stuff on this channel man

Like to get my hands on that Suzuki EQ you mentioned.😂😂😂

You are the best at explaining intention in each move you do. Thank you so much for these. Best teacher by a hundred miles!

pure gold right here !! you dont see industry mixing engineers explaining this kind stuff !!

This is such an amazing and comprehensive video Matt thank you! I love how you shaped the sound of that Rhodes. It gave me some ideas because i will use cymatics origin ro down sample a sound but then its too dark and dull but i may spend more time shaping the sound after to get the results i want. Just the explanation and breakdown of your thought process is awesome.

This was a masterclass bro. You make it look so simple. Indeed the most fascinating statement is the power of gain staging you mentioned which affects the whole sound and not just a portion of it. Never thought about it that way.

if you got more like this I would like to subscribe and give back....I can write ten paragraphs about how helpful this is but im so inspired to keep watching ...please give us more like this god bless !!

Finally a actual beat mix only I can finally comprehend easily and understand quickly this is a masterpiece frfr … Thanks my only request would be a part 2 on a more 808 heavy trap style beat just my personal reference lol but frfr thanks man great lesson!

Those chords sound just like Make It Last Forever by Keith Sweat 😉

I like the way you explain things. I’m subscribing.

Great video, tyvm...

Is that hazelrigg vlc an avalaible plugin? Cant find it

Do you personally mix vocals. I would love to work with you?

But I always reach for a backwards left handed somersault kazoo eq - it’s in my ableton favorites plugin folder

Great gems in here 😃

Excellent video!!!

With regard to the brightness of the cymbals I feel at the point in the track where you were deciding how you wanted them to sound darker was better BUT I also think that this is a case for automation so that they could be brighter elsewhere in the arrangement.

Cymbals darker.

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Thanks, Matthew. Really great video, you are so incredibly good at articulating sound concepts. I was wondering, you described EQ as boosting level in a specific range, and compression as cutting volume that goes above a volume, do you happen to have a description for panning and what effect that has?

A Hazelrigg plugin? Where? When? Couldn't see anything on their website.

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I don't understand why producers don't mix their own music. Mixing is an essential part of creating music. How can they just half-heartedly create a piece that needs to be refined and finished by someone else?

Great fan sir you aree doing sooo good

Solid fundamental's.

What I love here, is the great effort to try and explain in a meaningful way, something ultimately slippery and amorphous. As a producer, I struggle with mixing, it drives me literally insane, I complete a production that I like and then typically the mix will be a process of destruction, because I don’t really know what more I’m trying to achieve, afterall - have I not already achieved my goals in the production? And if I haven’t, is that more production or is it now up to the mix to get it over the line, or, get this - is it actually mixed? Perhaps I have balanced and compressed, eq’d and reverbed all I needed to, perhaps I just need to tidy up a bit and its done. However, one piece of the puzzle will allude if I do not consider the mix as a separate process. Loudness or clarity. Here in, is where it gets messy and often my productions might collapse. When I start pursuing clarity and loudness, the symbiotic relationships of some instruments will lose their initial inspirational qualities. Once I hear the bass pull away from the kick, I ask myself…is that good? Bad? Better or worse and am confronted with an overwhelming, indeed infinite universe of possibilities. If I don’t consider the mix and instead ‘housekeep’ the production, a loud, car stereo compatible mix is not forthcoming, instead it is at best dark and lite sounding, at worse muddy and flat sounding. What do you think Matt? I personally struggle with taking away frequencies that otherwise make the production feel full and vibey and will always doubt that the thinner albeit with better definition, is actually an improvement at all.

Thank you for another amazing tutorials... please what are your thoughts on how loud a beat should be when sending it to an artist...also, please do a video (if possible) on recommendations for programmed drum kits for modern production. With lots options out there and the challenge of not having excellent monitoring, it can be hard to tell what's good quality

Damn I can't seem to find that vlc plugin :(

good stuff as always

Deep knowledge here.

Absolute Gem!!!!

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You’re such a good teacher, so many mixing videos make it to be so incredibly incomprehensible. Thanks for this. Also, very curious about the EVO 251, would be awesome to hear a 1:1 comparison.