Mixing Vocals to A 2 Track Instrumental (The Key Secret) 

Been mixing for years and took a couple off from music and just came back this January. I've been diving back into tutorials etc to regain my skills and see what new techniques I might have missed out on. This is my first time seeing something like this done to a 2-track. Since I was pretty intrigued by the outcome, I opened up my DAW and gave it a go with Neutron and within 30 seconds of fiddling around I made a 2-track that, while not necessarily poorly mixed, it is rather lifeless and FLAT come ALIVE. Brilliant! Fantastic tutorial.

Weiss for president now.

The Moment we've all been waiting for !! Incredible stuff as always matt !!

And here we go with the good stuff! Excited to see this channel blow up.

One of the most informative tutorials I've seen in a very long time. The whole white noise thing was super helpful. Thank you sir.

Good job thank you for this gem! Awesome

man, the way you articulate things is beyond me. I am so grateful for your desire to equip and teach. You're as gifted a teacher as you are engineer. Excited for the platforms growth and I can't wait for the website.

@weissadvice you are truly my favorite engineer to learn from. love the way you explain things !

I'm glad u back I been rocking with you going ten years Thanks for all your help My mixing improve so much

This is literally the problem I've been struggling with this week. Thanks so much for this video.

love the videos my guy!!! I been trying to learn new ways to mix vocals to a 2track beat and this is perfect!

that's insane! never heard of this trick. ever :-) Just awesome!

I wish you the best! Keep em commin’, you’re the 🐐!

Mind-blowing !!! Never thought to look this way, thank you so much

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Interesting choice for a first video. Looking forward to the future of this channel!

Matt is just to damn good. EXCELLENT!

wish I had watched this video 2 weeks ago! haha this is some great advice, can't wait to use it on my next mix, great video!

Great Advice Love it love it and LOVE IT!

Almost 10 years later and you matt are still my Guru! 🤪 I just use trackspacer and side chain vocals to the beat and call it a day. BTW using trackspacer AFTER an effect like reverb/delay does some pretty amazing stuff. 😏

Yo thank you for this video. Well done. Wish there were more tutorials on mixing 2 tracks

man this is a game changer. thank you so much.

This is the sauce. Thanks, Matt!

This is great bruh!

Great work, as always Mat.

Highly informative as always thanks

love this video so much.

Weiss advice #1 , I took it. Thank you ❤️

Appreciate this one. Just starting to use the transient shaper plugin regularly

I’ve watched this over a dozen times. Instead of carving out freq. permanently. I was using fab to 🦆 when the vocals came in. It’s like rearranging your bedroom and noticing how spacious it is now. Thnx again. First time hearing this technique 💘

Your a true gem my friend

Thank you Weiss for this tutorial...I would love to see a tutorial were you show us Producers and mix engineers how to make Mix a beat in a way it's compelling to the artiste to buy but also free from the issues you showed us how to correct in this video

Joey here, and I’m 100% here to support and learn!

Thank you, Great stuff here!

Love this!

This was just the best advice ever in mixing with a 2 track beat, thanks man.

Thanks, that's one nice tip.

Really valuable info to me.... I struggle often with how much vocal treatment can I do until I destroy the performance ("Feeling/Emotion"). Especially when I go with Melodyne. It's more an editing topic... but...Would be great to see your approach. Best Andre.... Good Luck!

Never thought about doing this until now. Thank you! #weissadvicetothemoon

Great info , thanks!

dope tuto just in time i needed it thanks

Holy shit, this was super informational and helpful!

No haters here man, all love and appreciation for your efforts! and we have same hair style. :) Thank you!

Sauce 🔥

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Very useful info. Thanks

Great .. all the best..

Great tips. I mix so many jobs like this.

this is gold

This’ll help us a lot

this changed my life thanks

THANK YOU!

so do u just use a limiter on vocals to get it out there commercial wise, cause if the instrumental is alr limited how do i send it out to platforms

I need a one on one convo wit you I’m at a level where I’m taking this leap could you show me an FL studio equivalent to this technique?

Super helpful thank you

Bruh I had to keep pausing cuz of the gospel!!! You doing the mix lord's work

most instrumentals found online now have an overpowering low end, How could I take care of that without pulling out an eq instinctively?

This was great! Do beat makers ever provide the stems aka individual audio tracks for mixing?

amazing job bro!

Great video. Once I have finished transient processing I have a question... The beats are usually clipping. So would it be correct to bring the beat and vocal volume down so the master bus is between -3/6 db and then use a limiter to give volume back again?

Thanks for the content! I'd like to see good tips on editing (specially vocals). There isn't enough talk about engineering basics

Do you ever sidechain Trackspacer2 or even Soothe2 to dynamically create space for a vocal on the mixbus? Trackspacer does the job very well. I have yet to try Soothe2 for the task though.

Hi superman, this is really a great stuff for me. One quick question, can you recommend another multiband transient enhancer for me? Example in waves or any other aside izotope. Thanks alot

Greetings to you Weiss, how are you doing....how do you go about panning or getting a wide mix in modern music like dancehall , trap etc where there aren't many elements in it sometimes (one snare, one hi hat, one keyboard part in the verse, a different one in the chorus etc) thanks

will waves vitamin make a simmilar job? i mean it saturates "putting back to life" certain bands but will it actually enchance transient aswell or it has to be certainly multiband transient sheper? will typical envelope shaper make a job done aswell?

Super clutch info! Question: how do u record your tutorial audio while showing a session in your DAW? Do you have 2 sessions running simultaneously?

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Hi I bought the membership of your course for the rest of this tutorial but I can’t find it.. can you help me? Awesome advice

wow. never thought of that, might just retire my trackspacer now lol.

hi weiss great video! im just wondering: how much louder should the vocal be compared to the mp3 beat?

Great videos my guy but can u do a video on how to process vocals to a 2-track beat like eq compress effects ect..?

Would u Do a refresh of this video, with some more tips on depht Plisssssssss!

Could you essentially achieve the same end goal using Ozone 9’s Master Rebalance before M/S processing? The only difference that I can think of is with the transient shaper you’re changing the initial articulation of the drums where as with Master Rebalance you’re changing the volume of the drums.

Great video. I mix with a 2 track everytime. But I don't have a transit sharper like in your video what do I do?

how do you gain stage the vocal and the 2trk beat? do you just adjust the levels by ear?

Could I use an SSL E-channel strip to achieve this effect?

Another Tip. This works waay better in m/s

Will you mix my vocal on mastered beat I will send you flstudio file

Can I used a waves transient to accomplish the same results?

great adv bro

Can you do this if you have a rock hiphop hybrid 2 track? Like a full mix bounce?

Gold

Please do a full lenght video about this, your video is a night and day difference talking about mixing with 2track.

Hi weiss do you gain stage the 2 track before starting your process ?

@0:26 . . . the word is "overarching" (over-arch-ing) rather than "overarcing" (over-arc-ing).

I wish i could use this plugin but it, like a most of my izotope plugins, keep crashing in PT

Would expanding in pro q 3 dynamicly work too?

Great tip!! Thanks #yepyep

I don't understand how to use the lfo tool on fl studio..

Hey new channel I'm subbing good stuff as always

Nice! Can i do this with fab filter in logic?

HIGH 5 BRUH.

Why do you make the instrumentals 2 tracks ?

dawg you look just like berner lmao

you will never be on my level