Automation is everything. I rarely use a "set and forget" method on effects. I like to adjust the parameters of ALL effects as the song plays. For example, being able to ramp up the size of a reverb when the singer hits the last note of a verse (and then increase wetness to drag out the tail) gives you total control. I have faders jumping everywhere at playback, and they often represent effects parameters (not just volume levels).
Thank you!! The sidechain compression of the reverb was very helpful. I always asked myself how people get the reverb sound so far away when the singer sings and when he stops it rings out! I always thought its a special reverb, but thats the trick!
I'm gonna have to stop watching your videos for a bit while I'm trying to get our bands 10 song project mixed. Everytime I watch another tips video I end up with 10 songs to go fix! Lmao!! Seriously, it already sounds pretty darn good for a first try thanks to hours and hours spent learning from you man!! Too many things to even mention here. Thanks so friggin much Chris, from "Introducing Maelstrom". We're having a blast doing this!! Cheers 🍻
pre delay always works great when you calculate with the daw delay before the reverb, just put the 16 notes and be giving you the ms, and from there you go up or down in half. Another one is to wide the reverb use mid side EQ after the reverb where you cut the high on the mid and push with a shelf about 6k in the side And one more put a upward comp before the reverb and give motion you can give motion on vocals, snare Last one combine reverb for vocal (plates or Springs ) the stereo with no predelay and short decay and the mono one with a predelay and long decay.
For my part I’m a fan of your sixth trick (the hidden bonus one! ) which is to split the verses and the choruses on two separate channels. Also useful for overlaps…
Thank you Chris for your free Delay & Rev pdf guide. Your videos are very helpful, I learn a lot from them. Thank you very much. You are just wonderful 👍
This is such a great tutorial so far about reverb and how to make it greater to fit in the mix , it is very settle. However, you missed out to mention that the FX send has to be pre-fader instead of post-fader or post-pan because of its internal performance influence and independent control that you can have when having the send FX pre or post.
love your thoughts Chris.... maybe most here are like me with semi-powerful home DAWs and work on personal projects?... in most pro DAWs it's unlimited tracks, or more than we can use (or keep track of) so i like to get the vocal eq'd and compressed. add what fx in the chain, then duplicate the main track as many times as fx i may use. 2 tracks for plug-in chains. 1 track for pasted echoes. maybe 1 more track for filtered resonant voice if warranted. that's 5 tracks... mute the fx in main and the fx not used in other tracks, even delete unused plug-ins if CPU power is an issue. by doing this we have control of everything within each track, even kicking the audio a few ms for phasing or chorus... we can easily automate each track so delay backs off but verb hangs in without affecting the whole chain etc... may even wish to have that "ol' radio" sound in parts and back to lush verbs with backings... i like to make a wave file out of some fx tracks and bring in on new tracks so i can further play with it like an ADSR envelope. also possible to time stretch, reverse, and more..... and when we make an fx file we may just be able to capture a little bit of magic especially if using wah, phaser, chorus type fx. it's all up to the imagination... a lot of the time less is more... if fx are to be used it's best to do as Chris says and keep the main dry. best tip... buy the most silent mic you can for your budget. Rode make some awesome mics with a noise floor of about 7db-10db for reasonable $$.... with a low noise floor it's truly amazing how much better fx can sound without the presence of airy hiss. decent interface helps too. if you make dirty low-fi type sound then noise floor isn't an issue. you could use an old tape recorder mic if that's what gives the sound you're looking for... the rest gets hidden in the mix or cleaned with software.
The video is extremely informative, thank you for all the information on vocal recording. I would love to know when the single will be released... I'll certainly be on the lookout. Great content
Great tutorial ! Regarding tip#1: would you need one FX channel for each source/dry channel or would you send multiple source/dry channels to the same FX channel ?
Chris! You are brilliant! Are you going to be adding another mix tutorial in your mixing course? I really enjoyed following along with you in the other songs you did! Cheers brother!
For the Mixing course, I will add a couple more videos that I think is important for the course, but I'm not adding another song to Mix. If you're part of the Mixdown Coaching Community, I will run a Mixing Walkthrough video of the song you've heard in this video. Doors for the Mixdown Coaching Community are closed right now, but I will open the doors to new members in ealy 2022
Pretty nice! At last I got an Idea about using reverb properly. Also quite enlightening is the amount and the tempo of the delay that is heard after stopping. Thanks for sharing
Great video. Panning reverbs can be useful also (#6 on the list maybe.) Btw, I see that you use the Britson channel. Is that your preferred console emulation?
Up know what will be funny and helpfull ! I ve never seen the Dsp Code audio engineerings ading a comp inside the reverb vst itself! with sc option of course !
Great tutorial. That helped me a lot. By the way, I’ve never heard better mixed drums. They sound great and leave so much space for bass guitar and vocals.
The Decapitator almost sounded like a vocal doubler. Might be cool to put on during a chorus. It also might be nice to add a touch of it AFTER the reverb to 'diffuse' it a bit more.
I've only been a musician for about 45 years and I've designed and built many prototypes in the professional audio field, designed whole systems, acoustic rooms, did sound for live performances and produced people's records and I've never once used terms like "size" and "tail" regarding reverb lol
Thanks a lot for this indept lecture. I'm going back to my current projects. About three of them. They'll sure sound a lot better.😇 Bless you real good Sir. Pls where do I find the free guide you talked about?
Great tips I love the video so helpful. Please I have question, the compressor what number like DB should I leave at when i add it at the fix in cubase..
Very cool Chris, thanks so much! I've also used the sidechain technique for reverb on two projects and find it very helpful. Great tip! Otherwise I also split the vocal tracks or automate the send levels. Cheers Chris! :-)
i do not know we might be same age ! Anyway ! Did you remember the old tech but very good having 2 reverbs like one short and one long reverb ?i do ! whay do not use it or do you ? whay in the world you still use auto ?you allready kind of with sc have some sort of auto !you can audio just 2 on -off and that it !
