This video is really brilliant, you can really hear the difference it makes. He's obviously studied this stuff for a long time and knows what he's talking about.
Guys, awesome video here. Gets right to the point and focuses on an all to often neglected part of making music. Great instruction, explanation, and A/B to drive the point home.
Is nice to hear someone explain sound because no professional can truly explain verbally what they mean but Hannes does a great job teaching. awesome help.
I just recently discovered that pesky 4 khz point. I remember braggin to my girl about this amazing discovery and how it clears almost all percs and hi hats and especialy RIDES, and today i found this vid, and it really made me glad to see i'm on the right track. BTW, don't make this cut on the master channel, like i did, because it will sound flat, guys.. don't be lazy.. Thanks for the great video mate! i'm definitely subscribed.
Great video, would love to see more focused like this. Maybe more videos on making a mix? Similar to Abelton Live School? (Like a very edited session of making a track with an artist)
Yes, but the point being, to make things sound EQUAL in energy. A lot of people don't know what they're doing and add eq, boosting areas, just because. We need more videos like this to steer people in the correct direction
Is this even needed? In for example Jeff Mills' - The Bells ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DwpedKWwS3w.html this whistling is very present, but the track is iconic and the whistling doesn't really matter here.
ha! was thinking the same thing. It wouldn't surprise me if mixed this on a some sort of simple desk straight to 2" Tape. But I would really be curious to know. the story and breakdown of the bells.
This still applies if you’re EQing a drum group since around 4kHz you’re mainly affecting cymbals. But be careful with how much you cut and how wide your Q is.
I really appreciate this series! However I'd enjoy those videos even more if someone could de-ess the voice overs... I'm not sure if it's just me but listening to Hannes on my (rather decent) headphones is quite hurtful to my ears...
Kevin Burns yea the vid was well helpful , i think you can pretty much buy every element of a track already processed and ready but that defeats the whole purpose really init , much more fun making ya own sounds
Leave these kind of adjustments to the mastering engineers like him. Focus on making music. With all the technology these days its easy to get lost in the small details.
+djvartan Thats stupid, a mastering engineer can't fix mixing issues, thats like rearranging a photo after its taken. But sure, keep telling yourself that you can leave everything as it is, but I imagine it won't make you a very good producer since the technical aspect is, and have always been important, for a producer.
ToxinX Music (Official) For me personally, there is a concept of beauty in art, and fine tuning things definitely contributes to that. Perfection is impossible, but I don't want to be cluttered by doubt when I listen to my own music because I hear things that sounds bad. Music is changing along with technology, you can't compare how things sounded 15 years ago to how things sound today. If I listen to a house track released when I barely was born, I'm amazed of what they could achieve with what they had. If I hear a song released in 2015 that sounds exactly the same way, I wonder where the will to experiment is. But it all depends on what your own goals are I suppose, if the creative process of composing is all you're after, then that's completely fine.
+djvartan The point of making these notches in the drums is to make room for the more musical elements. If a mastering engineer makes these notches it would be on the mix as a whole, which would mean the musical elements getting attenuated as well. Which means that melody / synth you slaved over for hours won't be appreciated as much. It's much better to spend time cleaning up individual sounds first.
