Seamless, Would you ever try the Beethoven Challenge?, its a challenge where you have to produce a song in a set amount of time with your speakers turned off . The track must contain no live audio (all Midi and samples) and you can't hear anything until after it's rendered to an audio file.
honestly some of the most basic stuff mentioned in this video i didn't know. (I'm not bragging either) this was a very detailed informative video! thanks!
just randomly ran into your stuff today, ive been kind of looking for these videos for years, but nothing has satisfied my needs and what i wanted to learn for years! you rock dude thanks for the imput, who needs school?!
"there aren't any rules, these are merely guidelines just to ensure that even if you dont know what your doing u'll get somewhere good- and u'll learn what your doing and then u can do anything u want"- SeamlessR
Seamless, I've learned more from this then any other tutorial about mixing and EQing out there. Thank you for doing what you do!! I love your tutorials!
It took me a long time to start thinking about eq as a balancing tool instead of a creative tool to adjust sound and timbre. I think that is important to understand in the beginning because it would have helped me mix much more efficiently when beginning.
extremely helpful. Most of this stuff I really did not know and a drop for one of my tracks sounded terrible (the chords) and I was able to get it fixed finally because of this :D
Actually I don't like to comment in youtube videos, but your tutorials are helping me every time when I making music, so I just decided to say thank you :) Thank you Seamless!
Thanks for the help Seamless! My mixes, like, suck, but I'll get better I guess. Your explanation about the "evening the frequencies" helped a lot. At least I now know what I'm doing.. :)
6:35 If anyone wants to know why you should not boost, then read this. When you boost a frequency, it takes up more headroom in your mix, making the sound much more present. This can make your mix muddy, and much more difficult to EQ. You don't need to boost it because it "sounds cool" there are other ways to make certain frequencies more present. By boosting, you are just making it much more difficult on yourself, because when you put the sound into the mix, IT USUALLY WILL NOT GLUE WELL IN THE MIX WITH OTHER SOUNDS. If it is necessary to boost, it is possible by using linear EQ with plug-ins like Fruity Convolver, but make the boost very small. Just thought I'd clear it up for everyone.
Hi Seamless, The whole mixing and equalization thing is something that I've had trouble with since forever. I get the point of "making a hole in one for the other one to be in :D", but I find it a really difficult thing to do when there are 4 or 5 sounds overlapping eachother. Or even like a pad, a bass-kind-of-pad and a piano that share the same frequencies in the middle. How do you deal with this? Thanks in advance, you're an awesome human being.
Your videos are great !!! You have really helped me , I´m working on a couple tracks right now and I think their getting pretty good, ones they are done I would love to send them to you so you can tell me what you think
How do you go about things like... layer'ed chords and melody's... this video is actually helping me a lot but it shows me with vocals and a saw... what about like... a pluck with piano and a pad all together mixing those things...? Not to sure i am explaining it right.
When mixing a track, would you render all files and then EQ the audio files rather than just adding another EQ on the chain? I know you have videos already demonstrating which I have yet to watch, but I was just curious about your preference.
+SeamlessR is it okay to have your individual instrument mixer channels peaking just below 0, then turn down your master fader volume down to compensate? or does that digitally distort things?
Good day to you sir! I have about 14 years most selflearnt (but then whats better than trial and fail over and over and over and so lol) I know everything in you video, but NO WAY I could explain this to anoyone. You are AWESOME dude! Keep doing this! il spread your channel to people who constantly ask me HOW U GET THAT SOUND SO GOOD bla bla bla.. LEARN READ lol but people are lazy. Possible to have a private "chat" sometime? I would love your input on some Mastering as iv started working in a pro studio, and we have vocal female artist with , you know that voice that just makes the text "meaningless" ? sorry for spelling errors I am dyxlectic and asperger. Have a nice day!
So, if you were making a bass track and you wanted people to pay attention to the drums and bass, would you eq everything around those elements? or would you just try to do everything together?\
+ian baggett I would treat the other tracks around those elements. I find it useful to pick one or two elements of a track that take precedence and make sure the song flows around them. The other things obviously need to be heard, but don't let them get in the way of the elements you want to show off.
Hi Seamless :) ! Great vid (as always)- Question about the Fruity Parametric EQ 2: I've come across guides that will recommend setting particular Q (bandwidth) values of say, 1.0 ( 1 1/3 octaves). Since the bandwidth knob in the Parametric EQ 2 only identifies percentages (from what I can see), would you happen to know the 'Q value' to percentage conversion? This has been bugging me for quite a while and I have been unable to find an answer in the FL Forums.
As long as I understand your question properly, that's exactly what he is talking about. I'm assuming you're talking about mixer tracks. If so, YES. Every track should be EQ'd so that it fits with any other track that has audio in the same frequency range. For example, vocals and synths. if you have them in separate mixer tracks, eq them separate from each other so that they sit evenly in the mix. Rarely, if ever, use any EQ in the master track because if done properly with the other tracks, you won't need any in the master...unless you are trying to mess with the equalization of something where you can't split up all the elements. In which case, do the best you can...and good luck. Hopefully this helped. Happy Producing!
Thanks so much for your videos! I'm noticing that when I make a bass/midbass sound, it has overtones/harmonics that make it sound like a major chord. This is problematic when working on projects in a minor key. Sometimes, those harmonics give a desired timbre to the sound, just not at the intended pitch, so surgically EQing them would take from the sound I'm going for. Any suggestions?
So this is how I understand it. Many sounds played at once can group together and sound clustered. The purpose of mixing is to divide each sound's play time so that each sound has a chance to be heard. Am I right?
So this is the kind of technique artists use to mix many songs into a giant mix? They make the different sounds in different tracks fit into eachother by using equalizers?
SeamlessR Thank you for doing tutorials seamless, you encouraged me to do tutorials too in my language (spanish) and it's freakin awesome to help people and to supply them with the information we needed when we were starting out. BIG RESPECT!
The frequencies involved is the differences , I cant remember exactly which is which but different types of noises have bigger and smaller bandwidths, some span the whole width of the human hearing, some are focused around different frequencies
White noise = same energy on every frequency Pink noise = same energy on every octave So pink noise has more energy on lower frequencies. It is useful because human hearing is in octaves, and so pink noise is what sounds flat to humans.
Q1: Not much except for their purpose in life. Q2: Yes they can. In the case of Fruity Parametric EQ2 you can automate the parameters in the plugin and sweep the frequency of any node to create a filter-like effect. Check out, like, half of SeamlessR 's "How to Bass" videos and you'll see him do it to create crazy bass sounds. Hopefully this helped. Happy Producing!
EQ is what you are doing (i.e. you are equalising) - a filter is what you use to do it (peak notching, band passing, low/high shelving, low/high passing etc.). An EQ is better than using a dedicated filter because you are given multiple filters within a single instance of an EQ (and FL Studios EQ's allow you to choose what filter type you use for each band) - whereas most filters only offer you a single one. If you have a 7-band parametric EQ (as does FL Studios), each of which can be any filter type of your liking, you can see this as having 7 filters in a single instance.
KalleZz That makes sense to me, but I can't mix for shit. I suppose the compression is the answer to the "added DBs", and then you still get a louder and thicker sound by not taking a lot out of the mids and lows?
rebdzsfbdsf Lol wouldn't be as awesome as an actual subsonic bass. But a male with a deep voice could definitely hum and make a bass line. I've thought of doing it, but I need a mic first
