Dude, how are you not being sponsored by @Ableton? Your tutorials have been key in giving me clarity and making me fall in love with the potential for this software. I initially thought it would be too beatmaker focused, but your series has helped me understand how powerfully it can complement my audio approach. So much moreso than Cakewalk was. You are a fantastic instructor and talented creator! Thanks!
About headroom, what I prefer is to leave the faders at 0db and use special plugins (from Hornet or just the Utility) to lower the volume. cause some of the plugins we love to use, particular those emulating analog gear got a sweetspot around -18dbfs. so I lower the levels before any processing plugin. Good idea is also a clipper on groups before summing. Clipper > Limiter. its easier to get a more cohesive mix at the end.
@@Taetro you can just put a utility with the desired gain and an eq on a new audio and midi track and then just save them as default whenever you make a new track...
I am new to Abelton and it's like a new language... your videos have been the MOST helpful videos I've found. You explain things in a way that actually makes sense and allows viewers to learn. Can't thank you enough!!!
Taetro sometimes it's like you're reading my mind. I was searching for basic mixing tips earlier today. You rock! 🎉❤ edit: I just used these tips on a track I needed to mix in real time and OH BOY were they effective!!! Can't wait for the next one :)
This is all great advice. A lot of people share tips that can do more harm than good if you are inexperienced, but these are safe/valuable for producers of all levels.
thank you so much for guiding us on how to do this & that to produce musics.. anyways can you please do a review on Joyo Momix Pro? I’m not quite sure if it’s an audio interface.. i’m curious if it’s good for Mac/PC and the latency
Despite messing around with ableton for a few years and creating countless “finished” tracks, this has been extremely helpful and I learned a lot!! It has also just helped me simply to feel inspired, so thank you Taetro!
This is so well done. I learned more from you in 20 minutes than any else online. Could you do something that explains compression (when and how to use it effectively) to a moron like me?
Mix translation in Ableton is pain, no one shows u how the really mix and master in every step, or which daw they actually use to complete the process😂
This is the process I use! Mix & master all my music entirely in Live. Mixing process is very involved / fluid from project to project and hard to encapsulate in a single video - check some past livestreams for a deeper look into my process.
Love how you kept this really simple and basic for beginners and didn't try to include all of these fancy "mIxInG chEAt c0Des" that other ppl are doing. Simple, concise, and to the point. Great work as always.
Oh also for video ideas for this series: I'm always interested in the "after it's all finished time to put your music out there" phase. I feel like you've really covered the whole process of making a song and I'd love to hear your thoughts on putting the music out there (especially since lots of your videos are sponsored by DistroKId)
Bravo!!! I've followed you from ep. 1 - 10. I have a beat prepared based on what I've learned from you. Please let me know how I can get you to hear and evaluate it. I'm a community member as well. Thanks for everything. Talk Soon. 💯
Hey Kerwin!! Stoked the videos are helping!! We are doing track reviews TOMORROW! (monday) So you can go ahead and link your track in the "track-review-submissions" channel on discord!
Thank you Taetro!! Your series gave me so many tips for making my own music and was a great watch. Even thought I had some experience already in Ableton, learning all these little shortcuts and methods I would’ve otherwise never known was really fun. I’m gonna watch your music theory series next 🎶
Thank you !! You're the first one that I love to listen to and who actually teaches me something I understand and gives me Energy and courage to learn even if I knOw it's gonna me take hours, weeks and months to understand some of the stuff about mixing and about Ableton Live. Haha So I'm very grateful to you.
What are your thoughts on "cheating" by using a smart EQ or mixing plugins? Izotope's Neutron and Sonible have some interesting tools but I'm skeptical if they can compare to doing it manually.
No such thing as cheating. I’ve used izotopes AI before. Usually they can provide a decent starting point but need a helping hand. Ultimately you will need to know what your listening for and how to change it anyway. So AI is a tool but not a replacement for skill I think
One thing about headroom, I was watching a Techno tutorial the other day and the instruction there was to use a limiter with a -8 dB ceiling on each track's instrument, from what I understand by doing that I wouldn't also need to change the volume of the track in the mixer later right? And the limiter could also make it so that single instrument has a more normalized volume (if that's something one wants in their music).
Maybe it could work, but a limiter will squash each track a bit, which will have an effect on the actual sound. Then what happens later if you want to adjust the volume of each sound?
