These Will Transform Your Mix... (Thank Me Later!) 

I side chain myself with a good mix engineer and boom - it works!

Great! I've never thought of sidechaining pads!

I am a solo artist and I Love your videos bro, you have been helping me for years now! Thank you for that

Thanks Streaky, some great examples here, thanks for sharing, much appreciated video as always 😊💛

Very cool and useful episode.... Thanks Streaky !!!

Streaky is spying me lol. 😂I thinking about watching a great side chaining video about sitting a vocal then you make a video that's mind blowing. Its like synchronization

Super valuable information here! Thank You!

Spot on! 🥳🎶 simply great and inspiring video!!

Thanks Streaky, what a difference, this is very helpful...

That's a nice plugin and tutorial thanks! I've been doing this a long long time, they made records in the past say 70's 80's that sound great without a lot of tools we have today. Part of me says learn how to shape your sounds with EQ, compression etc. to get your vocal to sit in the mix the other part of me says use only when needed the tools we have available. My biggest gripe about modern mixes and music is things are too perfect (perfectly boring), it's the anomalies that keep the listener engaged along with good song writing, arranging, use of effects etc. In the last example with the pad, I typically roll of the low end of pads at 220 Hz and up they eat up a ton of space that makes room for your bass synth and other low end material. I always harp on this, get a frequency chart and learn where the fundamental frequency starts per instrument, in general you don't need any information below that point. As an example a Viola's fundamental starts above 120Hz, pads are akin to a string section you don't need pad sounds at 80Hz.

Very cool! I've applied the same concept with dynamic eq. I use it with acoustic guitars to duck between 6-9k a dB or two whenever the vocals come in. Leaves the bright pick attack sound in for when guitars are on their own, but ducks it when I start singing. Very subtle but it works! Sidechaining dynamic eq's is worth it's own video imo. Great video man! Love the format! No BS and good demos of the technique at work. Cheers!

Trackspacer is fantastic. Discovered it when I found Deep Forest uses it for their tracks. But I hadn't thought of some of the use cases you pointed out here! Thanks!

You are a blessing to the world

Thanks for those inspiring tricks! :)

1 : Dry Signal to Wet signal ( 1:29 ) 2 : Kick to Bass ( 2:36 ) 3 : Lead Vocal to Backing Track ( 3:16 ) 4 : Lead Vocal to Background Vocal ( 5:22 ) 5 : Lead Synth to Pad ( 6:11 )

That synth and pad examples was night and day 🤯👏🏻

Great stuff!! 👏🔥👏🔥

Superb, Streaky. Cheers.

What a fantastic Video Streaky, the level of info with the quality of video is off the chain!! Your voice really cuts through the video too!!😉😂😂👍

I love Trackspacer, it is an absolute gamechanger for mixing...good Tips and Tricks - there should be more content like this outthere for Trackspacer BTW...and i have to add: your channel is great, very helpful and authentic...

Multiband side-chaining is a key to actually have two main parts separated but still as loud as before.

thanks Streaky as i needed this tip

The man, the myth, the legend! Appreciate you Streaky! You’ve got my music to another level!

Props to the new editor

Man thank you heaps for all of this! This is really helpful, I’ve only done bass ans kick side chaining!

Thanks streaky, for your knowledge and I use side chaining, but never thought on doing it on pads

As a Trackspacer alternative, FAST Reveal from Focusrite is a good choice.

just bought it thank you for the guide sir!

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Thanks for a great tips🔥

Thank you so much Man!!

Thanks ! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Dope video, clean as hell Super useful ❤️‍🔥

You're a superstar!!!

GAME CHANGER .. BEEN USING FOR A WHILE SO SIMPLE TO USE ALSO...

Thanks for all your videos mate! Learnt a lot from them, also took one of your mixing courses and my mixes sound definitely better and in way less time. Totally worth it!

The Trackspacer is a GREAT tool for quick changes

I sidechain bass/kick and backing/lead vocals often; not tried the others, so will definitely give these a try.

Thanks for these tips Streaky! What’s the advantage in using Track Spacer as opposed to a dynamic EQ or a multi-band compressor?

I sidechain the kick when the bass appears... that's OS jungle for you. I've used Trackspacer for ages and it is utterly brilliant btw, for anyone thinking of getting it.

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Super video man

Thanks for this video

It's very subtle but it gets the job done !

this is super cool

Nice one. 👌🏻 i like the product.

great advice. and yes, thank u

Thank You !!!

This vid cant be paid with money. Thank you Streaky !

That bassline in the kick bass part is nasty!

It looks great.

GREAT VIDEO.THANKS!!!!!

Thank you ❤

Love trackspacer

Thank you for pointing out the mid-side capability of Trackspacer. I don't think enough people explore this level of sidechain ducking. One of my favorite pairings is Dry vs. Wet. Doesn't matter what type of sound, could be drums dry vs. drums reverb or vocals dry vs. vocal reverb/delay like you showcased. I like to dial it a bit more to Mid on this pairing so that the reverb can stay nice and spacious and wide, but the drums or vocals stay really focused and more tight in the center. Trackspacer is one of my favorite plugins and is in every project at this point. I also think it's worth shouting out Mastering the Mix FUSER as a new alternative that has a feature for auto-aligning phase, which is awesome for the kick vs. bass pairing. Adds a bit more latency and CPU usage than Trackspacer, but is a great way to auto optimize kick vs. bass relationship that much quicker. It also tackles mid and side ducking for you automatically if you want.

Awesome video thanks

Wow!, brilliant video, side chain explained at last, just gotta get trackspacer.........thank you

Thank you!!!!!

Just purchased your 🔌 🔥

Thank you sir

Focusrite FAST REVEAL is great for this too.

I use it every day since it exists, sometimes I prefer the Fabfilter Q3 on the bass which I find more precise for handling the phase. Thank you for all these videos

Thank you for the video! Wondering if using pre-delay setting on some reverb and delay works the same? It also keeps the tails and highlight the clarity of vocal.

Thanks ❤

I do this same thing with soothe. I feel like I can be more subtle with it

Thank You for another great video... I`m struggeling with making a clean and clear Mix in Mono, while my mix in stereo sounds much clearer... Maybe You give some examples and tips in a nother video? Streaky is one of my top favoured channel... All the best to You from Cologne, Germany

By the way amazing edits lots of work but geat

Thanks bro 👍

Love your vids they are not to longggg and get to the point. I'm addicted . So to side chain the pad you place the SC on the pad and use the synth as the trigger?

Nice!

Thank you Streaky, actually, I have been using this technique but never used it with a specific frequency band. Thats a new for me!

Love trackspacer, but Soothe 2 does a great job as well

I would say #6 would be vocals and guitars. There's quite a few times I need to duck out the distorted rhythm guitars during the lead vocals. I use the hi & lo pass filters set 1k and 3k just to duck out the mids of the guitars about 15% or so. Of course, it depends on the song and how the guitars are eq'd.

If the legend says so let's change the game...appreciate for helping us

love your content . Could you make a video about how to fix phase issues in the mix ? ( polarity/phase )

bro i needed this video a year ago lol

You're the shit!

OK Track spacer looks like a really nice tool!

great video 👋

For alternatives, you can start for free with TDR Nova. You manually select up to 4 frequencies that are essential for the solo track (vocals, git solo..), and these will be softened in the background stem, which might be like all keyboards, or the drum overheads+room mics, or as shown, the pad sounds. Use the built-in spectral display to see where things are. Find out the best Q values, normally they should be broader and can even overlap. Now what you can do here especially, is hide this technique with carefully selecting attack and release timing per frequency, and do it so that the background track does not sound broken or coughing. Very often, it is enough to duck these basic frequencies by 1 or 2 dB.

Probably your on of your top5 videos ever.....

Interesting video. I don't own track spacer but use Unmask module (part of Izotope Neutron) to do the same job. Have you tried and compared? what is your opinion?

was doing kick/bass one live using external gate on ducking mode

* Track separation and Side-chaining must be used for bringing up the main instruments or vocals, for clarity of individual channels/buses, for over-all richness (hearable) of arrangements. FabFilters, Sonible Smart EQ3, WaveFactory Track-Spacer, Sonible Intelligent Limiting & Loudness Compressor, ERA 6 AcuSonus Audio CleanUp Assistant, Focusrite Fast Reveal, Ozone 11 or Neutron 4 (Vocal separation/enhancer, Spectral Shaper or Stabilizer), Blue Cat's Dynamics (flexible compressor with prefilter, side-chain, over-sampling, look-ahead, peak envelope, modes, RMS), TR5 Quad Image (four bands with stereo-width and gain, solo-band control), TR5 Opto-compressor with L/R and M/S, NEOLD U2A and U17,.. * WaveFactory Track-Spacer - is a simpler, cheaper alternative to FabFilter (and it is good). * From this video (a Streaky way): 1. On side-chain (upper right) select the main channel that needs to stand out. 2. Place TrSp on the channel needed to be ducked, tweak it numerically and by ear (comparing to main tracks and the whole mix). 3. Valhalla Vintage Reverb, Neutron, iZotope, Nomad can be used for making main vocals/instruments not to be drowned in other instruments and effects. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CUyMUHStPxs.html 4. WaveFactory Track-Spacer for main vocals: blue dot for advanced features, LC around 800Hz, HC around 3kHz. 5. WaveFactory Track-Spacer can also be used for clarity and separation on drums and bass(es). * Another way for clarity and standing out of vocals: 1. Send vocal to two buses, one with reverb, another one with delay. 2. Apply compressors on both buses after effects. 3. Sidechain the compressors to the vocal. This way the reverb and delay will be kind of on and off (less muddy). 4. Tweak to have aprx. -5to8db gain reduction with 100% mix in. Or just reduce reverb and delay (along with low frequences, LC) on vocals themselves ;) Or duplicate the vocal channel and apply different effects and stereo-placement to them ;) Or..explore ;) Of course, now i have to sort the tracks as the main and secondary, so i can apply a better, more appropriate limiters, compressors, EQ's and spacers, then split my very old 28 minutes pool (one of the firsts) into sections, apply tools and effects individually to sections (mix) and then glue everything together, and then master...agh..was trying to avoid this huge job, but there is no other way to make this one long, very immature piece of very variable music sound good. Reality has no short-cuts. Now commercial came up: "flirt with woman when she feels about you, not thinks about you". Don't know why, i never used computer on these subjects, maybe because it is almost 2AM...Time to go to sleep. Yeah, humans trashed and raped the planet with garbage and wars, lets talk about sex.. Yepp...

Streaky try the backing track with sooth 2 works much more precise and oversampled result

SOOTHE SOOTHE SOOTHE

You might not love to this comment, Streaky, but after subscribing the other day from one of your great videos, and now all I see is your videos suggested to me, that is fine, but then I wanted to see more about mid side processing and then watched one or two of your videos, and you couldnt explain it, you then said let me show would be better, but then you didnt exagerate enough for us to hear the difference on RU-vid, I wacthed of your videos, I noticed sometimes you are not patient enough to stoop and slow down explain, I didnt get it clear and clicked off, left some comment why this why that...... I love your videos and love love to share your experieces with others out of your busy life, but still you are sometimes not able crystal clearly explain the things in your head through words, not everything people can understand just by watching. Then I left to see others and found thise woman explain midside OMG it was easy and clear as day, I advice you to watch this video of hers and see what we mean by explaing things clearly, and incoporate that to your next videos, you will get more videos and much better feedback that will even make you do more. you might not understand our side of things. here is the video and chanel owner: copy paste the below to RU-vid and learn to add to your arsenal of knowledge, Thanks Streaky for all the 900 plus videos, but check this out: Using Mid Side EQ In Mixing (for space and clarity Sara Carter

FAST Reveal is very good alternative

nice! what bass vst is it?

Hey Streaky! Kai here. Thanks a lot for your videos. They are really insightful. A quick question: You have this sidechain drop down mentioned at 1:05; it appears all your plugins have it. How do you activate it? I was checking out your video on Q3, EQ match etc., and I was obstructed by this sidechain drop down. I use Ableton so when I sidechain, I normally use a Compressor or Filter. When I check the FabFilter documentation, it also lacks this sidechain dropdown in the top right corner, and doesn't show the Compare/Copy top bar. Is it a Logic Pro thing? How can I activate this button so that I can perform this sidechaining function with Q3? I have had to resort to creating another instance of the Q3 on the vocal but this doesn't allow me to manually set the threshold with the sidechain button. Since there is no sidechain dropdown, whenever I activate the "little button" there is no signal. Love the videos. I eagerly await your response. Kai

Sidechain everything with everything😂

Cool video 😎

What attack and release settings would be good for 2 beats or instrumentals like rap, rock when vocals are being sidechained

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hi streaky i was wondering but what is your gear list?

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Do u sidechain on snares claps with tops or hats?

Hi man, i have one question, probably you've already answered , but please try to make my mind cleaner. i don't understand when you create a return track and when just put the effect on the track. i was thinking that you have to put the effect on the track when you really want to change the sound , and in the return when you want to mix? or you always create a return track for delay and reverb? many thanks cheers jack =)

Can you do a video how to mix A piano house track As a pro. For instands, how to blend the bass into the piano and how to separate the kick, clap and hi hats from the bass and the piano and then mix all the elements back together?

it sound much much much better without the highpass on trackspacer with kick n bass dont know why but it just does