THIS is how you LEVEL UP your MIXING 

So do I, it's well overdue.

@@TheHouseofKushTV - It's been 13 hours already, Greg! Where is the video!? Another super insightful video, thanks!

Want? More like need!!

Agreed-- and man, this channel is fantastic.

As a simple starting point you can use 1k as a mirror point. I.e. if you boost @ 2k, cut @ 500 (1k X2 vs /2), boost 10k, cut 100 (1k x10 vs /10). make sense?

Thats what i thought💯🎯💎

As are we all, young Padawan.

Never thought of it that way, but.... yeah!

@@TheHouseofKushTV well done, fellas

Nowadays you can't get away with your lead unless it goes through 24-32 plugs when it hits the master bus. Just saying 🤗

@@wolfgangdevries127 as long as one of them is Autotune, the other 31 are all wasted...

I mix hybrid and only use minimal eq in the box (mostly for surgical stuff) or or unique to plugins stuff like Soothe. I think the difference in the “old way” of one analog eq on vocal in mix is that people used to have a lot more in the tracking chain….I know I do. I will commit EQ to taste in tracking, as well as compression and saturation. Nowadays, the majority of engineers just do clean capture and then a stack of plugins in mix. There’s no right way, but I sure have a lot of fun twisting knobs and making the record sound like the record starting at the tracking phase. I also have found when I’m mixing purely ITB, I have to use lots of plugins to get the sound I get mixing OTB with console and outboard….like more plugins than eqs and comps engaged in my typical OTB mix.

Most times if you have a good recording you barely have to make many adjustments. A good vocalist has very consistent volumes making compression be less pronounced to achieve a desirable outcome and EQ would be just to cut that little bit and sit it well in the mix. I've always heard to make small adjustments on everything

@@pedrosilvamusician what if your style dictates big adjustments? not even style, the vibe of the song can justify almost every move you make to make it speak to the listener. sometimes it's lots of smaller moves, sometimes one big, bold, and proud😉

Do whatever you need to to make it sound “good” 🤗

Agreed, mindset is 98% of the battle. If you can hear a thing, and if you have an instinct about it, you'll eventually figure out what to do about it. Might take another 2 or 72 mixes to figure that out, but it's inevitable. If the mindset isn't right, though, it's hamster wheels all the way down!

@@TheHouseofKushTV as someone who’s been mixing for a while now and just recently come to the “mindset” I can wholeheartedly agree. Back then I was doing way too much over thinking and going backwards that I was never satisfied, but now I’m confident in my movements.

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I get it man, option overload is real!

Right on! Serial compression is, for me, the way to go at least 50% of the time.

if he died or something im gonna be sad

That's the goal, right on!

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