why your mixdown is shit - tonal balance, brightness equals loudness

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frequency or tonal balance is the number one reason why your track sounds weak. Get this right and make your life easier.
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0:00 intro
1:23 LET PINK NOISE GUIDE YOU THE WAY
4:07 WHY UNBALANCED IS BAD
7:58 BALANCE WITH EQ BY HAND
10:46 OZONE 8 AUTO BALANCE
12:39 DONT MAKE IT TOO BRIGHT
15:29 POOR MANS MULTIBAND
19:11 MORE BANDS WITH BANDPASS FILTERS
20:47 REFERENCE LEVEL PRESET (part of the audio fx - space time color package)
23:31 BALANCE 10 BANDS WITH REFERENCE PRESET
24:54 COMPARISON
26:54 USING PEEL AS BAND FILTER
28:57 EXAMPLE TIME (Drum & Bass)
38:26 Outro
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@MagicCvstle 2 года назад

One of the best videos on frequency balance I've come across. Great explanation and very thorough. Thanks again Polarity!

@stukedin 2 года назад

Thank you for opening the door to that hidden room I didn’t know about 😳

@aw7153 Год назад

This is mind blowing it explains so many issues I've been having. Thanks for this!

@Sonmz 2 года назад

Really nice! I use this technique for many years and I can say that you explained the principles very well. I haven't watched to the end yet. But I will say right away that this is a great example of a tutorial video.

@MalikAmer87 Год назад

One of the best RU-vid videos I’ve ever seen, thank you so so much 🙏.

@hydrogxn 2 года назад

damn i wish i had seen this over a decade ago. perfectly explained again.

@Waldschwammerl 2 года назад

Nice tips today! Will definitely take the Ozone EQ "reshape EQ curve to pink noise"-Trick and use something like that on each Buss. Thanks Mann ;) Grüße, Waldschwammerl

@DominicLaPres Год назад

Thank you so much for this video. Exactly what I needed.

@rybotekk 2 года назад

Thank you so much. Its drives me insane.

@timschannel247 2 года назад

Very very useful and informative. I wish I had even seen this 5 years earlier. Thumbs up! 5 of 5 Stars!! Ich dachte den Dialekt kennste doch....so so Eisleben, hätte auf Thüringen getippt.. Grüße aus Berlin.

@PRFCTMANDEM 2 года назад

Very useful insights! Thank you!

@gunplayelijah Год назад

Awesome guideline. This helped out so much. Thanks.

@missentropy8883 Год назад

Superinformativ. Gerade die Sache mit der Bass "Trägerwelle" am Anfang. So etwas ist total hilfreich dabei zu verstehen warum etwas eine schlechte Idee ist. Ich mag nämlich nicht gern Regeln folgen die ich nicht verstehe. ;-)

@DjAnkushPawarOfficial 2 года назад

Thank you so much.. No one explain about frequency balance like you... Such a great expectations.. 💕 from India.. Again thank yo so much..

@Danif3d 2 года назад

That was all very useful. Thanks a lot!.

@JackDenning Год назад

Thank you so much!!

@GeorgiZlatev 5 месяцев назад

Great video!! For some reason i have not come across any tutorials on how to balance your music.... so my shit always sounds veryy bass heavy

@fedup3449 8 дней назад

That could be your monitors. I bought some Event 20s powered. I didn't realise for a long time that the bass response is very flat. When I mixed a song it always came out bass heavy. It was the speakers making me push the bass to much.

@therub2191 Год назад

you are the man

@jonmacdiarmid3671 2 года назад

Thx polarity got a lot from this video really helpful

@PolarityMusic 2 года назад

thanks! glad I could help!

@nandoflorestan Год назад

The -6 dB per octave rule can help us think, but can't you hear, even on the piece of music at the end, that you have approximated the timbre of every instrument, creating an unnatural sameness and boringness in which every instrument seems to want to do the same job in the mix? You have to allow each instrument a personality and only the final mix should be a balanced sum of the parts.

@PolarityMusic Год назад

I think its up to the producer, intent of the mix, style or genre and how much time you have for things. This is a quick workflow for getting things balanced and loud in a dancefloor tune. I wouldnt do that on a jazz record.

@gatisozols549 2 месяца назад

I agree, it's about art of making music, not being the loudest

@RatedBamaTV 2 года назад

Great vid, Do you do this on the single tracks or groups?

@andreiviievskyi2838 Месяц назад

Wait, so the goal is to make every part evenly distributed - bass, kick, synths. or the mix in general? i will be experiment with this now, super curious about this, i've always tried to match my instruments like a puzzle - but heard from David from MixbusTV literally: your mix is not a puzzle. Welp excellent info, thanks for teaching this!

@andreiviievskyi2838 Месяц назад

I'vw fubushed the video... DAMN DUDE. TY! nice track btw

@endosick3998 2 года назад

❤

@rasta3453 Год назад

Thank you very much, very informative! where can I listen to this beautiful dnb track from the video?

@PolarityMusic Год назад

completly forget about this tune. maybe ill have to finish it. but when, then it will be released on polarity.bandcamp.com

@kahyui2486 Год назад

I have ozone 10 bundle but it doesn't come with auto balance. What else can I use?

@user-ejsfidcknk 2 года назад

i had recorded in bitwig 8 track .sound sucks much . could you help me?

@iambadd 8 месяцев назад

Question around the manual eq part at 8:00 - would you apply this "levelling out" to all the groups / busses or individual stems also?

@PolarityMusic 8 месяцев назад

to everything that needs it, where it makes sense in the context of the track. if you have a piano on one track, and you want it to sound legit, then you wouldnt want to do it at all. it depends, there is no general rule

@xphorm Год назад

Can MSpectralDynamics be used to flatten the signal to pink noise as Ozone 9 is used here? Seems like so, but I'm not really sure.

@PolarityMusic Год назад

sure. it probably sounds a bit different because the melda comp works in the spectral domain, but it´s the roughly the same yes.

@Zen.Alchemist 2 года назад

Would you go through the same process while mixing psybient/chill/ambient?

@PolarityMusic 2 года назад

Usually I tend to only balance and limit the whole mix instead of groups. But when there are drums present I tend to fall into the same workflow. can’t help but I want drums loud and snappy and Leads and pads as dynamic and transparent as possible.

@realtonaldrum 2 года назад

Why does Ozone 9 not have these nice EQ balance options that you are showing with Ozone 8?! Do I need to switch to Ozone 8 for this? :O - Good to see you go for the 'Auditory Filters' approach. - Not really into the pink noise solution. Because the fundamentals are the Flechter-Munson Curves for our hearing perception.

@PolarityMusic 2 года назад

Pink noise is good for a rough guide. For ozone 9 you need to load a preset. Not sure why they changed this.

@realtonaldrum 2 года назад

@@PolarityMusic Ok thanks dude. - Will check. - Are you familiar with iZotope Relay (which is similar to Bitwig's Tool device) which connects with iZotope Insight? - Pretty neat thing to do. Would like to use this workflow or at least try it out but it won't load in Bitwig as well for me... The Relay instances don't show up in Insight. - Maybe I have some kind of bug with iZotope products.. I don't know... :/

@bryndayy 2 года назад

@@PolarityMusic I was wondering why you kept going to 8. Makes sense. Thanks for the info!

@PolarityMusic 2 года назад

@@realtonaldrum sorry for the late answer. In Bitwig you need to change the plug-in sandbox options. When every plug-in is in its own sandbox they can’t communicate

@realtonaldrum 2 года назад

@@PolarityMusic Ahhhh!. Thanks man. Makes sense!

@klinstarzy9215 10 месяцев назад

this one follow weller

@KlaraKopf 2 года назад

"Your Mix Sucks" is a somewhat famous quote. 🙂

@discomyass 5 месяцев назад

i'm very confused!!!!😭

@politicum8113 Год назад

This frequency balance does not work. Evidence? The example is at the end of the video, it is absolutely unbalanced. More evidence? See how much bass there is in NOISIA tracks. This is a completely different approach to the mix. Saturation, including the bottom, soft clipping, basic dense sound and several layers around it. There are a lot of tricks, no matching equalizer will help in these matters.

@PolarityMusic Год назад

ok whatever you say ☺️

@abdullahsali899 Год назад

So why is my mixdown shit? Did this question get answered?

@PolarityMusic Год назад

Yes

@davelordy Год назад

_"why your mixdown is shit - tonal balance, brightness equals loudness"_ Nah, my mixdown is shit because of that rap my cousin did, who the f*** raps about fruit ?