I gotta say, as someone getting pretty frustrated while trying to make my mix sound good, your sarcastic approach helps me realise sucking now doesn't really matter that much. I shouldn't care too much about being good now but getting there while learning and having fun making music. Thanks Underbelly!
How to use Refrencd Tracks: Summary: ( Match the volumes by reducing ref track, have a variety of ref tracks that you know, Analyze and compare) Mixing is all about perspective. You cant tell how your song sounds unless you have something to compare it too. Thus refrence tracks Tips: -Reference tracks are targets for what our songs should sound like. -You can use tracks you DONT like to see wether you are going right or wrong. E.g if a track is too bassy, if your track has more bass then u know. -We will.match our shit song with the tracks loudness -Reduce the refrence tracks Volume until its down using -Use youlean loudness meter to check LUFS
I produce shit songs... let's start up Shit Songs Anonymous and use each others music as reference tracks, then flood sound cloud with our shit songs...I guarantee you there are more of us than them...we can change the game!!! LOL
I've got plenty of terrible shitsongs on soundcloud already I am not alone. We are the 99% Actually nah, spambots with a million reposts and no tracks are 99% of soundcloud
"chances are you're probably going to get skipped over, and that's the end of you're career".... best advice ever. I suck a little less now. Thank you brother.
Thank you my friend. I quit producing with DAWs on my PC almost 15 years ago for work and kids, but the main reason was my frustration with mixing, had good ideas back then but all sounded awful. Thanks to your videos and the way you explain it, it sounds very less frustrating and funny so I'm giving it a try after a long time.
How is the return @Scarafoo ? I have the same problem now... I love making music but I feel like I fail to understand what I need to do for my songs to sound as appealing as all the other songs I hear on the internet. It really frustrates me to the core, but quitting is not an option... eventually I'm gonna be able to take what's in my head and lay it down.
I've been watching production tutorials for years and I can honestly say I've never found a channel that keeps me as engaged and amused as yours. I've learnt more from just a few videos than I have from hours of youtube shitvids. THANK U x
If every band that was told that your sound is to different from "The Mainstream" decided that they should change their sound, music would really suffer. I understand what you're getting at here. Jump on the trend that is selling now if you want to make money. But, if you want to make art, do what you do, and don't let anyone tell you that you are doing it wrong. There is nothing better than hearing something that sounds completely different from what everything else sounds like. That is how music moves forward as an art.
i get what you're saying, but the video was mostly about mixing, and while there is still room for creativity freedom in this aspect i imagine no one would be amused when they encounter a song that throws away all sense of taste and just did whatever the fuck its maker wanted in the middle of their playlist. it especially doesn't help if the artist then feigns their incompetence as "the mix sounding retarded is just me being unique and different bro" people need to realize that being different only makes you different. not good, bad, just different. it's not your free escape ticket from criticism nor an excuse to turn around and insult your audience by saying they are holding art's progression hostage or whatever
This guy gets me in stitches. The more I watch these videos the harder I have to laugh. Never imagined the high entertainment level of his tutorials. The content is really good though. As an LPX user I am still watching these and use the tips for my own DAW.
after you have done all the adjustments and compared to the reference tracks, so how to you get the loudness of your shit song to match the loudness of the reference tracks ?
"and you want your shitsong to suck in the same way. okay? checkit." hahaha Dude what a creative way to explain the problem, I checkit. Gonna watch the full series now haha Keep doing this good stuff
I just Discovered Underbelly and his "You suck at Mixing" series ... fitting as I DO suck, the content is practical/useful and Underbelly is killing me Smalls! Love everything to do with this content.
Hey nice video. What's the song you play at the end? That Jipsy Jazzy type jingle? I like it. Thanks to your video, I might suck less than I did before watching this video for sure.
How the hell ppl use an already mixed/mastered song like shouldn't you ref use commercial acapellas to match vocals they with your vocals Then the beat to match commercial beat
Hi Underbelly, even though I watch a lot of your videos, I still suck at mixing... But I have a question that might help - do you actually care about the other meters in Youlean? For example my track has loudness range 1.8 LU, whereas for the reference track the respective value is 8.8 LU and I wonder how to change that and what does this difference actually mean.
Why are these videos on the level of the college lectures I went to as far as the actual teaching that happens. Seriously though, these videos are so much more informed than most of the "EDM tips and tricks" videos.
I would master my own track in the project, this makes way more sence to me anyway as it will get more phased with the volume up. Then you hear more when tracks need to be eqed. I guess you don't need to do it as you go. Just a different approach that may make thing easier that I use or whatever.
