mistake 9.."proffesional monitoring" You can have the best krk or pioneer speakers but is topic is more about room acoustic. knowing you will lose bass freq. in a untreated room. Swits to headphones while eq and ajust the volume of the low-end.
I found mixing much easier to understand once I knew about frequency masking. Put simply: when multiple instruments are playing, at any specific frequency range you can only hear the instrument that is loudest at that frequency. So you have to decide which instrument can be heard at which frequency. And when you have instruments "pop out" at different frequencies, the listener's brain will fill in the gap between them.
Contrary to tip # 1, I just recently watched an interview with Dan Lancaster & Bring Me The Horizon where they said they layer synth bass (in addition to a bass guitar) literally everywhere. Tried it and it actually works great. So yeah, just gotta use your own ears.
I'm sure they're either filtering the original bass, use a lower octave, or ensuring that every note is in phase (which is possible and something many people do). However, in 99% of cases, this approach ends up hurting the sound for many people, and it's generally better to avoid it.
Straight forward. Helps producers and the wonderful engineers they work with (who usually know more than the producers and don't always have time or interest in guiding producers past these issues). If you find a good mentor or engineer do your best to learn to make the most of their time and friendship.
#7 is honestly more or of a preference thing. Not all music require this element. The great J Dilla has a whole community in youtube where people extend his beats for 15 minutes 😂
@Kitskadew what? The point is that people can enjoy music without constant variation... Music is art... 7 is not a "rule". Also you do realize that Dilla didn't made the beats 15 minutes himself? It's the FANS of the music that extended many of those pieces. Dilla isn't the only artist to have extended music on RUclips either. There are several others. You are the type of guy who thinks every single song has to have the same generic song format to be "good"
There are many videos available on this subject, and almost all of them at amateur level. This presentation is excellent, which I think will be best appreciated by the more experienced technicians.
Just one thing that wasn’t mentioned is some of these points are related to specific genres. For example ambient electronica, Lofi call it what you will frequently uses heavily processed sounds in the production stage, listen to Tycho, Green, guitars are echoing all over the place, Lofi as the name implies deliberately uses or processes the sounds to sound low quality, not every likes it but I do, I agree with the bass tips definitely, a lot of the amateur electronic music producers frequently overdo the bass, I suspect they don’t have monitoring equipment that goes that low I have the most expensive Audio Technica monitoring headphones (ATH-M70x) and their frequency range is insane (5 to 40,000 Hz) and when you overdo the bass it really messes with subwoofers also, may sound ok on monitors at 40 Hz but below that it becomes a mess, trap bass mixes are often guilty of that, but then again their market is aimed at the sort of consumer that has 4 12 inch subwoofers in the boot of their car where they can’t even run their aircon because they need the windows open otherwise their ears will bleed from the pressure wave but thanks for the advice haven’t got to mixing much yet, I don’t seek validation for my ideas and can entertain myself forever doing it in my head but I guess I will get around to it at some point so thanks for taking the time to teach this is the best part of RUclips I just subbed, (note I discovered a setting in the RUclips app that allows comments to be deleted if they attempt to tag you, as I use this particular account for other purposes I flicked that switch and I never read replies ever but I will find you on my other account which I am training the algorithm to only show artistic related content.)
You just gave me an idea for a plugin... A graphical EQ / Waterfall display that overlays several tracks on the same graph, but colorizes them separately. That way you can see each individual track's sonic content on one graph at the same time...
Solid advice, great points. But I have one suggestion for future videos. ... It's not pronounced "ack-um-PAIN-ment". The word is pronounced "ac-COM-pa-nee-ment."
What part of music is subjective don’t people understand…. All the greatest songs, albums did the opposite of what the industry told artists to do. Berry Gordy loved mistakes in the music, you just have to make everything sound intentional… there is no right or wrong.😂
This bass layering advise/side chaining is only good for dance music, even if it sounds good side chaining instead of managing the sounds will make the listener sick from the pumping.
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mistake 9.."proffesional monitoring" You can have the best krk or pioneer speakers but is topic is more about room acoustic. knowing you will lose bass freq. in a untreated room. Swits to headphones while eq and ajust the volume of the low-end.
I found mixing much easier to understand once I knew about frequency masking. Put simply: when multiple instruments are playing, at any specific frequency range you can only hear the instrument that is loudest at that frequency. So you have to decide which instrument can be heard at which frequency. And when you have instruments "pop out" at different frequencies, the listener's brain will fill in the gap between them.
You got it! Very well explained!
you could also use a dynamic eq. or ducking some freq. example ducking a delay or a reverb track
Great tips! It's always helpful to learn what to avoid in the studio. Thanks for sharing!
@@skyvibe_music_english Our pleasure 😊
Straight to the point,no bullshitting,great advices,no ads. Thanks man,earned a follower!
Glad to hear it:) ♥️
Contrary to tip # 1, I just recently watched an interview with Dan Lancaster & Bring Me The Horizon where they said they layer synth bass (in addition to a bass guitar) literally everywhere. Tried it and it actually works great. So yeah, just gotta use your own ears.
I'm sure they're either filtering the original bass, use a lower octave, or ensuring that every note is in phase (which is possible and something many people do). However, in 99% of cases, this approach ends up hurting the sound for many people, and it's generally better to avoid it.
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Thank you. I learned a lot. My mixes were muddy due to the same frequencies. You explained it well. I'll see u at the top
We glad to be helpful:)
so many good tips! thank you
Our pleasure😊
Straight forward. Helps producers and the wonderful engineers they work with (who usually know more than the producers and don't always have time or interest in guiding producers past these issues). If you find a good mentor or engineer do your best to learn to make the most of their time and friendship.
#7 is honestly more or of a preference thing. Not all music require this element. The great J Dilla has a whole community in youtube where people extend his beats for 15 minutes 😂
@Kitskadew what? The point is that people can enjoy music without constant variation... Music is art... 7 is not a "rule".
Also you do realize that Dilla didn't made the beats 15 minutes himself? It's the FANS of the music that extended many of those pieces. Dilla isn't the only artist to have extended music on RUclips either. There are several others. You are the type of guy who thinks every single song has to have the same generic song format to be "good"
One of the most helpful tutorial I've seen so far...thanks a lot brother❤❤🎉
So glad you like it!:)
There are many videos available on this subject, and almost all of them at amateur level. This presentation is excellent, which I think will be best appreciated by the more experienced technicians.
Thank You for your comment!
Glad you liked it! :)
Great thoughts!
Thank you🙏 very helpful and very true
Our pleasure! 🙂
Just one thing that wasn’t mentioned is some of these points are related to specific genres. For example ambient electronica, Lofi call it what you will frequently uses heavily processed sounds in the production stage, listen to Tycho, Green, guitars are echoing all over the place, Lofi as the name implies deliberately uses or processes the sounds to sound low quality, not every likes it but I do, I agree with the bass tips definitely, a lot of the amateur electronic music producers frequently overdo the bass, I suspect they don’t have monitoring equipment that goes that low I have the most expensive Audio Technica monitoring headphones (ATH-M70x) and their frequency range is insane (5 to 40,000 Hz) and when you overdo the bass it really messes with subwoofers also, may sound ok on monitors at 40 Hz but below that it becomes a mess, trap bass mixes are often guilty of that, but then again their market is aimed at the sort of consumer that has 4 12 inch subwoofers in the boot of their car where they can’t even run their aircon because they need the windows open otherwise their ears will bleed from the pressure wave but thanks for the advice haven’t got to mixing much yet, I don’t seek validation for my ideas and can entertain myself forever doing it in my head but I guess I will get around to it at some point so thanks for taking the time to teach this is the best part of RUclips I just subbed, (note I discovered a setting in the RUclips app that allows comments to be deleted if they attempt to tag you, as I use this particular account for other purposes I flicked that switch and I never read replies ever but I will find you on my other account which I am training the algorithm to only show artistic related content.)
You just gave me an idea for a plugin... A graphical EQ / Waterfall display that overlays several tracks on the same graph, but colorizes them separately. That way you can see each individual track's sonic content on one graph at the same time...
You can setup FabFilter ProQ to do this thing:)
Solid advice, great points. But I have one suggestion for future videos. ... It's not pronounced "ack-um-PAIN-ment". The word is pronounced "ac-COM-pa-nee-ment."
Thanks for pointing that out!
I'll make sure to correct the pronunciation in future videos.
Some of these mistakes need more elaboration imo. Not a terrible video. 1,5,6,7,10 are def more along the possible mistake lines than others.
What part of music is subjective don’t people understand…. All the greatest songs, albums did the opposite of what the industry told artists to do. Berry Gordy loved mistakes in the music, you just have to make everything sound intentional… there is no right or wrong.😂
good knowledge but not sure i follow drum loops part, so what do you recommend
Never use loops unless it sounds 100% perfect.
In other cases use one shots for each drum and maybe some loops for percussion.
This bass layering advise/side chaining is only good for dance music, even if it sounds good side chaining instead of managing the sounds will make the listener sick from the pumping.
You can adjust sidechain so precise so there will be no pumping at all😊
3:43 this is complete nonsense
All these rules lol