I liked the video even though i am not beginner! Heres a few thoughts i have... 1. mix the instrumental dry pan and level where needed. 2. create groups/busses for bass+kick, synth+piano+pad+rhythm guitar, guitar lead+lead synth plucks+mutes+percussion 3 subtly eq on the bus/group only now and focus on the frequencies that buildup like mud and harshness and boom bass. Try to low-shelve low freq on the bass and piano busses instead of hipass. Another thought... Shelves avoid a ton of eq issues and protect the quality of the instrument like vocals and piano! Leave the spectral signature in place as much as possible! Sometimes just skip eqing anything above 1.3khz altogether on instrumental layers , or edm layers. and only carve out the mids and bass to be more relaxed (by about -6db for starters) on the groups and then mix according to the harshness left of each individual sound for WARM and MASSIVE mixes. Work WITH peaks and harshness by blending them in slowly from silence and panning them away from the centre. your ears will thank you for keeping the character! Minimal eqing is now needed with the benefits of less masking and less ear-fatigue! Improves speed of finding good sound! Remove the need to cut resonant frequencies per layer in big mixes! This is best place to start for special emotions and lots of character. Last thought... don't think "clarity" and "body"... think "blend and balance". Dont think "big, hard and heavy" if you want massive mix. Think "light, easy and dynamic". "clarity and body" is a result of good spectral balance between instruments and lots of detail in movement near the floor of the mix. Plus with the groups you've set up and the reduced bass it wil be a breeze to saturate or excite the whole group. Again, clarity and body is a psycho-acoustic effect, through subtle relationship between dynamics of frequency bands. Beginner will sound like pro! just learn only psycho-acoustic tricks! Didn't like the way and freq of the synth cut you made. understood the process, but thinner cut in a higher area starting in icrements of 1.5 or 3 db's if you want to save more time going back and forth. cuts still end up deep as needed. Still this is a video all beginners will find useful so very good job!
I really like your videos man. Yesterday I tried the technique you showed about how to make your drums (hats and percussion) bigger/louder by using saturation, utility, EQ and Drumbuss while adding a layer of parallel compression at the end and it completely changed the way my track sounded. I used to make a lot of music as a teenager (pre RUclips era) but didn't learn things that easily back then. Now twelve years later (didn't produce for that long) a whole new world is opening up for me thanks to you and many others. It's very appreciated man! Thank you!
Hi Henny, thanks for you message - really glad I could reignite part of your musical journey. Looking forward to hearing from you in the future to see how you’re doing :)
My god, your channel has been such a benefit to have recently. If I ever need any help relating to music production, Ill go to you first (or In The mix), and generally ill find just what I need. Your free mastering plugins video was so helpful to creating a pretty decent master in my ears. Thank you so much!
These videos are actually a godsend, feel like my production has stagnated as of late. Decided to turn my mind to mixing for a little while so these are a great help!
Holy freaking shit this video was awesome. One of the clearest, most concise and non intimidating eq videos I have seen. Absolutely loving this channel. It’s really empowering my productions. Where have you been all my life???
very cool tricks out here, thanx, will definitely be using them while mixing but the video made me doubt all of my previous mixing knowledge heavily at least because I have been mixing only in context of the beat/song and thought pretty same frequency range of each of the stacked synths/instruments should not be boosted as it may overpower that range and therefore sound unnatural your final mixbus sounded better in comparison with no-eq version so I guess I have been mixing all wrong :/
I hope your tips will help me... the way my songs sound, is like baking a delicious cake, except I hand you a bowl with raw egs that are still in the shell, a clump of butter, sugar, and for some reason there's a tomato in there
Do this all the time!! :) search and destroy is a great foundation for helping you slowly start to pick on resonance. Eventually you won’t need to do it as much and it will feel v natural to you :)
Hello Fabio. I write you from Uruguay. First of all i have to say you REALLY ENJOYABLE Channel. Your tips are cool,they work like charm and you are very funny. Nice combination. I try to mix tech house in my spare time...i would love to see you giving us tips for jackin hi hats. That is so necessary. Well,that all. Keep doing this cause is an amazing work that you do. Regards mate! (sorry my bad english,my native language is spanish)
Thanks dude - Hello to Uruguay!!! Thanks bro... trying not to make it boring ya know? haha For hi hats try different velocities, using closed hats in gaps to add rhythm and swing/shuffle :)
@@NoizeLondon You give me like in one of my previews in instagram. You or any other person behind NoiZE London,i dont know. Maybe you want to do a co-lab with me? :) Cause im not pro...i do not have a master degree,i produce by ear...with tips that i learn here and there,but for the moment i cant finish a track with the pro process. This was the liked preview: instagram.com/p/BzTSuiShFPL/?
@@NoizeLondon Yeah,thanks and sorry Fabio. I was a little invasive. Sorry about that. I will upload the track for your feedback. Thanks man. Very nice channel and vids.
Love the channel. Is there a chance you could do a vid on how to apply and mix reverb on drums like which is the "correct" type of rev for each section, and how to measure them, etc etc?
i hope you read this cause it is important, your channel is the best mixing channel on youtube, besides pensados place. thank you so much for the videos
Harrison is right - doesn’t matter what DAW you use. Stick to your guns and learn it like the back of your hand. Too many people are influenced by seeing someone else use a certain software or hardware and therefore think that they aren’t good enough because of their tools... I say rubbish !! I seen people make dope beats with a sample and cheap tape machine .... not even a DAW.
@@NoizeLondon I know but i tried ableton lite and it suits me so much better... and i noticed that you use logic but in another video you used ableton and i really liked it
@@maysev Ableton is great for creating and getting ideas down quickly - Logic is better for engineering and recording audio. Either way they are great tools - will do a video comparing them soon! :)
@@NoizeLondon Do you find it useful if it's got a big spike in one area? For me it can easily narrow it down. But you're exactly right. Mixing with ears over eyes is always the way to go, I appreciate the tip! I just found your channel and you're already helping me so much. Immediate subscribe!
From a technical perspective of what EQs and filters do, I don't quite see the point of putting another low-cut filter on the grouped EQ. Since you already cut the superfluous low frequencies separately, just by mixing them together no additional low frequencies will appear.
My guy for the last part you said you need to group your synths and EQ them but i already routed them to separate mixer channels so for the grouping part must I EQ the master channel
I thought I have been following along until you did the second EQ cut and I couldn't tell the difference. Same with the boosts that followed. After years of trying to learn to EQ properly, videos like these make me think I just don't have the ear :(
@@NoizeLondon thanks for the reply. I was listening on my Sennheiser HD 280 Pro, so I really should be able to tell the difference, right ? My monitors are JBL 305Ps but I didn't use them for listening here.
nice tutorial but i notice a 2-3db boost when applying the eq - i think its really important you add a trim to control the output to give is a clear before and after volume always makes things sound better
When you reduced the high/mids in "search and destroy" it added a very tasty amount of punch! Thats where I finally felt I 'got' EQ... Can you do something on separating mids when there's multiple tracks fighting over the mids? As thats what I'm struggling with. If you do, I promise never to use the frequency graph/analyser ever again :D
@@NoizeLondon riiight! That kinda makes me feel daft when I think about it. "Why didn't I think of that?"... I'm a musician learning my way through this over the last month. I'm a classically trained guitarist but my heart is in the kicks and high bpm haha. Thats where its always been, just to give context to my noobishness, and naturally having paid so much for suite, I am gonna crack this, and you've been pivotal in that. High five to you my man. Thanks again.
hey sir I understood almost everything you did but should we always create 3 different synth layers and eq each one of them separately then group them and then eq the whole group too ?
you and I my friend, have a very different definition of the word "beginner" hahaha but anyways, nice video, I will try to learn to the level that gets me to understand what you are teaching here!
Hmm that was some weird cuts you did. Like you took away the caracter of the sound. The first example was okay, but the second sounded totally wrong to remove imo. The first boost made it sound more harsh, though the second I would've boosted in the same place :)
Search a random frequency in the sound, cut it out and yes... you finnaly destroyed the nice midrange character of that synth. Sounds imho way better without the cut in the middle
@@NoizeLondon Don't intended to be offensive but i really think you did cut out too much of that sounds character. In any case it has to work in the whole mix (not just solo) and it might lack some presence after cutting out the mids that much. Anyway, good tutorial :)
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REMEMBER - these techniques can be used on all instruments not just synths :)
awesome. I discovered your chanel 1 week ago and my drums and now, my synths, sound amazing compared to before. Keep going, i loving what im seeing.
Thank you Shadow! So glad I could help. See you Sunday :)
I liked the video even though i am not beginner!
Heres a few thoughts i have...
1. mix the instrumental dry pan and level where needed.
2. create groups/busses for bass+kick, synth+piano+pad+rhythm guitar, guitar lead+lead synth plucks+mutes+percussion
3 subtly eq on the bus/group only now and focus on the frequencies that buildup like mud and harshness and boom bass.
Try to low-shelve low freq on the bass and piano busses instead of hipass.
Another thought...
Shelves avoid a ton of eq issues and protect the quality of the instrument like vocals and piano!
Leave the spectral signature in place as much as possible! Sometimes just skip eqing anything above 1.3khz altogether on instrumental layers , or edm layers. and only carve out the mids and bass to be more relaxed (by about -6db for starters) on the groups and then mix according to the harshness left of each individual sound for WARM and MASSIVE mixes. Work WITH peaks and harshness by blending them in slowly from silence and panning them away from the centre. your ears will thank you for keeping the character! Minimal eqing is now needed with the benefits of less masking and less ear-fatigue!
Improves speed of finding good sound!
Remove the need to cut resonant frequencies per layer in big mixes!
This is best place to start for special emotions and lots of character.
Last thought...
don't think "clarity" and "body"... think "blend and balance". Dont think "big, hard and heavy" if you want massive mix. Think "light, easy and dynamic". "clarity and body" is a result of good spectral balance between instruments and lots of detail in movement near the floor of the mix. Plus with the groups you've set up and the reduced bass it wil be a breeze to saturate or excite the whole group. Again, clarity and body is a psycho-acoustic effect, through subtle relationship between dynamics of frequency bands. Beginner will sound like pro! just learn only psycho-acoustic tricks!
Didn't like the way and freq of the synth cut you made. understood the process, but thinner cut in a higher area starting in icrements of 1.5 or 3 db's if you want to save more time going back and forth. cuts still end up deep as needed. Still this is a video all beginners will find useful so very good job!
Thanks for watching !
I really like your videos man. Yesterday I tried the technique you showed about how to make your drums (hats and percussion) bigger/louder by using saturation, utility, EQ and Drumbuss while adding a layer of parallel compression at the end and it completely changed the way my track sounded. I used to make a lot of music as a teenager (pre RUclips era) but didn't learn things that easily back then. Now twelve years later (didn't produce for that long) a whole new world is opening up for me thanks to you and many others. It's very appreciated man! Thank you!
Hi Henny, thanks for you message - really glad I could reignite part of your musical journey. Looking forward to hearing from you in the future to see how you’re doing :)
My god, your channel has been such a benefit to have recently. If I ever need any help relating to music production, Ill go to you first (or In The mix), and generally ill find just what I need. Your free mastering plugins video was so helpful to creating a pretty decent master in my ears. Thank you so much!
These videos are actually a godsend, feel like my production has stagnated as of late. Decided to turn my mind to mixing for a little while so these are a great help!
Noize is here to help... gonna get wild next week...!!!
Thank you for your support ♥️
Holy freaking shit this video was awesome. One of the clearest, most concise and non intimidating eq videos I have seen. Absolutely loving this channel. It’s really empowering my productions. Where have you been all my life???
Thank you Luke! Really glad you’re enjoying the channel thus far. New one coming tomorrow - stay tuned!
Noize London look forward to it. I have a video suggestion- how to eq / mix 808s bass / kick 👍
@@lukewilliams7020 Got this a couple of times already so it will do it soon :)
Started music production 2weeks ago. thank you so much for straight-forward sound engineering tips, very well distilled info!!
Thanks for your usefull and clear video ! A question ... can I Also use a hishelv for boosting ? Thanks a lot and congratulations
I’ve been learning production on YT for a while and this is definitely one of the best content on the business. Thanks for sharing it broo! U nailed
Thanks buddy ;)
very cool tricks out here, thanx, will definitely be using them while mixing
but the video made me doubt all of my previous mixing knowledge heavily
at least because I have been mixing only in context of the beat/song and thought pretty same frequency range of each of the stacked synths/instruments should not be boosted as it may overpower that range and therefore sound unnatural
your final mixbus sounded better in comparison with no-eq version so I guess I have been mixing all wrong :/
It really depends on the source, unfortunately there isn't one technique that works for all signals but this is a good starting point :)
Thank you SO MUCH for the 2nd technique. This video has helped me so much.
Hi from Toronto...
Love all your videos ...thanks for sharing your knowledge.
An excellent tutorial Fabio, very well explained!
Great video - I am already implementing these techniques (watched yesterday). Plan on watching all your videos. Keep it up!
Great! Thanks for watching :)
10 / 4 - just having a standardised parameter setting for my eq ing is the useful ting I got from this so thanks for that top tip.
Truly enjoying your channel and learning so much. Thanks for keeping your videos concise and packed with incredibly helpful info. 🙌
Thanks buddy!!
This tutorial truly cleared up so many questions and doubts. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us :)
You're welcome my dude!! :)
I hope your tips will help me...
the way my songs sound, is like baking a delicious cake, except I hand you a bowl with raw egs that are still in the shell, a clump of butter, sugar, and for some reason there's a tomato in there
My new favourite channel, keep them coming 👊
Thanks Juku!!!
i knew about all of this but i was using it wrong but now i know what to do and how to do it , thanks
you're welcome dude!! :)
Awesome video! What do you recommend to do to train the ear so that it can hear better the frequencies?
Do this all the time!! :) search and destroy is a great foundation for helping you slowly start to pick on resonance. Eventually you won’t need to do it as much and it will feel v natural to you :)
@@NoizeLondon Great! Cheers
Do you have a video in eq'ing vocals specifically?
Yep a couple - go look! :)
great vid!
why do you boost and narrow the q specipic on 10 and 4?
Wat a simple & 1000 percent best tip
Thanks for the tutorial
You're welcome ! :)
this melody would crush space ibiza back in the day lol
Hahaha sure would 🤣
very good video, very nice channel, thanks so much for the content!!
No problem bud - thanks for watching!
Once again a great tutorial Fabio! Thank u very much! Keep on going!
Thanks dude!!
great tutorial. Thanks a ton!
No problem thanks!!
It's nice to see your channel grow so fast, you really deserve it. Keep it going, you're really helping us out! :)
Thanks buddy!!! Your support means the world :)
Smashing channel, got yourself a new fan ;) None of the paid lessons on mixing I bought explained these techniques so well.
Thanks so much dude - glad your enjoying them!!
Dude love these vids thank you so much
very helpful, thank you for this
You’re most welcome
Thank you sir.
you are most welcome!!
Hello Fabio. I write you from Uruguay. First of all i have to say you REALLY ENJOYABLE Channel. Your tips are cool,they work like charm and you are very funny. Nice combination. I try to mix tech house in my spare time...i would love to see you giving us tips for jackin hi hats. That is so necessary. Well,that all. Keep doing this cause is an amazing work that you do. Regards mate! (sorry my bad english,my native language is spanish)
Thanks dude - Hello to Uruguay!!! Thanks bro... trying not to make it boring ya know? haha
For hi hats try different velocities, using closed hats in gaps to add rhythm and swing/shuffle :)
@@NoizeLondon You give me like in one of my previews in instagram. You or any other person behind NoiZE London,i dont know. Maybe you want to do a co-lab with me? :) Cause im not pro...i do not have a master degree,i produce by ear...with tips that i learn here and there,but for the moment i cant finish a track with the pro process. This was the liked preview: instagram.com/p/BzTSuiShFPL/?
this is the"long version" ruclips.net/video/TFiyXNld540/видео.html
hi buddy if you would like feedback on a track please submit via my website :)
www.noizemusic.io
btw its just me behind Noize and my editor!
@@NoizeLondon Yeah,thanks and sorry Fabio. I was a little invasive. Sorry about that. I will upload the track for your feedback. Thanks man. Very nice channel and vids.
Great video! Shared it to my friends and hopefully this can help others who are starting out
Thanks Chin!! I hope your friends find it useful :)
Love the channel. Is there a chance you could do a vid on how to apply and mix reverb on drums like which is the "correct" type of rev for each section, and how to measure them, etc etc?
Yeah dude I've got one lined up for this :) Thanks for your support!!
WOW 😲 thank you!
You’re most welcome :)
Great video. How do group the three snyths together at the end in ableton?
Cmd + G :)
Very well explained, video
Thanks Kevin!!
i hope you read this cause it is important, your channel is the best mixing channel on youtube, besides pensados place. thank you so much for the videos
Thanks so much bro 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 that is the highest of honours to be in the same sentence as Pensado!!!
Your Videos help me soooo much... After your videos i even consider switching to albeton from fl-studio.
but he's using logic lol
and it really doesn't matter what daw you use
you can create good music in any daw if you've got the capability
Harrison is right - doesn’t matter what DAW you use. Stick to your guns and learn it like the back of your hand. Too many people are influenced by seeing someone else use a certain software or hardware and therefore think that they aren’t good enough because of their tools... I say rubbish !! I seen people make dope beats with a sample and cheap tape machine .... not even a DAW.
@@NoizeLondon I know but i tried ableton lite and it suits me so much better... and i noticed that you use logic but in another video you used ableton and i really liked it
@@maysev Ableton is great for creating and getting ideas down quickly - Logic is better for engineering and recording audio. Either way they are great tools - will do a video comparing them soon! :)
@@NoizeLondon oh thats nice ... i think youtube lacks some beginner firendly videos or at least some that are made well
omg its open my mind to use eq, thx a lot🔥
So glad !! :)
Wow! I actually heard a huge difference. I feel like my ears just opened up to something new. Thanks!
Fantastic!! :)
My ears grown up a little more today, thanks :)
you're welcome dude!!
Your videos are so helpful!!!
Thanks buddy !!!
I really like the idea of turning the analyser off, makes a lot of sense to be fair I do think I get easily distracted by it.
You can always turn it on to analyse what's going on :) just make sure you're not using it to actually EQ
@@NoizeLondon Do you find it useful if it's got a big spike in one area? For me it can easily narrow it down. But you're exactly right. Mixing with ears over eyes is always the way to go, I appreciate the tip! I just found your channel and you're already helping me so much. Immediate subscribe!
Is pro q necessary or is ableton eq8 enough for a professional mix ?
From a technical perspective of what EQs and filters do, I don't quite see the point of putting another low-cut filter on the grouped EQ. Since you already cut the superfluous low frequencies separately, just by mixing them together no additional low frequencies will appear.
Sometimes there is a build up of low frequencies when played together. The low cut at that point is a creative choice rather than technical one ;)
My guy for the last part you said you need to group your synths and EQ them but i already routed them to separate mixer channels so for the grouping part must I EQ the master channel
You don’t have to but it might help bro
Create a synths bus and put your eq there
I usually don’t use or manipulate the eq on any of the instruments I use but this makes me want to.
I thought I have been following along until you did the second EQ cut and I couldn't tell the difference. Same with the boosts that followed. After years of trying to learn to EQ properly, videos like these make me think I just don't have the ear :(
What’s your monitoring setup buddy ?
@@NoizeLondon thanks for the reply. I was listening on my Sennheiser HD 280 Pro, so I really should be able to tell the difference, right ? My monitors are JBL 305Ps but I didn't use them for listening here.
Yeah you should to be honest. Try not to listen too hard if you know what I mean, just allow your ears to do the work rather than your brain.
nice tutorial but i notice a 2-3db boost when applying the eq - i think its really important you add a trim to control the output to give is a clear before and after volume always makes things sound better
Sure but we did so many cuts before so in the grand scheme of things it’s ok
very very very very very very......very good tips
Thanks Jason!
What's the difference between the FabFilter EQ pro 2 and 3? is it a great update?
Nice! Extremely Helpful :D
You are most welcome- thanks for tuning in:)
Woww , I never thought about turning "analyzing" off. Have I been doing all the EQs with my eyes ? 🤦
F**k the analyser - it’s a curse. Remove that appendix from your life and see how much better you will start mixing :)
@@NoizeLondon Yeah man. Don't know why but now im feeling Guilty about Using EQ with Eyes all the time. 😂
@@wrongxide.mp3 Just think of the mixing engineers with consoles... no analyser there - no wonder they're the best! :)
Thank you!
You're welcome buddy!! :)
When you reduced the high/mids in "search and destroy" it added a very tasty amount of punch! Thats where I finally felt I 'got' EQ...
Can you do something on separating mids when there's multiple tracks fighting over the mids? As thats what I'm struggling with. If you do, I promise never to use the frequency graph/analyser ever again :D
P.s. you kinda answered that at the end :D thanks. I'll give that a try and see how it goes. Is it the same when mastering lows?
Try putting instruments up or down in pitch first (jump in octaves) see if that helps
@@NoizeLondon riiight! That kinda makes me feel daft when I think about it. "Why didn't I think of that?"... I'm a musician learning my way through this over the last month. I'm a classically trained guitarist but my heart is in the kicks and high bpm haha. Thats where its always been, just to give context to my noobishness, and naturally having paid so much for suite, I am gonna crack this, and you've been pivotal in that. High five to you my man. Thanks again.
@@plunderclat221 My pleasure dude - sometimes the answers are in the root of the issue - in fact they always are as a general rule :)
2:25 Thats what she said "push it really far then pull it back"
😂good one😂😂😂
Your videos are quality!! You'll be hitting 10k subs in no time!
Thank you buddy!! :)
niceeeeeee!!!!!! very cool technique :D
Thanks dude !!
Thanks for sharing mate
You’re welcome 🙏🏼🙏🏼
hey sir I understood almost everything you did but should we always create 3 different synth layers and eq each one of them separately then group them and then eq the whole group too ?
Grand stuff. 👍🏽
Thanks Usama !!
great video!
Thanks buddy!! :)
SUPER EQ TEAM !!!
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Nice one 👍
Thanks for watching !
how do you know how wide you need to make the Q
Learn this way first
You are King man
Thanks bro !!!
My boi back at it blessing us 😭
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
good job bro
Thanks dude :)
you and I my friend, have a very different definition of the word "beginner" hahaha but anyways, nice video, I will try to learn to the level that gets me to understand what you are teaching here!
You can do it!
Now i understand EQ
I'm glad!!
genius
Any advice for Dj's that have ruined their ears..I know Andrew Huang had found something for his odd spectrum of hearing. I have not tried it yet.
Insomnia - Faithless Vibes
Wait... You only have 6K subs? Didn't see that coming
Only started the channel 3 months ago 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Oh that explains it, great work!
night n day
Yup!
Bass and kick EQ ? 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Had a few requests for this one... I’ll have to see what I can do.... not as easy as it sounds ;)
Hmm that was some weird cuts you did. Like you took away the caracter of the sound. The first example was okay, but the second sounded totally wrong to remove imo. The first boost made it sound more harsh, though the second I would've boosted in the same place :)
It’s more about the exercise than the material my friend - just some ear training ;)
Just wish you would eq a sound that's more raw like from an analog synth. This sounded like there's not that much to do..
Nice tip to turn off the spectrum analyzer
Thanks dude its good one!
Search a random frequency in the sound, cut it out and yes... you finnaly destroyed the nice midrange character of that synth. Sounds imho way better without the cut in the middle
Don't invite this guy to a party... PS you missed the point... the frequency isn't random ;)
@@NoizeLondon Don't intended to be offensive but i really think you did cut out too much of that sounds character. In any case it has to work in the whole mix (not just solo) and it might lack some presence after cutting out the mids that much. Anyway, good tutorial :)
wait what would you do this with every synth?? OMGSDFSAFG
call of duty search and destroy lol
looooooool
am i the only one that was being annoyed by 400hz or so?
Maybe!
Ear fatigue bring me here.
Great video!
Thanks dude !! :)
Great video !