Clean Up A Muddy Mix!
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
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There is a lot of confusing information out there when it comes to how you should go about cleaning up a muddy mix. In the tips that follow, we will go over how to clean up your mix to make sure you get a crystal clear mix with great definition and pumping low end!
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1. Great Production Creates Great Mixes
If you listen to The Beach Boys album ‘Pet Sounds’ you’ll hear a masterpiece of production! Due the limitations of tracks, only 4 or at most 8, when artists such as The Beatles or The Beach Boys made albums they had to shape multiple sounds and parts perfectly before they could bounce them together, parts and sounds could not be undone, so they had to be right! Recording the right sounds and parts that support each other is not only great production it, will also make the final mix much easier to do!
2. Using Virtual Instruments Gives Different Results Than Organic Instruments
Virtual Instruments Will Not Have the Huge Dynamic EQ issues that Organic instruments can have. Real, mic’d up instruments can have the issue of players moving so the mic placement varies, giving you wildly varying EQ (boominess from sound holes or F holes of some instruments) or overly dynamic performances. However, virtual instruments are perfectly recorded and can easily be manipulated, with basic, simple midi adjustments to sound like they have been consistently performed. With organic instruments you’re often going to find yourself applying more compression and corrective EQ, sometimes even using dynamic EQs or Multiband compressors.
3. Muddiness Comes from two main areas, firstly Low End Build Up.
Excessive low end is easy to fix with proper High Passing, decide what you want the real low end to be, is it a super low Sub Bass line with a Kick shelved around 100Hz, more of a thump? Or is it a huge low Sub Kick with a bass line sitting above it? Or is it both where a side chain compressor ducks the excessive low build up from two sources of low end hitting at the same time. Find the fundamental of sound, such the low end on your electric guitars and boost that area, cut immediately below it, bypass the EQ and you’ll realise that even though low end has been cut, the new EQ settings increase the fullness of the guitar sound but leave space for the Bass and Kick Drum to shine!
4. Second Area of Build Up: the Low Mids.
Drums in particular can get a lot of low mid build up. On their own, soloed that may not be that much of an issue. However, in a fairly dense track that will really add to the overall muddiness. Typically scooping out low mids of Toms, The Kick Drum (Bass Drum), Overheads and Room Mics at around 350hz (roughly an area between 250-450hz) with a fairly wide Q will really open up the drums leaving room for low mids on other instruments, such as guitars which benefit from the fullness of low mids.
Listen to your whole mix to find areas where low muds start to build up, don’t be afraid to high pass high lines that don’t need low end or low mids. Large amounts of Synth Pads and raked guitars so over do the Low Mid Area so be careful not to boost the low kids in every pad, string part or rhythm guitar!
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What is your top tip for cleaning up muddy mixes? Thanks everyone for being such an amazing part of our community! I feel so blessed to be a part of it! Please all be well, look after yourselves and thank you all so much for everything that you do! I am so grateful for you ALL!
"Thanks everyone for being such an amazing part of our community! I feel so blessed to be a part of it! Please all be well, look after yourselves and thank you all so much for everything that you do! I am so grateful for you ALL!"
Right back at ya Warren and Team ;0)
My top tip would be to give the most space to the most important element - usually the vocal(s). If the vocal is fighting with something else for space (distorted powerchord guitars are a prime offender), the vocal should usually "win" and the other part should yield space to it.
It doesn't have to be all the time - sometimes automating an EQ band down when the vocal is singing, and back up when it isn't, is the right thing.
This video looks much like the ones 2 or 3 years ago, in the sense that you look younger. Health wise you did something good. Keep it going. 2 months ago or so , you looked so tired in a video. Can t help to say it, i m a nutritionist and longevity buff :) Always nice to learn from you. I m also year 1 Sound Engineer in Manchester England (spirit studios). Thanks for everything. Our teachers know your channel & Dave Pensado channel. Btw Dave said he installed a basketball space outside the studio and he would go every 2 hours or so to move those muscles to stay healthy. Did you hear of this trick ? I think is very needed for mixing engineers/ producers. We sit too much.
@@SirEggbertfartalot aw schucks thanks ever so much my friend! You Rock my friend!!
@@OrgChromer thanks ever so much for sharing your insight!!
People, we need to start seriously filtering who we listen to when trying to learn something properly. On YT there are too many 'knowitall' beginners who pretend to know what they're doing. This channel for example for me is a true and reliable reference.
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate your kind words! I’m happy to be able to help
This channel also grew on me. I watched a lot of other channels. I am mostly a visual artist and a musician, making my own video game music for my small games and therefore I'm always looking for mixing and mastering tutorials. The same thing you describe can also be applied to the visual arts side of things on YT learning material. One can sense when you have found a source that suddenly feels honest and reliable. It's a feeling of someone having lots of knowlede and thought put into their craft and spent a lot of time with it, as well as how he presents this knowledge. Suddenly you feel trust and feel comfi to learn from him/her. These sources are not easy to find. I am so glad I now realized this channel is one of those sources.
warrren , mixbusTV, and Russian guy
I was saying this same thing just today
Agreed
Warren: Handling 73 tracks like a pro.
Me: At the border of death trying to demistify the meaning of life juggling 5 tracks.
It's ok my friend! Sometimes 5 tracks with issues is much worse that 73 with little issues!
Its about knowing what you have on those 5 or 73 tracks and using the right tools to put them in their place in the mix. Youre in the right place though because Warren is better than most of my teachers I had in engineering school. He's had hits (I have trouble taking advice from people who havent proven they can make better records than me. Theres no issue here, a #1 hit with The Fray will suffice) and unlike a lot of people he clearly doesnt feel threatened by sharing his "secrets"...
It used to be the same for me. I can recommend establishing really good and - even more importantly - consistent shemes for coloring and grouping your tracks. I used to think coloring was more a fun thing for aesthetic reasons, but I was wrong. it honestly helps me so much now. I'm getting to a point where I halfway "hear colors" in my mixes. Meaning there's certain groups of instruments (the mid-rangy chord stuff for example) that's light green. Leads are dark green. Both are in the green instruments group (and bus). Obviously it doesn't matter which colors you choose personally. But when I notice a problem, I also have a feeling for which color of tracks I'm gonna look at to fix it. Which immediately narrows it down to usually a hand full at most.
Related to that: Invest the time to create a template. This makes it easier to stay consistent with track orders and colors (and associated mixing choices, obviously). For example my INST bus already high passed at 200Hz because I just know I will do something like that anyway. The time invested in a good template is returned *so* quickly.
Warren, you're one of the few people on youtube that actually give proper advice on mixing using a variety of examples. Thanks a lot!
You’re very welcome!!
Just want everyone to know this channel is awesome. I literally learned to mix from this guy in the last month or 2.
Wow!! Thanks ever so much my friend!!
I agree! Learned a lot of new tips and tricks from here and I love that it’s not ”HERE’S HOW YOU DO IT” but instead ”here is one way to do it, here is another”.
Im in sound engineering school/ university and i still learn more from this channel and interviews with mixing engineers. School will not make you good, believe me. Mix a lot.
Couldn't agree more!! Warren is a hero.
I love the way you demonstrated this on a massively saturated mix with huge guitars and bass. So often people do tutorials on fairly thin clean mixes where it's difficult to hear the changes they make. Also like the fact that you aren't afraid to get aggressive with an EQ. So many people only ever advocate tiny tiny tweaks all the time. Keep up the great work! 👍
Point 1 is soooo important. This „fix it in the mix“ approach is annoying sometimes, it’s almost a religious belief in the power of plugins nowadays. How do they say? - Record as if there were no mixing and mix as if there were no mastering.
Thanks ever so much Mike! Agreed 100%! Getting it right at source, making great choices is very important indeed!!
@Sunny Ah Day thanks ever so much!
The only thing I fix in the mix is my timing which can be... terrible at times, so elastic audio helps!
And just clip gaining.
Fixing the actual sonic of my instrument just doesn't work!
Yes, I always learned (and still say), "garbage in, garbage out." I also love UBK's info on this topic - "the mix doesn't start after the recording is complete. It begins with the writing, pre-production and playing." Or, something like that haha Great vid, thanks!
@@DancinShoesDJ Yep I'm with you on that, Garbage in = Garbage out, it's a simple concept, and I stick to it as well ;0)
PEOPLE! Do you want better mixes?
The easiest way to do this....listen to this man. His advice will get you there.
Even with my very basic recording setup, Warren has taught me so much.
His methods are airtight and he knows his stuff. He's never lead me anywhere but down the road of better mixes.
Warren is the real deal.
A real pleasure watching a seasoned professional at work solving a mix puzzle.
I first thought the bass sounded too bright but then when I heard the mix altogether, was quite impressed with the result, for guitars too.
Thanks ever so much Heinrich!
hey ! most of the time the way you open topic is just a gold ! the back a days keeps so many answers to the things we break our heads today !! you re great!
Thank you Warren for all the amazing content you produce, it's very much appreciated!
Brilliant, love seeing a few of these tutorial videos popping up again. Great stuff @producelikeapro. Must watch again, too much to take in whilst cycling to work and avoiding public transport... time to start learning more tips and tricks when working from home!! Thanks for making the coming self isolation more bearable!!
I can't get enough from these amazing videos about solving muddyness in a mix and accomplishing a good sounding low end!! Love to hear your approach as always! Thank you!
Thanks Warren. I learned a few really great tricks!! I'm so thankful for your content always. Stay well and again thank you. You provide a priceless service to our community.
Man I really love your videos! One feels you are not saving any knowledge or tricks for yourself, rather giving it all and actually wanting people to learn, not caring just about the number of views. A rare thing this days, keep it up please!!
I love your stuff! As a home DAW noodler, every video of yours is pure gold! I think ive learned everything i know so far from you and Recording Revolution. Thank you so much!
Cheers from Sweden!
Amazing! The end result sounded massive. So much going on there, but all so clear. ❤️
Warrens videos are pure perfect teaching of how to get great sounding mixes!
Thanks Warren!
I'm just on a binge session at work absorbing tips as a complete beginner to music production! Love the way you present information and the wide range of topics you cover!
Wow! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it
Mr. Huart, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. This channel is a goldmine. Much appreciated.
Thanks Warren! This was excellent information I can use. The extended discussion of how to separate instruments and frequencies with the demonstrations will go a long way to help me with my projects.
Genius! I love how you're making room for the things you WANT to hear in certain frequencies by reducing it in things you DON'T want there.
I wish I had your videos as a guide back when I began making music. I always knew I have composing skills but lacked when it came to mixing and mastering. After watching tons of your videos I've jumped more steps forward in mixing than during the last 10 years. Many thanks, you are a great teacher and you seem very nice person. I promise to tell everyone to subscribe your channel if I ever get my foot in the music business.
Diggin this series - thanks!
First time watching one of your videos and you're AMAZING. I love your energy. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is what, i was really really searching for. Super amazing explanation, examples and other useful stuff. This is kind of people whose making music sounds great. Thank you very much.
The Pet Sounds insight was so wonderful. I never knew about that, but it makes so much sense.
Hi Terry Miller you’re very welcome my friend!!
Thank you for this video! I've been watching your videos as I am almost done with my album I recorded all at home! :D Ever since I learned about the PAZ Analyzer I have been able to zone in on which frequencies work best per instrument. This has made my records MUCH MORE CLEARER. Thank you again! :)
Good solid techniques, that a lot of people(this guy) forget these fundamentals>
Years ago a friend showed me that gtr eq technique, and somehow over the years I'd forgotten it. Thank you for the refresher! ;:-)
I often wonder how much value there is in these posts, narration, vidmixing, and overall message ..(an awful lot I suspect) ... I have been mixing stuff from the way back days of a 2 track TRUVOX to Cubase 10.5 Pro and near enough everything in between, I truly think your work is priceless ... I don't leave comments as a rule but just wanna say ..thanks mate ... and look after yourself as well!
This tutorial is a game changer, been struggling with a muddy mix and knew I had to address it, now I have new knowledge to get it sorted
These tips are invaluable Warren ..Great and we'll explained video
Warren, Warren, Warren! Yet again you’re a cut above the rest! A huge thank you for posting amazing videos like this and all your work on RUclips and the academy! You have helped me no end! I don’t need to look elsewhere to help me improve my mixes and to stop my current job and do mixing as a real job! Now to get some clients to help achieve that! Wish you were still in England so I’d have the chance to meet you and pick your brains more! My eternal gratitude, Brad
Thank You! I taught audio at the college level for 25 years. Thank you for going deep into techniques-something you don't find enough of on the tube.
Felt that sub-bass in my bong, really cool experience.
Fantastic, perfect mix to use, so fun to watch and awesome tips!! Thanks ever so much Warren
Great video! I like watching you mix in action.
once again, pure gold!
Love this channel, thankyou for the info.
Warren my mixed used to suck... now they just kind of suck.. but I’m learning so much from you I’m hoping in years to come I’ll listen back and be happy. All thanks to you. Legend.
Thanks ever so much for sharing Scott!
Sometimes it got to get worse before it gets better :)
I must say this: you are a true master. Everything you teach here is pure gold, because you give practical examples, not just theory. Keep up your great work, Warren!
Wow! Thanks Marcelo! You are very welcome
I'm just starting to get serious about producing and I am struggling with this issue. I found this video so helpful. I have it bookmarked and have watched it multiple times. Thank you.
Grateful for your content!
Pretty wild stuff. Whats amazing to me is the actual simplicity of the song itself. Pretty basic structure and , I must admit, I was a bit leary about the distorted bass at first, but you have the discipline to see the bigger picture. When you finally played all the tracks at once...outstanding. All the instruments doing small parts, yet combined it was epic without being busy.
Thank you so much Warren, these points are so useful and can't be overstated. Really helping my understanding of how to accomplish what I'm shooting for.
Thanks dude!!! Subbed/liked😎👍
This was exactly the info and presetation i needed.
My project is bass band, lead bass, rythm bass, bass bass. Mud slingin party.
I had to redo compose a lot of sections, from my original inspirations. Not full cords, move parts higher or lower.
This will also help with a 1981 reel to reel recording first band, 2nd gig.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
Warren...I have really enjoyed your guidance in showing us youtubers "a path". Your tutorials are professional and easy to understand and your tricks of the trade are cool and inspiring. (I'm finally adding the Wah D-string bass in my electric guitars.) Bring it-sweet midrange! In addition, I am finally understanding the importance of instrument/frequency separation, panning, and adding width/depth in music. Side note; I have been playing guitar/bass with either a 4 or 8 track for decades and have been recording so blindly. Thank you sir and many good wishes!
This one is probably the BEST sounding snare I've heard in a mix in quite a while! Beautiful. And I do mean "in the mix," not on its own. A snare can sound perfect on its own, but in the mix... Hat down to you, sir! :)
Real great info thanks for sharing!
Well Warren...I am always astonished and admired at how good always is your work! At 16:45...the magic happens and all sounds great. When a person knows so well how to do his job, I'm just observing and studying, hoping to get at least half of your results! Thanks for sharing, as usual :)
Excellent tutorial. I will have to watch this a few times.
Love your stuff. Been a practicing musician and hack "producer" my whole adult life, but between Studio One and your videos my recordings are finally starting to sound like the live performance, and like I hear in my head. Your style, presentation, and choice of materials are very much appreciated and on point. I also love the sign over your left shoulder in some of your vids. My girls got me the same one. :-) Rock on!
I find myself re-visiting this video every month.. Amazing. Thanks Warren.
Thanks ever so much
Loving these videos! This is the best most logically explained info I have found. It's crazy how I've gone years w/o thinking of these totally logical things and then wondering why my mixes still sound crappy. LOL
I seem to have found these videos at the perfect stage of my understanding for the material.
Thanks and keep em coming :)
Wow! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate your kind words
I'm working on this problem in my mix right now. Very timely and informative video, thanks!
Wow! What an amazing video. Certainly lots of information that will help my mixes.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
i`ve been producing self-taught for a few years now and the eq before the reverb that this guy recommends on this video... is game changer for me. Thanks a lot.
Thanks ever so much
Thank you Warren, this was extremely helpful as I really thought there was no way to make sense of a session I'd done decades ago with a real band. All your points and observations were spot on...
Thanks for imparting your wisdom, Warren. It's much appreciated!
Just getting into DAW and recording at home..love these videos. This one is particularly useful
so much great FREE information. thx!
I just found your channel while listening to RUclips at work and I seriously can't believe it because it feels like a hidden treasure I can't wait to get home today
Thanks ever so much! I’m so glad to be able to help! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
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Great topic and great insight Warren! Be well!!!
Thanks so much Warren! This video really helped me to understand how to EQ instruments around each other. You are awesome!!
man you really hold nothing back, I literally haven't produced in 7 years and watching your videos you really give out the sauce. Learn something great from you every video. I know it's a long shot but could make a video of you mixing synthetic kicks and 808's together. It would probably get millions of views by the younger generation who produce hip hop because no one explains quite like you. If not no biggie keep up the great work.
This is the most detailed explanation I've found about cleaning muddy mix. Thank you!
Thank you very much for uploading quality content! At least for me as a hobbyist it's very helpful! this is a problem i typically struggle with and more often than not do to much EQ and it ends up sounding really bad. I had just completely overlooked that it can be really helpful to EQ out the low end before the reverb :)
Great video, Warren as ever! I love to clean up low mids and leave them or boost them in my snare and snare reverb to fatten the snare sound of a thin recorded snare drum! Much LOVE
Thank you for your work here. Excellent.
Thanks Warren, great video, great tips.
Great video, great song. Very helpful ❤
Everyone of your videos teaches me something useful. Thank you!
Wow! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
I'm a firm believer it starts with your song/composition- like what you say, great production will give you a good mix from the outset.
thanks for the tips!
This probably screams "short attention span gen z", but my only struggle learning from this channel is the video length. It's definitely a personal experience thing, I just got used to more fast-paced tutorials. However, I love that while the video is longer than most I've watched, he doesn't waste any of that runtime and delves into great detail. I hope I can get used to the lengthier durations, other than that I love the channel
Great video! I ran this one back twice! Lol very cool.
This is a great video. I love the Brian Wilson example. Thanks to all of your videos you have shared on this subject, I am better at arranging low end instruments in my midi orchestration. I absolutely love all of your work from Produce Like a Pro training site. When Im not lazy (LOL), I actually do OK midi orchestra mixes thanks to you.
Thanks ever so much Thomas! I really appreciate your kind words! I'm glad to be able to help!
Best visual I've seen for mix issues!
Great example, great song, great mix.
Great info Warren!!
Thank you Warren Huart for continuing to help artists. You are an inspiration.
This channel is such a game-changer for me!
Another great tutorial. Having the full range of sound without clutter and “mud” is so important to the quality of the mix
Thanks for the video, Warren. Also, I like the shirt!
WOW, this is pure gold! Thank you
Thank you for this video. Such good information without a lot of extra technical stuff bogging it down. My mixes always get muddy as I layer in tracks. This is so helpful.
I really enjoyed this lesson. My favorite part was boosting the fundamental and cutting with shelf near the same frequency.
Thank you so much for sharing! That was probably the most useful beginner video I have seen so far!
Thanks man, this was really helpful. Great concepts! I was in the habit of cutting at individual tracks and boosting on the busses only, but often lost the low end of my mix. I need to try that boost-cut idea. Makes sense.
this was amazing thanks a lot maestro!!
Great video as ever with tips I can immediately, and simultaneously, apply!
Awesome tutorial! Just what I needed to see and hear today. This is invaluable knowledge and demonstration that I will take and immediately apply to my mixes in my beginning stages, on the music production side of the glass. Thank you so much Warren!!!
Excellent video! Very educational, informative and well presented.
Wishing many blessings to you for sharing your expertise!
So good!!!
Most Excellent. !! Thank you.
Great examples as usual. I'd read about sticking a sub under a live bass to get a clean punch, but this is the first vid to really demonstrate how great it can sound. And in such a busy mix it really comes through nice and clean, but sounds 'real'. Thanks for the effort you put into stuff like this. For someone like me, where this (unfortunately) is not the day job, jems like this are awesome ;-)
Thanks ever so much my friend! I am very happy to be able to help in any way I can!!
This was extremely helpful. Especially boosting the fundamental and adding the high pass. I'm definitely going to try that. I never really know what to do with big distorted guitars.
Thanks Warren! 🙌