Just watched 2 or 3 vids from this guy and i learned a lot from him. He explains clearly and with a lot of animations of the sounds he is describing, which helps a awful lot because this is youtube and we're listening on cheap sound systems and most of the time its hard to hear whats being done to the music. Bob realises this and adapts accordingly which is great way of imparting the Knowledge we are all trying to learn. He describes in detail how stuff (low,mids etc) build up in a mix over time better than anybody i've looked at. Thanks Bob......
Bob is simply superb when he imparts his knowledge on sound structure in a musical whole. There are experts and there are master craftsmen... I will put him in later category...
It could be the kids on phones are just taking notes. The trick is to keep your own concentration and not be sidetracked by having to make judgement calls on everyone around you. Live and let live. Or mind your own business. I Couldn't find one interesting comment here that expands on this great presentation from Bob.
So glad that you are mentioning checking for phase! I get projects from aspiring artists who need some mixing work & I run into this problem a lot. I use to accept stereo mixes but I can't anymore bc I have to bring out every trick in the book to fix the phase. So I always go with the splits & sometimes stems. Great video BTW!
The go-to engineer for A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Erykah Badu shares his mixing expertise. You can read more about Bob Power here... www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/bob-power-it-always-takes-longer
Anything Bob Power shares is worth listening to & putting into practice to see if/how it can work for you. Thanks to Mr. Power for always sharing his knowledge. Anyone know of any other videos of Bob mixing an entire track? =)
roey izhaki provided some cool sub harmonic mixes for his book mix elements. i really appreciate Bob kicking off his clinic with a sub harmonic dilemma....
Thanks Bob Power. I'm slowly understanding headroom in the software. I get it as a concept, and know what I should be hearing. I can hear it in many of the covers I love. It's just trying to understand my DAW, and how to use it to get the depth, height, and width for all the tracks to be heard. So far seems to be mostly playing around with my old multi track projects. So experience. Each time I play with the same one, it sometimes just sounds different, then finally sounds closer to what I want to hear. And the source tracks aren't that great, so it's also showing me just how powerful a DAW can be. Unfortunately I was led astray by a "Friend" who I believed knew what they were talking about. So I had some silly ideas to clear out.
I so completely love when our amazing legends step out to expose us to their well-worn and war-torn secrets of the studio! However, is it too much to ask that whoever places a lavaliere mic on the person speaking do a check first to ensure CLARITY? I have seen so many of these that look great but with muffled spoken word. I want to hear what he is saying without swimming my way through 400-600Hz mud.
Great explanation! One of the best mixing engineers that can teach actually, no doubt. The guy with the black/red hat seems bored. He just could got out of the studio and period. I would kill to be in person in this kind of masterclass and that guy is playing around with his phone, Seriously?
Did anyone practice with the 5 concepts he talked about? I was wondering if anyone played around with each of the five concepts in each of the three levels of focus? Example: a kick that is 1. Low Pitch 2. Loud 3. Dark Tamber 4. very articulate 5. medium level of activity. There are so many options here and I was wondering if anyone had found some cool combinations?
Big question, who is the smartest singer you ever worked with sonically, who knew thier instrument the best(?voice, what it needed) asking all the engineers
+Farai Sean from my experience, i think it's easier to focus on tones w/ one speaker. while mixing in stereo is obviously necessary for managing where sounds are in the stereo field, toning eq while facing a single speaker lets you concentrate more on tuning the tonality/timbre of the sounds themselves, and their relation to each other in the freq spectrum. Derek Ali, Kendrick Lamar's engineer, also has a practice of mixing in mono - "I mix on just one Auratone, because I like specific elements of the mix to pop out, and listening in mono on that speaker really helps me define that. " (www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun15/articles/inside-track-0615.htm#para6)
+Farai Sean No, listen on 1 speaker in MONO!!It is the best for EQing. You have less room distraction, you don't have to sit exactly in the middle and trying to eq an instrument to give space in the whole arrangement, you hear more masking effects, instruments covering each other a.s.o. When they are already panned, it is more difficult to hear in which frequencies they are fighting.When they are all in "the middle", you hear exactly where it needs more space. Also Compression and many other things are worth to check in mono... www.thesessionguitarist.com/online-mixing-service.html
+Farai Sean Indeed, it is...and switching back to stereo after makes the sun shining :) Just don't forget to put a plugin on the mixbus, which can be set to mono. Or some audiounterfaces have a funciton to switch to mono.
Somebody please help me to get through my question..i always've been heard about "low level monitoring" when you doing a mix. but what im seeing here is bob's monitoring level is so higher than i expected.. is it normal to listen music in that high level when you doing mix?? i mean, by the fletcher munson curve, his ear won't disern the differences between high and low frequency level in a minute if he keeps his monitoring level that high.
there's a much longer version. Just search for bob Power masterclass, he breaks things down over the course of an hour and walks through his mix of a song as well as expands upon the opening concepts.
In his list of 5 things I think he forgot one - ambience. how reverberant or dry something can sound based on the room or mic placement or added processing. not to try and sound like i know more than him obviously.
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I am sitting back sipping on a 473 ml Red Bull right now before I go busking...if I drink while busking I'll get all gassy and burp in the middle of songs!
I sure hope that guy in the background managed to keep up with all his social media feeds. I mean, what better time to constantly check your phone than when you're in the studio with legendary Bob Power?
![Mixing Masterclass with Bob Power [MixCon 2017]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cHxMsawJsTc/mqdefault.jpg)
Bob's 5 things:
1 pitch
2 dynamics
3 timbre
4 articulation
5 level of activity
Man, what a great engineer. Seriously articulate. Great ear.
Just watched 2 or 3 vids from this guy and i learned a lot from him. He explains clearly and with a lot of animations of the sounds he is describing, which helps a awful lot because this is youtube and we're listening on cheap sound systems and most of the time its hard to hear whats being done to the music. Bob realises this and adapts accordingly which is great way of imparting the Knowledge we are all trying to learn. He describes in detail how stuff (low,mids etc) build up in a mix over time better than anybody i've looked at.
Thanks Bob......
Best Mixing Class On RUclips I've Seen So Far
Not bad huh? Love his 5 points, which are so helpful to keeping good focus.
Tony Maserati has some good Videos too
LOFTYLIFE very informative.
Bob is the man! His name appears on many of my favorite LP's
I learn so much in those 1st 2 minutes thts wild crazy
this was the best thing in the entire world. Number one thing. Trust your ear. I will never forget this in all my engineering days.
Love
Bob is simply superb when he imparts his knowledge on sound structure in a musical whole. There are experts and there are master craftsmen... I will put him in later category...
Definitely a Master legend in the game.
It could be the kids on phones are just taking notes. The trick is to keep your own concentration and not be sidetracked by having to make judgement calls on everyone around you. Live and let live. Or mind your own business. I Couldn't find one interesting comment here that expands on this great presentation from Bob.
Roni Francois Why not just film if that's the case. Not that I really care. IJS though. They WERE fucking off. LOL.
try taking your own advice then.
So glad that you are mentioning checking for phase! I get projects from aspiring artists who need some mixing work & I run into this problem a lot. I use to accept stereo mixes but I can't anymore bc I have to bring out every trick in the book to fix the phase. So I always go with the splits & sometimes stems. Great video BTW!
As a previous poster commented and for those who don't know the song is
Olga Bell - "Rubbernecker"
Thank you!
Dude was dropping gems from the start of the video.
I love the way he articulates sounds with his mouth
Thanks for this! Bob's a good teacher...delivery is on point.
The go-to engineer for A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Erykah Badu shares his mixing expertise.
You can read more about Bob Power here...
www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/bob-power-it-always-takes-longer
imetulia ni nzuri na inaradha kamili na aijachakachuliwa na iko vizuri
DILLLLLA
Man Bob Power is an analytical BEAST!!
He said this in another tutorial too but it’s one of the best take homes and always sticks wit me ,
“ can you hear everything?”
Anything Bob Power shares is worth listening to & putting into practice to see if/how it can work for you. Thanks to Mr. Power for always sharing his knowledge. Anyone know of any other videos of Bob mixing an entire track? =)
The song is Rubbernecker by Olga Bell but it hasn't been released yet.
This is remarkable. He's catching things by ear that I couldn't detect.
Hi from a musician/Violin/Pianist who for some reason built a 2 room Studio in the UK:) A very enjoyable video!
Bit on compression was so helpful
The Bob Ross of music!
Amazing studio
Brilliant engineering
Great stuff Bob, thanks - invaluable!
Now that was insightful, and sharp! This is a real engineer!
Those vocals are nice
Really good stuff!
Thank you Bob
roey izhaki provided some cool sub harmonic mixes for his book mix elements. i really appreciate Bob kicking off his clinic with a sub harmonic dilemma....
Thanks Bob Power. I'm slowly understanding headroom in the software. I get it as a concept, and know what I should be hearing. I can hear it in many of the covers I love. It's just trying to understand my DAW, and how to use it to get the depth, height, and width for all the tracks to be heard. So far seems to be mostly playing around with my old multi track projects. So experience. Each time I play with the same one, it sometimes just sounds different, then finally sounds closer to what I want to hear. And the source tracks aren't that great, so it's also showing me just how powerful a DAW can be. Unfortunately I was led astray by a "Friend" who I believed knew what they were talking about. So I had some silly ideas to clear out.
"Aye yo my mic is sounding bugged Bob Power you there? (yeah)"
Adjust the bass and treble make my shit sound clear
That’s always the best comment on Bob Power videos . My life is QTip quotes
this was great! keep up the amazing work, RBMA!
Mad set of ears.
awesome. great explanation
Thanks for posting.
I always mix better after watching a Bob Power video.
respect
Was the FULL VIDEO ever get released? This is still timeless...
great....love the tips...thanks...
I so completely love when our amazing legends step out to expose us to their well-worn and war-torn secrets of the studio! However, is it too much to ask that whoever places a lavaliere mic on the person speaking do a check first to ensure CLARITY? I have seen so many of these that look great but with muffled spoken word. I want to hear what he is saying without swimming my way through 400-600Hz mud.
brilliant
the artist is Olga Bell, but I don't recognize the song
+darwindeeez 'Rubbernecker' soundcloud.com/bellinspace/rubbernecker
thx
Lowkey trash
this is truly a great video
Great explanation! One of the best mixing engineers that can teach actually, no doubt.
The guy with the black/red hat seems bored. He just could got out of the studio and period. I would kill to be in person in this kind of masterclass and that guy is playing around with his phone, Seriously?
SilverBeat, thanks you Bob
Did anyone practice with the 5 concepts he talked about? I was wondering if anyone played around with each of the five concepts in each of the three levels of focus? Example: a kick that is 1. Low Pitch 2. Loud 3. Dark Tamber 4. very articulate 5. medium level of activity. There are so many options here and I was wondering if anyone had found some cool combinations?
Sounds like a Bjork thing. Cool.
Big question, who is the smartest singer you ever worked with sonically, who knew thier instrument the best(?voice, what it needed) asking all the engineers
GOLDEN INFORMATION
Such a cool video! Thanks
very nice engineer
Ive taught myself to mix and I think the most important thing he said was "can you hear everything?"
That was very interesting to me.
the word(tambre or somthng) he said to describe bright and brrrggh at 0:35 how do i write that, and what is it called in german
frantisek veselovskyJR The word is timbre in both English and German.
...who is that he's mixing as an example in this clip? I need to know...that track is amazing.
The vocals sound a lot like Simonne Jones.
word.
that sounds so good. dope bassline. bjorklike vocals.
probably something unreleased
I NEED TO KNOW THE SONG!! IM WATCHING THIS THE THIRD TIME SIMPLY BECAUSE THE MUSIC IS SO GREAT!!!!!
+Max Hasser
www.amazon.com/Rubbernecker/dp/B012JWA0MY
It was released yesterday
wish this were longer.
good stuff
this guys a wizard
7:25 What does he mean by "listen on one speaker"? Turning off your right speaker leaving your left or what?
+Farai Sean from my experience, i think it's easier to focus on tones w/ one speaker. while mixing in stereo is obviously necessary for managing where sounds are in the stereo field, toning eq while facing a single speaker lets you concentrate more on tuning the tonality/timbre of the sounds themselves, and their relation to each other in the freq spectrum.
Derek Ali, Kendrick Lamar's engineer, also has a practice of mixing in mono - "I mix on just one Auratone, because I like specific elements of the mix to pop out, and listening in mono on that speaker really helps me define that. " (www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun15/articles/inside-track-0615.htm#para6)
You are a beast for sharing this info! Thank u young Jiraiya :)
+Farai Sean No, listen on 1 speaker in MONO!!It is the best for EQing. You have less room distraction, you don't have to sit exactly in the middle and trying to eq an instrument to give space in the whole arrangement, you hear more masking effects, instruments covering each other a.s.o. When they are already panned, it is more difficult to hear in which frequencies they are fighting.When they are all in "the middle", you hear exactly where it needs more space. Also Compression and many other things are worth to check in mono...
www.thesessionguitarist.com/online-mixing-service.html
+soulguitar77 Thanks, I tried this on some guitars, did some EQ and I must say its much easier to figure things out.
+Farai Sean Indeed, it is...and switching back to stereo after makes the sun shining :) Just don't forget to put a plugin on the mixbus, which can be set to mono. Or some audiounterfaces have a funciton to switch to mono.
Do more videos like this but getting more into the plugins they use ?
i just wanna say thanks, cause now i don't have to spend 10,000 at recording school,
Good Stuff!
My goodness what is the name of this classy tune? please save me the two year search... ..
lol his face @ 9:17 when his assistant doesnt stop the playback lol
Genius
Somebody please help me to get through my question..i always've been heard about "low level monitoring" when you doing a mix. but what im seeing here is bob's monitoring level is so higher than i expected.. is it normal to listen music in that high level when you doing mix?? i mean, by the fletcher munson curve, his ear won't disern the differences between high and low frequency level in a minute if he keeps his monitoring level that high.
Is there somewhere i can find the full video?
what is the song though?
Dropping Knowledge....
muito bom
1:12 - Is that Jamie Lidell over Bob's right shoulder?
yes
Without direct stereo from the desk it's not as good as it could be
Great engineer but somehow the video is confusing.
Maybe a longer and better cutted video would have explained some passages accurately.
Yeah horrible editing.
agreed
there's a much longer version. Just search for bob Power masterclass, he breaks things down over the course of an hour and walks through his mix of a song as well as expands upon the opening concepts.
Is he using the 9000 desk or 4000?
You remind me of Dave Pensado
jamie lidell just chilling on the ground no big deal
nice shirt bob
In his list of 5 things I think he forgot one - ambience. how reverberant or dry something can sound based on the room or mic placement or added processing. not to try and sound like i know more than him obviously.
Gimme that room
Bob Power??? lol. Red Bull studios! What amazing studios you have! (googled it) Omg!
I want to know about the fight he got in that hurt his hand.
track name please!
does anyone know what type of computer keyboard is that?
logickeyboard i think
bbtucci that's a pro tools keyboard. you can get them direct from avid/sweetwater.
some lizard yep
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Is the guy in the corner wearing a Coca Cola cap or why is it censored? :P
Bob power you there?
Yeah
still waiting on this song :(
+FRTNK
www.amazon.com/Rubbernecker/dp/B012JWA0MY
It was released yesterday
Kent Shin you are more than a life saver i appreciate you lol.. gonna buy it now
+FRTNK careful. it falls under experimental/indyish, imho. very different song. has remix potential though
Whats with the occasional digital 'click'' noise ?
In example @ the 3:30 mark
there's a digital clip around :47
Scared the crap out of me lol
Oh another at 3:29
just a heads up. Love the video
The lav mic on him killed it :(
A shame for a session like that
What is the name of the track?
+Joshia Seam
www.amazon.com/Rubbernecker/dp/B012JWA0MY.
It was just released yesterday
Creat stuff
I am sitting back sipping on a 473 ml Red Bull right now before I go busking...if I drink while busking I'll get all gassy and burp in the middle of songs!
I sure hope that guy in the background managed to keep up with all his social media feeds.
I mean, what better time to constantly check your phone than when you're in the studio with legendary Bob Power?
He could be taking notes.....that is a thing on the phone though so.....
flappy birds
be the same guy who'll say that he didn't learn anything from this legend.
Yes, because his social media bullshit is more important than learing a trade. Millenials wasting space/oxygen again...sigh
+Jasmine Espy
if you believe that then I got some real estate on Mars I can sell you 😏.
He’s the shit!
cool stuff :)
Yo whats the song?!
+fhoplist
www.amazon.com/Rubbernecker/dp/B012JWA0MY
It was released yesterday
What about those background guys ? Seems like they aren't interested