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Lack of low end in your master could also just mean that you need to go back to the mix and adjust the bass. After all, aren't problematic masters the fault of mix issues. Hope I didn't bother.
When I was teaching audio mixing I used to say: don't struggle finding the problem in solo if you cannot hear it in context! Masking for instance is not always a problem. Complete separation in the mix with almost no masking at all doesn't sound good. There's a place for "beautiful masking" in every mix. Mixing is about connecting sounds, not separating them, I think.
@@AlexNiedt That would depend on the genre of music. In edm for instance, which i produce and competely in the box, my mixes need to be super loud - 6 lufs! and the kick and snare need to be separated from the rest of the mix. Everything needs to duck out of the way. In dance music you need to compromise a lot to be at competetative loudness, therefore the m ixes can't be too cluttered and each frequency needs space. Spearation is key in electronic dance music but at the same time blended together with gentle 12b eq curves..
@@jonathanoates1972 I think you've missed the point. Every mix has some degree of masking, and trying to do away with it entirely is a futile effort. As for EDM, as loud as it is, it's often practically a wall of sound, and elements are far from disconnected. Also, consider all the layering done in EDM. That is literally creative, desirable masking.
@@AlexNiedt Hey Alex, great channel btw. No i've not missed anything and i wasn't implying that masking should be eliminated. But there are genres of muisic that require greater separation than others EDM being one of them. When your track is played in a club envirnonmnet with terrible reflections bouncing everywhere you need your mix to be transparant and clear. IN that type of situation if you've not paid attention to your kick and snare and made sure everything is ducked out of the way, it will sound very bad in the space. Especially at the luf levels dance music is produced at. There of course will be some gentle masking going where by you have some cross over points in the spectrum, you can't have razor cut separation, that would sound awful. But in dance music because of the high loudness levels there most certainly needs far more separation than say a down tempo mid bass track produced at 10 - 14 lufs. It's simply the way it is for loud club environment dance music played in those types of spaces. Besides we have to work in a much smaller dynamic range if we want it this loud. There has to be trade offs with your sound design, arrangement, and mix, other wise you simply can't produce loud enough mixes.
One of my clients wanted to go to a local "cheap" Mastering Engineer. First thing he did was Nº1 Mistake, ending up cutting 6 or 8 imaginary resonances on my mixes, then, he had his outboard with fixed settings for the whole 11 songs album (Mistake Nº 8, but on steroids), after he drived the mix about 6dbs with a hardware saturator, no level matching (Mistake Nº10). When he asked me if I liked it, and I suggested level matching, he just said I was "wrong". He had a student in his room, his student will be far better trained subscribing David's channel. No need to said, I ended up mastering myself (Mistake Nº 11)
I went to a friend's studio and they had a bunch of guys there that were a part of the label they had and I remember them messing my track up so bad.. first they tried to have me record out of tune and key like way out. I couldn't even hold a harmony. I tried to tell the guy then he asked everyone and they were like no its good so I had to press the issue to get him to change the key. He then proceeds to ruin the first step along with several others.. I told another friend about this situation and he said that when guys have in-house engineers and ppl signed to them or their crowd around that they will try to diminish other artists if they sounded better.. idk if that's what was going on but I know I was upset at how the engineers didn't want to follow me like I had no idea wtf was going on
I think this goes without saying, but I'll say it anyways.... YES to video on masking. YES to video on calibrating scopes. YES to anything else you are thinking about. Just YES! 😄
I think in my experience (25years) every time I’ve done mono maker in the low end it doesn’t solve any low end problems for me….no matter how small I go. The solution for me is entirely cutting the stereo side of the low end right out almost to about -8….not outta the mids but outta the sides only. It just seems to work better than mono maker for me and give that nice low end pur to the subs. I gotta say though….your videos teach me things regardless of what I know already….you really do know your stuff! Thanks again!
Hey David! I've spent my whole life in the studio and I get so much out of being reminded of the basics. My father always use to say, "You're never too experienced to go back to the basics". Thanks for the reminders and all the awesome wisdoms you are taking the time to share. I especially loved your chat with Lij Shaw where you shared your passion for physical health and fitness - A message that needs more attention in this industry. Power to you bro!
Mistakes specifically I want to remember: #1 - Dont use a narrow Q when looking for resonances (1:31) #2 - Sweeping to find frequences to cut or boost - try to guess the frequencies first, this trains your ear #3 - Using too much EQ/trying to solve everything by EQ - overly eq'd material sounds unnaturaleverything #4 - Dont be scared of boosting, subtractive eq is as useful as additive eq #5 - Only using parametric eqs, infinite options doesnt mean better, classic eqs have limitations but this makes you be more conscious and selective about the frequency #6 - Dont low cut or high cut by default, make it a conscious decision, maybe use a low/high shelf #7 - Try buss eq'ing first before doing solo material #8 - Way too much top end boosting, our brain thinks anything that is brighter is better) - the magic is in the mids, its always the mids
Nice vid. I had a eq "penny drop" moment when watching a clip with Andy Wallace. From memory he was eqing the 1khz area of a kick drum and he mentioned that he likes to make sure that that area of the kick is hitting the listener at the same level as the 1khz area of the gtrs. So he really isn't listening to the kick but rather listening to how that portion of the kick is balanced to the same freq area of the gtrs. Makes total sense.
Excellent David. I've unfortunately made these mistakes many times (especially eq'ing in solo), and still do. You're kick drum example -- yup,..been there done that! I'm gonna get better. Thanks again!
I can't believe that you've got only 100k with all the information that you spread in such a concise and no bs way, when there are so many music production youtubers that get way higher scores, been there way less early than you, and kinda such tbh. This video is awesome, i realize that i was making a lot of theses mistakes. Thanks.
wow. first I came across Heritage Audio Symph EQ Stereo Asymptotic Equalizer. Then listening to the music on the video got my attention. Did they ran mix through this EQ. Then I had to see if there's RUclips review on it. Came across this channel. After watching the review on this channel confirms my suspicion. I went ahead and order the Heritage Audio Symph EQ Stereo Asymptotic Equalizer, This video totally confirms what some of pro live mixing engineers also like to do.
The part about some EQs being too powerful is something I recently discovered about myself. I tend to overdo EQ simply because I can. So, recently I've gone back to the basics, and I put SSL channel strip on every track in my template. If I need EQ on the track, that's what I start with, and I only use another EQ if I can't get what I need with SSL. I've discovered that I usually can get what I need with it. This may not be the way I'll be working 10 years in the future (who knows?), but it's working well for me at this stage. Great video!
I love getting advice from creators of music/ genres outside my own (house / hip hop) because you guys notice and explain stuff I wouldn’t think about otherwise. So sending lots of appreciation. And in that spirit: #11 also applies to the other end of the frequency spectrum (especially for bass driven music). For too long I was getting overexcited by boosting the low end because i thought it would give me the thump I wanted. It also resulted in muddy mixes. So the same advice here in reverse - tame that excitement, roll off that bottom end and slowly work it back. Once I learned that, the mix starting actually thumping precisely because there was less mud. It also helped create a better relationship between the kick and bass. Great vid, I learned a lot.
Agree with you David! Especially on the EQ on the mix bus: I honestly hardly use it since you have way more possibilities to f*ck up the mix; and also not EQing in solo a lot: I feel that boosting top and bottom end - while heavily scooping the mids - is more due to this than to not level matching (which don't get me wringis very important, especially for beginners) because cutting the muddiness and the honk always sounds great in solo, but in the context of the mix it... really sucks. I would have added this one: not automating EQ/using dynamic EQ especially for tracks that change a lot during the song (e.g: a distorted guitar pretty much always needs some cuts - or even better multi-band compression - when they're played with palm mutes, but very rarely need it when they're not).
Great on point video man. I have most def made many of these mistakes. Hell even sometimes today still lol. Eq in solo was a big one for me. Even more was not EQ'ing as a default thing. Sometimes leaving the sound alone is the best option, OR eq another sound vs the one you think is the issue.
2:00 Video on Analyser Calibration PLEASE 🥺 and where to place it in the Vocal Chain Please Many dont know that it sounds different with each button you change going from medium to fast and so on and when you cut or boost frequency aswell, SIR you are a true LEGEND and i was stuck for years on thinking it sounds great but theres something up and this was one of the eq tricks that did it which i figured out and ended up with the exact same settings as you, 90 db maximum medium and 0db only last week i got this result 🤣😭🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Yeah. I learned to avoid the too narrow resonance search by doing it too narrow. I really couldn’t determine which frequency is really resonant and which is not, because everything was sounding resonant. But there are videos out there of people who love this method. Perhaps they have trained themselves into spotting the right frequencies that way. But I find it easier to do what you‘re doing. If a frequency is resonant or sounds nasty I will find it even if it‘s not boosted by max dB. 🙂
Always super useful to hear a reminding about the most important EQ rules, thanks. It would be nice to get videos about how calibrate a spectrum analyzer properly and how to unmask problematic freqs.
5:00 I remember that. It was Graham Cochrane, Recording Revolution who recommended that. He was one of the earliest "YT-mixers" doing videos. And guess what, the guy is still sitting in his garage/bedroom studio. Lolz.
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I would love a video on calibrating FF proQ or izotope, or just in general. Thankx David
Lack of low end in your master could also just mean that you need to go back to the mix and adjust the bass. After all, aren't problematic masters the fault of mix issues.
Hope I didn't bother.
This guy NEVER misses. If you’ve found this channel, congrats. This is as good as it gets.
Always nice to recap, never to be forgotten :
"The Twelve EQ Commandments"
and much more.....
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When I was teaching audio mixing I used to say: don't struggle finding the problem in solo if you cannot hear it in context! Masking for instance is not always a problem. Complete separation in the mix with almost no masking at all doesn't sound good. There's a place for "beautiful masking" in every mix.
Mixing is about connecting sounds, not separating them, I think.
Nice comment !
Very well said!
@@AlexNiedt That would depend on the genre of music. In edm for instance, which i produce and competely in the box, my mixes need to be super loud - 6 lufs! and the kick and snare need to be separated from the rest of the mix. Everything needs to duck out of the way. In dance music you need to compromise a lot to be at competetative loudness, therefore the m ixes can't be too cluttered and each frequency needs space. Spearation is key in electronic dance music but at the same time blended together with gentle 12b eq curves..
@@jonathanoates1972 I think you've missed the point. Every mix has some degree of masking, and trying to do away with it entirely is a futile effort. As for EDM, as loud as it is, it's often practically a wall of sound, and elements are far from disconnected. Also, consider all the layering done in EDM. That is literally creative, desirable masking.
@@AlexNiedt Hey Alex, great channel btw. No i've not missed anything and i wasn't implying that masking should be eliminated. But there are genres of muisic that require greater separation than others EDM being one of them. When your track is played in a club envirnonmnet with terrible reflections bouncing everywhere you need your mix to be transparant and clear. IN that type of situation if you've not paid attention to your kick and snare and made sure everything is ducked out of the way, it will sound very bad in the space. Especially at the luf levels dance music is produced at. There of course will be some gentle masking going where by you have some cross over points in the spectrum, you can't have razor cut separation, that would sound awful. But in dance music because of the high loudness levels there most certainly needs far more separation than say a down tempo mid bass track produced at 10 - 14 lufs. It's simply the way it is for loud club environment dance music played in those types of spaces. Besides we have to work in a much smaller dynamic range if we want it this loud. There has to be trade offs with your sound design, arrangement, and mix, other wise you simply can't produce loud enough mixes.
"know why you are doing this" - absolutely spot on point
One of my clients wanted to go to a local "cheap" Mastering Engineer. First thing he did was Nº1 Mistake, ending up cutting 6 or 8 imaginary resonances on my mixes, then, he had his outboard with fixed settings for the whole 11 songs album (Mistake Nº 8, but on steroids), after he drived the mix about 6dbs with a hardware saturator, no level matching (Mistake Nº10). When he asked me if I liked it, and I suggested level matching, he just said I was "wrong". He had a student in his room, his student will be far better trained subscribing David's channel. No need to said, I ended up mastering myself (Mistake Nº 11)
lolll classic ending
🤣 at lease your brutality honest 💯
I went to a friend's studio and they had a bunch of guys there that were a part of the label they had and I remember them messing my track up so bad.. first they tried to have me record out of tune and key like way out. I couldn't even hold a harmony. I tried to tell the guy then he asked everyone and they were like no its good so I had to press the issue to get him to change the key. He then proceeds to ruin the first step along with several others.. I told another friend about this situation and he said that when guys have in-house engineers and ppl signed to them or their crowd around that they will try to diminish other artists if they sounded better.. idk if that's what was going on but I know I was upset at how the engineers didn't want to follow me like I had no idea wtf was going on
😂 f*cking hell
The ending. 😂😂
That feeling when you realise that what you understand, you don't do and what you do, you don't understand
Excellent video! A video about calibration of the spectrum analyzer would be nice!
Yes
Subbing right now with anticipation for this video ha
Yep!
Please video on analyser
+1000 for analyser calibration video!
Id love to know more how to deal with unmasking and build up the right way. I love this video. Please do more
I think this goes without saying, but I'll say it anyways....
YES to video on masking.
YES to video on calibrating scopes.
YES to anything else you are thinking about. Just YES! 😄
Thanks for all you do, man. Maybe this will be just enough to get you a good Italian coffee in LA. Cheers.
Thank you! 😄🙏
I think in my experience (25years) every time I’ve done mono maker in the low end it doesn’t solve any low end problems for me….no matter how small I go. The solution for me is entirely cutting the stereo side of the low end right out almost to about -8….not outta the mids but outta the sides only. It just seems to work better than mono maker for me and give that nice low end pur to the subs. I gotta say though….your videos teach me things regardless of what I know already….you really do know your stuff! Thanks again!
Definitely make a vid on eq calibration
At first, as a beginner, I wasn’t sure who to trust on RUclips, but now I understand this guy really knows his stuff. Straightforward and smart👌
and another +1000 for the masking / demasking video!
calibration video please
Thank you David! 🙌🏻
Hey David! I've spent my whole life in the studio and I get so much out of being reminded of the basics. My father always use to say, "You're never too experienced to go back to the basics". Thanks for the reminders and all the awesome wisdoms you are taking the time to share. I especially loved your chat with Lij Shaw where you shared your passion for physical health and fitness - A message that needs more attention in this industry. Power to you bro!
The Waves API 550B is one of my favorite EQs. It is very flexible and sounds fantastic on a number of instruments and vocals.
It's my favourite workhorse classic EQ as well.
Calibrate vid - yes PLS!
Mistakes specifically I want to remember:
#1 - Dont use a narrow Q when looking for resonances (1:31)
#2 - Sweeping to find frequences to cut or boost - try to guess the frequencies first, this trains your ear
#3 - Using too much EQ/trying to solve everything by EQ - overly eq'd material sounds unnaturaleverything
#4 - Dont be scared of boosting, subtractive eq is as useful as additive eq
#5 - Only using parametric eqs, infinite options doesnt mean better, classic eqs have limitations but this makes you be more conscious and selective about the frequency
#6 - Dont low cut or high cut by default, make it a conscious decision, maybe use a low/high shelf
#7 - Try buss eq'ing first before doing solo material
#8 - Way too much top end boosting, our brain thinks anything that is brighter is better) - the magic is in the mids, its always the mids
Nice vid. I had a eq "penny drop" moment when watching a clip with Andy Wallace. From memory he was eqing the 1khz area of a kick drum and he mentioned that he likes to make sure that that area of the kick is hitting the listener at the same level as the 1khz area of the gtrs.
So he really isn't listening to the kick but rather listening to how that portion of the kick is balanced to the same freq area of the gtrs. Makes total sense.
First person in years that actually points out the Tilt setting. I’m a roll 3 guy.
Excellent David. I've unfortunately made these mistakes many times (especially eq'ing in solo), and still do. You're kick drum example -- yup,..been there done that! I'm gonna get better. Thanks again!
I can't believe that you've got only 100k with all the information that you spread in such a concise and no bs way, when there are so many music production youtubers that get way higher scores, been there way less early than you, and kinda such tbh. This video is awesome, i realize that i was making a lot of theses mistakes. Thanks.
I suck at clickbait titles and thumbs and YT don't like me
@@mixbustv but we love you David :)
EQ Calibration Analyzer video IS A MUST! Please do it!!!
+1 for EQ analyzer calibration video.
wow. first I came across Heritage Audio Symph EQ Stereo Asymptotic Equalizer. Then listening to the music on the video got my attention. Did they ran mix through this EQ. Then I had to see if there's RUclips review on it. Came across this channel. After watching the review on this channel confirms my suspicion. I went ahead and order the Heritage Audio Symph EQ Stereo Asymptotic Equalizer, This video totally confirms what some of pro live mixing engineers also like to do.
These are the best videos! Thank you
Yes please make an EQ calibration video and how we can apply it, thank you!
Im so happy, im at the stage now where i can hear the problem frequencies/whats missing and where they are approximately before i even sweep! :)
please make calibrated eq video!
#1 is a complete game changer for me. Thanks Dave. Cheers
The part about some EQs being too powerful is something I recently discovered about myself. I tend to overdo EQ simply because I can. So, recently I've gone back to the basics, and I put SSL channel strip on every track in my template. If I need EQ on the track, that's what I start with, and I only use another EQ if I can't get what I need with SSL. I've discovered that I usually can get what I need with it.
This may not be the way I'll be working 10 years in the future (who knows?), but it's working well for me at this stage.
Great video!
12 minutes of real help 👍 thanks David!
Bro, this is gold. I was right in the middle. Doing some things right and others wrong.👍🔥
Great presentation, David! A video on frequency masking and also a video on spectrum analyzer calibration would be greatly appreciated.
I love getting advice from creators of music/ genres outside my own (house / hip hop) because you guys notice and explain stuff I wouldn’t think about otherwise. So sending lots of appreciation.
And in that spirit:
#11 also applies to the other end of the frequency spectrum (especially for bass driven music). For too long I was getting overexcited by boosting the low end because i thought it would give me the thump I wanted. It also resulted in muddy mixes. So the same advice here in reverse - tame that excitement, roll off that bottom end and slowly work it back. Once I learned that, the mix starting actually thumping precisely because there was less mud. It also helped create a better relationship between the kick and bass.
Great vid, I learned a lot.
Good to over some basics every once in a while.... sometimes we just forget them.
That was a huge amount of extremely helpful information in such a short video. Cheers
I like your open-minded approach, I learned a lot!
Oh man , this is so helpful . I hope that I could know these earlier . Thanks for sharing these ,man !
Yes, collaboration of analysis and a better understanding of different uses
Agree with you David! Especially on the EQ on the mix bus: I honestly hardly use it since you have way more possibilities to f*ck up the mix; and also not EQing in solo a lot: I feel that boosting top and bottom end - while heavily scooping the mids - is more due to this than to not level matching (which don't get me wringis very important, especially for beginners) because cutting the muddiness and the honk always sounds great in solo, but in the context of the mix it... really sucks. I would have added this one: not automating EQ/using dynamic EQ especially for tracks that change a lot during the song (e.g: a distorted guitar pretty much always needs some cuts - or even better multi-band compression - when they're played with palm mutes, but very rarely need it when they're not).
love.a video on CALIBRATION! That you !
Great tutorial thanks! The suggestion of the calibration video sounds a really good idea!
Yes!!! Do an analyser calibrating video!
Definitely interested in the EQ Calibration video!
I got a better understanding on the EQ process 🤙🏽
Can you make a video on calibration 🏄🏾♂️🤘
please do a video on eq calibration like you mentioned in this video.....very helpful thank you!
Every single tip here was an eye-opener. Extremely appreciate the expertise and the meaningful intent behind each EQ concept/mistake.
David, you are a great teacher. Your experience and honesty are what internet students appreciate, and always comes through.
Cheers!
Very very helpful 🙏
Thanks for the Tips, Your mixing Tips Are always Spot On and Helpful.
Great video. I use the guess frequency option all the time.
Great video. That tip about the spectrum analyzer alone was an eye-opener. I certainly have been making that mistake.
Respect brother! Thank you for your knowledge and delivery
This is gold!
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Number 10 that's why I balance boosts and cuts instead of only boosting and only cutting.
You have the best videos ! Very intelligent and to the point . Thanks for sharing .
Solid advice thanks!
I'd love to see a masking vid
Thank you sir 🙏🏻, video on masking please 🙏🏻
THANKS. That's gold👍👆
Number 9 sounds like gold I'll try that
Brilliant video 🔥 would be nice to see how you calibrate the frequency analyser
Thank you, David! Lot of useful video!
Solid tips.
Yes... About calibration any analyzer, please;)
I would love to see a video about calibrating the analyzer!
Masking Topic Badly Needed !
really cool advices there. Already made all of theses mistakes but still useful to brush them up from time to time ^^. Great video
Yes please, i would like to know how to calibrate the eq’ !
Thanks David, always the best advice, no-bullshit advice on youtube!
Great video David!!! Masking and how to calibrate the analizer videos comming soon please!!
Video on CALIBRATING ANALYZERS plz!! 💡
Great on point video man. I have most def made many of these mistakes. Hell even sometimes today still lol. Eq in solo was a big one for me. Even more was not EQ'ing as a default thing. Sometimes leaving the sound alone is the best option, OR eq another sound vs the one you think is the issue.
💯 % David 👍🏻 I found out most of this the hard way 😎
2:00 Video on Analyser Calibration PLEASE 🥺 and where to place it in the Vocal Chain Please
Many dont know that it sounds different with each button you change going from medium to fast and so on and when you cut or boost frequency aswell, SIR you are a true LEGEND and i was stuck for years on thinking it sounds great but theres something up and this was one of the eq tricks that did it which i figured out and ended up with the exact same settings as you, 90 db maximum medium and 0db only last week i got this result 🤣😭🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Hey David! I'm curious, but by chance you make a calibration video?
Definitely make a video on how to calibrate the EQ!!!
Love this channel, bro. I'm pretty good at mixing but I was guilty of number 12!!
I always EQ & compress in solo, but then I listen to it in the mix.
Then you don't do it in solo lol
This video is very informative. Thank you bro!
Definitely do a video on masking!!!
Will you please do a video on eq calibration..preferably fabfilter.. Thanks
Great video David… I’m exciting about calibrate analyzer and masking freq video from you 🔥🔥🔥
Yes please make a video on masking
Awesome video man , thank u , the análises calibration video would be awesome and the madonas well , amazing job !!
Man sorry fo the typo, was in bed 3am half sleep...lol .... i meant the analyzer calibration and EQ masking not ( madonas ) ...thanks again !!
You are the best man! Cheers!
Awesome video as usual! (Calibration?! No idea this was a thing, I must be living under a rock. A video would be awesome!)
Yeah. I learned to avoid the too narrow resonance search by doing it too narrow. I really couldn’t determine which frequency is really resonant and which is not, because everything was sounding resonant. But there are videos out there of people who love this method. Perhaps they have trained themselves into spotting the right frequencies that way. But I find it easier to do what you‘re doing. If a frequency is resonant or sounds nasty I will find it even if it‘s not boosted by max dB. 🙂
Always super useful to hear a reminding about the most important EQ rules, thanks.
It would be nice to get videos about how calibrate a spectrum analyzer properly and how to unmask problematic freqs.
5:00 I remember that. It was Graham Cochrane, Recording Revolution who recommended that. He was one of the earliest "YT-mixers" doing videos. And guess what, the guy is still sitting in his garage/bedroom studio. Lolz.
Great content as allways!!! 🤗👌🏻👌🏻
Thank u sir. can you make a video about eq calibaration?
Soooo many great points. Thanks!
Nice video. 🔥
It all comes down to this: "The less processing you need to do, the better it sounds."
This are the videos we like and love! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge
Damn guilty of almost all these. Thank you.