The first tip with compression on the vocals sounding natural I've never heard anyone say before but now that you do explain it, it makes a lot of sense. Thanks as always for the advice!!
It took me years to figure out that in some situations it strangely works. I still have to be careful not to bring up noise, breaths and mouth noise too much when applying that sort of compression but there are amazing tools these days to reduce those noises anyway.
Compression on vocals can harm the intonations and the shaping that the artist is doing. Maybe compression could work well with an automated knob to help shape around the voices decrecendo and Crescendo and paying close attention to the shape the artist is going for. Compression is good. But it's a double edged sword if you're making expression with your voice. But one edge of that sword is definitely hurting more than the other(compression leveling out the volume).
It's a bit of an odd concept. I was completely against heavy compression for a couple of years and I don't know where I picked up that idea from. Honestly don't know how that got into my brain but I'm glad that I can see past it now and learn from the mistake.
YESS!! Finally, someone with reach seriously addressing hearing protection! I'm in my 30s and last year I came very close to a tinnitus! I was in the club and it was too loud for too long. (I don't go often but when I go I go hard.) I thought it wouldn't matter but it left me with a faint noise in my ears I kept hearing for weeks! Luckily, it's either gone or so insanely faint these days that I'd probably have to be in a totally noise-isolated room and focus hard to identify it. Other than that, my hearing is perfectly fine. Bottom line is don't fucking mess with your ears. You only have to screw them one time too much... Btw, I ordered the earplugs from Eargasm to be protected next time I go clubbing and so far I dig them! I would love reviews on other earplugs that protect you well but still allow for a great experience in the club or at an event. Maybe something that could be considered on this channel in the future! :)
Thank you for sharing your story, others will hear it and learn from it! So true that it only takes 1 loud exposure to mess them up for a while or potentially permanently if you're unlucky. I'm glad you got through it and took the steps to have a better time at your next gig!
Fantastic video! I learned some of these the hard way. After being a viewer for a few years just wanted to comment and say thanks for getting such useful information out to people who need it! ✌
Love all the points made in the video! Glad you addressed the hearing loss issue. As a teenager I used to play super loud music with no ear plugs with my band in my parents shed, and I know it definitely did some damage to my hearing
There really needs to be big warning signs in every video to new musicians to mix at low volumes, keep an eye on their levels, and never try to make things more present by just adding more gain. 2 years into making music I discovered I had lost significant hearing in my right ear, all because I was trying to learn FL studio by following trap beat tutorials with loud 808s and loud kicks that just fought for volume and not a single tutorial showed how to mix them together to have them both sound cohesive, it was always just "I added this cymatics distortion to the kick to make it punchier, I added fruity fast distortion to my 808, etc." Now everything I hear in headphones sounds like it's panned to the left because I was just uneducated about what to be careful with and how to handle competing bass frequencies, and it makes me wonder how much of my solo-produced music will be hurt by the fact that I can't accurately hear stereo or right-panned sounds.
Honestly I am so sorry to hear about your issues. I have always tried my best to keep my audio examples relatively low compared to my voice volume to help viewers avoid blasting their ears. I hope your hearing recovers and balances out, maybe try using studio monitors at a lower volume and turn the left one down a little? It might give your ears more rest?
@@inthemix Unfortunately I have very limited space so I have to stick to headphones, I've tried audio balancing but I kept running into issues (I don't remember what they were so I'll try again soon.) Honestly I know nothing about ear damage so I don't know what the chance of recovery is. I've been going easy on my ears for close to a year now and the damage has remained the same.
Thank you for bringing up hearing loss in the video and dedicating so much of the video to talking about it. Some of the best musicians I've ever had the pleasure of playing and creating with are also people who are suffering from hearing loss simply because they were not properly informed about it when they were young. It was extremely meaningful to hear you say that hearing loss does not make someone less valuable as a musician or as a person.
I've been watching your videos since you've had less then 100K subscriber and I was really young. I always loved music and your videos always inspired me to become an professional/best music editor. Unfortunately, due to financial instability I had to throw my dream felt like I was leaving myself. Till this day your videos brings happiness into my heart thinking people are getting these knowledge for free.❤️
Applying a live eq curve to a band with a known sound might work but I would strongly advise against using any preset processing irrespective of the sound being processed.
Very nice, thank you for also speaking about less prominent topics, especially hearing less even tho it is important for me and this industry as well I believe
Top bloke, good on you shining light on the hearing loss issue. Highly professional, consistent high quality content, always. Thank you for your service to the industry 🙏
i am overhearing sibilant frequencies, and i thought that it is because i have been training my ears for some time now, but now i know it's not because of the ear training. Anyways, these are nice small advices that actually change a lot!
There are too many videos about music production on youtube. I would say about 90% is not worth watching because its just clickbait or someone trying to convince the audience to buy something. But watching your videos really help a lot when trying to learn about this topic. Thank you :)
😩OMG… The EQ one really opened up my ears. All this time I’ve been Eq’ing each sound as a whole, never really thought about Eq’ing the mid/side or left/right information of each sound. I mostly thought of it as just making a sound wide and boy I was wrong. So when I heard you speak of this I was like “bruh… this might help fix some tracks that are layered”, especially the ones like future bass chord stacks where layers sound very different and have different detune sizes (I use Serum), but all come together to create one massive wide supersaw sound (Love😍future bass). This Video bumped up my experience like Ten levels dude. Thanks for always sharing, you’re one of the few RUclipsrs I love and trust.🙏🏾❤ Also… this just goes to show how important EQ’s really are you know. I mean it literally shapes your sound.😂 Man…. Thank God for fabfilters Pro Eq.🙌🏾
Thank you so much for all these advises, these are topics that almost nobody talks about, it's always great to learn something new from you! Keep it going and greetings from Colombia.
Studio headphones try to present a more balanced and useful sound profile to the listener. This isn’t always pleasant but does help reveal issues in recordings and mixes. Consumer headphones often try to sound as pleasing as possible depending on your preference. Some try to mask issues by boosting bass or smoothing the treble, others use stylised eq profiles to suit a listeners preferences.
Can you articulate your question better? I think the answer is just time and effort but I can't understand exactly what you're asking but again I think the answer is just cold hard work. Either you'll do it or you won't.
I'm over 50 and I do not hear above 13.5K-14K anymore. However, my problem is that what I DO hear between 8K and up always sounds wayyyy too much treble. Over the last while, I've got used to wearing the same Sennhauser headphones and when mixing now, I mix it until above 8K sounds too high to me. I just accept it, trust it and hopefully it will sound like everything else to anyone else. So there are things you can do. :)
That sounds really confusing. I'm glad you have figured out a system though! 20Hz to 8kHz captures around 90% of the most important parts of a mix, I'm glad you still hear that well.
@@inthemix Indeed. It confused me for the longest time. As you said - You can't hear what you can't hear and also - You hear whatever your ears give you. :)
That mid side eq thing sounds like something made up. I applied it on my tracks. Nothing sounded different as far the audio output. I think plug-in sellers just make money for free on that one.
Genuinely, if you cannot hear a difference please check that the plugin isn't bypassed or that your audio output is actually in stereo and not some sort of double/dual mono output. M/S and L/R EQ is very obvious, I would expect even a casual listener of music to hear the difference right away!
I wanna say that I coped reviver like 6 months ago and its an absolutely beautiful plugin!
Thank you!
Just woke up, saw this video on my feed, and thought I was in a time loop for a second.
I can imagine!
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The first tip with compression on the vocals sounding natural I've never heard anyone say before but now that you do explain it, it makes a lot of sense. Thanks as always for the advice!!
It took me years to figure out that in some situations it strangely works. I still have to be careful not to bring up noise, breaths and mouth noise too much when applying that sort of compression but there are amazing tools these days to reduce those noises anyway.
Compression on vocals can harm the intonations and the shaping that the artist is doing. Maybe compression could work well with an automated knob to help shape around the voices decrecendo and Crescendo and paying close attention to the shape the artist is going for. Compression is good. But it's a double edged sword if you're making expression with your voice. But one edge of that sword is definitely hurting more than the other(compression leveling out the volume).
You have no idea how much value you're constantly inputting into the world man
The first is eye opening. First time hearing about it
It's a bit of an odd concept. I was completely against heavy compression for a couple of years and I don't know where I picked up that idea from. Honestly don't know how that got into my brain but I'm glad that I can see past it now and learn from the mistake.
He forgot the tip where you need 3 fruity soft clippers on EVERYTHING
I dropped the ball on that one...
You mean Soundgoodizers?
@@NNNNNNNNNN-nnnnnnnnnn multiple soundgoodizers are reserved for the master chain, obviously!
Always my go to for knowledge! Thank you 🙏
The recording quality of your voice is outstanding. As expected from a man of the craft 👏
Given that I recorded and mixed this with a head cold/flu, I am very glad it turned out okay. My ears are toast today!
YESS!! Finally, someone with reach seriously addressing hearing protection! I'm in my 30s and last year I came very close to a tinnitus! I was in the club and it was too loud for too long. (I don't go often but when I go I go hard.) I thought it wouldn't matter but it left me with a faint noise in my ears I kept hearing for weeks! Luckily, it's either gone or so insanely faint these days that I'd probably have to be in a totally noise-isolated room and focus hard to identify it. Other than that, my hearing is perfectly fine. Bottom line is don't fucking mess with your ears. You only have to screw them one time too much... Btw, I ordered the earplugs from Eargasm to be protected next time I go clubbing and so far I dig them! I would love reviews on other earplugs that protect you well but still allow for a great experience in the club or at an event. Maybe something that could be considered on this channel in the future! :)
Thank you for sharing your story, others will hear it and learn from it! So true that it only takes 1 loud exposure to mess them up for a while or potentially permanently if you're unlucky. I'm glad you got through it and took the steps to have a better time at your next gig!
Fantastic video! I learned some of these the hard way. After being a viewer for a few years just wanted to comment and say thanks for getting such useful information out to people who need it! ✌
I'll admit that I learned all of them the hard way! You're welcome, thanks for sticking with me over the years!
thanks a lot
No worries!
Your videos helped me learn a lot, especially the basics!
Love all the points made in the video! Glad you addressed the hearing loss issue. As a teenager I used to play super loud music with no ear plugs with my band in my parents shed, and I know it definitely did some damage to my hearing
Whey heyyyyyy!
Was that a Shure sm44a?
It was, very good observation! It's a pretty clean microphone, picks up all the sound /reverb in a room though.
There really needs to be big warning signs in every video to new musicians to mix at low volumes, keep an eye on their levels, and never try to make things more present by just adding more gain. 2 years into making music I discovered I had lost significant hearing in my right ear, all because I was trying to learn FL studio by following trap beat tutorials with loud 808s and loud kicks that just fought for volume and not a single tutorial showed how to mix them together to have them both sound cohesive, it was always just "I added this cymatics distortion to the kick to make it punchier, I added fruity fast distortion to my 808, etc." Now everything I hear in headphones sounds like it's panned to the left because I was just uneducated about what to be careful with and how to handle competing bass frequencies, and it makes me wonder how much of my solo-produced music will be hurt by the fact that I can't accurately hear stereo or right-panned sounds.
Honestly I am so sorry to hear about your issues. I have always tried my best to keep my audio examples relatively low compared to my voice volume to help viewers avoid blasting their ears. I hope your hearing recovers and balances out, maybe try using studio monitors at a lower volume and turn the left one down a little? It might give your ears more rest?
@@inthemix Unfortunately I have very limited space so I have to stick to headphones, I've tried audio balancing but I kept running into issues (I don't remember what they were so I'll try again soon.) Honestly I know nothing about ear damage so I don't know what the chance of recovery is. I've been going easy on my ears for close to a year now and the damage has remained the same.
Thank you for bringing up hearing loss in the video and dedicating so much of the video to talking about it. Some of the best musicians I've ever had the pleasure of playing and creating with are also people who are suffering from hearing loss simply because they were not properly informed about it when they were young. It was extremely meaningful to hear you say that hearing loss does not make someone less valuable as a musician or as a person.
Damn bro. Always got a crazy amount of genuine advice. Thanks so much 🙏
Thank you Michael!
Well, time to grab an 1176 and do 20db of compression on everything now. You did this
Please no!
Best tip: hearing protection! At 60, I wear ear plugs at work (noisy place) and let everyone know about that. And why I wear them. Thank you so much!!
❤❤This is golden! 😢
Thank you so much...
Who else can relate?
I grow up watching your videos... most things I learn today its form your channel... big up your self @inthemix
I've been watching your videos since you've had less then 100K subscriber and I was really young. I always loved music and your videos always inspired me to become an professional/best music editor. Unfortunately, due to financial instability I had to throw my dream felt like I was leaving myself. Till this day your videos brings happiness into my heart thinking people are getting these knowledge for free.❤️
thanks for this! :)
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Hey Michael, what's your opinion on Dave Natale's EQ Curve?
Applying a live eq curve to a band with a known sound might work but I would strongly advise against using any preset processing irrespective of the sound being processed.
@@inthemix Thank you
Spotless advice as always thanks Michael 👍
Nice decoration and presentation
Very nice, thank you for also speaking about less prominent topics, especially hearing less even tho it is important for me and this industry as well I believe
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Top bloke, good on you shining light on the hearing loss issue. Highly professional, consistent high quality content, always. Thank you for your service to the industry 🙏
i am overhearing sibilant frequencies, and i thought that it is because i have been training my ears for some time now, but now i know it's not because of the ear training. Anyways, these are nice small advices that actually change a lot!
Even though I left the FL team for Ableton, I'm still here for advice. Thank you!
what db level can likelly kill our ears
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There are too many videos about music production on youtube. I would say about 90% is not worth watching because its just clickbait or someone trying to convince the audience to buy something.
But watching your videos really help a lot when trying to learn about this topic. Thank you :)
Ear buds have had a big in packet on hearing loss @11:10
😩OMG… The EQ one really opened up my ears. All this time I’ve been Eq’ing each sound as a whole, never really thought about Eq’ing the mid/side or left/right information of each sound. I mostly thought of it as just making a sound wide and boy I was wrong. So when I heard you speak of this I was like “bruh… this might help fix some tracks that are layered”, especially the ones like future bass chord stacks where layers sound very different and have different detune sizes (I use Serum), but all come together to create one massive wide supersaw sound (Love😍future bass). This Video bumped up my experience like Ten levels dude. Thanks for always sharing, you’re one of the few RUclipsrs I love and trust.🙏🏾❤
Also… this just goes to show how important EQ’s really are you know. I mean it literally shapes your sound.😂 Man…. Thank God for fabfilters Pro Eq.🙌🏾
Thank you so much for all these advises, these are topics that almost nobody talks about, it's always great to learn something new from you! Keep it going and greetings from Colombia.
My girlfriend was making fun of me at the last concert we went to because i wore ear plugs 😂😂
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Can you explain to us the difference between Headphone studio and headphone normal
Studio headphones try to present a more balanced and useful sound profile to the listener. This isn’t always pleasant but does help reveal issues in recordings and mixes.
Consumer headphones often try to sound as pleasing as possible depending on your preference. Some try to mask issues by boosting bass or smoothing the treble, others use stylised eq profiles to suit a listeners preferences.
Can I make a beat studio?@@inthemix
How long does it take to reach a professionell level if you see it as a full time job?
Can you articulate your question better? I think the answer is just time and effort but I can't understand exactly what you're asking but again I think the answer is just cold hard work. Either you'll do it or you won't.
In the mix is The only music theory i got by now
I watch like: brain learn 🧐
I'm over 50 and I do not hear above 13.5K-14K anymore. However, my problem is that what I DO hear between 8K and up always sounds wayyyy too much treble. Over the last while, I've got used to wearing the same Sennhauser headphones and when mixing now, I mix it until above 8K sounds too high to me. I just accept it, trust it and hopefully it will sound like everything else to anyone else. So there are things you can do. :)
That sounds really confusing. I'm glad you have figured out a system though! 20Hz to 8kHz captures around 90% of the most important parts of a mix, I'm glad you still hear that well.
@@inthemix Indeed. It confused me for the longest time. As you said - You can't hear what you can't hear and also - You hear whatever your ears give you. :)
That mid side eq thing sounds like something made up.
I applied it on my tracks. Nothing sounded different as far the audio output. I think plug-in sellers just make money for free on that one.
Genuinely, if you cannot hear a difference please check that the plugin isn't bypassed or that your audio output is actually in stereo and not some sort of double/dual mono output. M/S and L/R EQ is very obvious, I would expect even a casual listener of music to hear the difference right away!
great insights and advice! thank you 🫡