4 Tips to Prevent Your Mix From Distorting
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
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In this video, Danny Echevarria shares tips
and tricks on maintaining good gain staging during mixing in order to maintain headroom on the master buss and avoid mix distortion.
Tip 1: 2:26 - Set metering to pre-fader
Tip 2: 3:46 - Bring down track levels
Tip 3: 6:25 - Gain compensate insert effects
Tip 4: 9:24 - Carve space before turning up faders
Tip 1: 2:26
Tip 2: 3:46
Tip 3: 6:25
Tip 4: 9:24
Thanks for this Danny. i have some distortion in my mix, i'll try your tips. Great clear tuition. Dan
Nice ideas, thanks!
great tips to remember!
gr8 tutorial for 2021
Yes m8
@@MetiCudi THANKS
Glad you dug it!
@@dannyechevarria8090 yup thanks
My mixes are telling me that I have to use these tips, asap!
This track rocks! Who's the artist?
Very glad to hear you dug the video, and the song! The artist is Suicide Mike, from an upcoming EP. We just gave the thumbs up to the masters, though I'm not sure what his release plans are
@@dannyechevarria8090 Cool! I really like Cadillac Hearse. It's my favorite from the mixes on your website. I look forward to hearing more. I love that vibe!
Is it still a problem with 32 bit though?
If you mean 32bit floating point, then to my understanding no. But the plugin on your master track might not handle 32bit FP processing so it's worth testing. Try it out yourself! I just did a test with my daw where I boosted a sine wave normalised to 0 by 4dB on the track and then lowered the master fader by 5dB. The exported waveform showed no clipping. Which would be what I expected since the level can go way above 0dB in 32bit floating point due to how it works. Also tried it with a few newer plugins in the chain and generally didn't get any clipping even when I fed an above-zero signal into them as long as the levels were dipped before the stuff came out of the master. One plugin acted a bit weird when being fed with a singal that hot tho so not pushing them like this is probably the wiser choice. Or you could just start your master chain with a utility plugin that dips the volume. Since literally every modern daw uses 32, or even 64bit, floating point internal processing I'd say the video is quite misleading. If I got something wrong here someone please correct me though!
@@ZtlaMusic yes definitely worth trying out, not saying gainstaging isn't important though! 🤝
@@ZtlaMusic you raise some excellent points here! Your experiment is a good one - I replicated it with the same results. That said, I stand by my suggestions here for a couple reasons. One you touched on, which is that many plugins are not going to be optimized for signal that hot. I rely on lots of analog-modeled plugins, and many behave themselves the best when the signal they see is more like what it would have been in the days of magnetic tape. Beyond that, though, I think that these conventional "best practices" concepts serve a useful purpose besides avoiding a clipped 2-buss. When I set levels at the beginning of a mix, it's a chance for me to check in and assess where the track is at. I get a sense of the dynamic arc of the song, I can see which elements are the drivers of the major peak moments. Additionally, I would argue that favoring processing choices that don't lead to levels creeping up has its own intrinsic benefits. If I dial an effect in and I like the results, but the output signal is hotter, there's a solid chance that the only "benefit" of that processing was an increase in volume. If I like what an insert effect is doing in spite of no net level change, then it's usually a good sign that I did something that will benefit the track. And I also feel that carving out space in a mix yields results that feel musical and natural, regardless of whether 2-buss clipping is a motivation or not. Clearly, you have a solid grasp on music production! If a few people whose understanding of these topics is not at your level end up picking up a few good habits, I can't say I feel too bad about that... even if, yes, they could begin their 2-buss chain with a utility plugin. What can I say - my approach to music production is very "eat your vegetables and get some exercise." Anyway, thanks for weighing in!
@@dannyechevarria8090 Thanks for the reply! Those are fair points you raise as well. It's in general a good idea to be able to gain stage in that way just in case you ever happen to get seated behind an analog setup too :D.
0:58 Album or song title.
Heavy Metal Disco by Suicide Mike. Not sure the album title, as it's still unreleased!
12:01 Thanks !
Your explanation is a little confusing because you can turn down the master bus. What this really is about is not distorting at the faders to not overloading your master BUS. Plugins can make things sound terrible if you dont know how to handle transients. On some tracks they may need limiting. Thanks for the tips!