5 Ways to MAKE YOUR PRODUCTIONS & MIXES Better
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Things I do on every production/mix.
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Thanks y’all for watching! What’s the best tip you can give?? Don’t forget to subscribe + 🔔
The best tip that I would give is that it's important to know is not to add a tremendous about of high frequencies in the reverb. Also one very important thing is when something is sounding unstable sometimes you gotta pull out some kinda multiband compressor because just using EQ isn't enough and if you don't use multiband compression then you should automate your EQ (that's a lot of work though).
So much great advice. Thank you!
man, your videos are great! keep posting
You are probably one of the easiest people to take advice and information from. You don't speak like a philosopher all while going a bit further in depth. You usually don't get this from other channels or people in the industry. Good Stuff
I like how you keep your advice simple and down-to-earth.
Thank you for taking the time to record and post these videos
Studio looking better and better every time I check in 👍👍👍👍
Chuck Juice Thank you! Appreciate it, and appreciate you continuing to check in!
please do a tour of your new studio! looks awesome :)
Awesome advice Colt
thank you for your videos, colt! you're really helping out here and also it's just fun to watch you do your thing. Take care and all the best from Innsbruck, Austria.
The whole "perspective" thing is SO big! I feel like it doesn't get talked about enough. I used to always struggle with making mixes sound "wide". I'd see all kinds of things about stereo wideners, but in practice they would always just mess up the mix and create phase problems. Finally I figured out that the best way to make double tracked guitars sound wide (other than augmenting the guitar tones left and right) was to NOT make the drums as wide. Bring in the overheads a bit and use a mono room mic and your left/right guitars instantly feel wider. Or make your stereo keyboards narrower to let everything have more space. It was definitely one of those "ah-ha!" moments which led to a hole new understanding about creating space in a mix.
I wrongly thought that everything should be loud and big in the mix, But after you explaining listening perspective, and distancing specific element's, I've decided to change my ways.
Finishing projects sure hits home....
Great tips!! Subscribed and selected bell icon.
Your tips are really cool!! Thank you! Your content is always a gold mine 😁😁😁😁
Your studio is looking so boss! Congratulations sir
Very good video...very informative. Bringing things down to the 3 essential elements of a mix is so important that it gets overlooked. I think you hit on an important topic that deserves a deeper dive in is the "mystique of gain stating"... it's like a sorcerer's apprentice technique which needs elaboration. Its not an easy thing to accurately do when you have a group of people standing over your shoulder, each with different opinions with their own agendas of being heard "louder" -- more cowbell!!
True creative style! HAD 5, screw it! Keep going lol. Love it man thanks!
Another great video brother! Thanks for the helpful tips!
I love the advices you give us! More like guidelines then specific rules like do this or that. Great video!
Thanks for confirming my recent motto when producing.
Record, Edit, Mix and Master then move on from the project.
My biggest mistake before was I always fall inlove with my mixes that's what hindered me to grow.
Thanks for another great video!!!
Great video as always
6:24 this is really good advice. Thanks for the insights.
All great points, and thank you for them...for an amateur home studio guy like myself they really help focus the attention on working as efficiently as possible in the limited amount of time available...
I myself am a plugin junkie, but I really go for the quirky ones from smaller developers...but my biggest need is a really good set of monitors and subwoofer...
Great advice! Thanks!
good advice txs Colt.
Great video, like your others ! The video about you building your new studio was really amazing ! +1 sub from France
thats a great idea to take pictures of the drum mics. definitely gonna do that thanks so much your videos they help a lot!
IDEA, ive been looking for a video that explains how to setup analog gear, how to go from a studio with just an interface and a microphones to having an analog preamp with a patchbay and analog gear and how to connect all of those together to pro tools
Yin and yang, thats a great way of describing a mix. Well pointed out, never heard anybody mention that , but it is so very true. All the best
Great video bro! Super key topics in this. Every artist and producer could totally take away things from this!
Dude thank you so much like for real I came to generally expecting a lot just stumbled upon it randomly this video actually did f****** open my eyes a bit
Great talk thank you 🙏
Really enjoyed this one, I love that you mentioned gear last, and on purpose!
Matt Watson appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this video I really learnt much! Really want to know more about your experience that how do you identify and know which gear can tackle your problem!
great video. i take pictures of everything every time i record. they're right there in a 'settings' folder next to my DAW file. amps settings, pedal settings, mic & positions, speaker cabinets... even pics of the room i recorded in (even though it's always the same room right now).
I try to treat everything with an old school mentality when mixing. no matter what i think of the recording, i commit to the sound of it and mix it to the best of my abilities, trying new things to overcome problems. that's what helps me learn as quickly as possible.
Great advice about the loud/quiet, near/far concept. it's something i always forget and need to remind myself of more consistently. thanks!
I wonder if the staticness of modern perfect digital productions is contributing to people's 50% click through rate? i've noticed that the more digital, sampled, on the grid, amp sim, autotuned, etc., a song is, the faster i lose interest in it... no matter whether i think the song sounds good or bad. for some reason, analog stuff, with chaotic and imperfect timbre and rhythm, seems to keep my enjoyment of songs fresh in each moment. i'm not sure if other listeners are like that. apparently the pleasure sensors of my brain think there's something inherently boring with the perfection of digital sources. hmmm... actually, that reminds me of the what Agent Smith says in the first Matrix movie; how the first Matrix was a perfect utopia and the humans brains went crazy and rejected it. so they built a flawed and imperfect one that Neo grew up inside.
I like your concepts of keeping attention though. something always needs to be moving.
Great video. I liked how you explained sonic dynamics. Also, I just I have enough gear to be able to make good sounding recordings, but I find myself lost when it comes to setting up all the gain staging, how hard I should be driving the preamp, how much gain I should even have on a track. I would like to maybe see how you get ready to record a vocal or instrument. Maybe taking a look at your vocal chain, or how you use compression. Thanks for the vid Colt.
Also could you perhaps show on pro tools exactly what you do when you make everything else very wide and the vocals up close? (:
Second this!
Tom The Fusician I actually have a video in the works where I’m mixing a song from beginning to end, stay tuned!
@@ColtCapperrune that's awesome, thank you so much! 👍👍
Good stuff bro
Awesome video. Filled a page of notes watching it.
Derek Pignataro that’s the way to do it! So glad it helped!
I was also thinking of taking notes while watching these kind of videos. Does it really help?
Akhilesh Kumar yes. I have a notebook where I have been writing down tips for different things in recording/mixing processes. Good material to reference back to!
nice philosophy mixed in with the tips included.
Diggin' the content. I would love to see some actual pro tools sessions with examples of your techniques.
Tater Fight Working on several videos just like that!
@@ColtCapperrune My man! Looking forward to it.
Really great video with awesome tips I never thought about!
But how can I make something far sounding by using EQ?
Haven't watched yet but putting warm bulbs in the umbrella is pretty smart
Could you make a video on mastering?
You definitely look crisp, my man! Thank you for another extremely informative lesson! As you say, every piece of gear in your studio was bought to solve a problem. I am curious about your choice of the Tube Tech LCA 2B as your drum bus compressor AND your sole(?) vocal compressor. I have favorite vocal compressors, too, but sometimes on the vocals I like an opto compressor (like for ballads or transparent compression) and sometimes I prefer the 'thickening' of a vari-mu compressor, but sometimes an FET compressor seems the appropriate choice (when I want to RAWK!) And there are so many other great choices of compressors for drum bus, just wondering which others you have tried (API 2500? Distressors or Fatso? 33609 or other diode bridge compressors? Drawmer 1978? Dave Hill Titan?) before deciding the LCA 2B was the best drum compressor for you?
thanks bro
Garnett Pottinger thanks for watching!!
Great stuff. I feel like you're making these videos just for me haha. Hey how far are you from your desk and monitors in the background and what fstop is your camera lens at?
Hahaha glad you are enjoying them! Honestly a video from this long ago, I couldn’t tell ya. I typically film at f1.4-1.8 on APSC
Commenting before I watch it because I’m stoked.
NARC appreciate it!!
Colt Capperrune just wrapped it up. Great stuff as always. Talked me out of buying shit I don’t need, and into working harder. Most importantly FINISHING SHIT! 😂 thanks brotha. 🖤
NARC hahaha that’s what’s up!! So glad it helped!
#1 is to have right monitors and right sound panels. Sound cancelling panels is critical important.
You could mention the listening position and angles of the monitors people use. Far too many times I see people with pretty decent sized monitors and they are almost stuck right in front of them or the cones are nowhere near aimed at their ears in terms of height or angle. I think this makes a huge impact on the decisions you make when mixing.
Since I don't have any time in the first place the limitations part isn't that big of a deal to me, I pretty much have to take the first track that's halfway decent and without mistakes, otherwise I'd never get shit done 😂
That's the one thing I don't like about the URM community is it's regular practice to have to recreate drums from MIDI, reamp DI guitars, etc. because no one settled on anything and now it's the mixer's job (producer credit, please) to make those decisions...
About focussing three things at at time. This is probably correct for most people (no, I'm not going to say, that I'm the exception from that rule^^) and keeping that in mind is certainly a godd idea. That said, the most songs I love and many songs I wrote try to keep the audience excited for a longer period of time. Finding a small melody, a sound or a whisper, whatever, in a song you already heard a dozen times, makes people to wanna hear it again, to find another small gem.
Also I love walls of sound, but that's just me :)
hmmm... disagree. songs aren't like movies, or novels for me. noticing new stuff doesn't make it possible for me to keep going back and enjoying it in the same way. kinda the opposite really. music connects so much to an emotion and state of mind for me that i know i can revisit the same feel, every time i listen to the song again. a song is about a moment or an idea, able to be relived over again just like it's the first time.
Gotta hook up and get a couple of tallboys and some hot chicken down at hattie b's. This is great stuff man, I have a 14x17 room that i've been researching. Looking at 2x4 tongue n groove 5/8 or 3/4 plywood floors and drywall.....and all the stuff in your excellent videos. That iso box, that is one of my to do's. Of course kids, life and things come first so yea. No need to yap at ya about that. I'm up in Gallatin, I got to hit you up in IG.
For this vid - I have a 'audio notes' book, which when things that are important to me, I snap pics and import into my one note, or ever note. Mostly one note as evernote got crappy lately. Even google docs. Whatever.
Plugins - people get DRUNK on those plugins. I have minimal plugins, I suggest use the living hell out of a plugin, spend a few hours with one and figure it out. Stop buying crap, stop. Really. Stop. That plugin doesn't make your song, you do.
Thank you sooo much colt🙏 Would love to collaborate with you and create music with perfect blend of Indian classical and Western genre
@@pete3816 I said Collab, I didn't say I'll pay him
@@pete3816 That's true that he may not work without money. But it's also true that someone who hasn't been heard of yet, will/may hit the top list.
@@pete3816 No it is likely. Anyway, it's better I do not take suggestions from person who is less heard than me😂
Colt what’s a great vocal microphone that I can save up for? I want to get something that is better than budget like an at2020 but not more than 1000
TLM102 perhaps?
hey just a quick question if you knew anything about sonarworks and if you recommend it, have you used it before ive heard great things about it and wanted to know your opinion, since im in my room i put some acoustic treatment but not much so wanted to see if sonarworks would help make a significant difference to my studio monitors as far as getting a flat response in a not so well treated room
TheClutchMexican im no expert but i got sonar works because i couldn’t hear the bass properly even though my room is treated , it made a huge difference for me and solved my problem
Enjoying the new studio?
HITTMAN I absolutely am! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hey Colt how's it going
I'm always curious. Why do producers send their songs out to be mixed by someone else? If I start the project, I want to finish it. I like to record, mix and master all my own projects.
Music Islife I do the same with a lot of my own projects. But there is an argument for using different people for each part of the process. Producing, mixing, and mastering, are all three very separate disciplines. Especially in the upper levels. That said, there are no rules and you can do whatever it is you think is best for your project. Thanks for watching!
Someone mixing my project is good because of ear fatigue.
Colt Capperrune I live in a small city, I don't even know anyone else that I would trust to mix my songs :/ That being said, it would be really interesting to hear what someone else would do with my stuff 🤔
Hamilton Jones-Mashman you just need to give yourself plenty of time between recording and mixing.
@@officialWWM I get what you're saying. Also there is plenty of ways to do it online. We trialled a guy in the US for an EP and we're in Australia.
Here's a video on how to start determining your treatment needs, if anyone is interested: ruclips.net/video/3N149VlnnmY/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/IPe6tAYUKiw/видео.html this is the link I'm sure I could have done better but its no too bad either. Cheers brother I apreciate your videos and sharing technical info.