Top 5 Mixing Mistakes No One Talks About
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1.EQ with your Ears NOT your Eyes!
Always make EQ moves based on what you hear first, not what you see! Using EQs with Frequency Analysers can be such a rewarding thing when you’re looking for a frequency that’s bothering you, but relying on visual cues alone to make EQ adjustments will not give you great results. Just because there’s a peak doesn’t mean it has to be removed, that might the inherent characteristic of the instrument. When you hear something that bothers you and you need a visual cue to find it then a frequency analyzer is an amazing tool!
2.You Don’t Need to Compress Everything
Not everything needs to be compressed! So many virtual sounds, fat synth sounds and of course very heavy guitars will not benefit from compression and often sound much smaller with added compression. Live drums give you a wealth of not only different dynamics and uneven EQ based on how they are performed and so they require more compression than programmed drums that have been recorded in perfect conditions with very evenly sampled drum hits. Compression (especially vintage units or emulations) can be used for certain colours, adding saturation and even an EQ characteristic, however, as a dynamic controller you should focus using it on overly dynamic sounds like Vocals and other acoustic instruments, while using it sparingly on instruments that have a very limited dynamics range but may require some added colouration that compression may bring.
3.Not Everything Has To Be Stereo
When everything is in stereo, overheads, pianos, room mics, reverbs, delays, stereo recorded guitars, you name it, then nothing starts to feel wide! If you want width then be selective what you put in the sides! Hard panned guitars Left and Right feel great when the ambience is only opposite, as soon as it’s smeared in the stereo field then the guitar sound doesn’t feel focussed! If you make the overheads full 100% left and right then you set the limits of the width of your mix, try 70% or 80% panning of your overheads and room mics and then the hard panned guitars will start to feel like they are spilling out of the left and right speakers!
4.Don’t Start Processing The Tracks Until You’ve Got Basic Levels and Panning
Create what you think is a good sounding rough mix getting basic balances and panning on every track first. This will tell you so much more than just starting to mix using EQ and compression. Hearing the tracks back relatively balanced and panned, allows you to choose which tracks need extra EQ or high passing and/or compression. Ultimately the lesson is to always listen as a whole! We all solo, however making sure the changes you are making works in the whole song is of paramount importance!
5.Do Less!!
Professional mixers always say that when they get sessions to mix and the first thing they do is remove an enormous amount of plug ins on each track and suddenly the song starts to come to life! We can tie ourselves in so many knots by continually adding EQ and compression until everything instrument feels flat and lifeless! Soon the more you do the more you have to do! Take frequent ear breaks to gain perspective and always remember to listen to the song as a whole.
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What are some mixing mistakes you used to make? How did you fix them?
Produce Like A Pro Ha! As I type this, you are covering it in the video. I had a love affair with compression for a time. I compressed everything because I wanted to, not because I should have. I also compressed too much. Some of my early mixes got super dense but sounded really small. Its been a long learning curve but a necessary journey of experience!
You the best
Produce Like A Pro setting up my trigger and gate parameters, and then changing my compression threshold on toms for example. I started to notice missing or very dull sounding Tom hits. I realized I was blocking signal from going into my “Slate Trigger 2”
Love these videos man
Just recently fixed a long time mistake. I've been mixing with a subwoofer for years. I decided to take it out of the mixing equation just to see if it would help. Yep! It helped. So much easier to hear the low end and how it should sound in a mix. Getting rid of it has totally sped up things as well. Thank you for your videos Warren!!
I use to put plugins on the master track. Lol
The more I've learned about mixing, the messier my recordings have become. I went back yesterday to listen to a few songs from last year and I wondered why they sounded so good compared to my recent tracks. It was mainly because I knew less and mostly left the tracks alone.
Hi Darrell Robinson exactly!! Haha Number 5 do less! There’s far too much confusing information out there! I highly recommend listening to the mix that someone is doing when they recommend techniques!
@Darrell Robinson - Me too!
It is about being bold enough! You need to tie the knot on the package, and decide that this has to be sufficient. All sounds are somehow playing in the ballpark. Diminishing returns.
here's how I see it works. Your mixing is decent when you start, then you search for all this kowneledge and hear so much knowledge that probably doesn't even apply to you, you worry too much about the technical parts, over time you start to learn what works for you based off experiences and your mixes tart to come alive and sound better than ever. But some advice isn't the best, He says in the video "dont compress synths" that's gonna be a hard no for me. I will never ever put out a track with synths that have no saturation or compression on them. Its just needed in my genre
so true!!!!
Mistake number 1: picking up my phone too often; 2: scrolling through RUclips; 3: watching incredibly well made videos of very affable English people doing what I should probably be doing rn instead 😆 4&5: repeat until I feel bad 😂
Elsif haha we are all guilty of these things my friend!!
I suffer from this too. It's actually a thing in psychology called the "information bias"
The idea of not everything needing to be stereo had a huge positive impact on my mixes. I've started bringing overheads in to 50/50 and then playing with a mono vs stereo set of room mics on drums lately. In the verse or anywhere where the guitars are smaller or single tracked, I'll use the stereo pair of room mics panned far left/right to give a nice big drum sound where the drums are more exposed, but then in the chorus or any areas where I have big left/right stereo guitars I'll switch to just a mono room mic in the center. The result in the mix is that those stereo guitars suddenly sound much wider simply because the drums sound narrower. For years I struggled with how to make guitars feel wider, and I always felt widening plugins just make stuff sound weird and phasy. Turned out all you really need to do is make everything else in the mix feel narrower than the thing you want to feel widest. It's pretty simple once you realize it. It's all about context and relationships. If everything in the mix is panned wide then the mix SOUNDS narrow, but if your ear can hear the difference between a narrow sound and a wide sound, all of a sudden the stage opens up.
Mat Abercrombie this is a great point. Thank you
Center panned mono is something I avoid. Unless there is a center speaker.
EQ instruments in solo mode, compression on everything, reverb on everything. These are my major mistakes that I made in the early years of trying to mix music. Through trial and error and a lot of listening to CDs in my wife's car. I figured out that I was doing something wrong what that was unclear to me. One day I took one of my mixes that I had not added compression EQ reverb to and I thought wow this sounds great.
It's still amazing to me, how you share all these incredible ideas, carved out of years of experience, FOR FREE on RUclips... thanks man
Always trust your ears!!! I'm sure we've all made the mistake of making minute adjustments on an equalizer until the instrument sounded perfect! Then discovered it was in bypass! Lol. (More than once)
That happened last week
I love to do (or not do) all those things, but live. Making it work is the most beautiful feeling.
When you figure out what & why was better about your go rough mix, which you will find listening too your 12hr mix, then you really become an engineer."
Don't let the profoundity of this simple advice pass you by. This wisdom is so important for any creative to learn. It's something called humility.
This is a fantastic video. Something I’ve found in the digital age of home recording studios: I often treat my initial sort of “mix as i go” plug ins while tracking, the way i would treat any outboard gear i would use when I’m tracking in a bigger studio. I don’t have the ability to EQ and Compress many things i would like to on the way in, so I’ll add those two plug ins (or 1 channel strip type plug in) to each of the tracks I’m recording. If I can avoid latency, ill even track with those plug ins on. When i get the take i like, I’ll take those tracks, PRINT THEM DOWN TO NEW TRACKS, and deactivate the initial recording tracks. Leaving me with new, great sounding “raw” tracks with no plugins on them. I basically use those initial tracks as my “outboard gear”. Another good example of this is when i record drums at home… I’m playing drums in a tiny basement, so room mic’s dont sound great. So, i create “room mic’s” in Pro Tools using the UAD Ocean Way plug in, but I PRINT that Aux down to AUDIO and just treat it like i would real room mic’s in a bigger studio when it comes time to mix. One of the things I’ve learned doing this is to actually COMMIT TO SOUNDS I LIKE. I don’t NEED the “freedom” to change and tweak every single sound forever. If I liked it when i recorded it, I’ve learned to trust myself enough to know that that was probably for good reason.
I need to re visit this video everytime when I start a new mix, thank you Warren
I know this is 3 years old but the information is timeless.
At one point, I gave myself a limit of 2/3 plugins per track, no more.
If I got to a point where I couldn't get something sounding right, I would go back and rethink it.
It really helps you LEARN your plugins. Suddenly you're not using an EQ, tape emulation AND compression... you're selecting a single compressor based on the tonal changes it gives you.
Chris Norris that is GENIUS! Trying that right away
@@zachary963 I wouldn't go that far! But it forces you to train your ears. I didn't find it a quick process either. I would say I only began to reap the rewards a good year or so in. Totally depends on how many hours you put in to it of course!
Wish I thought of that and had the self discipline, I have resorted to a Tascam DP32 so ALL I can do is basic eq, LCR and volume. I figure I can move to pc for further mixing if necessary. So far I am happy with what I get.
Been doing upright mono piano for a long time on denser tracks. Wide stereo piano can sound weird anyway. No one sticks their head inside a piano while someone is playing it, (hopefully lol),. If it was up on stage, most all the stereo would be reflections. So I send a bit of it out to a stereo reverb or space of some kind. Often mono drum overheads too. Solves so many problems and just works. You can always put a pseudo stereo plug on mono sources when it's really needed and that offers yet a different flavor of width. Cheers.
I just recently experienced #4 in person. We were doing one of those quarantine collaborations where we each record separately then I would put them all together. I did my guitar and vocals, then next I got the drums. So since I didn't have the whole track yet I just started tweaking the drums. It was a stereo track of the full kit so I didn't have individual control. The kick drum had a certain resonant frequency I didn't like, so I EQ'd it out and got the kick drum sounding way better to my ears. Then I got the bass part and put the whole song together. At that point, I felt like you couldn't hear the kick enough. I thought maybe I'd try a compressor on the bass sidechained to the kick, so the bass would duck out of the way a bit when the kick hit, but I wasn't happy with how that sounded either. On a whim I took the EQ off the kick, and suddenly everything fell in to place and sounded great. That "ugly" frequency that I didn't like on the soloed kit, was apparently just perfect in the context of the whole mix.
Phenomenal advice. For a complete newcomer, number 5 is almost a relief to hear. The whole world of mixing and music production can be so overwhelming where you feel you have so much to learn just to be able to produce a single track, that it could almost put you off entirely. Hearing that you don’t need to do as much as you think you do is positively refreshing.
this is basic, yet absolutely brilliant advice that is clearly explained. One of the best 'mixing' advice videos I've ever seen
Hi spencechicago thanks ever so much my friend! I’m so glad to be able to help! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
BRILLIANT Warren !!!
My biggest mistake was and probably still is, not working in shorter time frames, causing me not to take enough breaks.
I always start a mix with my Beyerdynamic DT880 Pro headphones and try to balance everything in MONO before I start panning and eq-ing.
Bruce Swedien: "Compression is for kids." Armin Steiner does not compress! Glyn Johns does not compress bass guitars. Al Schmitt only tickles the meter as he says, but uses a Tube-Tech SCMC-2B on the mains, but again, only tickling the meter. I only compress if I think there is a need, or if I want the tonal coloration of a particular compressor on something; or maybe for an effect. I do like limiters at times. I never mix into a compressor; but sometimes I'll put one on the mains stereo buss after I'm more or less done with the mix, or to hear how the mix could sound through any given one and with the most minimum ratio possible.
I only gain stage if I can't get a track to sit in the mix using the fader.
99% of my tracks are MONO! Very few are stereo.
I'm a big fan of plate reverb: Motown, The Four Seasons; etc.-LOVE IT! Chamber sometimes too: Gold Star comes to mind. Usually a stereo effects track set up, and one or to mono ones; vocals sometimes get there own.
We're engin-EARS, not engine-EYES!
Warren.. everything you said in this video just rings so true. Thank you for being so open and passionate about this topic. I must re-watch and take notes.
As a beginning mixer the biggest point I get from this is set levels and panning first. After getting rid of my plugins and do exactly that, it made my mix come together a ton easier.
Master Huart!!! Jedi of all Audio related arts!! This video, as usual, is pure Gold! Thanks again!!!
The EQ Analyzer/dipping resonated with me a lot. I know a lot of producer/friends and even tutorials on youtube that will immediately just go in and dip everything because it's what the textbook says, sometimes it's good to break some rules and keep the balls in it.
Hi Warren. The more I watch your videos, and others from other musicians, mixers, engineers, producers, etc..., (Graham Cochrane, Joe Gilder, Jacquire King, Rick Beato...), The more it makes sense, to me, that, in the end, it's all relied to 3 principles:
-The Pareto principle, aka, "the 80/20 rule" (Less is More)
-Self confidence.
-Doing what's to be done, without any preconceived idea.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Anyway, thanx for all your videos. They are the best teachers I've ever had.
Warren you are such an incredible teacher! You present things in their conceptual whole in a way that others sometimes don’t. Thank you for all the amazing content!
You’ve offered so many valuable resources and a legit RUclips education most Universities couldn’t offer. Definitely worth picking up a mix course or two. Thank You Produce Like A Pro Crew. Much Respect. 🔥🤘🔥
Man, you're a treasure to someone like me just trying to learn about mixing to make my little selfie RUclips vids sound better. Thanks for what you do!
I use to use too many plugins in an attempt to make my ITB mix like an OTB mix. I needed this today. It was confirmation that I'm not where I want to be but not where I use to be. Thanks Warren, you're a true inspiration.
This might easily be one of the best and most important videos I've ever seen on the subject. Thank you sir!
I like the philosophy....there is only so much room.....and contrast is important....if everything is big, nothing is big....I think thats why 50s Vox sound so huge....so many of the other instruments were small sounding. Yin-yang / tension-release.....good philosophical principles at the center of the universe. And great tips Warren, as always!
16:50 is the most game changing tip for me. I have been mixing for 4 years just in my bedroom and I never got any good mixes although I tried all the tips and tricks around fx etc. But when I started to mix everything together everything changed. Then you will get guided automatically by how everything sounds together instead of trying to figure out instrument by instrument. Mix everything together. Sounds stupid but it helps so much.
Hi Warren, that 's definitely one of your best posts. Very timely advice to hear and spoken about with such passion too. So many of us are trying too hard to get wide mixes using stereo enhancers and triple tracked guitars when often all we really need is strategic panning. Also great to be reminded of spot mono verbs& delays underneath instruments and vocals. Many thanks from Peckham, sarffff London!
Great advice and reminder to keep it simple. Thank you Warren.
It's the second, third video I watch on your channel and I'm hooked! I love how passionate you are, not to mention that your tips and advice are among the best I've found on RUclips.
Thanks Warren for all your advices and teaching!!!!
What a great lesson! #3 answered a LOT of questions for me about panning, especially managing stereo sources. This whole mix concept really makes sense too. Thanks, Warren!
This is all good advice, and at the same time seems so obvious to me.
I’m always amazed when I’m in a recording forum and someone asks “what’s the best settings for vocal compression?” I’m always saying “use your ears!” Same with EQ or reverb or whatever.
These same people complain that their CPU is overloaded because they have a reverb plug-in on every channel instead of using a bus.
IMO, some of your best advice ever in this video. Listen, trust your ears and instincts enough to leave it alone when it doesn't need anything. Thanks mate!
Yet another one! Fabulous and practical advice. Thank you Warren.
Thank you Warren! In the arc of my mixing "path" I think it's important to keep coming back to lessons like this that really help us take a step back and really simplify things.
Warren you are so right I have tweaked and fiddled with mixes and thought I CRUSHED it !! Then... played back the original raw recording and found out we lost all of the dynamics. Added too much stuff!!! Great tips Cheers
Thank you, Warren. Great stuff, always!
always start with a good sound source. instead of EQ, move a mic until you get a better sound
Absolutely!!
@@Producelikeapro sounds like a guy with a few years of live mixing under his belt.
Such simple advice, but soooo foundational! I'm a long-time viewer, and IMO this is one of your best videos... should be required viewing before jumping into your other videos, esp the ones demoing compression and plugins. Thanks for all you do, Warren.
Thank you for your hard work making these videos and talking to us! Very good! :) God Bless!
ANOTHER CLASSIC!
I highly encourage every producer and mixing engineer, to watch this video quarterly or at least a few times per year.
Sure, it's information that many of us have been taught, but it's also information that reminds us to keep it simple, less is often more and don't over complicate a mix, if it's unnecessary.
EXCELLENT episode!
Brilliant lesson, Warren; thank you!
I’ve been producing music for nearly 5 years now and this has to be one of the most insightful videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you, Warren. We’re all the richer from your great advice.
Everyone who is starting in the world of music production should watch this video. I think we could add that it's important to work with references. Manny times I found my mix was right when I finished in my room, but when I change the environment of the listening, I could feel a lot of mistakes. So, you could get a better perspective when use references.
Greetings from Chile.
oh how true! im mainly a live enginner and so much of this ive done and also in studio stuff. its so easy in todays age with access to so much processing even live with waves multirack to have these chains and what u think sounds good and controlled is as you say boring,
on the flip side. alot of people say cut dont boost. generally that is good advice byt sometimes you dont get that excitment by just cutting the informatiom you dont need. more so when using particular . the engineer who i forget who did some muse albums had some interesting methods of boosting ssl eqs into 1176 comps and his records sound pretty damn good. from what i remember he mentioned about the compressors taming resonances produced by big boosts.
like anything audio there are no solid rules. experiment and use your ears. listen to what is happening when you make adjustments. you can make big moves to get your ear focused on what its doing then dial it back. as you get more experienced youll get more sensitive to small changes. most people arnt naturally sensitive to the small details it takes practive to tune you in. thats probably the reason for people over processing stuff because they are just not percieving thos small changes yet. but there is times where you will have to pull sometihing out by 10 plus dB or boost 6dB.''
most people are not that great until they get the basics. them it gets ok then it gets decent. the hard part is going from decent to awesome. the hard part is that sounding good technically and awesome is not the same thing.
always great videos. so much to learn. as i said im a live sound engineer and dont do any commercial studio stuff but a good portion of your content has helped massivley in live sound engineering.
wow! incredible stuff. thanks for making me realize that i don’t always need stereo busses for fx returns. i’ve been doing that by rote without questioning it for many years.
This is the only channel I go to to not hear the same old stuff regurgitated over and over again. I don’t know how you make so many videos at the value that they are, but you have a gift sir.
I've been mixing since 1985, and I can tell you this is all really good advice. Nice job man.
When you say "get the panning right", you'll just end up with a mono song on the right side?
OK enough with the bad jokes, thank you again for the great advices!!
man, you are a brave guy for writing that joke... A For Effort 😂
@@dulla8469 haha thanks mate!!
Thomas Tran Dinh hahaha geez! I’m so glad to be able to help! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Dulla Bills haha yes, indeed!!
@@Producelikeapro @dulla bills thanks for the appreciation ahahaha made my day
Always a pleasure listening to your insight. Learned a lot, but also, it's a relief to find that i've been doing SOME things correct!
I appreciate you!
This man explained these concepts in half an hour. The school I went to took 3 months. It's all about the willingness to spread knowledge. Mixing is an art and we should treat it like its art. You have a like and a sub from my side and hope you get a lot more. I may purchase your yearly subscription soon.
you are an inexhaustible source of inspiration :)
TNX!
Hi MilosVukelic Official thanks ever so much my friend!!
Thank you, sir! The first 2 advices are amazing! Mixing for me makes so much sense now!
Yet another great video!! I start with my mixing in mono. Took me a while to get used to it, because it sucks and I didn't like the way sounds. Then I really fell in love with it. I just remixed an old song I did 2 years ago with a friend of mine and I got rid of every single plug in, effect and set all of the faders all the way down, then rebuilt the track all the way up in mono first. All in all, I simplified a lot of stuff and the result was night and day. It was a hell of a lot better than my original mix.
I'm leaving a comment just because I know that helps with the RUclips algorithm and it helps push this video to more people. Because you deserve it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
This video content is another gem, thanks ever so much Warren!! 👌 This is exactly my personal approach for some time-doing less, and doing the "right" moves with, hopefully, less plugins. Recently I've been listening to a couple of great songs from two of my favourite bands-The Allman Brothers Band and Little Feat, records from the late 60s, 70s, and 80s. Holy cow! I've learned a ton by listening to their songs again and again. To me the most important thing is trying to maintain the character of the song and serve the song as much as possible, because the song and the talent(s)/artist(s) play the main role and not the mixer. Whenever I start a mix now, I try to spend at least 2-3 days with just my rough mix (only volume, panning, low and high passing) and get familiar with the song and its vibe. The toughest part to me while processing with plugins is to know when to stop and call this mix done. Thanks again Warren! Cheers! 🙏💖
Wow, your channel is pure gold. I watched quite a couple videos and applied the insights. What a difference it makes. Thanks a ton! 🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀🚀🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️
Just your down to earth way of sharing your thoughts and knowledge helps me alot! Sometimes I think to much instead of taking the time to listen closely what happends in my mix. My biggest enemy is that I think that my mix is finished and the next day I enhance the mix with a suttle cut.
However, your way of explaining helps me alot. Thanks so much!
What a fantastic episode! Thanks!
Excellent tips, Warren. I'd add to that, 'avoid song fatigue'. I can get too involved with a track, staying with it for too long and ending up losing perspective - more worryingly, losing the vibe and the initial inspiration. I write, arrange and mix my own music and I love the whole process. I've learned over the years that taking regular short breaks while working on a track is really important, but now I go even further. I'll take a break away from the track altogether, sometimes for several weeks. The moment I do that my creative soul is unleashed and I'm writing new material. When I eventually go back to a previous track I've been working on, fresh ears, I find that I've "done too much" - I definitely need to do less. So, I end up switching off plugins, and going back to the levels and panning. And the track starts to sound like music again. So, song fatigue I suppose is another way of saying, don't spend ages on a track. Get a good mix (not a perfect mix) as soon as you can, then leave it alone. Come back another day and if it still sounds great, trust in that. Which takes me to the other tip I'd add... know when to stop ;-)
This is the most comprehensive yet concise giant slap-in-the-face of sensibility every mixer should watch.
Probably the most valuable fundamentals right here. awesome, thankyou.
Thanks ever so much! I'm glad to be able to help!
So many tips and so much useful advising. Thanks !
A major part of my philosophy in mixing... And recording for that matter. Thank you Warren for pointing out the important stuff yet again!
Great stuff, thanks Warren. Love your vids.
You're super helpful, thank you. We never stop learning 👌
Very nice explanation and directly to the most important points. Thank you 🙏🏻
Just love your channel. I have written down and organized the information in chechlists in my OneNote. It helps me so much checking myself during mixing. Also when I don't know how to proceed I can always go back to those and get some quick tips. Thank you so much that you provide all that knowledge for free. Looking forward to record and mix a song with my band!
This is my favorite of your videos, so far.
Keeping things simple, amazing how universal this wisdom is.
Spot On. Thank you Warren!
Superb. I've been at this for 30 years, like many of us, when I can, and with what I've had at hand. I am just now confident in what I am hearing, and in my knowledge regarding the tools that I have, that have a clear sense of. Number 4 . . . make it sound simple, and try to get there simply.
I am mixing and mastering already for a few years and even though I learned again a lot from you Warren. Thank you so much for the tips :)
Every young engineer who has asked for advice I have always said this as the number one tip (and you covered it here) "The best mixing tools you have are the two things stuck to the side of your head!".... thats it.... everything else can be taught - but if you dont listen - and its so obvious it is weird how it gets ignored.
I remember one young kid came into my studio once - he was studing Music tech and wanted to see a studio at work. I was working with a guy who was playing an acoustic - and I mic'd the guitar up ..... this young lad laughed - he told me I should be putting the mic at the 12 frett of his fingerboard.
"That what they told you at college?"
"Yes - its a basic rule" he said.
"..and you do that every time?"
"...of course I do" he said
"Listen - when you go back to college on Monday - tell your lecturer he's an idiot!"
I had placed the mic in a different position because it sounded better to my ears - the tone was much more warm and rounded - which was what I was looking for - and it also stopped the musician from swaying - which was ruining the recording.
You cant teach that - you just know from experience - mixing isnt a paint by numbers exercise - its a craft!
Much love from México, we here know you are one of the best Mr Warren! Keep it up
You just confirmed everything I find out and learned when I did my last mixdown. Thank you so much!
Ahh this was great and the timing when I landed on this is perfect. I'm right in the middle of putting together a remix / alternate mix of a song and your point about use of mono and just focusing on levels and pan first make complete sense to me. I can see how both of those will change the approach in an immediate, positive way. As always, thanks you to you and your team!!
Thank you so much for this amazingly informative video! A real eyeopener! I love your videos and your passion.
Love the advice. You’ve improved the way I record, again. Thank you.
I love this guy, top notch talent
You’re very kind!! Thank you ever so much
Thx a lot Warren for all your videos !
i think this is some of the best advice i've ever heard. i learned something similar about amps. just set it however it sounds good, don't get caught up worrying about where the knobs are pointed. maybe the treble has to drop to zero in a certain room for a certain situation. just trust your ears, not a bunch of concepts about what things "should" be.
Thank you for this simple information. Going back now to start from scratch keeping all these points in mind.
I agree with you very much! Gold words! Everything is absolutely true!
Thanks Warren... Great stuff as always.
Learning so much from these videos. Love them!!
Thanks ever so much
Thank u my friend Warren for this amazing topic 🥰🥰
One big mistake I used to make was simply not learning the plugins I had. By that, I mean getting tons of the latest, greatest plugins and just using them because they were the newest sound or newest effect, so I ended up with so many plugins that I only knew on a surface level instead of just a core few plugins that I knew intimately so could get what I needed much quicker. Hindsight can be so depressing at times...lol.
Thank you again Warren, another incredible video, and definitely a case of less is very much more.
Thank you Warren ! Thank you very much.
Absolutely love this one! I did some apprentice work with a studio in Pennsylvania in the late 80s and so many of the things I was taught back then… Fundamentals… Track right beside with what you’re saying here
This is great! Thank you Warren! Saving this one!
this is some of th best mixing advice ive ever heard.
LISTEN TO THE SONG AS A WHOLE
I alxways enjoy Warren's videos. This one especially. Ears - if you have 'em, use 'em!
Thank you, Warren, it's always so inspiring and healthy for the brain. :)
Great one, again. I truly believe in the last one, trust your ears. I've had that so many times and every time I given in, even against what I believe is the correct way, it's what is needed, to get to a result I would be happy with. Cheers.
"Mix that you would be happy with" - what is this holy grail you speak of?
I understand! It something we continually strive for!!
@@Producelikeapro If you shoot for the stars you might only get to Mars.
Once again Warren great video!! Thank you !!