Gain Staging Secrets | In the Studio | Doctor Mix | Thomann
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Gain staging is one of the most overlooked aspects of music production - it's all about electronics and signal flow, which doesn't sound too much fun. @Doctormix clarifies all this for you. Tune in!
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It's a very complex matter. These first steps are always appreciated
Thank you for these videos.They should be stored in a library for future generations
Haha! I guess...RUclips will remain forever!
@@ThomannBedroomProducers let's hope. Unless it falls in to the wrong hands ;)
Gain staging in DAWs is very important when you use plugins modeled after analog gear, as they modify and color the signal in different ways depending on how hot you hit them. Purely digital plugins are more linear, so gain staging is just about balance with them
This comes at a great time for me now, so my thanks for that! As I'm just getting back into music, it's something I've only recently picked up on.
Invariably I would fire up Cubase or Ableton and throw on whatever idea was in my head using whatever the default levels were. Next, I'd add some bass or a pad, blend it according to whatever I'd recorded first, and repeat ad infinitum. By the time I'd got a dozen tracks down I'd be hitting red lines all over the place with the musical equivalent of a plate of spaghetti in front of me, not knowing where to begin unravelling it.
Much easier to start low, then lift everything up, than it is to work out how to turn down one part and not throw the entire mix out.
Great video, thanks! I like your teaching style. I would be very interested to see your recommended approach to doing a static mix after gain staging. I have seen some mixers recommend doing a static mix with clip gain, others plugins, others channel faders. It shouldn’t be a confusing topic but here I am-confused.
Also, back to gain staging for a question. Is there any reason we couldn’t just normalize each track to say -18 peak? Wouldn’t that save time? From there you could do your static mix?
I myself have most of my mixes static, as I mix while I records :) I may as well ride vocals but generally speaking my mixes are pretty static. The important part is that the sum of all channels doesn't exceed -12 on the master bus.. as a general guidance. This is to begin a mix. When you're mixing then you go over that, obviously, but starting with m -12 peak gives you good headroom.