How To Mix A Song From Scratch - Reverb & Delay - RecordingRevolution.com
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Part 5 of 6 - A huge part of what makes a great recording and mix is the sound of the room you recorded in. Unfortunately for most of us bedroom producers, our spaces don't sound so good.
This is why we tend to record things pretty dry, so they at least sound clean. But that usually leaves our recordings sounding, well, rather small and clean.
The good news is, with a little tasteful room reverb and some strategic delays we can spice up our solid mix and give it that studio polish our music deserves! 
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I don't care how much I learn or how much better I think I'm getting. I will always watch entry level videos like this! Thanks for the amazing videos!
Sometimes it's good to go back and remember the basics. It's easy to get carried away
Keeping things simple is often better and using the occasional complicated technique in strategic places is enough.
Allow me to add a little something: Just like you would add automation on the volume fader(s), you can do that, too, on the delay bus. Let's focus on vocals for an example: A delay sounds very cool on quiet parts, where there aren't many words but then, when it gets more intense, with more words, it could be a good idea to reduce the delay volume on that part. Same goes for reverb. Don't be afraid to experiment instead of just adding a plugin and keep it set up the same way for the entire song!
Also, if you have a delay plugin like the one showed here, you can experiment with different settings on the left side and on the right side. For example, use quarter notes on the left side and 8th notes on the right side.
Finally, don't make the same mistake that I used to make! When I first discovered all these cool toys, I wanted to add as many as I could...everywhere! One very bad thing that I used to do was to solo a guitar, for example and add a ton of reverb. The guitar, alone, sounded great with all that reverb! I felt like Slash playing a solo at the Rock in Rio in Brazil!!! But then, when you bring back the other tracks, it's a mess! You can start by listening to individual tracks but always make sure to listen to the whole mix. Remember: at the end of the day, no one listens to individual tracks! People will hear the song and they don't care about how some instrument/track would sound when it's solo'ed!
important point!
I think room-reverb sounds great on every track except te vocals. Plate-reverb usually works great.
Sumido S. the good ol' set and forget. Automations are worth it for sure but sooo time consuming.
10:26 "Krispidity" Another Graham-ism. Love it!!
Bob Fossum as soon as he said it, I came to the comments to find this 🔥🙌🏾😄
KUDOS to Graham...The amount of valuable content he provides for free is astounding. I have been working in audio since analog days..i have successfully transitioned to digital as it was happening since the 80s...but I still learn stuff from Graham every time. This guy is the best!
I've watched about 100 of your videos. This is the first one that I paused to apply the techniques to a piece I am working on. Simple, yet highly effective, this video contains the golden ticket to take good mixes to great mixes.
i been mixing for 5 years and this is by far the best tut i have come across,is just the best
I've been mixing for 10 years and your bus analogy made it very clear. Never actually thought about the meaning before!
Graham, thank you for providing so much indispensable audio and mixing advice for free. I've found all of your videos incredibly useful. Thank you most of all for demystifying eq and compression once and for all. The Recording Revolution is the place to come for great mixing advice.
You're awesome, Graham. It's great to see your workflow in detail. I'm fairly new to home recording and you've given me much needed encouragement on the process. Thank you.
This series has been fantastic Graham - not only have I learned a lot, it's fired me up to get back working on my own songs. Thanks, keep them coming!
Your tutorials are so easy to follow and very helpful. Thank you for doing such a great job on these lessons.
Thanks for the videos Graham. This series has to be one of the best I've seen on RUclips. I've seen a lot of videos that go even more in depth on each of these segments, but nothing that goes in a step by step process from beginning to end of creating a song. I really appreciate the knowledge share! Looking forward to the last one.
This is the best tutorial on the fundamentals recording ,mixing and mastering....ever!
I enjoyed the city bus analogy Graham. Thanks.
Gram This song is absolutely Beautiful. Give me chills and I'm into Metal mostly.
YOU´VE OPENED MY HEAD ABOUT MIXING MY FRIEND!!!! I USED TO PUT PLUGINS (THAT I KNEW WORKED) FIRST AND THEN DO EVERYTHING ELSE!! NOW I´M MIXING WITH NOTHING FIRST!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
I've been experimenting with recording for quiet some time and never been able to fully understand the compresser the way you put it over ..Kudos for simplifying it in such a way.
This song is so damn good, and you're making it sound amazing. Been bouncing between your videos and mixing, and your content is making the greatest impression on my capabilities! Thank you!
Have to say as someone who is after all these years just learning how to record my own tracks - this channel is absolutely fantastic, well done Graham for being accessible and straight forward. I particular liked the How To Record A Song from Scratch - answered everything I've been looking for in 6 short videos, which then make me want to look at everything. Fantastic content
Graham a very good teacher!!!
Brilliant Graham...Also I can't get that song out of my head since you started doing these tutorials been singing it all week well the chorus part...Great Job Pal
Best dang tutorial on mixing ever. Thanks sir. You are so appreciated
wow! the vocals in the chorus sound WAY better with reverb, thanks for the video, it helped a lot
These videos constantly help me.
man i love these videos.. they help me so much as a individual trying to learn mixing! many methods i already did are confirmed this way, and i really need that! Thanks so much!
Great series, I've learned a lot. Hope you continue with a mastering series.
I think I'm your newest subscriber here and I'm madly in love with this channel. Thanks for the time so far and I know we'll have greater times than this.
After watching this awesome series, I will be "spending the rest of my life" hearing it in my head!
Dude, I wouldn't know anything if it wasn't for you and this channel! Keep on keepin' on!
Love all your content took alot from it, gained a lot of knowledge and answered a lot of questions ,Thank you for sharing.
Amazing song. Thanks Graham for sharing.
Thanks a lot for posting all your videos. Really appreciate it.
Graham, all your songs on Spotify kick serious arse. Keep it up.
Esto está increíble! Awesome man thanks for the video!!
A bus is just like your bus in the city, love that!
These videos are awesome! Great Job! Thanks
Awesome explanations and tips! Thanks for the great video!
Great video, I am working with echo, and reverb a similar way in studio one.
Really good video! Thanks Graham!
Gram your Famous baby!!!! Love your Gifts!!!
I've been recording on and off for years, and while I feel pretty confident about my song writing, I've aleays felt like I was stumbling in the dark when it came to recording and mixing. More often than not, I'd play a song for someone preceded by an apology for the recording quality. Occasionally I'd somehow get a finished product that was close to professional sounding, but since it was an accident, I'd have trouble reproducing the results on the next project. I just finished watching your "Mixing from scratch" series, and feel as if I've learned more from those six videos than in my entire previous experience recording. I'm looking forward to going back to your other videos. You're really an excellent teacher. Also, I have to say, I like the song on this series; Reminds me a bit of Steven Wilson.
Excellent !! thank you!!
I really really like these lyrics
Thanks Graham
This guy is good. Real good!
This is great Thanks!
& again good videos...thanks Graham
you are a life saver dude thank you
Amazing
hey Graham I had no clue how to do any of this on my pro tools and you just opened all the doors I never had any idea how to bus send and start thank you so much I use to record the old school tape and mix down with two rooms of racks and now I went to DAW what a awesome step thank you so many RUclips videos are not close to yours and I went to all of them and you are the best Anthony M . NJ
Now i got your song stuck in my head 😂😂 very good one
Thank you very useful ~
By the way i think this is a great song with awsome churus and melodie!!
This was the most helpful and clearly explained video I've seen on this topic - honestly really changed things for me and I'm producing much better mixes. Thanks so much! When is your mixing university course available again?
fucking THANK YOU...Such a helpful series you are a blessing.
very helpfull .. thx you very much
Great!
why did I find your channel only now?
could have saved me dozens of hours overall
TrashBag I got lucky I found this ! I had been searching and searching and no tutorials have helped me this much
man u r the best
thanks bro
Also you need to say that when you add compression and then reverb afterwards that's when you get that nice effect on snares that everyone is really addicted to.
great videos gram! plz do also a vertion using slate digital plugins. thanks
Very nice, I have a question for you: what if I need to use different kinds of reverbs and delays in different sections of the song? should I separate (for example) the vocals in "verse vocals" and "chorus vocals" and send them to 2 different effect channels or is there another way?
good
I have applied different reverb at the drum bus, eg bus, and vocal bus that I created. Since all these bus will be sent to stereo output, can i just add the global reverb at the stereo output after the eq and compression?
Great info! One question, what if I want a certain delay at one point of the vocals and a different delay at a different part of the vocals?
Thanks for the video. What does Diffusion and Predelay do? Thank you.
Hi, is it ok to put the reverb or delay directly on the track if there's just two tracks? (acoustic and vocal)...cheers anyone :)
The Online Busker there are no rules to mixing, he just made buses for CPU usage and workflow
Hi, can someone help me over here. I'm a beginner and I'm unable to differentiate b/w 'Bus 7-8' and 'Bus 5-6'. Thanks a ton !!!!
Thanks Graham. Just a point about those drums you're using - since they're from pre-recorded audio files, they have reverb (or natural room noise) on them already dont they? And possibly pre-mixed and mastered?
My mixes are only as good as the techniques and plugins I can remember at the time. The basic ones I always remember, but the advanced techniques I don't always think about while mixing.
Instead of using the buses, is it possible to use the plugins on the master fade and be done with it?
I have been looking for that guitar amp on Pro Tools First but it's gone. I think they removed it now. 🥺. I just need to give my electric guitars a bit of crunch. Make em sound a bit dirty. Is anyone using the current version who knows how to do that? And how do I add drums as well?
How would one go about adding delay to only a part of a track e.g. perhaps a single word?
Are all these pop up/plug ins part of the pro tools package? I'm just starting out so sorry if that's a dumb question!
I see you are using volume automation on the vocal track. Did the compression not solve all you problems before?
Could u achieve the same thing by just putting a reverb in the master buss?
PT First has 3 free projects and what does it mean?
I would recommend naming the busses. I am not sure if you can rename the I/O in Pro Tools First. If you can it will be in (at the top menu bar) Click "Setup" then "I/O..." go to Bus and you would be able to rename here just like renaming any other track if this works.
If anyone would like to know a quick way to do this in Pro Tools (full) here is how: Before creating a new track click on the sends like if you were going to choose the bus. Near the bottom of the menus there will be "new track..." You can then name the track Reverb, Delay, or whatever you choose ahead of time and set what type of track and adjust the stereo/mono settings. It will name the bus for you and add it to the send you were creating it on. Copy to all or select from the menu.
This will help if you have a lot buses on one track as all of them will be named making it easier and faster to get getting your song to sound the way you want:) This is just my opinion and the way I work so there is no need to follow this if you don't want to. Just putting the information out there so if someone wants to use it they can:)
Now go make something great:)!!!
Edit: I would also try putting the EQ for the Reverb before reverb plugin. I might sound better. It might not. Don't forget to try everything though! Makes it fun to experiment:)
Is there a big difference where you insert the EQ in the reverb aux? You advice to insert it after the reverb, but in the "Mixing Trick #23 - The Abbey Road Reverb Trick" they insert the EQ before the reverb.
Either way is an acceptable technique, and the differences would usually be very subtle. I would think Graham would agree that you have more control over the frequencies when you put the EQ after the reverb. That is because you're EQ'ing exactly what you hear in the final signal path. When you put the EQ before the reverb you're essentially EQ'ing the signal going into the reverb. For example, if you cut the lows BEFORE the reverb then the reverb might reintroduce a bit of those lows back into the signal depending on the reverb setting you choose. This could be good or bad depending on what you want it to sound like. If you cut the lows AFTER the reverb, you're guaranteed that no lows will be somehow reintroduced by the reverb. As long as you're paying attention to what it sounds like and you're getting the sound you want, it doesn't really matter... cause music is art and art is subjective! :)
Thanks, good to know the difference.
Play the song 1.5x speed, it's even better !
Y u dont do side chain on reverb and delay?
Can I ask, how much work on the mix had you done or do you typically have done in an average mix before you begin to apply reverb? Just faders and panning, phase etc or have you done some compression and eq before this point?
djvoid1 I do EQ and Comp before anything FX wise. For panning and faders, I sometimes tend to change them as time goes on.
1:00 “not as critical” but all profesional songs have effects 🤔 I think it’s very critical just as much as EQ and compression.
Hi Graham, I want to buy a microphone (Neuman Kms 105).
I need it to record vocals in a studio and live stage performance.
Do you know the microphone? Would you recommend it? Or Do you know another that serves me better?
My fear is the studio sound is not going to be good
Roberto Ramayo you can a simple mic look at the spark by blue just as a recommendation plus it's a solid mic for a low price
hey do you track your drums or are they samples? if so which samples? they sound pretty organic ;)
Watch his 6 part series on how he recorded this. I'm 99% certain he used drum sample, and I think it's EZDrummer.
Why no pre on the tracks send
What were buses 3-4 for?
'who knew? .. well the plugin knew' :D
Excellent tutorial Graham....thanks. Just one question please. If you put a separate reverb on a snare( med/plate) that is already going to the drum bus and you are sending the all the drums to another reverb bus (small/room1)....wouldn't that be a problem?
My setup is generally a group on Ableton with Kick, Snare, everything else, occasionally different track for drums.
This group is left dry! But the individual items in it are sent to a drum room reverb aux channel, where I add a nice short plate, or whatever suits the track. Generally it's a tiny bit sent from the kick, a good amount on 'everything else' and quite a lot on snare/toms.
Very occasionally depending on the effect I want I add a gated plate reverb to toms and snare on a separate bus.
These two reverbs then get sent to the main master reverb for the whole track, generally around the same as my bass - not too much.
I find a good philosophy is get the main reverb bus to sound like the back of a largeish room when you solo it. Imagine a (really good) live engineer has mixed a band live in a large hall, and you can mostly hear snare and vocal, enough guitars, bit of bass and the rest of the drums. Then adjust the decay and aux level to taste. This generally gets me pretty happy with the reverb on my tracks...
Ok...that makes sense on your approach. I pretty much do the same. The snare is always a separate reverb. I do the same for the toms and room....then I send them all to a drum bus. When I saw this with Graham sending everything to one reverb, I thought I was confusing the overall reverb stereo image...I seen where Slate takes his room/OH and send it to a reverb and delay, then adds it along with the drum bus, parallel drum bus separately... I do have to look into that reverb gate process on snare and toms. interesting..thanks for helping
I just watched a tutorial on that reverb/gate. Interesting, putting a noise gate as a side chain of the snares reverb. Learn something everyday...:)
It's a cool move, makes things sound quite 70's. Or even 80's, if you do it to the extreme!
That sounds like me...look at my kit. 9 Pearl drums..old school...I'm 65 and grew up with the old bands..:) But I do like 80's grooves too. thanks man!
What is the signal flow in regards to having a reverb bus? Do the drums pass through the bus and back onto the original track? Does the reverb bus have its own track now and you have layered two tracks?
The drum track is sent in parallel to the output of the drum track and to the reverb bus, which has its own output
So now whenever I want to adjust the volume of my drums, I have to adjust the volume of the reverb to compensate the relative volume between the two?
Most DAWs will allow you to decide whether you want to send audio pre-fader or post-fader.
A pre-fader send will not be affected by the track's volume fader, but a post-fader send will.
In this situation, a post-fader send is what you'll probably want.
Pre-fader sends can be useful for parallel compression buses.
I've got the eternal dilemma of whether recording guitars with their reverb already on, or recording them dry and applying reverb in the mixing process.
Record them dry
Can someone help me with Pro Tools First? I have Windows 10 and downloaded/extracted the whole file. It launches but won't run saying something like the licencing authorization failed or something. It says it has to do with the ILok application that came with it. I updated everything but the only option Ilok gave me was to buy the full thing which I can't afford. Anyone else have this problem? I uninstalled/reinstalled everything but still have the same problem. I would really appreciate the help!
TitanBait I tried using PT1st but it never worked for me. Ended up using Reaper and loving it !
What software is he using?
Put this song on iTunes please lol
5:23 "Why? -Because that's where.."
Did i heard some autotune here?🤔
mm tasty treats
"who'd knew...(dramatic pause)...well the plug in did"
Don´t consider. Just put an eq before and/or after the reverb. Every single pro on earth do that. Some people call it the Abbey Road reverb trick. Doesn´t matter. Roll off bellow 800 and 8K. BAM.
You left a tape echo on one of your guitars while showing the example of the mix without any reverb and delay.