How To Mix A Song From Scratch - The Static Mix - RecordingRevolution.com
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Part 1 of 6 - How do you take the raw tracks you've recorded for your song and turn them into a powerful and punchy mix with clarity and depth?
That's what I'm about to show you as today I'm starting a brand new mini series on how to mix your song from the ground up.
Mixing is the step where you begin taking things like EQ, compression, reverb, and delay to start sculpting your song even more and presenting it in the best light possible.
But instead of randomly grabbing plugins and turning virtual knobs, only hoping to get a good mix, I want to show you a step by step plan to enhance your recordings.
And it all begins with the most important step - the static mix!
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Hey, nice mixing an a great lesson, can we a get a Link to the Song to hear it completely??
Could you possibly use low pass and high pass filters for a static mix?
A nice trick I learned at recording school was that once you finish mixing, play the mix back at very low volume and if you can still hear all your tracks/ instruments, then you already have a good mix.
That’s a great tip, thankyou!
The "Pink Noise" mixing technique is also a pretty cool way to get a rough balance of levels:
Here are the basic steps:
1. Load in a pink noise sample (or generator) into a track in your mixing session.
2. Bring up each track in your mix - one at a time - against the pink noise until it's barely audible above the noise.
3. Repeat for all tracks in your mix (treating any groups or busses as one track)
4. Mute the pink noise, un-mute all the other tracks, et voila - a rough and ready (but pretty good) balance of levels.
If anything's unclear, let me know!
@@EDMTips so raise everything up against the noise til it's barely audible, and that should be a good level for each instrument or bus. Then playing everything together should be a good start in regards to level. I get that. But if I use pink noise from a RUclips vid for ex, what vol should I have the vid? Or does that not matter since it would still be leveled compared to the pink noise?
@@Xxxtralargenana It shouldn't matter, as it's about relative levels
@@EDMTips bet, thanks. Makes sense
Graham: I’ve been a home-recording enthusiast for the last 14 years, reading absolutely everything I could find on the topic to get better with my mixes. And this video was the first time I ever heard ANYBODY mention the static mix. That in itself is pretty surprising (unless it’s just so common no one ever thinks to mention it). What was even more surprising, though, was the difference this approach has made in my own mixes. I’ve done some recording work for friends’ albums, but most of the time I’m recording/mixing myself. And, like many (I’m guessing), I tend to mix as I go. But thanks to this video, I’ve made it a point, when I’m close to the end of a mix, to stop, strip off all of the plug-ins and volume rides that aren’t absolutely essential, zero the faders, and start again. The results have been amazing. Thank you for taking the time to talk about this little-discussed but absolutely vital step in the mixing process!
I've been searching high and low on RUclips for a video like this, start to finish. Thank you
This is the best, most comprehensive series of videos to help beginners and professionals alike to learn and improve their skills in mixing and recording. I have recommended this video series to my friends who want to get into mixing and recording and they loved it. Keep up the amazing content. God bless!
Man. This series is the ultimate guide for digital recording. Random videos of specific instructions doesn't give us the right idea of the work flow to record a song. Thanks.
If you're not teaching this in a community college in performing arts & music technology, how on Earth not?!
You're a very good teacher, clear in your delivery, congruent with most of your public and very structured in your teaching content. I've eaten into my sleeping time watching your videos ... because they are that good!
from 3:30 to about 4:30 I learn something I have been trying to figure out for a long time. I just didn't know what questions to ask. I wish I found this, and the record from scratch series, sooner. Thank you , Sir.
Graham, I've just recently found your website - and I don't know how long you've been playing and recording - but I can almost guess it's been a while. I'm from the reel-to-reel days (Revox A77 - Teac A3344) and, like you, I'm blown away by the 'digital' revolution for music makers. I've finally decided to take the dive into home recording again. Thanks for sharing your phenomenal talent that you've developed over the years. It's a pleasure to watch you work.
Probably the most basic, instructive, and educational video about mixing a record that i have ever seen. Good job mate, thumbs up!
Just two words: Thank you!
That was 5 words o.O
I can't believe that the mix sounds that good with no eq on individual tracks? The single most important thing is mic placement then.
The tracks was edited before. (It sound reverbered, delayed and compressed.
This is true. Mic placement is king. Taking the extra couple minutes to get it just right saves tons of editing time later on.
He has the mix bus with some plugin from the begining like he said in The end?
Maybe he processed things already during recording, like ran a bass through a compressor and etc. like the old school way?
Everything is clear, EQ is already present.
God bless you, man. You rock!
please tell me which software is this
Harsh Verma pro tools
Pro Tools | First
I am a self taught ,accidental (No Daw)everything,with hundreds of tunes ,love your plain spoken clarity . very helpful videos.
This song is so good, I forgot about the lesson.
Paul Lucas lol
frr! thats what im sayin
I want to download it man. I need it
You are a gift to humanity Graham.
"Randomly tweaking virtual knobs." This is so me! 🥲 I'm so thankful that I found your channel in the midst of my first home recording project!
It's often overlooked, but static mix is really important...I just finished up a series of tutorials on my channel, and focusing on the Static Mix is the first thing I recommend for everyone.
I gotta say these series have blessed me tremendously.
Having said that, what frustrates is hearing that what you are showing "in context" doesn't match the "typical."
This is tempered because I don't know what these processing effects do.
A suggestion/thought... It may add more time.
showing, revealing the method in an isolated, muted environment is needed for people like me (those who are starting are begun and desire progress in perfecting their craft), but it not add practical value if we don't see you do it again the typical way.
Side bar... it's hillarious that you mentioned that it would not be advised to make those changes in isolation and communicated a potential waste of time but then played it with everything else going against your own advise.
I'm a mixture of feelings ... BUT .... I feel that you have taken us through this process so well that in even the areas of the unknown (No ex. Of your typical practice at the most critical part of your video.) I feel comforted in the spot on info you have provided and have not only subscribed but have also followed your instructions and downloaded the pdf file. Thank you for your help.
Overall these videos made the complex ordinary. I guess a better statement could be made, but it has been so hard to find simplified information from professionals who don't already assume you know how you got there, as in afore knowledge. It's like, the search button landed me here... Lol at this stage I don't know what I don't know.
So I'm thankful for a site and/or channel that is dedicated to meeting me where I am.
Thanks
I think the most important part in recording is getting good raw tracks to begin with. It takes me a million tries to get the best take when I'm recording and even then the mixing only improves the sound a little. I would do just about anything to get raw audio tracks like his. If all he did was adjust the levels of these tracks this song would already sound 10x better than the mixes I spend days working on
Ive been following this channel since 2013... And i can honestly say that i rewatched this series last week and tonight i noticed a major improvement and difference in my mix already when i practiced earlier... Thank you so much Graham
This video alone has helped me with my mixing so much. People like you are what make the world a better place. Thank you my friend.
...the best mixing tutorial ..ever!!!! respect!!
This has inspired me so much dude! Soon as the guitar came in man,I had the biggest shit eating grin.I absolutely love the timing/changes and the concept of the static mix.iv been a musician for quite a while but now starting to record solo and new to these tutorials and watched all the dudes but keep coming back to Graham & the recording revolution.
Just want to thank you!!! We have been paying a fortune for recording and due to an a lack of studio time we where not able to record the last track on our next album so I set up in our rehearsal studio and tracked it our selves and I am trying to mix it myself, really sucks and I will probably send it off to be mixed and mastered just due to a time crunch but I think I am going to invest in our own studio and next album due ourselves.
Wow, I could really feel the song come together, sounds better just by the little movements, it makes me want to finish my other songs that I've given up on over the few months.
How good is this track!
however did that song it's very cool.. reminds me of early Floyd meets late Bowie!
always great production videos mate!
Graham recorded it on his previous miniseries on recording. Check his blog if you want to see how he recorded it.
Just opened my own recording studio, am in here to learn, i am enjoying the classes so far, thank you for this.
Mr. Cochrane, this an intoxicating hook & performance! Now I'm blaming U for waking me humming this track in my slumber... "and won't bury it,... oh"
Again Graham, many thanks! I am just beginning to record my own music and I am following your videos to the MAX (and loving it)!!!
Sounds awesome Graham! Thank You so much for sharing some of Your knoledge.
This song reminds Me of R. Kelly - When A Woman´s Fed Up.
THANKS A LOT GRAHAM! You are a natural teacher, really helpful for both beginners and more advanced students and practitioners of this art!
Hey Graham!!
Just wanted to say thank you for all the help you give for young producers out there! Just taking the time to spread this knowledge for no cost it's just a blessing for us, man! I'm from Brazil and your videos have been helping me a lot to make and produce better music!
God bless and keep up the awesome work
man this guy is really dedicated to teach his viewers
he even makes PDF's great youtuber !!
I would also make sure that I don't forget to listen to my reference track while doing the static mix so that I will be able to get to where I want to go with the mix even without plugins. That would make the entire mixing process easier down the line once you put your eq's and comps and when you do your automations
SoundCloud rappers: Haha +10dB loudness wars go brrrrr
Decided I need to get back to watching videos to further my mixing and mastering abilities. So far, this series is so helpful. Awesome work :)
This song is my fivorite in Band Lab.
I used to end up a way lower master volume.. causing problem at the end of the process with the limiter... This video helps me a lot.. a great guide!
This is really practical and no-nonsense guide to start mixing. Thank you, Graham, for sharing this with us!
Thank you Graham. This series are very useful. you not just a guy showing off his skills and this is a bless.
Great Video series!! wildly helpful for beginners and those looking to refine their process alike. i found this mixing series very helpful. thank you so much Graham for sharing your knowledge and experience. i'm still in the 'building my studio setup' and recording phase, but i've been playing around with some scratch mixing and this helps SO much! it would've taken me at least 6 months of mixing full songs to realize many of these tips and this process! doing the buss early on, is not something i have been doing, but it makes good sense! huge tip. the way you explain compression and eq is super spot-on and i know helpful for so many who struggle with it! you're the man Graham! (hopefully i won't have to argue with other mixer's so much about proper eq and compression anymore. i'll just show them you're video!)
This is probably my favorite song you've written :)
Your videos are the best and I really like this one very simple and easy to understand.
You're an awesome musician Grayham.!. Such an inspiration! i would love to hear more of your music!!
This is probably the part of mixing I spend the most time on. I adjust all the faders so that you can hear everything fairly well, then reference my mix to a professional one to get the low end right.
Production in general is so reliant on capturing a quality recording in the first place. Everything else is bringing it up to that next level of professional quality but really nobody can make a professional quality song with poor mic placement/noisy signals/bad DI's, etc. However, as you proved in this series (and the recording one), you don't need expensive equipment to capture a good sound, but at the end of the day, I think the most crucial and influential aspect of MIXING... is RECORDING.. ironically enough.
A huge problem I have, because I also write and record all my own material, (Hip-hop) Is that after spending so much time on the music and listening to it over and over again I am not as connected to it. Listening to the same loop for hours on end just ruins my idea I had for the song in the first place. How do I stop it from feeling like a tedious process and make it enjoyable again?
Just take a break, overthinking on the same song/album/everything basically, it's really frustrating. Go back to the songs only when you "clean" your mind.
send it to me to mix ? ... you worry about creating
DissTrackt ...set a limit. Try to finish the rough mix in one hour. The next day you do the effects, and so on. Limit your time :)
instrumentenfreak nah bruh the answer is to let me mix it
fuk off ur mixes suck nikka
Brilliant video. You just made mixing so simple & I use to worry about that process but not anymore thanks to you 👍
Thank you so much for creating this comprehensive series that actually encourages people to start recording 🙏
Thank you soooo much 😌👌 I'm into this chaos you talk about in the beginning... each one teach one ❤️
Hey cool song. Diggin' the instrumental groove and the catchy riffs.
Stayed up too late last night watching these series'. Good stuff. I've been looking for QUALITY recording how to's for a while. I always thought that I needed better equipment or would have to hire a studio to get good recordings, but turns out I have the mics and ability to get the job done. You've given me hope. :) Can't wait to start recording. Good work. \m/
This guy is awesome
Hey guv, here from the Peter Hollens Course!
Thank you very much for this video, this is very informative both visually and sonically. This will come in very useful :)
Hey Grant, thank you for all the "freebies"!
My father put me on to your Chanel, thanks for the videos, these mixing videos are exactly what I need, I've just stepped into recording with a focusrite 2i2 bundle & going from old school propellerhead reason with a 5 dolls pc mic 2 using the cubase elements as pro tools first kept bugging out on me, I am truly overwhelmed with the world of mixing with eq & such 2 the point my first focusrite gear album I ended up releasing as static mixes with preset master chain plugins, thanks again for your video I know this series is going to help me 2 the maximum, ps your track your working on sounds amazing, much luv l
great video thanks for all your help..you have a good voice keep it up bro
your videos are really helpful..ur helping all the musicians make. their own songs ...thank you soo much
Great stuff Graham! Your videos are amazing and I like your approach to music!
As important as this step is is there a way to save each time you hash out your faders and start from scratch again then a-b the mixes at the end. It seems to me if you did 5 instances you might find out they are very different from one another with one of them being best.
AWESOME!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for all you do. You are a godsend to me. Blessing to you my friend.
This series was pure gold. Thank you!
Good stuff as usual! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Hey Graham!! Thank you so much for posting this, I'm so excited to see what your doing differently then I am :) Appreciate it sir!
A big "Thank you" from France.
Great series, I began with the recording from scratch-series. I've played music for many years but am just getting interested in learning the producing part. For me the level of explication is just right. Easy but quite specific for the entry level. One constructive suggestion tho, for these series you could put a number in the title so it is easier to see in which order the episodes come. You say it in in the beginning but while browsing in youtube it could be easier to find the right one to start with. Keep up the great work!
Exactly what I was looking for to get start learning to mix!
You are a hero for doing these videos man!
thanks so much for this information....very helpful! looking forward to the rest of the series!
light I up and let it burn. song stuck in my head
very helpful thanks! I'm still learning this craft but this should not stop us from making great music! (great tune also. good job!!)
That song sounds great..I'm trying to learn how to mix, I use studio one 5 professional. I have no ideal what I'm doing when it comes to mixing correctly. I do everything by ear, including playing all instruments ( except drums, use loops and pads)..
You're a fabulous teacher. Thank you.
thank you for all the easy to understand videos, much love
Go Ahead with your boostie bad as you can get; get funky and down on in there ! ZSV -sincere carter
what a great tutorial. Why I stay following RR. Good work. Thank you brother.
Above everything, this song is amazing.
Graham ,thank you so much ! This tutorial help'd me so much !
this guy. shout-out. thank you so much sir, you are an inspiration to me.
great video as I was doing the same thing the other day, and yes it's so important to get basics down first
The best on youtube
Loving the song my man.
Thank you!.... waiting eagerly for the next video :D
Loved this video. Clear and concise!
Bro!!!
Graham this is amazing man thanks for everything!! These series is great!!!
this is an amazing video. great job ahs i subbed. I can't wait to see them all to see your process.
That was awesomeness!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I appreciate it so much, salute.
This song is crazy🔥🔥
This is fantastic!! so much time saved, thankyou thankyou!
I wish I would've found this channel before...
Great fundamentals. Thanks also for all your other tutorials.
Thank you, it's been really helpful! Keep doing this amazing content!
Thank you for this new mix series!
Very nice, thanks!
Im digging this track! like a pink floyd meets porcupine tree meets smashing pumpkins ha
Meets a standard bass line by Bush lol
Good video. Could you do a similar video with drum tracks (kick in/out, snare top/bottom, etc)?
Thanks Graham!