How Do You Mix Your Songs? | Pete Cottrell
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Who's up for a 20 minute Crash Course in Mixing Metal?
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This is really awesome Pete! Very helpful and inspiring. Keep on writing and mixing
+Tyler Schubert Thanks for watching! :)
This is the best video about mixing I've ever had the chance to see! Awesome, really :)
I need to watch it at least 3 or 4 times, at least!
probably not. This is only how HE does the mixing. You have to try it yourself, with your own choices/needs. So it's bassically that: tweaking the knobs, learn its function and really listen to what is sounding. There isn't ONE way to do this :)
It's pretty rare to find mixing tutorials for metal. I got really excited when I saw this in my sub box, and it did not disappoint.
+bjgman100 Thanks! Check out CreativeLive, they have some great mixing tutorials :)
This man didn't have to give you an in depth cheat sheet on how to get your mixes sounding exactly as good as his, but he did. Thanks a million.
It's just incredible and inexpressible how valuable this is. Watching the whole thing for the third time. Probably one of the best things to watch when learning to mix out there atm!
By far the very best mix vid on the net - I´ll try it out to make my recordings dont sound like completely crap :D
Awesome video! Informative and I think you have one of the best tone / mixing / sounds in your songs. All this mixing looks so tedious though.
Lol just published ;")
+Danny Kamerman It's fun! :)
+Pete Cottrell Maybe he comes from the future, maybe he's Doc in the next back to future movie, maybe I should just keep watching, bye love you Pete.
Your mix sounds really tight without falling into the trap of being overly compressed. I think your bass tone is particularly great. People often overlook how much the bass guitar in metal really fills the mix, often mistaking it for the low-end of the guitar tone.
+Dizchu Thanks! Yup, the best mixes blend them seamlessly :)
thank you ...... this video gave me hope in home recording \m/
Thanks for watching! :)
super interesting how you mix the bass! i definitely want to try
im at 15 mins and this is the best step by step ive ever seen. i thank you for your work & would love any recommendations on videos like this one!!!
THIS has opened my mind to a different world,thank you.
+djASMA AkaSINE Thanks for watching! :)
the best tutorial mixing metal guitars
This was one so far the best helpful video i've found on this topic. I used some of your tips and techniques and the sound of my mix increased a lot! Thank you Pete!
Really helpful, thanks Pete. I was wondering if at some point you fancy doing another tutorial type video like this if you could do one on how you actually lay down some drum tracks. I'd be interested in seeing how you personally do them.
I might do a drum video in the future. Thanks for watching! :)
This was the most helpful video I've seen on RUclips on mixing. I wish I had seen this about a year ago when I started mixing! Still learning about mixing and I love that.
+Lucas Fisher Thanks and so am I :)
Thanks Pete, just started uploading again with new equipment and this video was a big help
+Pete Cottrell Thank you so much, man. You answered of the questions that confused me when it came to mixing. You do use a lot of great sounding tones, and it shows in your music. Keep up the great work, man. I'm a big fan of yours. Stay Metal. \m/
+LethalSky22 Thanks for Watching! :)
Awesome video Pete! This is a huge help for me! This is precious information! Thanks a lot!
Cheers... 🤘😉🤘
Just what I needed. 20 Minutes and I've learned more than in 5 years before...
This is cool, happy to help and thanks for watching! :)
Great great advices here, I´m gonna save this to future references. Thank you Pete!
That superior drummer bus thing definitely helps, I usually do the fucking long way and delete all the drums except one so like kick, and then bounce them to wav and do this for every drum shell and then repeat, this takes forever and when I need to fix a part I have to repeat this, and then I eq each individual drum track, honestly this video saved me so much time
This has totally blown my mind, thanks so much for sharing!
+AZODi MUSiC Thanks for watching! :)
It's a great tutorial, especially your technique on the bass group. What do you normally do with your guitar groups? Couldn't find a video for it!
I record guitars in sections, usually. And it is a time saver! Also every section will be exactly the same. I usually do verse/chorus separately. But if one of those is very long, I will do the repetitive part in sections. This is also a great way to do some producing. Rearranging these sections can bring some surprising results.
Rock on Pete! Great music! Thanks for keeping some variety in your videos.
Actually with top down mixing, Nolly said he only takes the limiter off his mastering chain at the end before he sends it off to the mastering engineer. This because you start making certain mix decisions according to your own mastering chain, and once you take all those elements away, the song would sound completely different and you'd then be relying on the mastering engineer again to make it sound better which is a gamble.
+Vinnie Roofthooft Yep, your absolutely right, I should have said that everything except the Limiter stays. Think that's probably because I've only just started using this method. Thanks for the correction :)
No worries man, excellent video nonetheless!
Ah thanks so much man! I finally got superior drummer sound crisp and tight (and have enough room for the bass guitar). Your tips made it happen! and also made my day! Cheers
Thanks so much for this video man! Super informative. These tips helped me out a bunch with my latest cover. I shouted you out in the description and left a link to this video because you deserved it. Keep on doing what you do dude!
+SeatofWisdom Thanks for watching and the shoutout! :)
+Pete Cottrell No problem man! My videos don't get many views so the shoutout might not help much but hey maybe someone will see it :)
Getting into stuff like this and this tutorial is genuinely the best i've seen so far. Thanks :D
This is awesome, I love how you stick mainly to the factory plugins!
+Holt Preston Thanks! I don't have too many third party plugins but it's good to make the most of what you have with the stock ones :)
Thank you very easy to understand straight to the point and killer chops for the ears. 16:57 good advice on keeping Bass frequency separate from the kick drum.
Thx, this surely is going to help me. I am new at all of this, just aged 15 and have bought myself a stuidio one year ago . I want to learn as much as i can so i can make my song sound as great as your did. Thx.
Cheers From Norway
Metal Foundry Superior drummer is definitely that noise. What I like to do is make multiple superior drummer tracks but have one as only the snare and one as only the kick, one is toms and the final being cymbals only. this way i am able to mix the tracks individually using the plugins on my DAW. This also allows for better audio control than what Superior drummer provides.
Dude here again I think I will make a preset of this because I come into this video every single time I mix a song lol cheers dude
Great vid man, learned a lot just from watching you go through everything 🤘
Thank you so much for this vid! Very helpful, subbed!
This is indeed really inspiring and helpful. Your way of mixing appeals to me, thank you very much :)
Brilliant video! Thanks Pete!
Thanks for watching! :)
Thanks Pete...this helped a lot..i am getting somewhere now with my mixes..THANKS dude. :D
Thanks for watching! :)
pete...can u show the mastering process u use?? it would be great..now i am stuck in that.. :(
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
This is HUGE! Thanks Pete!
That was pretty good - learned a few new things. Subscribed!
Awesome as hell. Like Metal.
+nick petros Thanks! :)
this was so helpful thank you Pete!!
Thanks for watching! :)
Hi Pete really awesome. I try your technic on my mixes and it's really really good thanks for that
Great stuff here dude really helpful that bass tone is killer
thanks pete
+dntxJ1GG3ls Thanks for watching! :)
Really great video! This will definitely help. I'm still having trouble getting a full, massive sound. (I don't have a bass, so I emulate one using a midi one, perhaps this is the route to my problems.) Everything just kind of blends together sometimes and lacks power. Could you possibly make a video on how to achieve this sound? Thanks!
i i know im not pete lol, i have the same problem with bass, i usually put it through an amp sim and then eq it with some high end boost for more clarity/glistening sound of the strings to make it sound more realistic, maybe try that?
distort the hell out of the bass so it's so saturated that the bass end attack is compressed and soft. then get it as loud as possible without the distortion of the bass cutting through and you have a huge bass end.
Boost the guitars around 400 Hz for more thickness and 1k-2k Hz for presence (unless your virtual amp provides a button that serves this purpose). The bass is mostly the cherry on the top of your mix. Thats why I make sure everything sounds good before adding the bass
Get a midi plugin that uses a library of real bass recordings as the midi samples. The best ones have multiple dynamic variations recorded for each note, and they have already been audio engineered to be massive. I use the built in library in SONAR, so I don't have any specific plugins to recommend unfortunately.
I usually just clone the bass track and run one bass track through Amplitube, usually the classic tube from SVT and roll off anything after 400Hz then compress between 70-85 Hz. Compress the shit out of that but make sure it doesn't distort. Then the clone, I roll off anything below 600-700Hz, run it through Amplitube just so I can run the grittiest pedal on there and distort the shit out of it to make it sound like complete shit and compress the shit out of that. But if you want a big tone from your guitars, you can also sidechain them to another channel and run a reverb on that channel like a guitar room. There you can adjust the volume accordingly.
verbiage is really for free? wow, that sounds really good on snares! brings a lot of life to it. thanks for this pete! :)
+Matty M Yep, Stillwell audio offer all their plugins for free with no limitations. They know that the people who value what they do will support them by purchasing a licence. It also helps spread the word about their plugins :)
I love your videos ...
+Jerome Chan Thanks! :)
great video, great channel! keep it up Pete!
This video is just perfect ! Thanks you so much for that ! Helps a lot. Keep doing stuffs like that \,,/
+devilsplotz Thanks for watching! :)
Really informative. Thanks Pete!
Really cool man! good tips, cheers from Uruguay!
Really good tips. I love metal, but IMO that's too much gain. But as you were demoing the EMGs, I can understand why you used that much
Love your explanation because you don't use a 1000 plugins like everyone else
great help! cheers
thank you so much for this!
thank you!
I suspect I'll be watching this video hundres of times, for melearning all this stuff is very frustrating and slow, but holy crap the results!
+KadizKovers Check out this CreativeLive course too, in fact all of the Creative Live classes are worth the purchase: www.creativelive.com/courses/studio-pass-periphery-with-adam-nolly-getgood-matt-halpern
That is really very useful - some great stuff on there - spot on dude! :-)
+Morgan Jones Thanks for watching! :)
Great job! I love simplicity!
+OcarinaInMyPants Thanks! :)
Awesome video man! First time I've seen your channel! Liked and subed!
Holy shit. Verrrrrrry impressive!!
That sweet scoop bringed to life my mix damn you're good
+Fen Thy Videos That's a trick straight from Nolly Getgood, I can't take credit for that, but thanks! It seems a bit clumsy to just add a high and low shelf but, if you EQ and use highpass filters for the harshest and lowest frequencies on the individual instruments and use your ears it can work really well. It's easy to go too far with it though so be sure to use your ears :)
Indeed bro, it gives a lot of life tho
Thanks for sharing! this answered a lot of questions on getting a good bass sound, I have been working on that lately. My mixes have been suffering from a similar "darkness". this vid will help me throw a few more tools in the bag. but i use ableton as my daw lol
+Phil Parnell Thanks for watching! :)
Duuuuude!! this video really helps me a lot!!! thank you!!!
Nice, enjoyed it.
+Warwick Baines-Bennett Thanks! :)
Great video! And I was wondering whether I should get BIAS, but hot damn, you just convinced me, killer tone!:D
Get Bias FX as there's more you can do with it. Thanks for watching! :)
The part with the drums was very helpful.
Ok i gotta ask, how the hell did you set the drum pieces to different tracks??? I'm using Reaper and MT PowerDrum Kit 2. I have no idea how you set the drum pieces like that lol. Where can i learn all this stuff??
+Eric Faries There's usually a function in drop down menu in the VST rack to activate multiple outputs. This is how I do it with Cubase and Superior 2 but the process is pretty much the same for all DAW's and VST's :)
+Eric Faries Forgot to link the video ha ha whoops! ruclips.net/video/rwgtf2PDbEA/видео.html :)
Yeah i'm trying to follow the tutorial, but i can't get it to work right in Reaper with MT Power Drumkit 2. In Reaper, i can insert new virtual instrument on new track, which then asks if i want to create separate tracks to route to. Which that part works, however there's 13 drum pieces, but it only gives me 8 tracks to route to and i can't figure out how to add more. Like, if you saw it you might understand what to do but i'm super lost lol
+Eric Faries Some one made a template. try googling it its on the reaper forum I belive
Chris I'll have to give the forums a look. See what i can find lol Thanks~
soooo goooood! plz do one for mastering aswell!
Love your vids!
Awesome!
+John Collyer Aravena Thanks! :)
Extremely helpful!
Thank you!
Easy Pete :) great video bud, I do recording and mixing myself when I get chance and this has been really helpful. Would love to see how you mix your proper recordings (especially on the 7 and 8 string guitars) rather than the pick up demo. Also, I would love to see more of these vids from you because I recon it would give everyone a really Kool insight to behind the videos you do :)
+Stevie “Thehyperkid” Ellis Thanks! I treat 7 and 8 string songs in almost the exact same way, I'd do a little more EQing on a full song though :)
Good tutorial! But honestly, i find FL Studio much easier than Qbase, litrrally you could get what its called, the FL Limiter, it does compression in the same time as peack control. And you can't have that in any other softwete. Serously, its just way faster and easier to do all this in FL. But I really liked your tutorial. Would be great to hear the whole mix after you compleyed it though.
This just made my day. Thanks PETE \m/ \m/
+kasidit panya Thanks for Watching! :)
Cheers for a super-helpful vid!
Just wondering, how to you have you Bass track(s) panned?
wow. such an involved process lol.
Thanks for showing how you mix, I definitely learned some new stuff :D
+TheCarova Thanks for watching! :)
thank you !!!
Great tutorial, man!!
awesome, you should do a 2022 version :)
this was very helpful, thankyou!
Great video dude! :)
This is great! Can you do a quick tutorial of recording a single track with bass and guitar into the DAW/software? I assume you use a Focusrite?
Nice job Pete.You are a talent.:)
Awesome!!!
Really nice video! Thank for sharing your knowledge! Did you used Bias Amp for your guitar tracks? No plugins in your master bus?
Really surprised on how much you use cubase's stock plugins, will definitely try those on my next mix, I'm guessing it'll reduce my pc usage, great video man you made my day. If you have any other favorite plugins you could name for us in the future that'll be great, thanks a lot!
+chato4141 Thanks for watching! I'm liking a lot of Stillwell Audios plugins at the minute. Just got the Event Horizon Limiter which I'm playing around with. For Guitar BIAS FX is great and their new BIAS FX DIST plugin is cool to :)
+Pete Cottrell awesome, will check those out, thanks!
The old superior drummer still sounds amazing!) cool!
My god. I can hear it... I CAN HEAR MY BASS! THANK YOU!
+twitchy barber Thanks for watching! :)
Thanks for this video
+cheoibz Thanks for watching! :)
SDX presets?
Very interesting. I had no idea about half the stuff you were talking about as I work with Garageband. I have been bouncing around YT vids discussing Metal Mixing trying to find tid bits here and there. I really enjoyed seeing how compression and EQ plays on each instrument. Any tips for an aspiring metal mixer?
Awesome stuff! got a sub from me, really well explained and at a good pace
Great video Pete as always. Can you explain how do you get that guitar tone? Amp+mic? VST? Maybe i missed that part? if not, what did you use? Thanks man.
+Fede Alvarez Thanks! Whatever amp you use, use a Tube Screamer style OD Pedal before the amp. Same goes for VST's use a VST pedal in front of the VST amp. There are some amps that don't respond well to OD pedals but this trick works for most types of amps :)
Thanks a lot Pete, i've been doing my mixes following your guidelines for a while now, specially at the bass part. Never fails, are you doing anything different in that department nowadays? (The basa department that is). Thanks again man!
Awesome! I'm an audio ingeneer and a big fan!!!! love u handsome
+Valentina Morales Thanks for watching! :)
How do you record guitars? Very nice tutorial...
Hi Pete,awesome tutorial,i have a question,what kind of sound card do you use to mix your songs?(subscribed!)
+flyfa I use an Edirol UA-25, it's noisy and kinda rubbish so Im looking to upgrade. Thanks for watching and the Sub! :)
I know guitars are panned hard left and right, but what about the bass ? Down the center or also panned?
Down the center. He only has 2 bass tracks and he sums them as explained, so to have this technique with panning, he'd need 4 bass tracks. For modern metal where bass isn't that present, it works, but I'd recommend experimenting with it, I've gotten great results with double tracking and hard panning bass tracks on atmo-black/blackgaze type tracks, but it also sounds great for stoner, doom , and any other genres with present bass. Just experiment and see what works best for your style.
@@DirtyAncom wait so are you hard panning the bass left right? Im trying to learn how to mix for doom metal.