Dude! This is incredibly helpful :o Thanks for being so open about your processes, so many people in this industry love to gatekeep and it's such a turnoff but people like you really inspire me to continue to make music
Always learning so much form you’re channel. You’ve made me passionate about ADMIN and prep which I never thought I could be! My mixes have started to become way less cluttered and I’m finding that I’m needing to use less to get much better results. I’ve starred running a lot more fx in parallel rather than on big chains and damn is it so much easier than having a chain. If there’s an issue i can just bring down the offending effect (like you went through in the last vid) Thanks so much may dude And Cheers for these amazing vids as always!
Here is my question regarding additive clip gain: digital mixing 101 says don’t push the faders above 0dB marker. So, let’s say the highest peaks of my track are, for example, -15dB, and my target for clip gain is to raise that to -6dB. Are we not concerned that adding this much gain to a clip could degrade the signal?
Great video. Just to clarify with your use of Defaulter: reducing peak level on all audio tracks to -6dB, then compensating channel level +/- on the affected audio tracks. Just confirming, if Defaulter performs a reduction of say -3dB, which you can clearly see on the clip gain information, are you simply compensating the level reduction by boosting the channel fader by +3dB in this example?
Watch the tutorial closely he gain matches them to -6db then used volume fader to get it back to original level to maintain the vision of the reference
@@panorama_mastering thanks - maybe one of he Windows users here may know. In Windows Explorer, under detail Columns we can pick things from a plethora of choices like Bit Rate, bpm and Bit Depth (The later doesn't display anything) but no Audio Sample Rate. Apparently the feature was removed after Windows XP. LIke many other OS they seem to be more photo / video centric out of the box, musicians are a bit of a fringe case as regards OS usage.
Why not strip silence before defaulter? wouldn't that make the individual tracks need less compression? you could always automate the section dynamics back in and have more control.
Strip silence is only cutting out whole sections of regions within a specified level of “silence”. Defaulter is just a way to gain stage the relative levels within the DAW signal flow. Needing to use more or less compression isn’t really a product of those two processes because dynamics are relative to the source material which will have the same relationship no matter what level they’re being set to
@@jonnyoh4731 Thanks for the response. I knew that, But by using strip silence first then using defaulter it would gain stage all of the newly created regions making all of the audio regions on each track -6 (in this case) limiting the dynamic range of each track resulting in the need for less compression.
@@nunyabizfam106 Hello! Np, but I think you’re missing the “relative” part. -6 is only a starting point to allow more headroom from 0db full scale, while also ensuring these regions go into plugins at the desired input level. They are then brought back up or down somewhere else in the signal chain, usually at the channel fader. This doesn’t affect how much compression is used because overall track level is relative and doesn’t affect the actual dynamics the stem contains
@@nunyabizfam106 in other words. The loudest and quietest parts of a region/recording will always have the same difference in amplitude no matter what level the track is currently sitting at. Of course until you add that compressor :p
@@jonnyoh4731 I understand that, But if defaulter sets each region to -6 (as the starting point) then each individual track will theoretically need less compression. for example if the track is a guitar and it is 3db louder during the chorus than the verse, but also, 3db quite during the bridge. usind strip silence would break it up into regions & then defaulter would set EACH region to -6 resulting in the need for less compression.
Its refreshing to see someone just include the list directly with no bs mail sale system required. Great to see! Thanks
My pleasure!
Dude! This is incredibly helpful :o Thanks for being so open about your processes, so many people in this industry love to gatekeep and it's such a turnoff but people like you really inspire me to continue to make music
My pleasure! Keep making great music!
Thank you for the large measure of goodwill in sharing all of this with us. It is very much appreciated.
You are so welcome!
You are a really cool boss, allowing your assistant to tap into your fanbase
Ethan is an absolute legend! He absolutely kills it on mix prep and deserves a million times the recognition!
Letting someone more handsome take over the camera... Brave, which makes you more attractive, so you're equal handsome which nulls this comment.
@@samphelps856 ???
That's very helpful actually! Thank you!
You're welcome!
Golden information that converts into knowledge. Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Always learning so much form you’re channel. You’ve made me passionate about ADMIN and prep which I never thought I could be! My mixes have started to become way less cluttered and I’m finding that I’m needing to use less to get much better results. I’ve starred running a lot more fx in parallel rather than on big chains and damn is it so much easier than having a chain. If there’s an issue i can just bring down the offending effect (like you went through in the last vid)
Thanks so much may dude
And Cheers for these amazing vids as always!
Nice! Great info about the -6 on the ssl channel👍🏻
You're welcome!
That defaulter plug-in looks super handy, wish they had an AU/VST version. Looks like izotope rx leveler module might be the closest thing
Here is my question regarding additive clip gain: digital mixing 101 says don’t push the faders above 0dB marker. So, let’s say the highest peaks of my track are, for example, -15dB, and my target for clip gain is to raise that to -6dB. Are we not concerned that adding this much gain to a clip could degrade the signal?
I can see that that check-list is in notion. Would be Great to See how you manage everything within notion if you actually do so. Great Video :)
I don't manage much in Notion; I have apple reminders and apple calendar; that takes care of me nicely :)
Great video. Just to clarify with your use of Defaulter: reducing peak level on all audio tracks to -6dB, then compensating channel level +/- on the affected audio tracks. Just confirming, if Defaulter performs a reduction of say -3dB, which you can clearly see on the clip gain information, are you simply compensating the level reduction by boosting the channel fader by +3dB in this example?
Watch the tutorial closely he gain matches them to -6db then used volume fader to get it back to original level to maintain the vision of the reference
Thanks for this! You mention that you like to hit the SSL in the sweet spot - what In Gain and THD settings are you using? Cheers!
The mixing set-up checklist won't open: I get the following error message - {"message":"File not found"}
Thank you so much ❤
You're welcome 😊
Thank you
Hey loved this, can you expand a little bit on true peak marker? what is that ? thank you
Represents the loudest/hottest signal in the mix; so I can reference that point when working with my mix bus;
thanks Nicholas!@@panorama_mastering
How do you deal with dithering when you export the files to approuved stems?
1:22 nice that apple displays the sample rate so easily - how does one do it in Windows?
Not sure!
@@panorama_mastering thanks - maybe one of he Windows users here may know. In Windows Explorer, under detail Columns we can pick things from a plethora of choices like Bit Rate, bpm and Bit Depth (The later doesn't display anything) but no Audio Sample Rate. Apparently the feature was removed after Windows XP. LIke many other OS they seem to be more photo / video centric out of the box, musicians are a bit of a fringe case as regards OS usage.
why you don't use 32bit
Why not strip silence before defaulter? wouldn't that make the individual tracks need less compression? you could always automate the section dynamics back in and have more control.
Strip silence is only cutting out whole sections of regions within a specified level of “silence”. Defaulter is just a way to gain stage the relative levels within the DAW signal flow. Needing to use more or less compression isn’t really a product of those two processes because dynamics are relative to the source material which will have the same relationship no matter what level they’re being set to
@@jonnyoh4731 Thanks for the response. I knew that, But by using strip silence first then using defaulter it would gain stage all of the newly created regions making all of the audio regions on each track -6 (in this case) limiting the dynamic range of each track resulting in the need for less compression.
@@nunyabizfam106 Hello! Np, but I think you’re missing the “relative” part. -6 is only a starting point to allow more headroom from 0db full scale, while also ensuring these regions go into plugins at the desired input level. They are then brought back up or down somewhere else in the signal chain, usually at the channel fader. This doesn’t affect how much compression is used because overall track level is relative and doesn’t affect the actual dynamics the stem contains
@@nunyabizfam106 in other words. The loudest and quietest parts of a region/recording will always have the same difference in amplitude no matter what level the track is currently sitting at. Of course until you add that compressor :p
@@jonnyoh4731 I understand that, But if defaulter sets each region to -6 (as the starting point) then each individual track will theoretically need less compression.
for example if the track is a guitar and it is 3db louder during the chorus than the verse, but also, 3db quite during the bridge.
usind strip silence would break it up into regions & then defaulter would set EACH region to -6 resulting in the need for less compression.
thank you ! and btw does the -6 DB rule you mentioned, applicable on vocals as well ?
In my workflow; yes;
"Proof that God is an artist"... Where can I get the shirt Ethan ?
You need to teach your assistant to use the proper term. Stem is the grouping of tracks summed together. Multi tracks is the individual tracks.
Yup. Drums stem. Guitars stem. Bass stem. Etc.
Individual tracks are not stems. They’re tracks.
jfc we all know what he’s talking about 🙄
We’re not in the 80s anymore.. Everyone knows what he means
Damn I hate ‘reverb room’ vids 🤦♂️…especially from an audio engineering channel.