Comment is really just for the algorithm boost. Everybody has already said everything that needs to be said about this vid and your channel. All your work is underrated. You are easily one of the best production teachers on YT! Thank you!
The funniest thing is that i am stayed tunned with Ed for looooooong time, and watching his video form 4years ago - stiiil makes me feel inspired! Daaaamn man - you are legend! Huge shut out from Russia! You are the one! Just keep on climbing! No doubts we will celebrate 1m sub on your chanel soon!!!!! Peace and love.
I needed this cause I can't mix to save my life, but now I have enough insight to continue to try using these helpful tips. Thank you. I will be getting one of your drum kits real soon.
This video is actually GREAT to revisit. I didn't understand the first time I watched but months later it almost feels like everything falls into place
Thanks Ed, you always know what your talking about & never click baiting me. Much love for helping my elevate my tunes. Without you I'd still probably be pressing one or 2 keys on my midi trying to make a hit 😋
Hi bro I have been watching ur videos since 2 months I started a home studio and u sir have been very helpful so I want to thank you for all u did for music 🎵
That's cool your using Gain Staging techniques when you mix. A lot of people don't know about it and never knew why their mixes are muddy. I usually go 20db to 18db myself. And you get clean mixes all day.
Great tutorial👍🏻 though I have one question: Why you reduced the gain of the kick with the utility and not with the regular gain At abelton? (like you did with the hh and the leads)
Utility reduces the input gain INTO the mixer. What you're seeing on the hh and synths are just the levels on the Ableton mixer, not the input levels. Those can only be changed with a gain plugin ✌️
Hello. Great video. One question, can we group all similar type tracks(for example high hats, or synth, or efx ) that we need to sidechain (for kick or snare) and use this comp on this group? It will save our cpu, but what about quality?
Could u give an explanation how u use the gain plugin in the end to bring the mix back up to -6 dB? Do you use those on every single track or do u turn up the gain on the master channel im a little bit confused! Hope you can help me out! thx in advance!
great video man thanks so much! Beat is fire also! Obviously your hat loops are in stereo and have some hard panning... but as for the chords/melodies do you like to pan them to separate them in the stereo image? I can see they have a natural stereo effect from the VST, but do you pan them further? I have been told by some engineers to put a mono utility on my master while I level and EQ as a way to make sure that everything has its space in the mix before I start panning. what are your thoughts on this? Thanks again!
I used to do the mono thing but I never really liked it personally. I do hear a lot of people talking about that though so I'm sure there's some truth in there! I do pan my chords and melodies, in fact, I tend to keep them moving throughout the beat with a slow autopan or automation. Makes it sound less repetitive ✌️ Thanks for checking out the video man and let me know if you wanted to ask any other questions!
I noticed you added and decreased gain on the drums and 808 to make them - 18 to -12 etc. for the hi hats and everything else in the mix do you apply gain to them too? Or just adjust with the volume with the mixer slider?
Why you do the trim before adding fxs on your channels? Does it make a difference if you do it after? or even adjust the track faders on the mixer to - 18db?
when you add vocals you probably turn mid-high down a little bit i think. Is that ableton push btw ? i saw you made hihats on that in several videos and it seems so easy to switch hitting mode.
@EdTalenti yo if digital samples and DI recorded synth are set at -18db typically, what input level would you set instrumental samples in hiphop when gain staging? (E.g. an acoustic guitar sample with natural room reverb) Thanks for your videos, Peace
I love Span I've been using it forever but if I may : You should calibrate it a bit better so as to see your frequency spectrum more precisely. Also try to tune your kick in regard to the key of your track so the 808 & Kick don't collide.
What's the best way to go about calibrating Span? Also, I do tune kicks and 808s. I tend to do the kick either on the root note or a 5th above. Thanks for the comment I really appreciate the feedback man!
@@EdTalenti Sure bro, I'll make a quick video tutorial about calibrating Span. As for tuning the Kick the root can work if it's the octave above but if you want to put a pitch bend effect on your 808's you might still clash with the kick. The 5th can work better but it may be too high sometimes so for that reason you can also use the 3rd (Minor or Major depending of your beat) I think that's generally the best option. Let's keep in touch.
Really good video man! I just had a question, your mix was peaking at -12db after all your leveling and just from eq'ing your master (boosting highs & your kick) is that what ended up bringing your mix to -6? or did you use the utility to bring your mix up to -6? Looked like the video skipped ahead there so i wasn't sure how you got to -6db afterwards! Your final mix in the outro of the video was super loud too (in a good way) did you just crank it into a limiter? I would really like to see your process of getting your beats loud after youve reached the -6db. Thanks for the quality videos!
Usually my mix ends up around -12 and I bring it up to -6db before exporting it for mastering. The one you heard in the outro is the mastered version which is at 0db! Hope this helps!
EdTalenti oh okay so even after you eq’d your master boosting your kicks frequency & high end you were still sitting at -12? Would be really helpful to see a mastering tutorial for your beats too! I use ableton and i struggle to find a good tutorial for getting my beats as loud as possible. I mix to -6 then use ozone 8 for my limiting to make my mix nice & loud but i still find my tracks aren’t as loud as others i hear on RUclips. Thanks for getting back to me! Sorry for the long comments lol
@@mattremblay_ yeah! Depending on the beat it might be a bit more like -10 or even -8 but that's the range. Also, that's pretty much exactly what I do with my mix/master. Just make sure you get that RMS below 10 for your master!
I’m using the span analyzer but my metering on the plugin doesn’t move when I’m decreasing the gain with the utility plugin. Any idea what would be preventing that? do you have a certain setting on the span plugin to monitor the metering?
That's definitely an option but I like to do the tracks individually, considering trap beats usually only have a handful of tracks anyway. If it was a bigger project I'd definitely wanna work with groups!
They're gonna end up being around -12 to -6 all together. At that point you can apply your mixing chain (compression, EQ, whatever you like) and bring the mix to -6db, ready to be exported for mastering.
Im watching it on 2022. Found this channel months ago. And by this far, your explanation is the most understandable, alongside with Michael from In the Mix channel. Shout out from Indonesia!
15:35 "I'm going to open up this gain plugin like before and this time I'm going to turn up the gain to -6db" Where is the gain plugin that you are turning up???? The master track?
I m talking about master track where at 15:35 he increasing volume for master track. So he backed ALL tracks BUT in master track to -6db. Hope I explained my thoughts clearly. English is not my native.)) "I'm going to open up this gain plugin like before and this time I'm going to turn up the gain to -6db"
Man i have some questions. I use soft clipper and then put the gain up that way drums hit hard is that wrong ? And i leave my mix usually at -6db then put vocals on it?
Hi Ed. Man oh man. I followed your directions (this time) as closely as possible and there's a distinct difference between Brogue and Brogue 2. Thanks man!! Here is the second mix - soundcloud.com/user-518666135/brogue-2-free-trap-type-beat-2018-brogue-2-free-type-beat-trap-instrumental-2018
Easily one of the most underrated RUclips channels. Dropping gems every video my guy
Thank you so much man 🙏
Comment is really just for the algorithm boost. Everybody has already said everything that needs to be said about this vid and your channel. All your work is underrated. You are easily one of the best production teachers on YT! Thank you!
Amazing tutorial man - Concise and informative, definitely gonna help me for mixing my beats for beatstars. Thanks for all you do Ed we appreciate it.
So happy to hear that! Glad it helped!
Thanks.. best mixing tutorial on RUclips! I normally get bored within 5mins of mixing tutorials, but this had me hooked.
Happy to hear that man!
This was super dope omg man!! Keep creating bro
Thanks man!
The funniest thing is that i am stayed tunned with Ed for looooooong time, and watching his video form 4years ago - stiiil makes me feel inspired! Daaaamn man - you are legend! Huge shut out from Russia! You are the one! Just keep on climbing! No doubts we will celebrate 1m sub on your chanel soon!!!!! Peace and love.
Thanks Bro..Finally someone who understands and didn't forget when he was here. Thank you Brother so much!!!!
I needed this cause I can't mix to save my life, but now I have enough insight to continue to try using these helpful tips. Thank you. I will be getting one of your drum kits real soon.
Bro you make the best videos. This one helped me a lot.
This video is actually GREAT to revisit. I didn't understand the first time I watched but months later it almost feels like everything falls into place
Love this 🔥🔥
this was so insanely helpful. Thank you!!!
That was eye opening and very clear would love more on mixinggg
Awesome content man. Thank you!
Thanks Ed, you always know what your talking about & never click baiting me. Much love for helping my elevate my tunes. Without you I'd still probably be pressing one or 2 keys on my midi trying to make a hit 😋
Love it!
Thank you! You cleared the smoking mirrors for me; this video was tremendously helpful.
I really appreciate it.
Hi bro I have been watching ur videos since 2 months I started a home studio and u sir have been very helpful so I want to thank you for all u did for music 🎵
dont forget the dynamics effect in ozone. multiband compression or simple compression is really important in mixing your track
This video helped a lot. Thanks brother.
This video helped me a ton;
thanks for the great tutorials Ed!
man ur video it's helpful tbh!, thank u for sharing
You explain everything super easy and easy to understand thank you
🙏
realy clear and helpful video!!!
The moment when Ed's unmixed beat sounds cleaner that my 'mixed' one haha
awesome video, thanks a lot!
Thanks! So you upload your final track at -6db on beatstars youtube etc? Or the 0db master?
My guy dropping knowledge every vid. Salute!
Thanks for checking it out man!
Great video Ed, thanks! And sick beat too!!!
Thanks man... for both!
You're the MVP ❤️
Getting my attention the easy way 🤌🏽😍
Man, this was so helpful and awesome. Thank you
Happy it helped!
Ableton looks nice.
Ableton is dope
very informative, thanks! SPAN is a great tool, used by a lot of producers.
Thanks bro 👌🙏
Hello Ed, thanks for the video, very usefull !! I have a question. Why don't you use the utility plugin with the other tracks like hihats?
Good video bro
Sometimes mix can make song worse so this vid is helpful,just mix it the way u like it.
That's cool your using Gain Staging techniques when you mix. A lot of people don't know about it and never knew why their mixes are muddy. I usually go 20db to 18db myself. And you get clean mixes all day.
Gain staging is SO important! 💯
very helpful. thanks bro
Dope tutorial man, keep it uo!
Thanks brother!
Hey Ed, Nice video! very informative and well explained. Beat was dope too!
Thanks for checking it out!
Great tutorial👍🏻 though I have one question:
Why you reduced the gain of the kick with the utility and not with the regular gain At abelton? (like you did with the hh and the leads)
Utility reduces the input gain INTO the mixer. What you're seeing on the hh and synths are just the levels on the Ableton mixer, not the input levels. Those can only be changed with a gain plugin ✌️
@@EdTalenti then why did you use the mixer for hi-hats and leads, rather than the utility plug-in again? I couldn't understand that part
Hello. Great video. One question, can we group all similar type tracks(for example high hats, or synth, or efx ) that we need to sidechain (for kick or snare) and use this comp on this group? It will save our cpu, but what about quality?
Thanks! Helped me a lot!
So happy to hear that!
Could u give an explanation how u use the gain plugin in the end to bring the mix back up to -6 dB?
Do you use those on every single track or do u turn up the gain on the master channel im a little bit confused! Hope you can help me out! thx in advance!
Put gain plugin on master , then turn up the gain till you peak at -6db.
great video man thanks so much! Beat is fire also! Obviously your hat loops are in stereo and have some hard panning... but as for the chords/melodies do you like to pan them to separate them in the stereo image? I can see they have a natural stereo effect from the VST, but do you pan them further? I have been told by some engineers to put a mono utility on my master while I level and EQ as a way to make sure that everything has its space in the mix before I start panning. what are your thoughts on this? Thanks again!
I used to do the mono thing but I never really liked it personally. I do hear a lot of people talking about that though so I'm sure there's some truth in there!
I do pan my chords and melodies, in fact, I tend to keep them moving throughout the beat with a slow autopan or automation. Makes it sound less repetitive ✌️
Thanks for checking out the video man and let me know if you wanted to ask any other questions!
Great explanation man I really appreciate that and I'll definitely try it out again in the future ✌️🙏
I noticed you added and decreased gain on the drums and 808 to make them - 18 to -12 etc. for the hi hats and everything else in the mix do you apply gain to them too? Or just adjust with the volume with the mixer slider?
Why you do the trim before adding fxs on your channels? Does it make a difference if you do it after? or even adjust the track faders on the mixer to - 18db?
“Too bad! It’s my beat!” 😂
when you add vocals you probably turn mid-high down a little bit i think. Is that ableton push btw ? i saw you made hihats on that in several videos and it seems so easy to switch hitting mode.
Hey Ed do you have room treatment
nice tut
Thanks!
Dope!!
Did you put the gain utility on the whole drum group? Just the kick? or on each drum sound?
The whole group!
EdTalenti Can i Put gain utility on each individual track for my drums ? Thanks in advance....
Good video!
Thanks!
Appreciate this bro!
For sure man!
@EdTalenti yo if digital samples and DI recorded synth are set at -18db typically, what input level would you set instrumental samples in hiphop when gain staging? (E.g. an acoustic guitar sample with natural room reverb)
Thanks for your videos,
Peace
I love Span I've been using it forever but if I may : You should calibrate it a bit better so as to see your frequency spectrum more precisely. Also try to tune your kick in regard to the key of your track so the 808 & Kick don't collide.
What's the best way to go about calibrating Span?
Also, I do tune kicks and 808s. I tend to do the kick either on the root note or a 5th above.
Thanks for the comment I really appreciate the feedback man!
@@EdTalenti Sure bro, I'll make a quick video tutorial about calibrating Span.
As for tuning the Kick the root can work if it's the octave above but if you want to put a pitch bend effect on your 808's you might still clash with the kick. The 5th can work better but it may be too high sometimes so for that reason you can also use the 3rd (Minor or Major depending of your beat) I think that's generally the best option. Let's keep in touch.
Really good video man! I just had a question, your mix was peaking at -12db after all your leveling and just from eq'ing your master (boosting highs & your kick) is that what ended up bringing your mix to -6? or did you use the utility to bring your mix up to -6? Looked like the video skipped ahead there so i wasn't sure how you got to -6db afterwards!
Your final mix in the outro of the video was super loud too (in a good way) did you just crank it into a limiter? I would really like to see your process of getting your beats loud after youve reached the -6db.
Thanks for the quality videos!
Usually my mix ends up around -12 and I bring it up to -6db before exporting it for mastering. The one you heard in the outro is the mastered version which is at 0db! Hope this helps!
EdTalenti oh okay so even after you eq’d your master boosting your kicks frequency & high end you were still sitting at -12?
Would be really helpful to see a mastering tutorial for your beats too! I use ableton and i struggle to find a good tutorial for getting my beats as loud as possible. I mix to -6 then use ozone 8 for my limiting to make my mix nice & loud but i still find my tracks aren’t as loud as others i hear on RUclips.
Thanks for getting back to me! Sorry for the long comments lol
@@mattremblay_ yeah! Depending on the beat it might be a bit more like -10 or even -8 but that's the range.
Also, that's pretty much exactly what I do with my mix/master. Just make sure you get that RMS below 10 for your master!
I’m using the span analyzer but my metering on the plugin doesn’t move when I’m decreasing the gain with the utility plugin. Any idea what would be preventing that? do you have a certain setting on the span plugin to monitor the metering?
Make sure the Utility is before the Span in your effect chain
Trevor Craker thanks for the tip bro! I’ll try that.
What Trevor said is most likely what it is! Let us know if it worked!
EdTalenti will do dude, thank you!
At what db do you bounce each of your stem tracks? -6db? -18db? Thanks!
Hey I wanted to ask, do you hi pass at 20Hz for the 808 like you do for the kick?
Yessir. Most of the time at least 👍
EdTalenti What's actually the benefit of doing this? I'll try it out!
EdTalenti Wait, you mentioned it in the video. Nvm. XD
Would it be easier to group the tracks and then start the mixing process on the group instead of the individual tracks ?
That's definitely an option but I like to do the tracks individually, considering trap beats usually only have a handful of tracks anyway. If it was a bigger project I'd definitely wanna work with groups!
What camera do you use for these videos?
Canon T6i 📷
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How i can show you my demos?
Keep on making educative content!)
I definitely will. Thanks for checking it out!
That beat cold bro 😂
😂😂 thanks man!
im still confused by the levels. After going through all tracks, putting them to -18db, all tracks combined are -12 then?
They're gonna end up being around -12 to -6 all together. At that point you can apply your mixing chain (compression, EQ, whatever you like) and bring the mix to -6db, ready to be exported for mastering.
Aight thanks. Appreciate your content @@EdTalenti
@@EdTalenti btw, you remind me of the actor Harland Williams a bit :D
Im watching it on 2022. Found this channel months ago. And by this far, your explanation is the most understandable, alongside with Michael from In the Mix channel. Shout out from Indonesia!
15:35 "I'm going to open up this gain plugin like before and this time I'm going to turn up the gain to -6db" Where is the gain plugin that you are turning up???? The master track?
did u figure it out man??
@@yannick7092 no, do you know?
I think he using here the same tool, which he used for decreasing volume on individual tracks.
@@deftones3200 so basically after any effect plugin that increase volume put an utility and decrease it to the -18 for example?
I m talking about master track where at 15:35 he increasing volume for master track. So he backed ALL tracks BUT in master track to -6db. Hope I explained my thoughts clearly. English is not my native.))
"I'm going to open up this gain plugin like before and this time I'm going to turn up the gain to -6db"
It's so Knowledgeable
Can you please Tell me What do set the level of recorded vocals?
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Man i have some questions. I use soft clipper and then put the gain up that way drums hit hard is that wrong ? And i leave my mix usually at -6db then put vocals on it?
That sounds fine to me! If it sounds good to you, then it's the right thing to do 💯
ehi ciao
Hi Ed. Man oh man. I followed your directions (this time) as closely as possible and there's a distinct difference between Brogue and Brogue 2. Thanks man!!
Here is the second mix - soundcloud.com/user-518666135/brogue-2-free-trap-type-beat-2018-brogue-2-free-type-beat-trap-instrumental-2018
That's so great to hear the tips in the video improved your mix!
Umm when u sidechqin to drum rack you sidechqin to hat kick a d snare you duplicate. Your kick to SC to other tracks
What kind of dog?
Not totally sure tbh!