#1 Trick for Balanced Mixes EVERY TIME
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In this video, I show how to rebalance a mix in 5 minutes. Ish 🫠. Very useful if you get lost!
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Great walk through; I preferred the clarity and depth in the re-mix. Would love to see more videos like this. Very very helpful. The static mix is so important to get right and there aren’t enough videos on YT focused on it like this. This is the foundation of a good sounding and loud mix.
Cheers, and I am glad it was helpful!
This is probably the best ever utorial I've found! Biggest was probably the reverb mixing! Thank you mate!
Thank you, I am really glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
Another value packed video Will, as always thank-you!
You're welcome, Sean, I am glad you liked it! 🙂
Nice one man, thanks for sharing!
every one of your videos are so insightful and helpful! keep it up brother, you've helped me so much
Stoked to hear that! Thanks as always for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
This is the most important and useful production video ever, for me, the gain staging volumes is what I needed, thanks, who else needed to hear -12db on the kick and also -12db reduction on the reference? Thanks so much, I am stoked to try this out
You're very welcome, and I am glad you found it helpful! Perhaps you can benefit from my gainstaging tutorial too, if you haven't seen it already?
@@EDMTips yes, that's funny you mention that video, I commented on that one months ago because it helped me SO MUCH! More so than any other tutorial ever has!I am 100% sure that your videos are the most useful, and most important out of all the synth-Tubers to watch. You're such a nice person and so easy to get along with, I just love everything you do homie !
Fantastic tutorial. I'm inspired to create a template today! Thanks for the multiple plugin tip as well.
Hell yeah! Go for it, Allen! 🙌🏻
I can always rely on you for great tutorials like this 💪💪
Happy to hear that! Thanks as always for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Can't wait until you have 1 mil subs. You deserve it. Love from Lithuania
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate the support 🙂
your an excellent teacher, hats off!
Thank you, Max, I am glad you found my videos helpful! 🙂
Wow thank you! could you make a 5 minute master video of this track please? so we have the full tutorial on mix & master😁
I'll second that request! Great idea
Great idea, I will add this to my list :)
Nice idea
This is the best mixing lessons till date, covering the most important technique🙏🏼🙏🏼thank god you made this
You're welcome, and I am glad it was helpful! 🙂
Awesome video mate!
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it! Anything else you’d like to see me cover?
That was fantastic! Thank you 😁
You're welcome, I am glad you enjoyed watching this 🙂
Brilliant video Will. The big problem here is if using a Sultan + Shepard track as a reference, it always makes us feel our tracks are garbage in comparison. Proceeded by many hours of clogging up the project with plugins in hope of salvaging something half decent. 😏
I'm pretty certain Sultan + Shepard didn't make great tracks straight away and probably had imposter syndrome. Keep producing new music following Will's tips and you'll get there one day.
@@bobrv8 some of their earlier stuff was def shite..in fact the better the ref track the harder you work
Only mix your song when it’s finished - and promise yourself it’s finished, and only mix.
The problem is we will never ever achieve as good masters as professionally mastered studio tracks… no matter how hard you try.. your bass etc will never sound as good.
We can get close though
Analyse, gain stage, sample swap (drums etc usually kick), EQ and compression. Usually fixes most problems.
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Astounding how every video actually teaches game changing principles 🙌✨
Thank you, I am glad you find my videos helpful 🙂🙌🏻
fantastic breakdown!!!
Thank you, I am glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
🎯 nicely done 🙌🏼
Thank you, really appreciate the support 🙌🏻🙏🏻
I suggest to pay attention to peak only -12 with the kick because if you have cymbal crashes or fx or whatever other element with relatively long tail or with reverb/delays you might get artifacts (like a sort of digital degradation at the end of the tail), which will be audible if they are in some parts of the track where there's few elements or very quiet parts or at the very end of the track (if the track ends with an fx tail or a fading element in the upper range of frequencies). I don't know exactly why but I think it might happen because the bottom headroom of the channel ends before the quietest sound in that channel and it can't correctly process a sound that is quieter than the minimum bottom threshold. It's like going over -inf. You aren't fully using the digital headroom of the individual channel, and even if you pull the volume up to expand the tail there will be a point where you will need a little bit more tail fading so it won't never be enough because you have the ability to physically and "analogically" hear it, and you NEED to ear it, but the bottom of the channel fader "digitally" ends before.
So, I suggest to mix starting with the kick at -7 while putting a utility gain on the master bus, at +6.
Then, mix kick and bass paying attention to have no masking and to not going over 0dbfs.
Now you have perfectly controlled low end and the freedom to make all the other elements to dance and moving around a solid and controlled foundation.
You might get occasional peaks hitting even + 3 on the master bus, but you won't hear no distortion because it will be caused 100% by an element belonging to a upper range of frequency.
Now tame the occasional peaks to make them to not exceed the 0dbfs and reshape the transient attack (if needed) with 2 comp in series with different behavior, put a limiter at the end with 1 or 2 db of gain reduction and you have a mix which sounds like it was finalized so you can immediately feel (and chose) how it will sound after being mastered (better to say "finalized" in these "single release/EP" era) and you have used all the headroom available. If it's someone else to master your track you just have to pull down the limiter input and set the gain back to 0. Now you have a mix peaking at -6dbfs and never over. Total control. And it's very useful if you mix with headphones but you don't have an hp amplifier to get the sufficient volume/pressure so to have a correct fletcher and Munson curve response according to how we perceive different frequencies at the same volume. This is really fundamental to make the "pro" step in mixing, and understanding the importance of controlling harshness, and WHY it's HARSH. Physics. Individual perception. Fletcher and Munson Curves.
But the first thing for a good mix is a good arrangement/sound selection. It makes 70% imho.
I will be glad If anyone who will read this comment, will try this method and will come back here to say if it worked also for them or not.
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Vaya curso de masterización acelerado!! Para mí si fue record!!! Gracias por compartirlo!!!
You're welcome, glad you liked it! 🙂
Thanks Will🤩
You're welcome, Lars, glad you liked it! 🙂
great video 🤘need more videos like these, work along with REF tracks cheers .
You're welcome, and I am glad you found it helpful! Any other topic you’d like to see me cover?
Best tips on CZcams . Hopefully you still doing your courses
Thank you! Yes, I am :)
This video is AMAZING ! Thank you so much.👍👍🙏🙏
You are very welcome, glad you liked it! 🙂
I saw somewhere a video where the kick was just kissing the limiter and was also brought down to -12db and you add some drive just before the eq.
Anyway I got this habit of setting my kick at -12db. Cool stuff
Cheers, glad you found it helpful! 🙂
lots of great ideas here as I embark on mixing my 45 minute movie soundtrack! Next stop, getting a consistent -12db kick across 45 minutes. First time I've used reference tracks and blimey charlie, it's invaluable - if a little disconcerting how far out my initial rough mixes were! I'm also taking onboard your point about identifying what's 'backing' - I can't resist throwing in lots of extra lines which can be a problem - I realised watching this that I instinctively try to make everything intelligible - I'm going to just treat anything that isn't the lead as backing and bring it right down. Thanks for the tips.
You’re welcome, and good luck!
Thanks for these videos, I watched most of your videos. May we know a way to cancel harmonics using EQing?
This is great! My biggest problem is I hate zeroing out a mix that I've been working on & starting over even though I know it's the right thing to do.
Picked up a few tricks there brotha, cheers!
Nice one, that's what I like to hear! Thanks for watching :)
SPAN (at least the vst2 version) offers a way to show the reference as a second layer inside the same plugin. You can set it up by routing the reference track to the sidechain input of the SPAN plugin. Might be helpful?
Work Fast. Make EDM Tips. Say No! Great Video once again Will!
Cheers, Jake, I am glad you liked it 🙂
On Span, you can check your mix with others on the same tab. I think Dilby has a vid on it. Pretty neat.
Thanks for sharing! 🙂🙌🏻🙏🏻
@@EDMTips Thanks for your help over the past year or so. Help me out a ton!
Nice one Will....saves a bit of faff though if you use Span's underlay feature (set to different colour) to view mix and reference in a single Span instance. Is there a reason you choose to use two windows ?
A great help to the EDM community
Stoked to hear that! Thanks for watching and supporting 🙂
Have you guys thought about providing a monthly membership to your site?
Great suggestion, we are working on this right now and will be rolling it to our students this month :)
Any advice on if you’re automating volume?
Thank you so much, but i have one question: How the sense to compare an audio spectrum of a saturated and “wet” reference track to an empty initial sound without any saturation / clipper / audio effect in the chain? Is not only a thing about 12 db volume difference between the 2 tracks in front of an audio spectrum comparision, or not ? Thanks
Excellent vid as usual!
5:12 this boom, is it like bark of dog plugin?
Bingo!
You make so great videos I love them. But could you maybe make a video on how to make music like E-Mantra?
Thanks for the suggestion, I will add it to my list and let's see how many people will vote for it! :)
And the key is to do it fast :) I’ve always left my aux channels at 0, reasoning that I’m controlling the send amounts already from each track. Does it still require a bit of fader mixing? Cheers Will!
I didn't know Bilbo Baggins is a good music teacher. Nice!
Haha, cheers! Bilbo Baggins at your service 🙂
@@EDMTipsA direct quote from Bilbo! ❤ Thanks for all the many lessons, Will.
Why I never thought like this
Hope you can try this next time you're mixing your track :)
Nice
Cheers! Glad you liked it 🙂🙌🏻🙏🏻
I always ask myself about using reference track: aren't they already mastered? How do you compare a mastered track with a track yet to be mixed?
The thing that makes the biggest difference for me is bx meter. I use span to balance the mid/side levels.
Thanks, I will check it out. What do you use it for?
@@EDMTips For the correlation meter but also making sure the pressure of sound is at -3 which I have checked most other tracks are also.
channel 55, could you tell me what was used there to create such stereo?? Please
True Peak or average peak for the kick at -12? I would think its the true peak but things will get really quiet all round.
how do you move all the volume faders at once ?
Thank you, wonderful information. How can I download a reference track from, say, Spotify?
Great question! I usually use Beatport 🙂🙌🏻
Can I ask you the headphone you are using in this video? it not seems HD650 to me? another thing, what is the configuration of your mac? anyway love your videos! just a pleasure to watch! thank you a lot for it
They appear to be HD490 pros
You're welcome, glad you found them helpful so far!
I am using HD 490 PRO in this vid, but I am still using my HD 650 too :)
Another great video, thanks :-). Shouldnt the bass and kick also get a low cut under 100..?
MAYBE under 30Hz, but definitely not 100
This is where your sub bass lives, hence you clean up everything else that don’t belong down there.
You can side chain the reference spectrum to the master spectrum so they r on the one spectrum
Thanks for the tip, Benjamin 🙌🏻
The vocals keep reminding me of Fleetwood Mac.
I can hear that!
I personally advise skip the -12 bit.
Balance both your track and have the ref at zero or else your setting yourself up to fail when you try to raise the level later.
If you balance/mix at zero then you can use any obvious clipping as a sign of mix inbalance.
That way once you've stopped all obvious clipping (usually just by managing your sub frequencies correctly) the track will be effectively automatically mastered.
That's how I've been releasing for a decade anyway, works a treat.
Surely your mix would be clipping big-time, though (unless you have a limiter on your master channel when balancing)?
@@EDMTips visually maybe. You can get it to a stage where you are only clipping micro transients which are too fast for the ear. (Same as good limiters do anyway) Which is far more transparent than limiting. limiters can react to rogue digital peaks and duck sounds far more obviously than a transient of 50 samples being brightened.
I've released un mastered 'clipped' tracks for a decade now, not even in the perverse pursuit of stupid loudness, I just find it's by far the most transparent way.
Even if you do decide to out of limit to later it will be having a far easier job and almost not touching the track after you've done this.
hey bclick - are you saying then that you dont use a final limiter? just mixing to zero point and any overs into the red are fine because that kind of distortion is better than limiter distortion. hope i make sense lol i recently downloaded a beatport track with the exact same thing clipping max 1.5 db in places.
@@marksherwood726 yes you got it, bear in mind that the best 'transparent' limiters (like ozone max etc) employ intelligent clipping under the hood any way.
Although what you downloaded off beat port is not that. Once a clipped file is rendered at anything below 32 bit floating point precision that is where the clipping occurs, that file can no longer go past zero.
What you are seeing there is reconstruction clipping from either reading the "true peak" level or from it being an MP3 (again see my video for why daws clip)
The aim is to only let the drum micro transients over, they should be too fast for the ear, or even benefit from the brightening of the temporary square wave. The groove is still paramount.
But be warned I've been a professional for over 15 years it still takes good ear training to pull off (like any good music feat)
@@Bthelick Hi, I'm a your follower subscribed to your channel, do you have a video that explains this process? In this video I didn't understand the process very well. If not, could you make a video with the process you describe in this comment?
Whats the equivelant of "doing this in mono" on FL studio? does this just mean mixing with no panning, if the sound I'm using is already in stereo from splice or something how do I make it mono in order to mix?
Was the bus "Bass+Kick" not used in this example?
Your track - 18db the reference a Concorde passed on your head...
the ref track should be wav or mp3?
would have loved if we could see the differnt reverbs used
Perhaps in a future another video :)
Following this tutorial I see that at the end the kick drum and bass sound higher than all the other instruments. What's wrong with this technique?
What software did you use to download the reference track off of Spotify with...you said it so fast I didn't catch what you said..
I've still to learn about AUX .. must admit that I learned new stuff again from this video :)
Stoked to hear that, Lars! Thanks as usual for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Offtopic - can you show some hacks how to make cool Filter Effects and so on in Davinci Resolve - eg. for Videographer, Video Transitions ....
Davinci Resolve is mainly a Videoediting program - but also has an easy to use , Adio Suite)
Maybe you can make a Playlist, Sidechannel or short payed course ...
Thanks for the suggestion, Vision-IT, however, videography is not my strong suit :)
@@EDMTips maybe it´s an opportuniy ... the situation is for videographer often vice versa ...
2nd issue. Faders are your 2ndary part of the mixing process not the 1st. The actual gain on file needs to be healthy and actually be cranking past -6 on peaks pre any inserts.. All lanes of audio. The faders feed the master use them for mixing into the master.
What happens if you use analog modelling plugins that require you to gain stage to -18dbfs for accurate modelling purposes?
Apart from that, your comment doesn't make sense
Why do you want it louder?
You can have infinite gain with in your daw but why would you want to go passed what you are metering?
There is no sound degradation
@@Notinserviceij I wouldn't go near a plugin with internal calculations engine only being able to handle -18 for it to emulate. DAW sweet spot is not down there either. Why you want to mix down in lower levels and then gain change up the file to reach professional target. Just mix to the real target to begin with. Why people so scared 😱 of zero or even the odd over. Mix to the ceiling use it all up. 20 years ago is gone with float point. So you mix in lower gain settings into what to tell you an over? Some students meter they made to hoax you into the LUFs nonsense so many people have fallen for that BS.
I prefer your version tbh. More airy. Cant comment on low end as on phone.
Cheers, glad you liked it 🙂
really good point on the importance of techniques..so much focus on advanced techniques that won't even matter for 90% of producers
Thanks for the feedback, emf, really appreciate it!
Could I send you a demo mix for some feedback? What to fix etc 🙌🏼
If you're a part of the Academy, you can submit your track for a feedback stream! Catch you then :)
For some reason I can't get 2 spans side by side in ableton now even though I have the preferences set up.... it used to work fine :| now I end up taking a screen shot of the span on the reference and using that instead
Good workaround! 👍🏻
You made a lot of cuts at 120hz, what about phase shift? There must be a bump in that freq
hi, why does the reference have a depression around 20khz?
Because that's just noise way up there. 99.9% of your audience can't hear that anyway, and it's only contributing to aliasing artifacts if you're hitting compressors, limiters, or saturation.
You can lowpass (& highpass) pretty much everything to get rid of unnecessary noise. How far you take it depends on where the important bits of your sound live in the frequency domain.
What model is the headphone?
These are my new Sennheisers: bit.ly/3UpEB66 🙂
Cheers, glad you liked it! 🙂
Multi plugin windows is not working
Turn it on in preferences
Now do a mastering video
When you ask so nicely… 🙂
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There's quite an annoying resonance in the vocals around 800hz, a sonar beep like sound. Kept distracting me the whole video.
I'm 666! Great video as always, thanks ♥
You're welcome, and thanks for watching and supporting 🙂
It was lacking some Charlie Sheen! 😁
😂
5th. how a lead type synth is a lead if the vocal is the lead and then treat the synth it as if it's only for accompanying the lead vocal. Should have been recorded as a synth background in the 1st place. Sigh.
4th. You cannot just arbitrarily cut cut cut wtf dude. Without critical listening how do you know you are not cutting low harmonic content? Why people think harmonics only glide up in pitch. They go down aswell from fundamentals
Hey, I have an idea! Why don't you start your own CZcams channel where you explain why everyone giving mix tutorials is wrong and why?
@artemisnite but who would be left to give an alternative opinion?
They do, but this is just quick rule of thumb. Most things don’t need content below 100 other than bass, kick, low percussion, vocals at 80 to 100, and piano
Yes most sound sources don't have interesting information below 100hz also this area get's quite fulland muddy if you don't cut out unessential information. But of course you should always listen if there is information you need
You aggressively want people to read your op but your pro tips you're sp1tting are us3less as f. No listeners give a d@mn 🤡🤡🤡
3rd. Throw away the analyzers. That's what your ears are for
55 channels that could have been done in 8.
Would you mind showing me, Pablo? I am always eager to learn 🙂
@@EDMTips Not your mix down dude, the use of so many channels. Automation>extra elements. Its what many like myself did when I first started. Whats your opinion?
Very nice i will try this today
Go for it, Kanha, and let us know how it goes :)