Frequency Masking Tips #1
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- The 1st video in a series on frequency masking tips.
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So glad these videos are helping! Trust your ears! You got this!
Never seen/heard it explained so clearly as this.. will definitely take some practice! Knowing and hearing the lower frequencies affect the higher like that with these two instruments is a great example! Learning to cut rather than boosting is also another habit I have to get into.. Thanks AM! 🙏🕊️
You're welcome Owl! Thank you!
This came at the perfect time. I'm learning orchestral mixing and frequency masking has been a huge issue with so many competing ranges and timbers. Thank you very much
You're welcome!
Thanks, best/Mathias
You're welcome!
Sometimes I'll get stuff in my home studio recorded well enough that mixing is pretty straight forward. Other times you'll get the drums done, then add the bass with them and have them good together...but then you might add the acoustic guitar and now the bass sounds swamped out or the kick sounds too tubby. Remove the acoustic guitar and you have nice clear drum and bass again. It's funny what the addition of one instrument can have. And even trying to remove frequency content from the acoustic guitar where you think it should be interfering with the bass or the kick just doesn't seem to work too good. I tell you what there's a lot to be said for arranging and then tracking as smart and as good as possible. Saves you headaches mixing.
I agree, arrangement is really important for the mix. That's a topic I've been meaning to get to.
Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching.
Good job, try free vst the masker
Thanks!
I loved it :-) Thank you for making this video. I am going to practice with it. Question: when the instruments are not freed from masking and you add the vocal. Let's say you use the Izotope unmask feature to unmask the vocal from all the instruments - if I understand your video correctly the vocal can still fight the music because the music itself is competing as well. Would that mean such a feature is not really helping and one should learn to first how to get the music instruments not competing before adding the vocal or does such a feature as Izotope unmask do work? Of course when you use an instrumental track there are other methods needed I guess to make it sound as 1. I compose orchestra and add the vocal, that means a lot of instruments are playing - should all the instruments go through the example you show in the video or would you do that from a bus where a group of the same instruments come together like 1th violins, 2nd, celli, violas, basses ect...Thanks in advance
I haven't used the unmask plugin, and I think you're question requires a longer answer than I can give here. But the lead (vocal ) should obviously take unmasking precedence, and subtle eq on busses is a good way to do that . Hope that helps!
@@AudioMountain777 Good morning, I understand your answer and that it takes more steps to make a good mix 🙂 I will make a start following your video on piano and guitar and will then implement your tips to other instruments. Thanks for the fast reply...
You're welcome! I have a video on dynamic EQ sidechains explaining a method that would help your instrument busses and the vocal:
czcams.com/video/2KasLAZMHNc/video.html
Would using dynamic eq be any more beneficial?
Yes, they're very helpful.