Essential Steps To A Better Mix

7 Lessons

1. 1 3:13 Lesson · 3m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Intro Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to cover: 1. Gain Staging - Making sure your recordings are going in at the proper levels 2. Balancing your mix - NO EQ. Just faders. This process should usually take...
2. 2 7:00 Lesson · 7m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Making Headroom Essential Steps To A Better Mix My philosophy on balancing my mix is all about feeling. I want to feel a given instrument leap out of my speakers a certain way or level. You can do that with a single fader...
3. 3 3:51 Lesson · 4m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Gain Staging Essential Steps To A Better Mix Improper gain staging can destroy your work flow and balance, leaving you with a skewed vision of your sound field. Gain staging is accomplished on two spectrums: 1. Making sure...
4. 4 7:56 Lesson · 8m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Using EQ Essential Steps To A Better Mix EQs are not problem solvers! They are simply mixing boards of a wide spectrum of frequencies. For instance, You have the kick drum, bass guitar, and lead guitar or vocal in...
5. 5 6:25 Lesson · 6m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Using Compression Essential Steps To A Better Mix Compression is not a problem solver or signal booster. A compressor is used to "compress" peaks in your signal automatically. You can also control how fast this plugin turns...
6. 6 2:59 Lesson · 3m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Play Through Essential Steps To A Better Mix In the Play back stage you should find yourself making slight adjustments. Nothing drastic. I'm a perfectionist, I will start over frm scratch if this happens. Luckily I have a...
7. 7 9:05 Lesson · 9m Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Wrap Up Essential Steps To A Better Mix Remember: 1. Record at apropriate levels. If these are set right then the next step should be a lot more of a pleasant process 2. Set your mixer levels low enough to account for...