Category: Mixing and Production Tips
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Sub Bass for iPhone
Version 1 1) First Add a Tonal Balance Instance to See How the Mix Behaves 2) Insert a EQ and Low Pass at Around 100Hz / 12dB Oct, i.e. this Reflects the Missing Low End on the iPhone (iPhone Cuts Below 100Hz) 3) Now Add a Saturation Tool on the Sub Bass and Add Upper…
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Round Robin Mixing
General – “Pattern” means the Combination of Families (e.g. Drums / Bass / Vocals Would be a Specific Pattern, Drums / Bass / Guitars Would be Another Specific Pattern) – Imagine a Triangle with 3 Families that Moves Around Its Axis and Slowly Converges into 1 Workflow 1) Pick Favorite 3 Elements to Build the…
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Mixing for Depth and Space
1) First Make Notes of How you want to Stack All Tracks 2) Clean Up Low and High Frequency Content from Tracks that Don’t Need Them 3) Sidechain Tracks that Use a Very Similar Frequency Spectrum Against Each Other (e.g. with Trackspacer, DSEQ, Multiplicity) 4) Clean Midrange by Listen Through an EQ (e.g. ADPTR) that…
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Fader Level vs Low Cut vs Shelf EQ
1) If the Vocal Sounds Too Boomy, Don’t EQ it Right Away and Especially Don’t Low Cut it 2) Instead Ignore Everything Below 500Hz and Try to Level Balance the Vocal Based on You Hear from 1.8kHz to 4kHz 3) Then Shelve the Too Boomy Vocal, i.e. Shelve Band at 300Kz or 400Hz (Sometimes 500Hz)…