Gain Staging Software Tracks
Lesson 16 from: Music Production in Logic Pro X: Vocal Mixing EssentialsTomas George
Gain Staging Software Tracks
Lesson 16 from: Music Production in Logic Pro X: Vocal Mixing EssentialsTomas George
Lesson Info
16. Gain Staging Software Tracks
Lessons
Introduction and Welcome to this Class
00:52 2Project Organization
09:47 3Faders and Panning
11:13 4Flex Pitch - Vocals
05:18 5Flex Time - Vocals
03:05 6Editing Studio Drums
09:29 7Song Mix Deconstruct - Mixing Drum Kit Designer
08:04 8Mixing Files
01:50Tips to Start a Mix
02:11 10Mixing vs Mastering
02:19 11Introduction to Mixing with Logic Pro's Audio Effects
00:47 12Channel Strip and Routing - Part 1
04:39 13Channel Strip - Part 2
07:00 14Bussed Effects
11:25 15Gain Staging Audio Tracks and Pre Fader Metering
11:44 16Gain Staging Software Tracks
03:45 17Mixing with Channel EQ
19:57 18Mixing Vocals with Compressor - Part 1
08:25 19Mixing Vocals with Compressor - Part 2
06:44 20Compressor Circuit Types
13:07 21Compression - Distortion and Limiting
10:47 22Sidechain Compression
06:37 23Compression - Part 5 (Glue)
02:52 24DeEsser
12:03 25Multipressor - Part 1
09:31 26Multipressor - Part 2 (DeEss)
06:11 27Multipressor - Expander
07:33 28Dynamics Wrap up
09:05 29Compression with Flex Pitch
04:49 30Exciter
05:03 31Noise Gate
04:14 32Noise Gate - AHR
07:16 33Noise Gate - Hysteresis
02:07 34Chorus
06:04 35Introduction to Automation
09:44 36Touch Automation
03:46 37Trim-Touch Automation
05:28 38Relative Touch Automation
04:34 39Automation Curve Tool
04:09 40SilverVerb - Part 1
18:11 41SilverVerb Modulation
02:57 42Sample Delay and HAAS Effect
05:29 43Delay - Echo
09:35 44Stereo Delay - Part 1
14:25 45Stereo Delay - Part 2
04:00 46Stereo Delay - Part 3
08:24 47Tape Delay - Part 1
13:29 48Tape Delay - Part 2
05:07 49Thanks and Bye
00:07Lesson Info
Gain Staging Software Tracks
In this video, I'm gonna show you how to gain stage software instrument tracks. So here I have a project from Thomas which comprises mostly of software instrument tracks. So again, we're gonna look at the levels, investigate what we might need to change so that I can continue mixing from here. So first of all, I'm gonna open up the mixer. Now on this one, Thomas has already got pre FOM metering on. However, if he didn't, I would control click or right, click on the control bar, customized control bar on display, enable pre F metering here. And now we have the pre F of metering button, like I said, Thomas already had it on, but that's what it would look like with it off or with it on there. OK? So let's have a look at the levels. OK? So a few of them are quite hot. This one is the loudest where the peak value is the highest at 0. which is a B full scale, which is an ideal. So let's have a look at what that channel actually looks like. OK? So it's a sampler and there's lots of processing...
after it now, I don't want to affect Thomas is processing. So I'm going to load a game stage after it by going to utility gain and stereo. So I'm gonna turn this down by minus 12.1. So I just double click on here minus 12 point one. There we go. So that should be at peak level of minus 12 now, so I'm just gonna click on here and then see how it comes out. As I played a slightly different section of the song, the peak level is a bit different, but it's low enough at this point, it's gonna turn it down ever so slightly more. Ok. That's perfectly fine. So now I've gainst staged that track and if I wanted to gainst stage all of the other tracks in a way that preserves thomas' relative levels between all of the instruments, I just hold the option key or the alt key, click and hold and drag the same gain stage, which applies the same negative gain amount to all of the tracks so that they all well in the green, very healthy level, but it doesn't change the mix that Thomas already had if I was starting the mix from scratch. However, I wouldn't worry about copying all of them. I would just identify the ones that need turning down and turn those down, bring all of the faders down from there and start my balance mix from there. So that's how we gain sage software. Instrument tracks in logic pro see you in the next video.
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