Mixing vs Mastering
Lesson 10 from: Music Production in Logic Pro X: Vocal Mixing EssentialsTomas George
Mixing vs Mastering
Lesson 10 from: Music Production in Logic Pro X: Vocal Mixing EssentialsTomas George
Lesson Info
10. Mixing vs Mastering
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
Mixing vs Mastering
Hi. In this video, we're gonna talk about the difference between mixing and mastering and more specifically when does mixing end and mastering begin. So mixing is just balancing the elements in a song, balancing relative levels, balancing the staging of the instruments, mastering is taking one or a collection of songs and creating the final product, authoring and optimizing the final product. Mastering is handled best by a professional mastering engineer. But if you are mastering it yourself, I would do what you need to do to separate yourself from the mixing process and the mastering process. Either give yourself a gap in time between when you finish mixing and when you start mastering or use a different room or a different set of speakers, whatever you need to do to let go of the mixing process, commit to what you did in mixing and start mastering in the most objective way you possibly can. So when you're mixing, don't think too much about how loud it's gonna be in the master. Don't ...
think about the mastering process, give yourself loads of headroom and just mix and just try and get as close to the end product as possible. If you mix really, really well, mastering won't have to do much at all. You won't have to change the sound and at its best, that's what mastering is. It's very minimal. It shouldn't really sound different and you shouldn't really leave anything for mastering apart from get into the end loudness or peak limiting or anything like that in mixing, you should get as close to what you want to hear as possible, but just give yourself loads of headroom. So you don't have to worry about how loud it's gonna be in the end or what Lufs, it's going to be in the end. Mastering will take care of that as long as the mix is great. And when I say the mix is great, I mean, balance everything, the more balanced everything is in the mix, the much easier things are going to be in mastering and the more optimal the end product is going to turn out. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
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