Tips to Start a Mix
Lesson 9 from: Music Production in Logic Pro X: Vocal Mixing EssentialsTomas George
Tips to Start a Mix
Lesson 9 from: Music Production in Logic Pro X: Vocal Mixing EssentialsTomas George
Lesson Info
9. Tips to Start a Mix
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
Tips to Start a Mix
Hi. In this video, we're gonna talk about how to start mixing and mixing best practices. So a few tips that I've got for you in terms of how to get started mixing and how to start confidently mixing your own tracks or other people's tracks is keep it simple when you start mixing, try just mixing first. And what I mean by that is try balancing everything first, get your gain staging down and adjust the faders and just focus on balance. Try not to get too distracted at first and try not to dive in too deep to any single element in the mix. Cos when you're mixing, you're trying to make everything work together. You're not trying to make one thing as good as it possibly can. You're trying to stay in context and you're trying to make the entire product sound good because that's just what mixing it's no different to cooking or baking. The quality of the product is predicated on how well balanced the ingredients are. So assume the simplest path to the goal and know what the goal is. Try and v...
isualize the type of mix that you're going for and just keep it simple. So I suggest that you just start with gain staging and then you just work on balance. So just work the faders, make sure you give yourself loads of headroom to begin with at first and just work the pan pots until you find a good balance. And then from there, things will start to become obvious. The problems that you need to solve will start to become apparent. Things like EQ and compression, especially compression because as you try and balance, you'll find that dynamic inconsistencies in some of the tracks make it really difficult to balance because they're moving up and down in volume. So like I said, go for balance first, go for staging first. Think about where you want things to appear in the sound stage. Do you want some things to the left? Some things to the right, some things to the back and some things forward, visualize the goal and keep it simple. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
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