{"id":41217,"date":"2018-12-10T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=41217"},"modified":"2021-03-24T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:35:50","slug":"4-mixing-tricks-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-plugins-or-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/4-mixing-tricks-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-plugins-or-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Mixing Tricks That Have Nothing to do With Plugins or Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"produ-1509070062\" class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement produ-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-9637871972924-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-9637871972924-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-9637871972924-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-9637871972924-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-9637871972924-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today we\u2019re going to talk about 4 mix tips that have nothing to do with plugins or any hardware.<\/p>\n<h1>Tip 1: Are your tracks ready to mix?<\/h1>\n<p>You may have the world\u2019s greatest hit song on your hands- it might be the most beautifully written song. Sometimes a song is so good that it can look past the production and recording, however with today\u2019s expectations that, unfortunately is fairly infrequent.<\/p>\n<p>These days people expect to hear something coming out of the radio that is really hook-laden, pretty concussive and that just smashes you over the head.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is rock, pop, or EDM, we expect a lot of production value these days. Rapidly expanding technology has increased accessibility and the perceived ease of recording, we want it to be amazing and we want now! We no longer have to spend thousands of dollars huge recording studio. However, what came with spending thousands in the studio was a certain level of professionalism. You paid an engineer to record a guitar for instance and it was his job with the producer to not only ensure it was recorded really well but it was really in tune and just worked in the track, complimenting the song and it\u2019s arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re starting to mix some tracks and the guitar is horribly out of tune you could spend hours with Melodyne trying to fix it. If it\u2019s really super boomy and there\u2019s no high end or mid range articulation, you could spend hours trying different multi bands and dynamic EQ and all kinds of stuff. But if it\u2019s your production why not just re-record it?<\/p>\n<p>We spend a lot of time fixing. Sometimes it is a lot easier to just replay it.<\/p>\n<p>So are your tracks ready to mix? Are they good enough to mix? Take a deep breath, step back and just listen to it and if there are issues that you\u2019re going to take you down into a rabbit hole for 2 hours trying to fix, when re-tracking them would be a better solution! You\u2019ll probably have a greater understanding of what makes the song better still!<\/p>\n<p>Not everything is fixable with a plugin and secondly, it doesn\u2019t always sound that good even after it\u2019s been fixed! If a singer is 3 tones away from the note that you want- to pitch them up there is going to sound weird no matter what wonderful software you use.<\/p>\n<p>If you can spend a little extra time and fix the vocal or guitar part, you can improve the performance, tuning or the way it was recorded, because if it\u2019s too boomy, badly compressed or too distorted it\u2019s going to be really hard to undo that.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had this same situation, I was given a string sections to mix and there was nothing above 4K. So we were boosting the high-end like crazy trying to get some air around there but it just wasn\u2019t there. The easiest solution would be to just re-record it.<\/p>\n<p>So are your tracks ready to mix? Are they good enough to mix?<\/p>\n<h1>Tip 2: Think about your mix in more than one dimension<\/h1>\n<p>We are all aware that panning has a huge impact on our mix! Think about where the vocal or instrument is going to appear when you panning it. Whether it\u2019s going to be left or right; is it going to be 100% left or 100% right when the stereo guitars come in or is it going to go slap down the middle?<\/p>\n<p>These are all things that we think about, maybe 50\/50 in the verses and then full Left and Right to create maximum width in the choruses. Something else I\u2019ve been talking about for years is front to back dimensions. One of the skills of the great engineers, the guys and girls who we grew up listening to and loving, was a recording with a certain amount of room tone in it. They weren\u2019t sticking an acoustic guitar player in an anechoic chamber so it was so dead and perfect and then adding reverb.<\/p>\n<p>They were capturing the sound of an instrument in a room, why is that? Well, it sits beautifully in a mix, you can spend your whole life with dry virtual instruments trying to dial in 50 different types of reverbs and delays. Part of the process can be recording it where you want to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Recording an acoustic guitar in a room is rather wonderful- close mic it, far mic it, or maybe half mic it! These are things to think about mixing. It isn\u2019t just left, right, center, 50\/50. These are all wonderful tricks we use when panning, but you can also think front to back. Do you want something really forward or do you want something really back?<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t all about the mix. This can be recorded the way that you want to hear it. It\u2019s a lot easier than you think. 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It is basically where you hear everything flat, so for instance you\u2019ll hear 60hz and 10k evenly.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great way of knowing when you mix is balanced. If you do happen to have software that can flatten out your speakers or you happen to be in a room that if beautifully treated and really really flat, then you will get a great idea of how your mix sounds at that level. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I don\u2019t always listen at that level! For example when I have a band here I will crank it to see how it sounds when it\u2019s slamming and also of course to impress them! Haha<\/p>\n<p>Also, I will listen to it at lower levels. I\u2019ll drop the levels to about half the volume, mark it on the monitor control and get used to being at a level you know and trust. If you find that you\u2019re mixing above that then I\u2019m telling you now that your mix will be so painfully bright the next day because your ears will turn themselves down. All the 3-5k and above will just get turned down, you\u2019ll come in the next day and you won\u2019t know what happened cause you burned your ears out.<\/p>\n<p>Mark the level that you work at and work at it consistently train yourself and your ears to always be listening at that level and you get to a great result quicker and quicker each time.<\/p>\n<h1>Tip 4: Look after your ears<\/h1>\n<p>Your ears are your number one tool. This should have been number 1,2,3 and 4! This is the most important thing: healthy ears are really, really important.<\/p>\n<p>I have been blessed that I have been doing this for my whole life, but because I\u2019ve always mixed loud, mixed quiet, mixed loud, mixed in the middle, I have not done any damage to my hearing.<\/p>\n<p>I have also learned that when working legacy artist that may be little older and don\u2019t quite have the hearing, I put in <a href=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/the-best-earplugs-for-musicians\/\">earplugs<\/a>. 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