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Essential Steps To A Better Mix

Instructor: Al Joseph
Topic: Recording
Style: Any Style
Level: Beginner
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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Intro Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to cover: 1. Gain Staging - Making sure your recordings are going in at the proper levels 2. Balancing your mix - NO EQ. Just faders. This process should usually take about a week or so per song 3. Using EQs - Your EQ is not a problem solver. It's a lever of various frequencies. It should only be used slightly and mo...

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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Making Headroom Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Essential Steps To A Better Mix My philosophy on balancing my mix is all about feeling. I want to feel a given instrument leap out of my speakers a certain way or level. You can do that with a single fader. Actually, you should only accomplish this with a fader at first. This process takes a great deal of time givien the amount of instruments you'll have i...

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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Gain Staging Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Essential Steps To A Better Mix Improper gain staging can destroy your work flow and balance, leaving you with a skewed vision of your sound field. Gain staging is accomplished on two spectrums: 1. Making sure your instrument is recorded at an aprporiate level or presence. Simply play till the light on your interface blinks red. This indicates your level ...

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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Using EQ Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Essential Steps To A Better Mix EQs are not problem solvers! They are simply mixing boards of a wide spectrum of frequencies. For instance, You have the kick drum, bass guitar, and lead guitar or vocal in center position. All of which share some of the same frequencies in the lower range. Well of course your kick drum no matter how great it was recored, ...

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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Using Compression Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Essential Steps To A Better Mix Compression is not a problem solver or signal booster. A compressor is used to "compress" peaks in your signal automatically. You can also control how fast this plugin turns your singal down and how fast it turns itself off. This adds a sort of snap or pop sound to  a givien instrument. Namely, the snare and kick of a ...

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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Play Through Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Essential Steps To A Better Mix In the Play back stage you should find yourself making slight adjustments. Nothing drastic. I'm a perfectionist, I will start over frm scratch if this happens. Luckily I have a good amount of experince to not let it happen. But if so I'll start from step one all over gain! Let's have a listen and keep in mind this is a quic...

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    Essential Steps To A Better Mix - Wrap Up Al Joseph
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    Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Recording Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Essential Steps To A Better Mix Remember: 1. Record at apropriate levels. If these are set right then the next step should be a lot more of a pleasant process 2. Set your mixer levels low enough to account for greater flexibility later on during the balancing stage 3. Remember to use subtractive leveing  4. When using plugins use a subtractive appr...

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