You Suck at Mixing #2: Relative Volumes and Gainstaging

I would rather gain stage the tracks input signal first to -18 then use the full scale volume sliders
Great work!

Using pink noise set to DB is a great way to gain stage as well to get your levels just right.

New to making electronic music and i must say, these videos are so concisely put together. Straight to the point, and delivered in the perfect manner. Thanks under!

Bro love the video but can you please fucking stop these autistic intros for fuck sake

before the mixdown, am i not supposed to use eq or sidechains, or any mixing?

Underbelly is the super hero who pulls beginning producers out of their shit plateaus.

Wowzers! Kind of a killjoy.

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Gotta colour code your sausages people.

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Vocal levels?

You seem like an egomaniac. Pass.

Underbelly, is panning something we should remove aswell, so that we can do that later when mixing ?

1st step of gain staging really is to add a plugin to each track to lower the volume by 10dB or so. This can be an EQ or a simple gain/volume adjuster. And the reason for doing this is so you can have your faders set higher up whilst maintaining a low/safe/non-clipping volume.
If you have your faders low down at -12 or -18 dB, any small adjustments will be magnified, whereas if they were higher up (around -3 or -5dB), any small perfectionist adjustments you make will be more precise.
Very good though apart from that.

Thanks for this.

This shit is so funny dude. I've never enjoyed learning so much lol

legendary ! hahaha

Bro your adjusting fader knob, can we use gain knob???

Really helpful. Thanks a lot.

Can i make the assumption this process is only after you've finished the track?

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ah yes, bongos, the tertiary element in every mix

Thanks for a super helpful video. May I ask as regards to effects like delay and reverb; I assume you add these back in at mixing stage and have already bypassed all the creative stage effects you may have used before mixdown?

hahaha genius!

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There’s so many layers to this character, and yet so consistent.

i understand why this process might work well for some people..... but i think my workflow has developed in a way that i would have to completely retrain myself for this

Thank you. Some great tips here. Like Mom took at the drunken barn dance.

The normalize method of gain staging isn't bad but it should be noted that if you do it with really low signal tracks it will can raise the noise floor...so if you're working with external instruments and stuff it can problematic is what I have been told. It might not be an issue with soft synth stuff

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gain stage ? isnt it going to be too hot for some plugins to get normalized sample, wont you agree on taking down clip gain in all of them prior to intial balance? thnks

idk why but you saying negative infininty made me alugh

I freaking loved this

I have no choice but to subscribe at this point. Your videos are seriously helpful and I get a laugh or two in there while attaining this sweet knowledge. Thanks man

Note to self FIX ASS BASS LATER

“Fix ass bass later” I feel that on another level

Why is purple the perfect color for the synths bus though? It is so right!

First time watching... This guy is funny!! Liked and subbed

Fix ASS bass. haha!

hey man, thanks for all you share with us, it's gold. in the first episode you removed all effects, when you bring them back? it will change the gain staging again didn't it?

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Man these videos are awesome! Super helpful and I can't stop laughing

Why did you say the kick should be the loudest and then proceed to make the snares louder right after? I'm just honestly confused.