8 Reasons Your Mixes Sound Thin and Muddy (and How to Fix Them)

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Thanks Will. When you say top down mixing, do you simply mean starting with the most important things as you say in this video, or do you nean the approach where you mix into your limited/compressed etc master bus ? Because some poopoo the latter method. Which do you mean?

This has to be the most helpful video on mixing I've ever watched. Thank you

What’s the ideal first plugin to apply on a signal chain??

what headphones do you recommend me to get? I'm doing everything within the videos but I genuinely cant hear a difference but then I will listen to it on a different device and it sounds muddy af😅😆

Don't want to comment on all the ones im watching but, Thank you so much

the sidechain part omg TYSMMMMM for that!!

Thank Will💯

The track is absolutely beautiful, what is the title of the song and artist nick?

Great tips here. Love the compressor to duck the aux reverb channel on vox. Keep em coming Will!

Excellent video...

I do some of these things, but you've mentioned some techniques that I'm not doing. This will definitely bring up my sounds.


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Great content 👍

The fact that you gave a before and after audio of muddiness and clarity is gold. I cant ever explain it in words. I can always show this video for an example.

how can I spend time listening too these tips without considering this eurodance music is absolute crap : my ears bleed

Definitely the best online music teacher I have come across in years, wish I would have found you sooner, many thanks Will have a great day.

Great advice.

This is so fascinating! I've been a trance/house lover for many years. It began with ATB - 9 (P.M. 'Til I Come) in 1999 when I was 13! I know absolutely nothing about music theory, so this is so god damn interesting and explains why I can't stand how trance music has sounded since post 2011. & why I'm really into melodic progressive house/techno these days.

Thanks a lot

I have 1 question, maybe not the right video for this, but well.

Imagine you have a recording, that was made live, and the audio is bad.

There is people talking in the background, the original music is coming from some pro speakers, but the recording is far in the back of the room and there is bass distortion since the recording device (phone in my case) was just recording the general audio from the room and not only the output from the mixing table.

Is there any chance to save that recording and make it sound reasonably good in comparison to the base recording?

Or do you really need the multiple sounds to edit, like the bass and kick and voice in different lines to be able to edit them individually?

Isn't it possible to for example isolate the bass or the kick or whatever from 1 single track and make adjustments to it?

Thank you SO much....Sidechaining in Ableton = so easy with that Input pull-down. I'm using Reason Studio and it's not quite that easy :(

What I struggle with? With my ears, what are not able to hear all thedetails what I need.

But I would also use compressor in #4 ♥️

Nice

Bro, your tips are priceless

thanks bro these tips helped a lot kisses u on the forehead

you say it yourself , that the KICK is the most fundamental sound on a mixdown, because i saw someone (i think in your channel) saying the Bass is the most important thing in th mix,which i disagree 100% by experience.the kick is the fundamental frequence at the low end which will determine the overall mixdown of the track,changing the kick as you did,one can hear noticable differences,but you could also tune the already existing kick.beautifull track nevertheless,good job , great techniques.

Thanks for this

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Loved it, dropping my album with no hassle now~!

Thank you so much sir

Thanks bro...Very Helpful...Keep up the good work

Thank you for the tips!!! Great info!!!!!!!

Emailed you previously regarding something specific but not sure if I have the right address, would love to know if you received it ?

You just repeating all your „tips“ in every video. Its just the basics 5 tips again and again

This is really good. Thanks!

Excellent video, you gave some of the best mixing advice around

This has been epic. Any help with putting together a drum track. Ive always put tracks together but i always fall on my ass when it comes to the drums. You're a busy dude but any help would be appreciated. Steve.

Thanks for your help, I wish I will finally fix my muddy mix !

Good video. Just some notes. Too much cut-off on any sound can make it too thin especially when using plugins. Also, some of the best mastering engineers from around the world said to me, always mono the kick and bass as standard - this is important for vinyl pressing. I actually had a mastering engineer nearly reject one of my tracks because he was complaining about minor phase issues and I've been releasing nearly 100 records since the 90s. It would be interesting to see a video explaining the differences between vinyl and digital mastering.

Great vid

Amazing tips, thank you so much! :)

You mention sound selection which is valid but you changed the kick on a project that was finished. That would mean you would have processed all of the tracks including whatever kick you selected to start with..... Are you saying that after shaping your initial kick you decided it wasn't fitting, is that when you go and select another one?

Really great video! Especially the Frequency Masking brings my mixes to a whole new level of richness! love it!

This video is absolute gold for all producers of any skill level. Much appreciated 🙏

Hi, love the tips! I wish if you're trying to make sound comparison like before or after, please make it a lil longer and don't add your voice in between so I could hear them clearly. I might be having a not good ears so I need to focus and repeat the before and after part several times. Just my 2cent! Cheers!

Banger of video

What im struggling with is just pairing the right sounds all of the sounds I currently have just result in really annoying songs that piss me off honestly.