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Sean Divine hope you all are doing well today I'm excited to share my newest
mixing template with you guys it is called divine mixing waves template
it's for the Logic Pro X Cubase and Pro Tools users and it is a completely
custom design template that was created using an actual hip-hop session actually
it was a song from my album that's going to be released in a couple of weeks but
I mixed it in each of the da w's using all waves plugins had a great response
to my first template which is called template one that used stock plugins
within each of the da w's but I had a lot of requests from you all saying
let's take it up a notch so these are a lot of the same plugins a lot of the
same chains and presets that I'm using in my mixing sessions I've been a
longtime waves user and actually the first mixing plugins I purchased were
the waves ssl 4000 which I use in this template as well as the waves gold
bundle those are the only two waves bundles that are used however there's a
ton of plugins in there and if you're not yet a waves user you're going to be
able to pick those up and utilize everything within waves template alright
so let's talk about some of the features in divine mixing waves template right
now I have the Logic Pro X version open you're gonna see that we have about 40
different channels here and if you're familiar with template one I have
convenient RMS reference levels here and the reason why I include these is so
that if you're dragging in audio and we're feeding things like compression
the thresholds are gonna be a little bit different so I wanted to give you an
idea of the levels of the source audio that I was using so all you would need
to do is put on a level meter something like that and just measure the RMS of
your source material and just match that so that then the fader and the
thresholds again on compression all that type of stuff is going
to translate a lot better and be more convenient in terms of real-world
results for your session so up here at the top we're gonna have all of our
channels for our instrumentation so I have some handy things like kick 808 or
bass snare high hats there's some sidechain settings going on here I have
a syn for the kick you can send this bus to anything you want right now I have it
routed to the c1 sidechain for the 808 or the bassline just to glue those
together a little bit better you're also going to notice in each of the templates
that I have these nice stacks so that you can collapse your instrumental your
verse 1 verse 2 verse 3 hook and it has all of the different layers and then
they're routed accordingly so we've got a hook background vocal aux if you've
watched my videos you're familiar with my philosophy on using aux channels to
keep things efficient but also for organizations so with color coding you
know exactly where this stuff is heading you look at this color look down here
there is the corresponding ox track so it's going to make it really easy for
you to get around and know where your tracks are routed so let's take a look
at something I know you all are curious about which is the included vocal chains
in waves template I have a lot of different options for you there are
actually different chains for each verse so this is going to allow you to kind of
pick and choose which one works best for certain situations or performances or
vocal types you might have a female you might have a male vocal that's just very
different in terms of performance so I've given you some options for instance
verse one is relying almost exclusively on the SSL channel so running that
through a de-esser and then we have some sins for reverb and delay but then if
you go to verse two we have a totally different custom chained and each of
these is going to have a pretty different sound so this one may be a
little warmer a little more vintage sounding verses this one it has some
high end boosts with the V EQ gonna give you a little brighter radio type of vibe
and then going down to verse 3 we have something
we're using a another different compressor the our compressor and we're
feeding an SSL EQ it's going to give you a little different flavor so also this
one might just be run to the reverb rather than having a little bit of a
delay to give it a spatial affect so again the idea behind this is just to
give you a couple of different options because obviously you know one chain
might not work best for all of you I've also got separate oxes for things like
your punches and your ad-libs so I actually have two different ad-lib
chains here going to give you a little different sound this verse ad-lib B has
a nice imager on it so it's going to widen things a little bit give you those
ad-libs that punch out in the mix and then we also have some different options
for your reverb and your delay so verb a is gonna be a warm subtle space ver B is
your warm chamber so you just look up here at your bus numbers and you can
route any of your tracks straight to those reverbs and pick and choose which
one you want and how much you want to send there they're already in queued
using the req the exact way that I would do it in my sessions you've also got
your two options for your delay you've got a fast delay and then a 1/4
ping-pong just to give you some ideas of what you can do there and you can always
open up these and change the timing if you wanted to do a 1/8 delay you could
do that as well there's also an aux with a vocal doubler preset this is a custom
designed preset that you can use it your disposal for your vocal chains to get a
little bit more depth have a more exciting modern vocal so I think this is
going to be particularly useful for you as well finally moving down to the
master I have custom settings for the waves vitamin plugin which is going to
give you nice stereo spread and just a wider mix overall we've got settings for
the ultra Maximizer which is going to keep your mix in check and keep you
competing level wise and then we also have of course a pass meter down here so
you can monitor your rms levels as you need to all right so that is a quick
look at the new divine mixing waves template completely customized EAW
template utilize two of my favorite mixing plug-in
bundles which is the waves gold package as well as the waves ssl if you've
watched my videos on the channel you know I'm using these plugins all the
time and I'm just really excited because I know that these are gonna help you get
the sound you're after and also you're gonna be able to learn from the approach
and just the workflow that I've set up for you in waves template so if you have
any questions or comments about the template feel free to leave them below
if you're curious about the possibilities of how you can get this
thing to sound listen to the song at the end of the video I used a lot of these
same vocal chains and this was a song that actually mixed to build the
template so I hope you all enjoy we'll talk to you soon
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