hey guys I just wanted to thank you for continuing to watch my videos and for
your amazing comments you inspire me to continue to create these videos and to
explore even more things so thank you what's up guys so I recently attended the DC
Ableton Live user group and it was a bunch of people that met up these are
creators and producers and musicians and artists they got together to share and
learn and support each other it was such an awesome Meetup
I got to learn a bunch of stuff got to listen to other songs from people in
fact the song that you're listening to right now is by Rose Corps pretty cool
huh a special shout-out to Edgar Diaz who
organized the event I'm going to link to the DC Ableton Live user group Facebook
page in the description below if you're in the DC area you've got to come out
and meet up with us contact edgar contact me if you want and
come out and say hi alright so let's get down to business so what do i mix on if
you've watched a previous video you know that I'm currently using
monitors by Presonus they're the Presonus Eris 4.5 there's some small
studio monitors that retail for about 200 bucks and they're pretty good I really
like them now I've got a bunch of other speakers and not all of these are studio
monitors I've even got the classic NS10's
by Yamaha the studio standard that you see in all those pictures and stuff but
do you really need all these speakers to make a good mix I mean sometimes I feel
like I could get by with just my headphones or even my laptop speakers
most of my songs get played on YouTube more than anywhere else
and YouTube tells me people listen to my YouTube videos on computers more than
smartphones or home theaters or anything else so I just need to make sure that my
music sounds good for what you guys listen on if you've got a bunch of
speakers test out your mix on different speakers
in fact you should be testing your mix out on car speakers and that reminds me
we got to get going
so back in the day I used to test all my mixes on my car stereo I mean people
listen to a lot of music in their car so this just makes sense now if you have
a lot of different speakers it's a great idea to test it of all the different
speakers you've got if you can hey if you've got a lot of different cars why
not test your mix on every one of them? now I'm here to take some cool shots of
the Seaboard block with these cars so I'm going to go do that right now so today I'm
gonna meet up with some creators and I'm gonna find out how they mix maybe they
can give us some tips alright I'm here with Edgar Diaz he is a producer and I
want to ask him what is he listening to when he's mixing and what his opinion is
about this whole mixing thing when it comes to mixing I personally I use KRK
that's what's in my studio I've had the KRKs these SEs for
approximately ten to twelve years now I have a second set of listening speakers
that I use they're the new JBL 305's they're eight inch speakers I got those
thinking they were gonna replace the KRKs and when I listened to them like
they were not good monitor speakers they were good a playback speakers for like
living room so I used them as a kind of like an a/b like oh let me see
what it would sound like I have used other things that a lot of people will
say that's not how you should do it and it's like people like my mixes I don't
that's all that matters and that's the most important thing
people like my mixes people listen people still hire me you know people
still want my input on what's going on so it's like I
don't particularly care about the guidelines or the rules to say because
everybody always says you know here are the rules go out there I'll go be
yourself well how can I be myself if I have to follow a certain stringent
amount of rules I mean okay so what if somebody says
well can I just mix with the headphones that I've got and I'll say go ahead but
there are limitations when you talk about things like stereo field stereo
imaging they've gone directly into your ears so technically they're physics
there's no space going around them so you're not building the space but I've done
I've done mixes on on ear buds I've done mixes on Sennhieser headphones
I've done mixes on Sony headphones because sometimes we're in a hotel room
on a laptop if you're a real musician you don't have time to well let me go to
buy these thousand dollar speakers so I can get things out it just doesn't it
doesn't make sense it's not sustainable in the long run and it's a terrible
business decision I think we get distracted by the visual by the appeal
there's a lot of other options out there and again there are people that are
doing mixes on four track recordings that are amazing I think what stands
apart is it didn't get it a good recording and a good performance you can
have the best gear in the world but if you don't have an ear for it and you're
not gonna get the results
so where do you wanna go to eat I want to go somewhere where there's ambience
in a really cool place to look around at other people and really good food all
right we need some food that was a fun day huh
when it comes to mixing just think about the sound image you want to create for
your listener and just do that easier said than done right well that's why
people get these studio monitors because they provide a wide frequency range and
a flat sound so that your song sounds good on as many speakers as possible now
the more expensive the studio monitor the better they do this but honestly you
should just mix on what you have available so I want to hear from you
what do you mix on what are your secrets for mixing share what you know make the
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will see you later