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on any sort of effects we weren't able to fit into the other parts so I may be
doing some saturation today I might be doing some additive EQ i will be doing
reverb but I don't think reverb will fit into this okay so let's listen to where
we left off last time
we're peaking at the weed number over there you see that all right so listen
to that I think it's almost there there's maybe a few things we can do
throw a saturator on the sample then I'm going to turn up the drive a little bit
and then I'm going to blend the dry/wet signal a little bit and turn on the soft
clip find a little sweet spot there we're add some color to it but it
doesn't really ruin the sound now I'm inspect each sound individually see if
there's anything we missed
can they be cut a little more highs from this so one off a little bit of hot
nothing too crazy the saturation is used to add some sort of tube Hardware a
distortion to your file in this case we're adding a little bit of distortion
to our sample to make it sound a little bit dirtier and more colorful and I
think we achieved the job I think we can do the same to the base someone put a
saturator on the base I'll play with the drive knob until I find an area where it
sounds good with the sample I'm gonna play with the dry/wet knob until it
sounds good
shit bangs brah shit bangs brah alright another thing I hear that we
could do is we could have a little bit of sidechain coming in from the drums to
hit the sample just to make a little bit of room for the transient and also to
give it a little bit of pump so we want a little pump in here then we're gonna
we're gonna pump it up so I'm gonna take the the sidechain compressor I put on
the bass and I'm gonna duplicate it over to the sample you have to probably like
why are you doing this that way I have the same exact timing as the bass
sidechain timing is key so it's tuning it's all key so after I duplicated I'm
going to turn down the ratio of some fine area which sits nicely in the mix
remember you have the dry/wet knob as well so if this is still too much you
could bring it back a little all right now I'm gonna give up from the snare but
duplicate the same thing again except I'm gonna switch it over to snare and
then the play with the ratio and the dry/wet knob until I find where I like
it in the mix
so this should probably go without saying but I'm gonna tell you guys a
good idea here as you're going a long process of mixing a song you should try
to remember you want to make big adjustments and on your way down as
you're finishing the mix you should be making smaller adjustments so if you're
gonna move the volume this far into the mix down you should be only moving it a
little bit all rise you fucked up the whole process like if you're moving it
more than 0.5 at this point what were you even doing any of this for you no I
mean so I might want to kick a little bit louder so I might pull it up like
point one or point two okay so I made those very small level adjustments there
at this point we're just trying to catch any small flaws you might hear in it
look I cut a little more frequencies from the hi-hat it still seems like
there's a little bit of meat on it so I'm going to duplicate the auto filter
down here so I'm a die out back oh my god how do I forget about this I forgot
about panning okay so obviously you may want to do a little bit of panning to
your mix so um I don't know let's just do some basics here obviously the high
hats can be a little off to the left I think it's already panned a little bit
so I'm not gonna move it too much and maybe I might move the snare a little
bit over to sometimes me when I move it over to the opposite side the thing at
how many percussion sounds you have
and maybe I might want to move the open hat on to the other side a little bit
too much sir
you should be obvious also be a kick Sean as you can dead center and this is
because when it's in the middle it's coming out of both speakers and you have
the most power and that should also be the same for your bass as well so kick
and bass stay center we can maybe do some stereo imaging to our sample let's
see we're going to bring the utility tool into the sample and then we're
gonna start playing with the whiff knob to see if it sounds any better
I like it about there 105 and you can take this moment to put a utility in
your base and you can change the width you're gonna want to do the opposite
with it make it more narrow though you want to be safe you can just put it
strictly tamaño that's just a safe answer though all right so I think it's
good there so now we're gonna have to get ready for mastering and I'm gonna
show you guys what I mean by that right now so your master Channel you should
have nothing on it if you did have anything on it
why the hell did you do that then you're going to want to be checking the volume
that it peeks at we want to aim for somewhere between negative 3 to negative
6 decibels is your member in the first tutorial we're sitting at roughly
negative 3.6 which is okay if if you're not sitting at negative 3 to negative 6
at this point though you should take the time to turn on everything in your
project so just press control a or command a on Mac and that should select
all and then once you have everything select I'll turn it down a little bit
just turn down one of the vibe knobs and that should turn on everything and if
you do this you're also gonna want to turn down your return tracks as well the
same amount because when you select all it does not select that as well so
remember to do that as well because that that could throw off your mix a little
bit and bring it down until you're in that range that's gonna be our range
we're aiming for while mastering okay and I think that's it for this mix down
I'm gonna do another course like this where I focus on the mix down on the
project just like this but I'm gonna find a much more complicated project to
go through something with I don't know at least 15 to 20 tracks and mix I
wanted to start with something real simple like this because I mean how to
go into concepts if we don't start with something with 4 tracks you know I mean
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