would you say mix a beat alright so you
want me to do a tutorial mixing a beat
with Neutron - all right so yard it
tutorial you're on to mixing let's get
started this will be a two-part story on
how to mix a hip-hop song and Ableton
I'm going to use Neutron - I'll link it
down the description if you want to
listen to the full version today I will
be using my speakers I'm going to test
that out I can mix a lot better with my
monitor speakers than I can with my
headphones and put my phone away so I'm
gonna start this off with a little trick
got the stems on the desktop project is
134 BPM just doing that just in case
it's better to have things time aligned
if you're gonna chop stuff it might have
to chop stuff we're not have to chop
stuff I don't know
alright so we got about 12 stems I'm
gonna hold ctrl while dragging these in
to bring them all in together I am nice
and time-aligned
just got to turn off the warping much
quicker than dragging them in one by one
right what are you some kind of dummy
people see you do that they laugh at you
the laughing at you not with you all
right so I'm gonna group all the drums
together
okie dokie got the drums there put the
vocals together then we're gonna meet
the reference and we're good first thing
we are going to do is we're gonna turn
down all of these files negative let's
do like negative 6t v about that
I'm going to start with just a sample
and yeah just a sample and start with
that so the cool thing about this plugin
is it has some Auto analysis so we can
we can use that if we want I mean that's
pretty much the main use of the plug-in
so if we're not going to do that it's
not really much point to me you've been
doing this tutorial on this so I'm gonna
let this sample play and let the track
assist and do its thing see what it says
I like what it did with the Equalization
the compression and exciter so let's
listen to each of them and see if we
like the changes we'll start off with
the equalizer and see what it did so it
did some boosting and it did some
dynamic cutting I believe the dynamic
mode beam saw when the signal hits a
certain level or it gets hit by
sidechain the EQ will trigger it's
different than a regular EQ so that's
one good thing about this EQ
I like it but let's just tone down the
Setting Sun so this knob here it
controls how much how much you want the
effect to affect that instrument so if
we bring it down it should not be
affecting it at all and all the way up
is a hundred percent so we're gonna find
a nice blend in the middle all right so
I actually like it almost all the way
there let's see what the soft saturation
sounds like awesome I mean I kind of
like it got like a nice colorful sound
so leave that enabled so I'm gonna do
the same thing with the compression over
here I'm going to play with the mix up
here
I think right about there sounds good to
me then play with the excitement
that sounds nice and full and rich so
I'm I think we have our sample sounding
nice now let's try bringing in some of
the drums hey maybe not all about just a
gig for now drag a new truck and drag a
neutron to on it again and let's let's
let the Traxxas to do for him you see
like I wouldn't have thought to do this
dip that one this dip right here at a
500 Hertz a little suspicious about it
but it seems alright when we bring in
all this other stuff honestly feel like
a B vit like this and then put like a
filter on it it should sound good
take a equalizer from Neutron to that
put a little filter on it
all right so I think the kick and the
sample are sitting nice together no now
I am going to bring in the hi-hat sounds
bringing all the percussion sounds but
let's start with the closed hi-hat and
open I am we're gonna filter both of
these a little bit maybe some high-pass
filtering let's let on the sleeve of
let's let's see what it says for the
this track assistant thing it's pretty
interesting because I have some ideas I
would not always think of you know you
just kind of think about whether it's a
an idea you like interesting it's it's
boosting a little bit of life and it
sounds here I like it it's a little bit
too much but dive back a little bit you
got some nice adjustments I think that
exciter makes a big difference there
I like that think about it still seems a
little bit off I think we got an EQ a
little more on the turn on all this
stuff back on I think I'm just gonna
leave it how it is and I'm gonna try to
play with some eq's on it let's see so
I'm going to take a neutron to equaliser
drag it on top of that hi-hat the turn
on the soft saturation and then start
cutting out the low since first thing I
want to do you want to make room for
that kick and there's a lot of lows in
this
I cut out a lot of those there because
still thing needs a little bit of
shaping so I'm gonna see it's going on
here yeah another Neutron to equalizer
on it and and here is to try to shoot it
a little more so I'm gonna duplicate
that equalizer one more time shape the
highs a little bit I think this part is
very difficult make sure you you're
mixing loud and you have your mixing up
something good it's always difficult to
get the lows and the highs dialed in if
you're not using good equipment or if
you're not in the sing loud or if you
just don't have experience bringing the
snare now all right let's see what
Neutron tooth has to do with this snare
it's not bad I just think we need to cut
some my hides from it maybe some blows
to definitely snaps a little bit more
than before so let's cut some highs from
it
we're just gonna be more in tune with
the song and the other instruments fury
Avenue sounds good there I'm gonna have
some lows too
I want to cut too much loads oh let's
give me a Sarah smaller snap there may
want to dial back some of these settings
on this other Neutron alright so what I
did there is um the snare was getting
boosted here but it sounded like a need
a little boost area a little below it so
I added a little bump below that and so
there's two little boots around 1k and
2k and all types of trap music and
usually hip-hop in general the kick and
snare or usually mix a bit louder in
those onerous it's bringing that open a
hi-hat so throw a neutron to on it will
do the track assistance see what it says
it sounds pretty good as is so I'm gonna
try to tweak the settings a little bit
so what's that you want me to use those
own no thanks right using okay good call
in just go let's bring in the bride
same dealio we're doing the Traxxas
thing again
it's Jessie settings a little bit and
now we're gonna bring in this crash
we're gonna do Neutron two again and do
track system again I guess this one's
been to layer with the other other with
the bride okay I'm a little bit highs
from this ride since here just doing a
little sound shaping here I think it
fits a little bit better than the mix
like this I'm a DA back all these
settings and bring them back and slowly
alright I like the way that sounds stuff
like this when I was a little bit too
much highs now too so I'm going to
duplicate this over and it's we get a
little bit duplicating it from the rides
so the drums sound pretty good you might
say I would say wrong you know the
reason that I would say that is we got a
cut room now we have cut some more room
in these uh these other percussion drums
to make room for the kick and the snare
so I'm going to move the kick and the
snare to the left here and I am gonna
group every other percussion instrument
I'm going to name them percussion
instrument alright
the plan is we are gonna have this
Neutron too on this group take the input
from the kick and it's gonna it's going
to detect what we need to EQ and we're
gonna put another Neutron to on here
going to do the same thing for the snare
and then we're gonna we're going to let
it do its work and we're gonna make some
adjustments and things should be nice
and dandy we can also do the same thing
with the sample as well so we're gonna
we're gonna do that
so kick perk that it's gonna be kick
then this one here this is gonna be
snared sweet I'll make sure the zero
latency is on
you don't wanna I don't want to sound
and look foolish
I mean you might be asking what the hell
are you doing Weaver let me explain to
you real quick so by doing this it takes
an input from the other channel and it
reads it and it tells us where we're
gonna need to EQI so look at this I have
a kick at the kick coming in here when I
carve with sensitivity here and bam it's
telling us we cut around 400 600 hurt
ready for a brain here so I'm gonna make
some dips around that area just an area
where I think it sounds good
turn the sensitivity a little more so
you can missed anything and we go for
one more low one let's do that
one more low one below that this kids
good definitely cutting through now
we're gonna do the same thing with the
snare I think that area sounds nearly
perfect so I think we got a kick and
snare cutting through here
now we are gonna do the same thing we're
gonna do with our sample now you guys
may be asking Weaver why are you doing
the bass last well that's because I just
want to make sure the drums all cut
through and then you can hear everything
in the mix before you put the bass in
and it's really not that hard to just
shove that in there that's how I feel I
don't always do my mixes this way but
you know sometimes I feel like it's a
good route to go oh and then afterwards
obviously the vocals okay now we're
gonna do the same thing here with our
snap over net cut some room for the kick
and cut some room for the snare so this
is gonna be kick example see really and
see okay so I hope the kick cut through
there a little bit with those little
bumps now we're gonna do the same thing
we're going to do with the snare
not quite there though actually here
that we need to make some more room for
the hi-hat after that we can boost the
volume a little bit on the sample gave a
dragon of neutron to on our sample and
then we're to go in here put the masking
in the perk BAM now we got the signal
coming in here my turn down the
sensitivity cuz we don't wanna we just
want the really looking for the hides
here okay now we got the hi-hats and
Kusha and why not cutting through the
sample we got almost everything there
now it's bringing the 808
it's just a little just a kick and 808
okay so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
do some sidechain compression and I'm
gonna do this part with Ableton if
you're not in Ableton just use whatever
you got to sidechain compress so we're
gonna have the kick come in here they're
gonna RMS mode or put the look ahead to
one millisecond bring out threshold a
little bit turn the ratio all the way up
so I can hear the sound what it's doing
really well and play with the attack and
release until I find a nice tempo for it
i'ma dial back the ratio a little bit
first thing I notice so that I just need
to cut more lows from the sample right
now I think just to expedite the process
for this part I'm going to use the auto
filter on the high-pass setting
so I'm gonna copy the eq's I had to cut
room for the snare and the hi-hat and
I'm gonna drag them over to the 808 and
make sure that 808 does not clash with
these things let's not do that
there we go we got our full beat mix
down in Neutron - really took about half
hour well now we're gonna sit on this
for a little bit and then we're gonna
see if we wanna make any last minute
changes and then next up I'm gonna mix
down the vocals that's it for this video
I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial
this has been myself Weber beats showing
you how to mix down a hip-hop slash funk
song and neutron - with Ableton and yeah
hope you guys enjoyed it have you guys
used Neutron too - before where you guys
think of it I might do a review on it
pretty soon so maybe I'll be interesting
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