Discussions music production related issues such as mixing, mastering, ghost writing, etc.
Frequency Ranges 100 Hz – 2 KHz: Mixing engineers sometimes put EQ notches in different instruments to help make them stick through a thick mix. This is the frequency range where these notches occur. 120 Hz: This is the warm area of the mix, where guitar, bass, and toms all mix together. It’s generally good to leave this frequency alone, aside from removing some bass if it’s too boomy. 400 Hz: Frequencies in this area…
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Danja’s Funk & Reggie Guitar Delay Create two mono auxiliary tracks. Put a half note delay on one track and a quarter note delay on the other side. Run the outputs of the two mono tracks into a single stereo auxiliary track. Use some kind of panning plugin on the stereo track such as the Soundtoys Panman and set the speed to be in time with the music. Five Chamber Vocal Reverb In this technique…
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Room Mics Use soft compression to just gently squeeze everything together a little bit. Dance/Hip Hop/Rap Tricks Compress the bass using the kick as a sidechain input. Don’t compress it so much that it causes bad pumping. General Compression Tips It’s a good idea to group up instruments in similar frequency bands such as kick and bass and add a light amount of compression to ‘glue’ them together. Sidechain Compression Tips It is generally best…
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Random Volume or Resonance Create an auxiliary track and set the grid to sixteenth notes. Use the random pencil tool so that the volume of the track jumps up and down by about two to six decibels, depending on the desired effect. Add a high pass filter, low pass filter, harmonic enhancement, resonance filter, or whatever kind of effect that you would like jump in and of the mix to give it a more organic…
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Adding Sub Bass Try adding a sub base along with the kick in the chorus, bridge, or in the second half of a verse, to give it more depth. Promote the Hook When you notice a hook in a song, try to identify the frequency range where the hook primarily resides and make some space for it. Possibly use it as a sidechain input on percussive parts so they duck out of the way of…
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Digital Audio Workstations
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Why Use Reverb Reverb is used to create a sense of space in the mix. The ear makes decisions about the placement of instruments based on how much reverb it hears. If an instrument has a lot of reverb, then it sounds like it’s on the far side of the room, but if it doesn’t have any reverb, then it sounds like it’s right in front of you. Generally, people want to hear instruments like…
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M/S Plugins Use M/S plugin to send bass to the center on synth parts that are too wide. Punk Guitars Try moving everything below 350 Hz to 400 Hz to mono using a mono maker such as in the Brainworx_Saturator or by using high / low pass filtering. This will give the guitars more of a classic 70s punk rock guitar vibe. Narrow/Wide Guitars One trick that can be used to make guitars sound wide…
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Free Plugins – Free is a very good price
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Distortion and Harmonic Enhancement
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