I discovered it recently and my life has been changed. Although I thought you could only do it with busses, it made me waste less time in mixing and be more technical too, as I tweak less individual tracks. And now that I got aware that you can and should start with the master fader, my life turned 180 degrees again! 😅

I am not but I would love to be one.

Wait, Dynamic EQ with the stock EQ plugin?? How could I've missed that?!

Yes. Maybe 300 songs (I’m vintage).

"Ay, Mike" is definitely the way I would have wanted people addressing Michelangelo.

Old post I suppose but : My goodness cant believe you even need to explain yourself mate.. Firstly your a musician ! You offer advice for other musicians who actually play instruments and or like to record and mix other musicians who can actually play instruments ! Your a beacon out here in u-tube land ! Either way just wanted to say cheers. I cant remember when It was exactly but I recall watching a video of yours where you showed us how to create a static mix using nothing but channel gain..Never touched fader. i was so inspired by the video I began using this method in my flow..(and monitoring k-20 on the master while doing it) I cant begin to describe what a sonically pleasing and time saving method this turned out to be to start a mix with..Like: Advanced gain staging, saturation, and balancing all in one. Truly brilliant and it doesn't matter if I have 10 tracks or 40 to work with this method always provides a solid springboard to jump into a mix with...Your advice saves time and offers some frame work for us to take on large sessions and remain organized.. In general it keeps mixing/recording fun and creative. That's the point !!! Keep on doing what ye do !!!! It's a blessing to be able to remain an artist and build a successful career as one and it's not an easy endeavor, Most of us who play music are all too aware of this..

I love you. Thank you.

Your courses are not "paint by numbers" in any way. They provide a framework to work within. I would be still scrambling around without the framework of your mixing course. I have said ( a lot) your courses provide the bones and allow you to hang the meat!

Your daughter sings like an angel. Loved the flute parts. Being an old fart I would have liked the vocals a bit more out front on verses. A really fresh take on this song. Loved the arrangement. Merry Christmas Bro!

Love your videos

7:20 *closes video

Audio on people I've looked up other audio people on KZbin. Their videos on the lake garbage. Your video sound right.

kzbin.infofnfbDzb1w4I?si=9IkNccN5rEw_FxuN This is an example of some of the audio issues that were having at the church. Both churches I also think I have an issue with the balancing of the instrumentals and the preaching. Morsel the one that's went offline were they focus mostly on CDs while they're trying to perfect it.

I'm going to follow you from here on any seem like you know some what you're doing. Thank you for your time.

All right cool this is exactly what I'm looking for I think. I still don't have the full understanding. We have two different churches than they both make broadcast and they're both way too soft when you put them in CD form or on KZbin. The references first Baptist Church Prentice Wisconsin. Some of the videos the audio is fine but I think they're missing their limited on most of it. I'll see if I can get you a reference link. The second Church attempted to upload videos but it wasn't turning out good so they stopped. Attempting to prospect their method on CD form first.

Thanks for making this. I'm a life long musician but now I'm making the jump to home studios. I'm green but I play guitar, bass, drums and keys. Now I just need to start recording my stuff.

What is your input settings to have your audio come in with the waveform large? I always have to normalize just to see the waveform

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I immediately subscribed as soon as I saw the way you interacted with that piece of paper you tried to throw behind you 😂

Love this technique, I will give it a try

I'm 60 years old now and I still feel as enthusiastic about recording as you did when you were a young student! I absolutely love studio work❣

I wanted to know how to overlay a Track not Listen 👂 to some Ed Shearen,,, Wanaebee 😢😮😢... PLUGGING the àrse out of his "" College 🎓 PoP ,, effort 😅😅🎉

Dumb question regarding color assigning channels. For some reason when I assign colors to channels the entire channel does not stay that color and reverts back to grey until it is clicked on. Only the label at the bottom remains the assigned color. Any help in this matter would be appreciated because it's rather annoying

Exact video I was looking for ! Thank you

Great, except I’m on windows and you lost me at the computer routing stage.

a process, specially when starting something is great. So a 101 process that has some level of success is always to use as a starting point. Once you feel confident enough you can get away from it.

Nope, it's definitely gaslighting. It has some good intentions, like keeping people out of the black hole of plugin purchases, but it doesn't instill confidence in anyone, since in the same way you can't chisel with a wrench, you can't do multiband compression with a stock EQ. What a certain track needs in terms of processing is entirely individual and can't be blindly confidently guessed by your favourite mix engineer on KZbin, regardless of their competence or confidence level. Get tools to expand your palette of techniques you can apply and try to stick with stuff you actually need and use instead of going on an endless shopping spree. Totally agree with Michael here.

One of the biggest obstacles to GIRATS is the Ego. "I recorded this awesome guitar part, so I have to put in the song." When in reality, the guitar part just doesn't fit the song. Letting go, and doing the right thing for the song is often much more subtractive than additive; but taking out parts from your creative efforts feels destructive rather than constructive because of ego, pride and vanity. Yet ultimately many of the very best productions are very 'basic' because they have exactly the right components in them. Nothing more, nothing less. Letting go of the 'nothing more' portion is very difficult at times.

Learning about gain staging, the difference between gain trim and mixing faders, lowering gain trim(input volume) at the source of the recording to get every instrument at the same level before you start mixing was a massive game changer for me. Also master the basics of routing and learn the differences between channels, sends, aux and buses. Group similar instruments into one bus and mix that bus rather than the individual channels, like bus drums, vocal buses etc...

Great video 🎉. I agree with you with the process but what I have seen many Michael videos I think he wanted to say about a formula is that you shouldn’t apply it without knowledge. It’s great to have a process but you can’t use the same formula for all songs even in the same genre. I think he did not presented the point in the right way.

(I have the Presonus 32SX )Hi Question, From the Main XLR outputs can I run an XLR splitter from the Main XLR out put to the !/4 Output Monitor outputs so that way I would have dual control and have the Mix options as well as the main slider? trying to get the best of both worlds here!, I want to have my main slider and everything but I want my Headphones at the same time too! and mix control! help lol

09:13 It is not the process that produces creativity, creativity leads to a certain process.

What life was like before AI.

The main thing you both say, you have to work and try to get some results. I like your example with sculptor, it s creativity but you need some process, skillsand tools to achieve it

joeHello joe , pls help me pls... I activated the license and when I open Studio One 7, I enter my email and password and it gives me an error like this...CHECK YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION... my internet s dont have a problem.. dont know whats problem ... I'm a Windows user. Please help me... I bought this product from you. I am from Georgia.. not from the United States of America. But I don't think this is a regional problem. pls answer me fast ... thanks

One thing I’ve learned mixing FOH is take off the headphones and listen to the house cuz that’s what the audience is hearing and paid to come enjoy.

I'm ever so grateful to learn from both of you! What a wonderful dialogue between two respected and trusted sources of how to get the best out of whatever we have to work with, and learning how to 'point' our ears. Thanks for sharing your opinion of Michael's post, Joe. Both of you bless us with your insights and experience. We all are improving, thanks to you fellas.

Fuck misleading clickbait thumbnails 👎 Dude, you basically agree with everything there

Joe, would you be willing to do a similar video regarding artists in the recording/tracking stage? I have a few clients that tend to “over cook” their songs by believing they need to add more tracks to their composition. In other words, they can’t leave a great song well alone. Thank you.

Thanks.

Cool video (except it stopped me progressing on the Recording course 😆 - that's what I sat down to do!! Oh well, lunch first now, then Christmas wrapping, then I'll get back to that!). And it made me check out Michael's channel too - excellent and worth watching. And, at least for me, I find the information and delivery from both of you complementary. You both talk to the "inner me" on this stuff...

Michael is my professor that I always have to go back to for references no matter where else I have been. He tells you the hows and whys - SOLID! I met hi long ago because of FL Studio search

It's not about wanting a track to sound amazing in solo, or in both solo and the mix. It's about utilizing the higher resolution provided by listening to the track in solo. Learn what makes a sound work in the mix, and then how to adjust it towards that in solo mode. Then obviously also mix it within the rest of the tracks. But a lot of the time the full mix can mask sounds so much that you barely hear what you're doing

If my chisel wasn’t working for me I would definitely be tempted to ask Michelango which model he was using lol

Please help me Hey there! I'm unsure if I should consider myself a songwriter or not, as I've written 4-5 incomplete songs, but I'm very ambitious about it. Please advise something 😭 to me

Yes, Songwriter✔️, Bundles of scratch ideas in files✔️, notebook + pen in purse, by bed✔️, finished songs that people have gotten up and danced to ✔️; Noticed by my songwriter-heros✔️, spent time in studios ✔️; also watching you here on youtube.

You are too much general, you don't have any constructive point Here is a example of constructive advice and help. Buy a good microphone, Budget over $500..... Budget over $1000.....Neumann 103, alg 414 etc..

In the Mix is another one of these phonies on KZbin. I'm sorry. You can't master a professional track using FL studio and just bouncing tracks using plugins. Way too many KZbinrs posing as professionals. Follow the real professionals and pioneers in mixing. Why are you following KZbinrs with zero placements, zero credits, and zero experience? I don't get it.

Great advice, Joe! I've written over 400 songs (and have 1000+ ideas that haven't been). To your point about feedback, NSAI has been invaluable in helping me hone my craft - even gentle criticisms are tough in the beginning but then when you start hearing the same thoughts from other songs written from various evaluators - it is eye opening. Once my ego got over the hurt I was able to really start creating. And, of course, writing and writing - and co-writing has been helpful too.

Awesome tutorial like always 👌🏽