5 Steps To Mix PERFECT 808's | Make Pop Music

In this video, Austin dives into how to make or select the perfect 808 for YOUR song and style, and how to mix the 808 to sit perfectly in a mix using tools like EQ, saturation, harmonic distortion, and sidechaining!
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MIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Code 61
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Timestamps:
Preview 0:00
Intro 0:23
Tip 1 - Picking the Right 808 1:37
Clean 808s 2:18
Dirty 808s 3:18
Gnarly / Creative 808s 4:18
Tip 2 - EQing 808s 5:53
Tip 3 - Saturation and Distortion 9:45
Tip 4 - Harmonic Enhancers 13:52
Tip 5 - Sidechaining The 808 18:25
Sidechaining with a Compressor 19:20
Sidechaining By Increasing Attack 21:58
Split Sidechaining For Consistency 23:22
Outro 25:22

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Best of the best!😊You were my teacher last 4 years and I made a lot of good music. You changed my life. Thank you for this!

[@carlostorres1171]

I always love your very gentle “save your email. I know.” prefaces

[@DycayBeats]

It's always nice to watch your tutorial video on every Saturday morning (in my time zone)

[@wil4862]

These videos are seriously so good.

[@johnlukenance8977]

This was mega helpful. Making 808s in Serum is so much better - I’ve found that making them with samples is just not a reliable way of doing it at all

[@MakePopMusic]

Having full control of attack, decay, sustain and release, as well as being able to manipulate the actual wavetables AND control pitchbend parameters makes me never want to use drag and drop 808s again.

[@nimagholamimusic]

tnx austin🤟🏻

[@prx877]

Esse é o melhor vídeo sobre mixagem de 808 do KZbin. Ajudou demais!

[@undrscrbeatstore6379]

Great video Austin!

[@a13xonthabeat16]

Thanks for being clear my friend! Great Tutorial

[@Beveryexcited]

Good stuff thanks man

[@Sound-Lord]

Thanks for the videos. They're all great in general. (And thanks for using Cubase :)) May the Pop be with you :)

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Austin I’m having so much fun with the packs I bought from MPM! Thanks again for the always amazing content.

[@MakePopMusic]

Thank you so much!

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Ur the best love all ur videos, ur best cat !

[@titus700]

This was so so so so useful! Thanks a lot. Just one question: Do you put all the velocity dots in the MIDI track the same? or do you leave the original velocity of the performance? Thank you!

[@legacybge]

I've got a question regarding mixing in general?... I bus my sounds, compress when needed, EQ, level, but can't achieve a "pro" level mix every time. I'm thinking perhaps its the sound selection, or clashing frequencies. I make rnb/hiphop and I'm trying to get emotional pro sounding tracks almost like zane98 (if you know his content many of the mixes have space for the artist, and sound fantastic).

[@jmac2050]

Cubase 12. Yeah

[@MakePopMusic]

This was still 11. I was beta testing 12 so I had to keep going back to 11 for videos before the launch 😂

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Cool beat bro. Where can I listen to it in its entirety?

[@nishan9434]

KEEP GOING DUDE first BTW

[@MakePopMusic]

Ayeee!!

[@SamSilk]

I watched an interview of a producer who works for Drake and his label. He uses the very same preset from Razor on each track of his. It's something called Kick in the balls or Kick in the nuts, not sure which it is. just tweaking it with some distortion or saturation.

[@popwa6977]

""Sublab and Track spacer"" is the bargain!!!

[@Bonzvy]

Correct me if i am wrong: rbass is shifting everything below the selected frequency to the upper region so the sub freq gets audible. must be some kind of octave shifting. but there are no added harmonics

[@MakePopMusic]

It's a psycho acoustic effect that shifts the audible focus of low end by creating and shifting harmonics of low end content. It definitely adds harmonics and sub harmonics :D

[@Bonzvy]

@@MakePopMusic Thanks for your reply

[@bhaveshtochabbra6853]

Wouldn't sidechaing 808 lose it's punch?

[@snatchedash]

Not if you're replacing that with a separate kick!

[@MakePopMusic]

Yep! Which is why it may be useful if you're layering it under a punchy kick that it's clashing with.