Amateur vs. Pro: 5 Tricks That Make Pro Mixes Sound Deep

[@lost.empathy]

I think you are the only one I don’t skip because you don’t lie to yourself and to us and also bring the MAIN CONCEPT through your experience and not blabla basic stuff. This is not an overcomplex or unknown concepts but your presentation of them makes me think about them from a completely new angle and it feels like my brain finally understands these concepts much deeper (like explosions in dat meme). I don’t know do you have a talent of explanation and these topics come to your mind by themselves but it’s really interesting how do you leave only pure gold. Really feels like my favourite university teacher’s lectures.

[@Alice-Efe]

Awww thanks a ton! ❤

[@eaglespirithealth9797]

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[@SonicMassala]

Nowdays this YT channel is the only one who really teach and bring "PRO STUFFS" with no click bait, Alice you are truly the best! Thanks for share this!

[@mageprometheus]

You add so much fun to my trance and synthwave hobby. For anyone aiming to be a pro producer, this whole channel is a goldmine. Love and light. I almost forgot, the pinkish light highlights really suit you. 😘

[@Alice-Efe]

Thank you! 😊

[@YOUrDEAlerwiThHell]

@ 4:12 sooo awesome echo! i love this how it goes into the background sooooo nice! Thanks alot for this tip and trick

[@CraddyMusic]

The best explanation of depth on KZbin!

[@twilightcrush]

best mixing youtuber BY FAR

[@NormanTiner]

I started messing around with Ableton over a decade ago.. the quality of the tutorial videos have gotten so good, and you're at the top of the list.

[@markbergsound]

Your videos have such a good flow and the way you show concepts with tangible examples is so refreshing. You inspire me to get back into video making, it's obvious you put so much love and care into each one you make.

[@Alice-Efe]

Happy to hear that! And you should make videos if you feel inspired! 😊

[@AlexanderIvory]

🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:00:00 *👂 Introduction and Concept of Depth* - Introduces the concept of depth in audio mixing, - Discusses parameters such as loudness, reflections, and brightness. 00:00:53 *🌌 Creating a Dark Room Effect* - Explains creating depth via a dark room effect using reverb settings, - Discusses adjusting parameters like size, EQ, decay, and chorus. 00:02:18 *🎧 Layers for Depth with Reverb* - Details using multiple layers to produce realistic depth, - Discusses creating a darker hall sound with layered reverb effects. 00:03:46 *🔄 Feedback Verbs and Instrument Depth* - Introduces feedback verbs for adding depth to instruments, - Highlights using EQ, band pass, and side chain techniques. 00:05:10 *🎵 Constant Swarm and Resampling* - Explains creating a constant swarm of deep sound through resampling, - Demonstrates freeze effect and EQ adjustments for depth in mixes. 00:07:15 *🥁 Dark Percussions and Layering* - Discusses using dark percussions to fill depth, - Explores different percussion layers and effects. 00:09:37 *🌊 Creative Ambiences and Effects* - Covers creating ambient effects using modulation, - Introduces techniques like chorus and flanger for ambience. Made with HARPA AI

[@sugarpuppies]

Another fantastic video, Alice. You're on a roll - keep it up 👍👍

[@seqa6155]

I was searching for gold, but found a diamond, thanks for your work, love ya!

[@wowerman]

This is really eye opener video.I can control verb pretty well but depth is something makes tracks sound more pro.Many thanks!

[@xavierdebordeaux]

Great video. At the end, the part about creatives ambiances is so important. I recently discovered how essential it is to have one or two elements in the background that create a unique character and mood to a song

[@SpyderTolbert]

Love your videos. Very informative!

[@gonzo7440]

Ur the best Alice never stop teaching! U have the best style ❤

[@SkyshifterBass]

This is the single best video for creative reverb I’ve seen on the internet 🔥🙏

[@nicogrubert]

Alice, what are the settings for the Return Channel ""Bright room"? And which tracks do you send to which return channel? Pigment lead to A? HiHats und Claps to B? Which track to C?

[@Mr_Wck]

Thank you for this!

[@bestdisco1979]

Alice your tutorials are always excellent. I don’t use Ableton I’m a Bitwig user but I can still apply the techniques. Thanks as always.

[@RotoGluOn]

You are amazing, I love your sound! You're very inspiring and full of nice techniques. Thank you!

[@NoizeLondon]

Killing it. As ALWAYS!

[@galinachudinova711]

You are soo unique and gentle I don’t feel insulted after your vids ❤

[@ild4099]

I love the sound wave theory parts of your videos where you go into the science... Thats why you are one of the best music production masters online!

[@deejayperacio]

Wow its amasing and true pros tricks, thank you for share its with us. Thanks from Brasil 🎉

[@drrodopszin]

Alice, I used this to finish up a track and it worked perfectly, thank you! I would be really curious to hear you mix a recorded band from a totally different genre.

[@NewtonSSH]

amazing video... many thanks

[@agosto.mp3]

Awesome tutorial thank you very much. Ill apply this knowledge immediately 😁

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers and good luck! ✌️

[@djvoid1]

I'd add transient 'hardness' to the four aspects of sound mentioned at the start. Distance tends to soften transients whereas close proximity tends to be associated with more defined or sharper transients.

[@tonilattuca6329]

I love your music and courses and tutorials, you are a hard working person and that shows a lot in your videos. I bought two of your courses and they helped me a lot. If one day you have time, consider making one of your subsequent 37, I would love to see a course dedicated to the use of subsequent 37 for melódic or peak time. For those of us who have that moog it will be a lot of fun, love from argentina ❤❤

[@benjaminfrazer-synnott6640]

Your best video yet I think

[@videosvideos6243]

Your style is amazing.

[@fernandoortegacomposer]

What an amazing and useful video. Thanks a million!

[@Alice-Efe]

Glad it was helpful! Cheers

[@anonymerhiphop5427]

With your great content, you will go down in music history all on your own. Thank you again and again for this amazing content; it's so much fun to learn from it.

[@Alice-Efe]

Awww thanks a ton! I do my best to help producers. And thanks again for being a channel member! ❤

[@anonymerhiphop5427]

@@Alice-Efe You really don't need to thank me for that, it's the absolute minimum for your content. If I can, I'll be happy to give you even more in the future! Thanks, Alice.

[@zenluiz]

Great video as usual! On the syncopated percussions to fill the space, I always struggle to find good loops from sample libraries. Do you have any recommendations and tricks on how to create them myself? Maybe a randomizable device? One plugin that helps me a bit on that is DS Tantra, but it just helps mangling existing audio, whereas I’d like to have a different option that really creates perc loops from single samples or synths ;) Thanks

[@wierdowackjob]

This is so incredibly useful thank you so much for sharing your wisdom honey!! Xx

[@FusedMusic]

🫶 brilliant stuff Alice.

[@paulmertens5522]

Love the examples in this one. So clear!

[@TaiBaSs40]

One more time, very clear and interesting. Thank you !!

[@_TheViewer_]

Wonderful Video ! Let me ask real quick, did you send individuals into the dedicated rooms (kick in dark, hihats in bright room, clap in tilted for example) and then that’s it or did you then grouped the different reverbs again (like another 4th room or extra group to merge them all) ? ✌️

[@Alice-Efe]

I send the individual channels to different return channel. At the beginning of each return channel; I actually do a playback of what is coming to that channel. You can hear that what is sent to each return channel 😊

[@_TheViewer_]

@@Alice-EfeAlright, thanks a lot !

[@nicogrubert]

Excellent content-as always. The channel where I learn most. Is this video part of a full masterclass of you?

[@Alice-Efe]

Not a part of masterclass but I have a mixing masterclass where I show different concepts like this and use them in a real mixing session.

[@BeritzLofi]

Very good tutos... thank you ! 👊

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers

[@eliosix]

So many good tricks in this one, thank you! 🙏🏼

[@joepincombe4765]

amazing tricks. can't wait to try these, thanks!

[@Alice-Efe]

Good luck!

[@ALDVIR]

I get exhausted just imagining your editing, its so good! Any tips on how you learned? Any youtube tutorials?

[@Alice-Efe]

That goes to my editor. He is on top of his game. Maybe he should do a tutorial one day 😊

[@oxiddnb5176]

thank you Alice!!

[@Keroser1983]

THIS IS AMAZING!!! Very very good knowledge. We can not thank you enough! ONE QUESTION THOUGH: I can imagine that all these return channels will eat up CPU with all the processors. Do you suggest or do you have tips&tricks to overcome that? Maybe record some sounds / turn them into audio with some effects on them and then do a less wieghted processing? Or should I just buy a new computer? :))))

[@mokxofficial]

need this song! so nice!

[@Sylvain_de_Boscherville]

Hello, thank you for your tips, I love to put depth but I do not have the same techniques, it is very inspiring, the result is spectacular, thank you again! kiss from France !

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers, glad it was helpful!

[@misterphb2183]

honnestly, amazing... it transforms flat music in 3d music. Ez to implement. and amazing consequences. Works very well on my last retro wave projet :P And it's true. When people hear their preset and wonder why it sounds 1000 times better in lables... the answer is here!

[@Danonthebeat_]

Great class, thank you so much!

[@tomekmuzsika]

thanks, but...why is it good to sidechain the lead sound back to itself and then to the kick?

[@ploud1656]

what a masterclass.. All we should pay it to this vid haha

[@stonecastle858]

Brilliant again Alice

[@ItisJev]

Great info here! Thanks!

[@vaudronphilippe5415]

Good work ❤ Le seul hic c’est que dans chaque piste ou rack tu as 3000 plugins qui coutent un bras ! Voir la peau des fesses 😊

[@kinddmusic]

Cool tricks! Thank you

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers

[@davidmadj]

Alice eres la mejor, te amo. gracias por tu trabajo.

[@inquilinox]

exelente, tengo problemas con la banda de agudos agudos, gracias saludos

[@ProfessorSaibertin]

Another great one, thx!

[@bjornark]

Awesome advice, keep it up! ☺

[@nanobait8385]

Brutal que buenos trucos 🔥

[@mttlsa686]

Just for curiosity, why don't you use eq8 in oversampling mode? (I've noticed it looking at the low pass curve)

[@_TheViewer_]

Guess for the example not really needed, but since it uses a lot of cpu in comparison to regular I would use it more on busses or master ✌️

[@douglasfugazi]

I would like a video like this but only with ableton stock plugins because those plugins are very expensive. 😢

[@vedaraymusic]

Always the best 🥰

[@ggmint2083]

Make a video mixing bass and kick about synthwave

[@flyoverfredusa]

great content as usual, please stop the soft focus though, not needed. Thanks for the channel, I've learned loads

[@grimmydnb]

You explain things extremely well. There are very few that can explain in detail with such understanding like yourself. You and Streaky are my go to. I started a year ago. I wouldn't consider myself to be an amateur anymore and not a professional by any means. I am quite heavily invested at this point in terms of time. A lot of my free time goes into making music. Obviously i know that i need to invest some money into some decent headphones and speakers, but do you have any tips on achieving results close to a treated room? I use some gaming/music corsair £60 headset. And also use some £50 speakers/sub that i have. It's not amazing by any means. But other than over listening to reference tracks i am not sure what else to try. I also struggle with stereo and of course the classic mixdown of the bass and kick. If you could spare a moment to listen to some of my tracks, i'd love an opinion and what i should be working on most importantly right now. The grind is long and hard. But isn't made easier by my set up xD

[@grimmydnb]

I just found SoundID Reference and this has changed the game O.O

[@Alice-Efe]

I would suggest starting with buying a pair of good headphone monitors. While gaming headphones are fun, they are often not designed for producing music.😊

[@grimmydnb]

@@Alice-Efe Thank you so much for replying!

[@jhtrax6625]

Amazing, thanks

[@sperk01]

sorry for asking something so unrelated with music but did you eventually stop your transition or are these old videos you are now uploading ?

[@Alice-Efe]

I think you have to take a look at the publish date of those videos again :) I transitioned in 2022 and I am never going back, ever.

[@djwaxfiend]

Very useful!

[@unhingedfilth8909]

thank you....great vid

[@jhm8614]

I also love to SC it to the track itself instead of the kick, than the original pluck will get through better

[@martinstagnaro]

pure gold, as always

[@Alice-Efe]

Aww thank you!

[@pensoamordigofuria3203]

Hey, thank u so much.

[@naorswissa6949]

I have mercy for the new producer who consume all that information, making amazing music is simple, do not overwhelm yourself with shiny content

[@MrAlolo333]

Thanks Alice 😀

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers

[@evaosirus6055]

I love your teachings but I use FL studio so I don’t even understand how it translates 😢 gotta figure out the sends and stuff I guess? But the content is beautifully explained thank you

[@shari_8410]

in Fl Studio making Aux/ Send Channels isn’t so difficult at all , but the Thing with Internal Sidechain triggering it’s a bit more complicated in Terms of Routing . That’s why i like to use other DAWs more like Cubase or Ableton instead of Fl Studio

[@Alice-Efe]

Most of the things I show here can be translated to other DAWs. I am sure you will figure out it in FL, it is a great DAW as well.

[@georginikolov1141]

Nice tips

[@stefanlorenz3192]

Can you combine all these tricks in one track or will it get too much?

[@Alice-Efe]

It depends. You can use all of them but it can easily become too much. But if you use little but of all, it may sound alright. It all depends on the track.

[@JoseReyes-lb5vp]

AWESOMEEEEE!!!

[@tomreichenbach6849]

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[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers 😊✌

[@audiogyd_g]

Dope!

[@katze1195]

Iam late to the party. But i love youuuu

[@richardnemeth1389]

thanks : )

[@kikerotamo]

[@ktmasterk]

How much 😢🎉❤do you charge for Mastering someone else's project 🎉

[@mastablasta9x]

Noice!

[@TheHamous]

the kind of learning content that first tells me: "dude stop producing you are too far away and will never be at this level" then after few minutes tells me "no don't stop but now work you ass off!"

[@Alice-Efe]

Exactly! Keep making music, keep producing! You will get there faster than you expect. 💪

[@TheHamous]

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[@romanchernov2406]

Alice, you are amazing)) I'm very happy to see and hear from you🤗 Soon I'll be famous and I'll see you😆 Wait for me, please🙏🏼

[@Valentine98766]

🧐sus

[@ramaseshanshankar743]

Apologies but I cannot help but look instead of Listen. Awesome

[@nathanspark4876]

9:05 the face when u know u r making amazing techno ;P

[@jhonrobert5730]

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[@darker4509]

When you are in the beginning you production Is all perfect about making the music but seems Like the sound comes from 10mt distance