Secrets the Pros Don't Tell You

[@coltonrudd]

It's so crazy watching some of your recent videos and hearing these songs you're working on for Just 4 Tonight. Played with them in San Antonio recently and remember a lot of these songs and just think it's really cool they're working with you to have them produced! Small world! Sounding great Bobby!

[@BobbyHuff]

Hahaha! Wow! Small world! Thanks for letting me know!

[@atreyfall3812]

I use a lot of side chain dinamic EQ, because sometimes if you put something down, it sounds weaker. but if you only put the competing frequencies down, you will not loose that much. It depends on the situation, but for me, dynamic EQ is fundamental.

[@BeatsAndMeats]

Clipping the input of an AMS reverb on snare.

[@BobbyHuff]

Good one! Spx 90 too.

[@BeatsAndMeats]

@@BobbyHuff SPX 90 Symphonic preset on bass guitar is the best!! Big difference is a SPX90 will cost you $200. That AMS reverb is $5500 😭😵‍💫

[@toddscotdrumcovers2341]

Genius. I wish I could live in your studio.

[@letsstartapeaceriot]

This fucking song is nuts. Can’t wait for it to come out.

[@TimE_5150]

Bob, you are the Pro that thankfully tells us!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Tim!

[@1loveMusic2003]

The first tip applies to everything great way to think of it thanks man!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Cal! Agreed.

[@BrianFunkMusic]

So true! Often more of x really means less of y! Great examples, and nice work, Sumner, for not rolling the wrong video this time!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Brian nice seeing u on here!

[@SJR_Media_Group]

Dr Bob... great example with real world applications. I hear the lead vocals plenty loud and fits the style of music. I would have not thought to decrease other tracks so vocals 'appear' to be louder, yet the end result is what the band asked for. The band probably is not aware of what you even did. Sometimes little tricks like that make giant improvements to overall song. I don't think I am alone saying that every video you produce is 'new' to most of us. I would love to see a couple of videos going into actual mixing boards (old school) and new digital mixers controlled with mouse clicks. Being able to see the 2 types side by side might answer some questions people want to ask, but don't want to look stupid asking them.

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Steven I appreciate the compliments. I rarely work with consoles anymore. Almost every session I do downtown there is a $400,000 Neve or SSL that’s doing nothing more than being a stand for a laptop! Ha. Times have changed.

[@SJR_Media_Group]

@@BobbyHuff Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. Yeah, 1/2 million dollar table to hold PC based solutions. One thing I have noticed is the attempt to make the knobs, switches, even VU Meters look life like in software applications. The ability to see all tracks on same screen at same time is very powerful . I'm old school, everything was analog and we lived by the VU Meter. Stacking, changing EQ, and all that took lots of time, but also years of experience. It was hard to walk in off the street and landing a job with a record label working on post production.

[@TheeRocker]

Biggest tip out of all of Dr Bob's videos is, "Watch and execute more Dr Bob videos" !!!

[@BobbyHuff]

HAHAHA! Thanks!

[@jabulanimahlangu6863]

hi Dr bob i have been watching your videos for a long time, yeah you are very good on what you are doing. keep the good work

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks so much Jabulani!

[@flmason]

So it's a form of dynamic ducking compression?

[@JaviBello]

Hey Bobby! I always automate delays and other FXor print to new tracks and edit those and send to another fx, sometimes parallel processing and crazy stuff like that. Works every time... Sometimes even make interesting a boring performance!! As always nice vid Bob!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks as always Jav! Hope ur well.

[@JaviBello]

@@BobbyHuff everything is going well here. Hope you're doing well too

[@BobbyHuff]

@@JaviBello good to hear.

[@poorhouz5051]

Bro GREAT TIP I never thought about this.... Salute

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks man!

[@KevenDeezel]

That was a few amazing tips. Thanks

[@BobbyHuff]

THANKS!

[@Media622Tv]

applied some of your steps on track i just added on my page good looks

[@BobbyHuff]

GREAT!

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

Thank you for this. If you don't mind me asking... When lowering the claps, why not do it as a group (i'm wondering if it was merely a matter of preference, of there was a more granular concern which I don't yet understand)?

[@BobbyHuff]

Hey Sekrit. Good question. I basically did lower them as a group but instead of assigning them to a group I just linked all the clap faders and brought them down.

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

@@BobbyHuff Thank you

[@SilvermainMusic]

Legit laugh out loud every intro ;) Fantastic production value and knowledge as always.

[@BobbyHuff]

HAHA! Thanks!

[@ryananthony4840]

Great music! Thanks for the video

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Ryan!

[@ulyssesrap]

Thanks a lot, doc, regards from Brasil.🇧🇷

[@BobbyHuff]

Thank you! Hope to visit there one day! Greetings back from Tennessee!

[@davebops2478]

Thanks Doc!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Dave!

[@Musicmanbutte]

How much delay are you using? With the slap back?

[@BobbyHuff]

I just use my ear as every song and tempo is different.

[@geezerbliz]

The pros NEVER tell me this!

[@pipelineaudio]

I'm loving this channel! Is there a contact to send you our latest DAW plugins? Maybe we can make the all in one mutt langifier

[@RealHomeRecording]

Muu Langifier....I like that!

[@joebuckley9181]

Great work, God Bless!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Joe!

[@RealHomeRecording]

The so-called professionals are the ones who have been hyper-compressing/overlimiting music for a couple decades now right? They're lucky they have all that fancy analog gear otherwise their mixes/masters would sound even worse! Hehehe, nice video!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks!

[@atcordice]

great job bro. total facts

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Andre!

[@Lepaulorig]

Hey bobby!! Love your videos. One suggestion: Jeff Lynne/ELO -style big vocals. Ty.

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Panu. It’s on the list! Doing an entire project full of it right now.

[@Lepaulorig]

@@BobbyHuff Sounds awesome, looking forward. All the good

[@michaelnc4450]

Good stuff Bobby 👍

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Michael.

[@fireloks6362]

Hey! Watching paint dry is way too much fun for any human being should should ever be allowed to have! :-p

[@BobbyHuff]

Hahahaha

[@rickblackers88]

Wow Wow Thanx!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Rick!

[@tcr4451]

How do you use things, such as compression, on the master bus when mastering engineers always ask for nothing on that bus? Unless you're mastering it yourself, of course!

[@StevieBoyesmusic]

They don't mind as long as you haven't screwed the sound up or put loads of limiting on. Some might ask for two versions with and without so the can use uncompressed but hear what you were trying to get apparently.

[@BobbyHuff]

Hey thanks for the question. That is a myth…The greatest mastering engineers in the world have never once told me to take plugins off of my master bus. They just say to deliver them files that aren’t heavily limited. Otherwise, make sure your Wav file has spikes on it and doesn’t look like a solid blob of audio.

[@tcr4451]

@@BobbyHuff Understood. No bricks!

[@BobbyHuff]

@@tcr4451 haha! Yes!

[@midlifeadventures3138]

High shelf at 1.7k with a MID/SIDE EQ in MID at 1db on the mix bus and get the same result.

[@BobbyHuff]

Some of the claps are mono and some stereo

[@midlifeadventures3138]

@@BobbyHuff try what I said on the mixbus and watch the vocal pop out.

[@danaparsons854]

SO , not that I know anything, you're allowed quite a bit of artistic freedom when mixing, At least in this song, or in most projects.?

[@BobbyHuff]

Yes but I usually talk quite a bit with the artist to find out what they are wanting it to sound like and we also play a lot of other music so I can get a sense of what their sonic taste is. My end goal is to make them happy and I always appreciate them letting me experiment and be a part of their art!

[@nebojsakutanjac2047]

👌

[@BobbyHuff]

Thank u my friend.

[@gilbertnorum4366]

youre the Boss! 😎

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Gilbert.

[@jjm9741]

👌👍✌👌👍✌👌👍✌👌👍✌ 🧐automation yeah

[@BobbyHuff]

Hahahaha

[@mrmorpheus9707]

GUESS IT AINT A SECRET ANY MORE....LOL

[@georgebarry8640]

The ad for Natural Gas was disgsting..as Hurricane Ian destroys Florida we get treated to an ad by the people that have caused it: Fossil Fuels. No fault of yours, Bobby. I get that. But geez..what timing.

[@davidcarter3976]

So how are battery powered cars, recharged? What kind of fuel are they using, when they plug into a wall socket? And how exactly is the hurricane, caused by fossil fuels? They say this year we've had the smallest hurricane season out of any years before.

[@philmartin7474]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍💯

[@TheeRocker]

Thanks Doc !!!