Defeat the FINAL BOSS of Mixing

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If your mix sounds GASH in the car - this is why (and how to fix it)
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In this tutorial, we cover…
00:00 - Studio vs. Car
00:50 - Why your mix sucks in the car
01:47 - The 2 standard ways to fix your mix
02:57 - Know your system
04:42 - Black & white mixing
05:46 - Multiple systems
06:57 - Using an audio map
07:44 - Ears & eyes
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[@EDMTips]

I need your input, y'all! What video do you want me to make next!? Let me know below, and thanks in advance! 👇

[@Bl4ckbunnymusic]

Could you either make a video of best plugins out now or how to make a spooky song for halloween?

[@dj_loiz]

Could you make a Video how to make music Like Timmy Trumpet?

[@Mopark25]

I know you've made videos on reference tracks before but I'd love a video where you take us through starting a project with a reference track for composition, instead of the final mixdown. Copying tracks, basically, which I think is a valuable skill for producers.

[@anthonybryan7191]

phase alignment in mixing please.

[@michaeldalessandrostabile4741]

Hello Will, it would be nice to know different ways to get the perfect atmospheric/ambience sound for your track. You're the best, keep up the good work. 💪🏻 Thank you

[@luckysoul753]

Ah yes car speakers, the final boss of mixing

[@Silentnarcotic]

LOL so true

[@EDMTips]

Love this: "the final boss of mixing" 😁

[@danielrosenkvist3445]

You just need to smash those buttons... Hadouken

[@WhizPill]

Comment “car speaker” to scare producers

[@sirlawson_1]

I've been tempted to take the console into the car before but willing to entertain other methods for the time being. I,e the ones in this video 😂

[@ARCASIAUK]

There’s a feature in pro q3 that I’ve been using for a couple years now. put a proq3 on the reference track and hit analyser pre+post. Then at the top name it either ‘reference’ or the title of the track. Then put another instance of PROQ3 on your master and click analyser (pre+post) again. Go down the list until you find the reference and select it. You should now see the reference track as a red analyser behind your tracks analyser. This can give you a better representation of spectrum analysing rather than having two copies of proq3 next to each other. Enjoy

[@prodbyowls]

tnx again G, was nice meeting u at ADE, said hi to u after Armin talk at Felix :D peace! 😎

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! Thanks for coming and supporting, really appreciate it! 🙂🙌🏻 See you in 2024 😉

[@PatrickObiang]

BRAVO! Very Useful! Thanx!

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad you liked it! 🙂

[@boronoro]

Great topic and very interesting video, sir! Thank you once more!!

[@EDMTips]

You're very welcome, glad you found it helpful 🙂🙌🏻

[@BeckOfficial]

This channel is an absolute goldmine!

[@EDMTips]

Cheers, I really appreciate the kind words of support! 🙏🏻🙌🏻 Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂

[@Bl4ckbunnymusic]

You have really helped me in everything lol!

[@EDMTips]

Stoked to hear that! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂

[@jaredcreates]

Loving the humor! And maybe the great knowledge as well!😊

[@EDMTips]

Cheers, hope you'll find it useful too 🙂

[@photicsonar]

I do my final mixes on just one (!) Focal Monitor. So I have a perfect Mono Source. And for the overall sound I check my mix on a cheap radio. And the magic clue for translation is using a pink or brown noise curve for balancing the frequencies. That really takes out the guess work out of mixing. Thanks for your tips. ❤

[@em8969]

Can you please elaborate on this? I’m getting inconsistent results at times. How do you use the pink noise? And do you use it at the end or beginning, thankyou. What you said sounds like might be a great solution

[@Fulloctave]

Cracking tips, iam 53 and still producing. and still learning. I remember the days of midi keyboards plugged in to my atari st , its a million times better now with everything as vsts 😀

[@EDMTips]

Glad you enjoyed them!

[@darrenrobinson8317]

Good positive advice Will 👍🏼.

[@EDMTips]

Thank you so much, Darren, I am glad you found it useful 🙂🙌🏻

[@s_ms865]

Favorite youtuber 🫶🏽

[@EDMTips]

Thank you for your kind words of support, really appreciate it! 🙂🙌🏻

[@make725daily1]

Your resilience is truly inspiring! 💪 -- "The journey to accomplishment is often fraught with setbacks.."

[@EDMTips]

Thanks!

[@HarpreetSingh-ku4xn]

You are legend bro

[@EDMTips]

Thank you so much, really appreciate the kind words of support! 🙂🙌🏻

[@papageorgio]

thanks fella thats awesome! cheers

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad you found it helpful 🙂

[@Donk..]

lol love the humour and great tips thank you 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@EDMTips]

You're very welcome! Glad you liked it and found it helpful 🙂🙌🏻

[@Nickydeee]

Ozone 10 is pretty good option too with reference tracks as it grabs them and adjust the eq width and limiting to the ref track you captured

[@MOSMASTERING]

EQ to fix your mix though is no substitute to mixing it right. Mastering should never be thought of as "fixing" problems like balance. Although, yes, as a mastering engineer.. yes, I have to do it all the time!

[@Nickydeee]

@@MOSMASTERING just on the topic of reference and visuals.

[@danielrosenkvist3445]

Nice vid as always Will, since when I started dabbling with music the C-64 didn't plug into the car... yeah so somethings to learn here.

[@EDMTips]

Absolutely! Tape machine, anyone? I didn't start making music until the Amiga 500, but I did have a C64

[@danielrosenkvist3445]

Think I spent a whole summer looping loading screen music, good times.

[@pimenz]

Excellent video as usually. I know I'm asking too much, but if you could make a video on fixing a poorly mixed track when compared to the reference track. For example, if the stereo width of our track is tiny/too wide compared to the reference track. Same goes for the frequency spread. And one more - how to choose a reference track. Not all reference tracks are equally good IMHO.

[@EDMTips]

Great idea, I will add this to my to-do list :)

[@pimenz]

@@EDMTips Thank you for your hard work and dedication, Will! Much appreciated!

[@wernerxldata]

Quite funny this, I've choosen my monitors (Kali IN8) because they were great as monitor speakers but also to listen music on. So without knowing your trick I'v been listening to hundreds of hours of well mixed stuff from other dj's / producers. It really helps a lot, you immediately notice if something is slightly off. I love it when a good technique / trick is fun to do and takes no effort 😍 Personally I like to switch between the Kali's, my normal headphone and probably the most used device to listen music on : Apple airpods, another option that's used a lot is a simple bluetooth speaker like for example the jbl ones. If it sounds good on all of them I trust it to be good. And they're all easily connectable to a laptop or pc, so switching is easy. Last check, when I think I'm done, I put the track away for some time, few days or more, then listen to it again and be open to the renewed first impression. Sometimes I really don't like a track and sometimes I love it.

[@EDMTips]

Thanks for sharing! Switching between different systems definitely helps! I do it all the time to make sure a track will sound great on all systems.

[@renanmarques4271]

Let's go!

[@EDMTips]

Vamos 🙂🙌🏻

[@musicbysazid]

That intro was on point

[@EDMTips]

Thank you, I am glad you liked it 😁

[@CarsonHoy]

Use a “grot box” like an old iPod dock. The frequencies boosted on these speakers are similar to car systems. VSX is also unreal for this use.

[@JoyfulWAVE]

Will with some great Infos again. Some stuff i do already... like using the headphones for listening to music that i use for mixing...others i need to try out. 👍👍👍❤☮☯❤☮☯❤

[@EDMTips]

Go for it! Hope you find it helpful for your mixes 🙂

[@JoyfulWAVE]

@@EDMTips im sure it will...👍

[@djb3488]

Tip 5 is great, even easier if you just buy metric AB, wonderful tool

[@EDMTips]

Couldn't agree more! 🙌🏻

[@PichettoFratame]

Maybe just my opinion, but going back to the 14 mix tips video showed me once more, I liked the style of the old videos better. No silly jokes and flashy editing, just straight to the point and more serious. Educational value of the content is still as great as ever, but I enjoyed that style better. Regardless, thank you for your videos!

[@EDMTips]

Thanks for the feedback, Pichetto! I am trying different things on the channel and there is a lot to process but I will find the sweet spot soon :) Anyways, thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻

[@dogboyauckland]

I really like the trombone sound with the submarine.

[@charliegould7421]

Cool beanz. One of my biggest fears is that my music wnt soind good thriugh oyher speakers so thisnsi really helpful thanks.

[@EDMTips]

Glad you found it helpful, Charlie, thanks as always for watching and supporting the channel 🙂🙏🏻

[@charliegould7421]

@@EDMTips Thank you for the chanel. Honestly without it I don't recon I would have even installed Ableton.

[@georgeabraham7256]

Remember to set your windows speaker settings to full range.. I spent a long time on "sattelite speaker" setting.. meaning bass distortion/ compensation into the high - midrange. It took a while to understand that typically you want your sound / speaker circuitry to do its magic from a normal full range signal.. the only magic windows gives you is for tiny speakers.. the scary part is its unticked by default.. and easy to miss.. its like that because buying tiny desk speakers at the supermarket is so common..

[@EDMTips]

Ah yes! I remember that now from when I used Windows!

[@stellarcoast8077]

final FINAL mix.mp4 😂 Too true

[@EDMTips]

Haha, I am glad you can relate 😁

[@MOSMASTERING]

I still think you need a solid audko chain. Convertors are SO important. Laltop speakers and headphones driven from that port are going to sound terrible and youll be chasing your tail. It was a world of difference when I got a highend DAC and headphone amp.

[@Juliajel88]

So do you think where I get my reference track from is important? If I buy from beatport, aren't these overly loud? Where is it best to get a reference track?

[@raheelsabir9441]

Love From UAE

[@EDMTips]

Cheers!

[@YOUrDEAlerwiThHell]

what about panning in Mono when you say the whole mix whould be mixed in mono? does this work well?

[@LG-Musique]

This is above my head 😂

[@Hellflip69]

i know its totally unimportant, but its not "nice sprites and scary monster" but "scary monsters and nice sprites" :D

[@EDMTips]

It was a test - you passed! 😎😁

[@daneoduran2674]

Sorry, I hadn't actually watched your vid when I posted that last comment. Thank you and great advice. Apparently a lot of producers are advising against using lots of different speaker types as that can lead to confusion. Instead (as you said) learn how your own speakers/headphones sound with lots of music. SonarWorks??? Would you believe I keep my SonarWorks switched off. I can't believe their response ... seems too bass light. I wonder if I'm alone here. Lots of Acoustic Rockwool around my room though. Keep up the good work. Not sure what I'd like to suggest for you to do next Will. But I'm getting into DnB and though I've watched all your Dnb production video even more would be lovely esp as there's 3 Dnb singles currently in UK Top 10 right now. Amazing, it's more popular than ever. :)

[@EDMTips]

Thank you for your kind words of support, really appreciate it! What are the DnB songs and artists you're currently digging? I must admit, I haven't looked at the charts for a while but would be interested in finding out :)

[@MOSMASTERING]

I absolutely check my mix on multiple systems. But, I know those systems well too. I A/B reference ALL THE TIME. I'm a mastering engineer and Im extremely careful in making sure my clients mix works on all system. I also know what analyser graphs should look like. I use my eyes LAST as a check. Ears first.

[@daneoduran2674]

@@EDMTips Hi, and thank you for taking an interest. To answer your question Will, last week "Chase and Status" were 10 and 8 in the UK official charts with Baddadan and Disconnect respectively. That must be the best success Chase and Status have had in years. So Chase and Status might be worth a look at. But Kenya Grace's Strangers was No2. Tho Drake's now landed 3 Top10 new entries, Kenya Grace is now No1!!!! A DnB track No1? Anyway her track Strangers track is lovely, super light drums. DnB is influencing other tracks too eg: Asking by Sonny Fodera (currently No10) sounds like down-tempo DnB before turning into a club banger. I reckon DnB's bigger than ever ... I wonder why. Hope this helps. :)

[@daneoduran2674]

You posted this 1hr ago and you've got nearly 1000 views already??? I'm going terribly wrong somewhere. Well done to you tho Will. :)

[@EDMTips]

Thank you 🙏🏻 It's not the best performing video I've done but I hope it will be useful to many 🙂

[@Yourmotwashum]

Sounds good on my monitors, screen captured project, post on fb, listen to it on my phone:.... Change audience to only me straight away. Repeat

[@EDMTips]

We've all been there 😁

[@Sukhoi_Leeway]

how did you detach the pro-q vst to stay on screen even when you switched to different audio/midi channels? please explain!

[@EDMTips]

Settings in Ableton - "Allow multiple plugin windows"

[@Sukhoi_Leeway]

@@EDMTips thanks it was helpful!

[@Cult_of_the_Mantis]

This happens on my way to work on headphones and often it'll get deleted from Soundcloud until I can fix it later on

[@sirlawson_1]

Downloaded this wifi audio app on my phone and the host app on pc and it streams direct from daw to phone speaker. Decent for spotting instant red flags, call it a turbo mono switch of certain kind

[@EDMTips]

Sounds good! What's the name of the app? :)

[@sirlawson_1]

@@EDMTips It's called 'wireless speaker for android'. Theres instructions in the app for the pc client. Id imagine there would be alternatives for apple perhaps. Its pretty cool!

[@karlonehouserecords]

I'm producing not sure what kind of gengre. So not sure if there is proper reference track.

[@3rdStoreyChemist]

A useful one, but rarely spoken about: DON’T A/B If you’ve decided that something needs compression or EQ (Or both), then there’s no purpose comparing to the raw sound. You should only focus on whether the processing achieves what you need it to do. This is usually why mixes sound bad on a car stereo. Being too conservative with processing because you’re wasting time listening to the original sound.

[@trueandobjective]

Can you kindly tell me how can we replace the vocal or the instrumental section of a song with a piano voice ? I really appreciate your reply🙏❤️

[@EDMTips]

There's no "secret trick" behind it, you just remove the vocal/instrument you don't want and add in a piano with a melody you like. Just go for it. :)

[@ufc33]

Next topic will be what is the best DAW to use to produce high quality music

[@EDMTips]

If it’s a suggestion, then thank you! Next video will be different as a DAW is a matter of personal preference - there is no best, it’s more what’s best for YOU

[@morgenstein9670]

Sorry Mate, but do you mean Yamaha NS10 or Yamaha HS 5,7,8?

[@MokerB]

Slate VSX!

[@tonysollazzo4945]

oh, that intro.... nice one, Will, I'm still laughing.

[@EDMTips]

😆 I am glad you liked it!

[@clipsngiggles4983]

Oh will i love you 100% nuff said ❤❤(maybe even 200% 👀🤣)

[@EDMTips]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate the kind words of support 🙏🏻🙌🏻

[@themattschulz3984]

The most important thing is to know your system in the studio. So go along and listen to music (NOT yours), watch movies, documentaries etc. IN YOUR STUDIO ... a lot of it. I mean really a lot. If you are only in the studio for your own production sessions, the chances are very high you will not know your monitors well.

[@EDMTips]

I agree!

[@HRSANmusic]

@EDMTips thanks for your hard work, i really appreciate what you are doing for the community, i am one of a religious follower of your work! and i have to say thanks so much for your tips it actually helped me aswell :)

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, I am really glad you found my videos helpful 🙂🙌🏻

[@piotrdrajewski3079]

👍👍👍

[@EDMTips]

Cheers, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻

[@EricBalcon]

that's funny but after a mix I check directly inside my car, for me that's the best solution to find troubles between kicks and bass, or wrong levels....

[@EDMTips]

Exactly!

[@johnnydohe6506]

Hs10 is a sub hs8 are the monitors.

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

I tested tracks in mixchecker and they sounded bad, so I tried loading famous tracks into mixchecker and they sounded bad too, so didn't worry.

[@TheVidman5]

Yamaha Hs10😅 that’s a good hybrid between HS8 and NS10

[@OnlineGuitarCovers]

Sometimes I just mix the track through the aux in the car tbh 😂

[@stevecolley7745]

Know your room! Best hack you can get. If you listen to alot of music in your room and can train your ears then you can't go wrong. If you have respectable monitors and headphones and familar with your rooms acoustics then you will get pretty damn close. Don't forget Artists have openly admitted realeasing music soley made on laptops with no engineering experience yet they blow up and have massive hits. If it sounds good and it sounds good in your room with trained ears then its gooooood.

[@hoagy_ytfc]

Left-hand drive car? Something exotic?

[@EDMTips]

Haha, I wish :) I am in Portugal most of my time

[@hoagy_ytfc]

@@EDMTips nice :)

[@user-km1tu9yl3q]

Everytime! lmao

[@scampifrity]

Using headphones.

[@kamerondunroe9838]

Explanation of automations.

[@EDMTips]

Excuse me?

[@joniyaproductions5318]

pewdiepie @3:54 🤣

[@dingadettachhangteofficial5091]

Then, do the mixing in the car. If it sounds good. Boom

[@EDMTips]

You know it! 😎🙌🏻

[@SellusionStar]

I have to start mixing in my car... 🤔

[@EDMTips]

Let me know how it goes 😁

[@MCAlvesPortugal]

Audio tehnica has low impendance and its not good for monitoring .😮

[@TheRealSlimSteve]

Great video, but misses one major essential. Walk away from the damn thing for a couple of hours. Yes to meters and visuals, but that lughole fatigue is a total quality killer, so I always get a kind of in the ball park mix, which takes long enough, then just leave it for a couple of hours, even overnight. On return, the mix, reference track, all of it becomes 100 times clearer, and easier to deal with the deficiencies. So go and have a beer, snog your partner, get some sleep, anything but sitting for even more brain-draining hours in front of the mix!

[@EDMTips]

It is a really good point, Steve, and I totally agree - breaks are needed sometimes! 👍🏻

[@loredanamassini9484]

5:30

[@EDMTips]

?

[@moontan91]

i don't make music for people who listen on their headphones or car speakers.

[@EDMTips]

That's up to you, of course

[@fifo5]

I'm afraid that Yamaha HS 10 does not exist 😆

[@user-ho6ff1ee3y]

ВАЗ 2106 в центре) на превью

[@EDMTips]

Thanks for clarifying 🙂

[@Groove81TV]

Comercial after comercial ..

[@EDMTips]

Eh?

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

I wonder what you would look like with long hair :)

[@EDMTips]

I am glad we will never know 😁

[@EDMTips]

Although, I had VERY long blond hair until I was 3 or 4. I looked like a girl.

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

​@@EDMTips do you think you would look like this? you will need to search this in google images to get the joke. MV5BMTg0NzY2NjYzM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzk5NTc0NA@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg regarding things that look the same.

[@johnnydohe6506]

don't mix just on a Sub.

[@carambata909]

In Your car you look like lefthand driver....aren´t You English?

[@EDMTips]

I am :) I am currently in Portugal 😎

[@aftr4485]

Amazing tips but isn’t it best to leave the mixing to a sound engineer?

[@tamashalo]

JUST GET THE STEVEN SLATE VSX. THOSE WHO HAVE IT KNOW WHY