How I Mixed My Track in Ableton = Ned Rush

Often I get people asking me to do a video about mixing and finishing a track and normally I say no, but on this occassion I did one about a track from my album. Buy my album here rudenhs.bandca...
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Ned Rush is an infotaining universe of ideas for ways to make music, including areas of music production, music composition, sampling, synthesisers and sound design in software like Ableton, MaxMSP, Reason, and on hardware such as eurorack modular, Elektron boxes like the Octatrack and Analog Rytm, also visual art strategies using Jitter, focusing on music genres such electronica, IDM, glitch, jungle, breakcore, electro-acoustic, musique concrete, as well as discussing music via interviews and podcasts, and music performances via livestreams.
Ned Rush is an infotaining universe of ideas for ways to make music, including areas of music production, music composition, sampling, synthesisers and sound design in software like Ableton, MaxMSP, Reason, and on hardware such as eurorack modular, Elektron boxes like the Octatrack and Analog Rytm, also visual art strategies using Jitter, focusing on music genres such electronica, IDM, glitch, jungle, breakcore, electro-acoustic, musique concrete, as well as discussing music via interviews and podcasts, and music performances via livestreams.

[@TropicalMelonMan]

I love your emphasis on having fun making music, and not worrying about what other people think of it

[@SIQN-]

3 minutes in... and I want to say I love you.

[@SIQN-]

Thank you for all of your tutorials, it’s inspired a lot of messing around.

[@armaturesmusic]

"[weird music is] a safe place to make yourself immune to criticism" Wow, I feel seen.

[@SIQN-]

Same

[@Sjmashlum]

That melody was nice and infectious, squarepusher vibes

[@nickthane]

I have literally this second worked out that Rude NHS is an anagram of Ned Rush.

[@SIQN-]

SAME

[@vianellolucas]

"because I enjoy it..." 🤣 Yup I feel you on that

[@matwtts1772]

Moving MIDI loops to audio track files (printing as you call it, bouncing as I call it in Logic world) is such an an important step to moving a track along. It makes you handle it in such a different way, like it's a moment captured in time rather than an elaborate combination of instruments and effects. I like to take it further by bouncing groups or busses of tracks so a bunch of synths, guitars and reverbs etc can be bounced to tracks simply labeled "pads" for example. Nice video! it's also nice to see someone calling out the open-flied-snare-thwappers out there!

[@horrisnorris6478]

This is really insightful, cheers Ned! I really like the tip about ordering the channels by frequency range

[@larslyd1627]

I love your vids. there are always helpful and inspirational, have learned more from u than anyone else on YT.. thank u Ned!! p.s. I love your snares.

[@BigFknRobots]

Even though I’m a sucker for all your experimental sound videos - I think this is one of my favourite videos of yours!

[@pauldavey57]

My favourite channel :-)

[@wonkyrobot]

Ned, I like your snare drum :)

[@ickebins6948]

Great video Ned. And always remember: It's not how big your snare is, it's how you use it!

[@vminus7505]

this is a great song, thanks for going through it

[@albionpatterns3986]

Wicked tune ned, I love the way that first crash cymbal bursts into the rides that swirl around, its beautiful man

[@allanpage]

Oh this is super awesome.

[@AlessandroRorato]

Punk is not dead. Your way of mixing is the proof.

[@user-nr7ls1uj2q]

Reminds me of early Flashbulb.

[@doppz]

great video as always, spot on comments about making "experimental" music too

[@pk3776]

Ned is the BOSS ..... Simples👍💯🖖🙏💪🔊🎶🤟

[@davidmiles329]

Just love your style.

[@OrangeNash]

Being wrong hasn't stopped 90% of music production tutorials on YT!

[@screwloose_productions]

Cool tune bro

[@cliveconcept]

you should open this up as a remix comp .

[@tebbisimoX]

your intro hahahah brilliant. this video is so helpful and also man the whole album is fakkin lush mate well done. - proper interesting in how you've printed fx, and mangled them by hand

[@matti_j]

I think I fell in love at 2:48

[@gepmrk]

Nice drumming Ned... very nice indeed.

[@Mancheguache]

what snare drum? Nah mate - this is a success. Well done. Get it sent someplace - I dunno where. Not got that far yet...but you know, do something. Look forward to your posts!

[@TheMortyvicar]

Great insight to your workflow in here,very helpful ideas too... BTW that snare sounds shhhhh.. 🤣

[@irm9519]

‘i just played the drums and everything else was programmed’ 😂

[@rayflux]

Nice, thank you!!

[@jankalinowski6767]

Cool

[@Mancheguache]

You mentioned something I've been pondering for a while. The standard of 'pop' music at least in terms of technology (I'm with that Ric Beato feller, I don't subscribe to the idea that contempoary music from modern beat combos these days is somehow worse than it was 'back in the day') in terms of technology has increased exponentially and so for the 99.whatever percent of us left floundering around (ok not you so much lol) in the deadwaters of tech that was new about seven years or so - is it worth doing anything that resembles a song? Is it the case that whatever you do even if it is a catchy tune, if you haven't used the most recent LFO's and side-chain compression techniques or used the most cutting edge synth and [fill in details of tech here - I'm only just getting used to Ableton 10 suite] that the stuff you come out with is just a waste of time and so - like your good self - you should 'retreat' into experimental music (not that there's anything wrong with that at all.....you're getting a lot of kudos and I hope/presume youtube gold) or just give up. There is another question about age - if you've not 'made it' by the time you're 30 it's not worth continuing....So far so demotivational....Genuinely back in the day in Stockport UK 1981, we had nowt apart from a couple of casette recorders, a Five watt Kay amp, a nasty Gibson copy of a copy, a Bontempi organ's drum machine and a crap bass. Stuff like OMD and New Order and all that seemed so revolutionary that it didn't seem woth carrying on then either....But years later I watched a vid about how OMD worked - they were 'experimental' and if you listen to the 'dry' raw signal for say Enola Gay is was a plinky little piano noise, the only thing that turned it into something were the reverbs and delays - plus most of their tunes wre just CEmGD ffs lol I'm rambling here but in the end making music is just an end in itself and all hail to your approach but don't get too intimidated by the critics and I suppose the challenge would be to make something good with just eight tracks and basic keyboard a few pedals and see what you could come up with and on the fire with all this techno-fascism. Yeh got carried away there but your site is interesting like that. Bon continuation!

[@harryoconnor5232]

Really nice thanks!

[@christianpaga303]

Yeah...nice one!!!

[@beathaven303]

You shouldn't care about what anyone has to say about anything dude. Everyone is doing what they want anyway and no-ones work is perfect. If your pad or bass synth or snare drum happens to sound 'shit' it's because you chose it to be that way. Anyway, Merry Christmas dude.

[@SuperBen421]

You're the best!!

[@leoopokat8235]

Very informative

[@distorson]

Does anyone know if there is a way to lower the volume of all channels in Ableton by the same amount at ones? Without a midi controller or Push.

[@NedRush]

Hold shift and select the tracks you want so they are all selected, then change the volume on one and see what happens.

[@distorson]

@@NedRush Oh nice. Thanks a lot :)

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

It’s not the size of the snare , it’s how you use it.

[@Pogomix]

I think that bass is begging for harmonics. You've got sub down low and growl up high, but very little in between. Hard to hear the notes. But damn, I love your work and videos man. Your sound design skills are off the charts. Ableton should be paying you.

[@russellbrown8760]

"I can't be fucked with any of that"

[@vimster]

Nah, you need to rename this video "BEST WAY TO MIX DOWN MASTERING TUTORIAL ABLETON LIVE 11 2021 LIKE & SUBSCRIBE", demand people like and subscribe every 2 minutes, add some obnoxious animations of Subscribe buttons being clicked that obscure half the screen, then at the end demand more likes and subscriptions plus pointless "engagement" comment-begging. There, you are now officially a Music Production Guru on KZbin!

[@danielpirone8028]

Ned - what are your new high quality monitors?

[@NedRush]

Focal Alpha 8s but I was close to getting the Adam 5s and may still do one day cause these Focals are so loud its scary.

[@Jazzfuturist33]

@@NedRush ive got the 65's and they're also too loud. the auto-off feature sucks when you have to run them at low volumes. my left monitor is always turning on sooner than the right for some reason.

[@NedRush]

Yeah. I only use them now for final mixes. I bought a cheap pair of presonus small speakers that I use for monitoring at low volumes.

[@phil71x]

What about a reference track? I mean an unmastered reference track. Do you use one? Do they even exist!?

[@thepeachprince]

yes to the point of hatred :)

[@diedforurwins]

How to finish a song: File > Export

[@tebbisimoX]

DITHER OR NO DITHER?!?!?!? *dithers*

[@sleepisoptional]

instead of trashing the old instruments you could make a zip archive. out of sight, out of mind. and if you ever really need to go back it’s there

[@LukeLjJames]

NED dont change athing your the only one who knows we supposed to do shit how we want till it sounds like a banger -- All them audiophilles make make a snare fit enough for a superstar as they are technical genius's trouble is they couldnt make something that bangs a dancefloor to save thier lives hahaaaa ,,,,,,, thats why they engineers not producers . boom! face it Ned Rules

[@LukeLjJames]

IF ya have time one day it would be nice to have a video that shows the Proocess of identifying the Key to go for and the way to tune the acapella n audio Samples into the right notes/key . we all know the brief version/general what to do by all the vids around but no one seems to actually Do it Fully in detail - They all just bring up melodyne or whatever and go on for an hour about whats possible/what ya could do . I wanna watch someone actually Do it ( I know copyright may flag some audio - but dont matter if it aint a banger and they are stupid samples ripped off total crap songs no one liked lol :) Thx Man

[@sidadesid]

[@magade4206]

You're exurb1a but for sick beats

[@brendanramsey8311]

Snare drums are all about context. Liberate the snare.

[@franciscobobadilla5731]

🤣

[@DystopianTofuTV]

and what is this video about...?