How to get a perfectly balanced mix

[@EDMTips]

What is ONE plateau-smashing mixing tip you've learned that made a huge difference to your mixes? 🤔 I'd love to know so I can steal it for myself! 😆👇

[@djgraish]

Tape saturation on drum bus By the way your A-Roll camera/lens/lighting setup is looking crispy AF, bigup

[@mvricks90]

copy others

[@EDMTips]

@ Yes!

[@fernandoortegacomposer]

Extra trick: you can assign a shortcut to solo your reference track. That way you don't have to go back and forth with your mouse.

[@EDMTips]

Great tip!

[@matthewchristensen9342]

I recently grabbed Metric AB and find it to be a really great tool for referencing because, as well as being able to switch between the two nicely and having a great set of metering tools (though I do prefer some parts of SPAN), it also automatically gain-matches the project track to the reference track. It makes it much easier to reference well.

[@RSHRemix]

I send both kick and bass line (s) to a send line and add a Glue compressor ( med attack) and I tweak with Threshold, till it shows 2-3 db reduction. both Kick and bass would sound better!

[@krunge]

I do the same but with Multiband Compressor instead.

[@musicbyfaint]

@@krunge likewise, im using pro MB with a shelf upto 100 hz to glue the lowend together

[@zprogressdnb]

Here at 15 seconds of upload time. Gonna have my mix all good within 6 minutes of you uploading!

[@jobu4070]

Great tips maestro! Easy, fun and useful!! :)

[@EDMTips]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful :)

[@deepupadhyaya09]

Wow, awesome 👍

[@EDMTips]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@pokololo50]

Hi will, thanks for sharing. Bu it seems for me that I need to see this video a couple of times to fully understand the steps.

[@EDMTips]

You’re welcome! Which parts are hard to understand? Perhaps I can make a better video in future

[@Jermaine_sounds]

I don't understand...If the levels are already there and it sounds good does it really need a master?

[@consciensnesttv]

Great question!!! ❤❤

[@EDMTips]

Great question! Mastering will add a little bit of polish, but more importantly, bring it to a commercial level of loudness (via compression and limiting) so it sounds as loud as other tracks it might be played alongside. It used to be for other reasons (like making sure it could be cut to vinyl successfully) but nowadays it’s more just about the loudness

[@tb80038]

How are you liking the 490 Pros?

[@EDMTips]

Yeah, really like them!

[@jhm8614]

Just coming up on finishing a new track and the mix down sounds horrible. Hope I can fix it with a good clean mix down with some tips from tips 🙏🏼 amen brother

[@underratedreplyguy]

Will, I want to be where you are... Production-wise 😉

[@MDullahan]

Im not sure why you persist with this method of referencing with span when you can sidechain with the VST2 version?! Or use TDR Prism (free) and sidechain your reference for an overlay, no need for 2 windows. 👍

[@Baywood]

how do you get the vst2 version for mac?

[@MDullahan]

@@Baywood Sorry, I meant VST, its in the download

[@EDMTips]

Because I’m used to it

[@JohnSmith-kn5wt]

Great tips as usual. However. crafting a downbeat with a snare ir hi-hat directly rolling into a kick sounds horrible and just sets up a DJ for failure as when mixing it sounds like he can't line up the beats properly and sounds unprofessional.

[@cocowuah7]

Love your channel but can you put spanish voice with new tool of youtube, please. It would perfect.

[@Lip.Smacker]

Just what I needed! One day I will buy your course :)

[@EDMTips]

Glad to help! Looking forward to meeting you on a call :)