How to RUIN a Mix

[@OdinOfficialEmcee]

I think if you are a mixer you have done all of these things to a mix before. If your just starting the key is 4 things imo: • Reference tracks • Listening back in a space you know well that is near full range like a car • Having a friend listen and honestly critique your mixes • Practice, practice, practice!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

👍

[@actualchrisreid]

Yes, I use all that advice. Another thing I would recommend is listening on tons of different speakers. It may sound good on one set and then terrible on another.

[@korkenknopfus]

Joe, next time you want to ruin a mix, ask for my advice, I am an authority and have two doctor degrees in this field.

[@ryanrose2863]

I'm suing you for stealing my mixing techniques!

[@chrisstevens2069]

When I saw the topic "How to RUIN a Mix" I'm a professional at that I could make a lot of videos with different ways of doing it Lol.

[@Mark-bg1ue]

Do you have a cheat sheet? Do you want my email address?

[@chrisstevens2069]

@@Mark-bg1ue Lol I'll make you a pro in no time, for 19.95 a month Lol jk

[@frazieryearby629]

I watched a lot of your videos and I have to say thanks a million times over. You've been a big help to me in getting started in studio one. Appreciate it Joe

[@jerryk3280]

Please do more of these. There are so many possibilities for how to ruin a good mix 😭

[@niyardeka9487]

Hey man i love your vids. Just taking a moment to thank you for your effort. 💜💜

[@HomeStudioCorner]

😊 Thank you

[@CestLaVie73]

it is very true many tuts tells us to low cut everything bcuz assuming there is low end rumble. Another very common tip is use limiter on invidual tracks mainly bass tracks. Also heard that using eq on too many tracks create artifacts or something if mention opposite tip. At the moment I´m trying to watch mixing tuts made by somekind of pros and try to learn what is right and wrong. It is so hard to find right answers on youtube just watching people have lots of subscribers :D

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

I try to use limiters sparingly they color the sound and remove harmonics.

[@MattLeFaitMusic]

Simply beautiful

[@Jamchoob]

It really is a video telling you how to ruin a mix. You should expand on this. Do a weekly episode of "How to ruin things".

[@xavorlukas]

This is what I've been training for! Thanks

[@leleo430]

I'm having flashbacks from the war. Thanks.

[@windchimerainbow136]

I don’t need to try to ruin a mix. Mine are already ruined. All of them. But I’ll give it a try to see if there is any more ruin left in them. lol And, thank you for your time and vids. I’ve honestly learned more from you in less than 1 year than I did in the past 15! I just wish I could catch on faster. Meanwhile, you and family be safe and well. --Claudia

[@HomeStudioCorner]

😊 Thanks Claudia

[@cinar_ozgun]

BRO! This is the funniest mixing video ı have ever watched! You have always good humour... :)))

[@DanDuskin]

I can’t joe! I can’t! This is so funny! I’m sorry I’m only 3 minutes in. 😂♥️

[@DanDuskin]

I watched the rest and survived. Great video as always Joe! ☮️

[@levitikon1]

What an amazing sound right outta the gate

[@ronh8126]

This video makes me doubt every mixing decision I've ever made!

[@Adon77]

Hey joe question when i bounce my mix what bps should i use i know from 64 all the way up 320 I believe wich one should i use if you could do a video in regards

[@studioclass7584]

I've been trying for months to ruin my mix.. Thanks Joe :)

[@HomeStudioCorner]

😂 any time

[@HEATHfromOZ]

Haha - 2:45 I jumped off my chair and said, "I've done that.." !!! But that was PJ - Pre Joe ;-) So good, thanks Joe!

[@joejurneke9576]

Well said Joe! You Rock!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

👍 👊

[@deflexity]

This video is a real pain. But thanks for the fun 🤣

[@danielbrockmann2370]

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made purchased, check

[@gooshie3]

Levels were always where I made mistakes. If the first level mix ain't right, doesn't matter what processing is done.

[@AlKey3]

Yup....

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Easy trap to fall into

[@delhihiphopp]

Can we drop ns1 pluging on the input channel ?

[@HomeStudioCorner]

I don't know what you're asking sorry

[@delhihiphopp]

Joe Gilder • Home Studio Corner ns one is wave plugin for noise reduction so can we put it on the recording input channel ?

[@willischirwa3992]

Real fun stuff idea

[@Hated123go]

The secret to a good mix is use as little plug ins as possible in my opinion. It becomes to unnatural sounding the more plugins that are used.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Absolutely

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

Yes

[@joev4483]

Great idea ...

[@djentlover]

Why am I liking this 🤨 Sounds unsafe and I like it

[@BukanIbuMu]

This sounds good

[@HomeStudioCorner]

The ruined mix?

[@DANNYGATESTHEAGEDSINGER]

The question I want to know is does mixing ruin the original recording I've been singing for 15 years plus and have been making singing recording videos for 15 years plus I had no mixes I had no fancy equipment no studio no nothing every device that I can afford

[@jdsgotninelives]

Only through failure do we succeed. ;-)

[@steveanstice]

Nice job. Certainly ruined that one. Very helpful though, I do tend to overdo things no matter how much I try to stop myself. Might be interesting if you did another vid with the same piece and show us how you would improve it. Compare and contrast. ❤️

[@paulbasel911]

oh no JOE....I have learned so much from you over the last 2 years.....I literally start my day... every day with a cup of coffee and a clip or two from home corner.....but this is the first time I thought :seriously" Joe .....are you so out of ideas.....this was a a terrible tutorial.....I am so disappointed.....

[@SatyajitKhairnar]

yeah this is gonna be fun 😂

[@MrEduardoVelez]

Man that intro part (00:34) sounds beautiful. Too bad you're attempting to ruin it.

[@noahberndes9188]

Not to flex or anything, but I do all of these things all the time before this video even existed 😎 Check out my spfoty 👍

[@Admiral_Cody]

“Thanks I hate it.”

[@HomeStudioCorner]

😊 Nailed it

[@518freakshow4]

Dude, that WARMTH though...

[@nepg00n3]

sounds EXACTLY like what I‘m doing...in garageband.....on my phone...

[@quochienle6778]

I usually laugh at the title 'how to RUIN a mix'. I can make an EDM track. I'm very good at making music with 'Power Noise' genre and how to RUIN my mix! I choose punchy TRANCE KICK, create PRE-MASTER bus and 'drums' bus, separate from KICK bus. On the 'pre-master' bus, I can RUIN my mix by the following funny ways, such as, cutting ALL of the bass frequencies with parametric EQ, setting super odd compression ratio, applying multiple compression plugins, applying 15-second or LONGER reverb, applying multiple reverb plugins, overdriving (distorting), INVERTING one channel (left or right), and finally making sure the 'pre-master' bus peaks at -12 to -15 dB so that the KICK and drums OVERPOWER the entire mix! There are other ways to RUIN my EDM mix. If the song is at 128 BPM, I will set the project tempo to 512 BPM. Then I can CURSE the melody by duplicating the melody, panning one hard left, one hard right, pitch-shifting one of two melodies 1 semitone up or down! If I mix any house track like this, when summed to mono, all of important elements except the kick and drums will 'cancel each other out', and the entire track will sound FUNNY, WEIRD, CURSED and RUINED!

[@chordkeys]

😂😂😂😂 this is so funny

[@BrianWhitmerMusic]

Paging Adam Conover!

[@HeadrushStudio21228]

Ouch

[@quochienle6778]

I can RUIN my EDM mix by just applying 'Frequency Shifter' on everything except drums with a certain, non-zero value of frequency! When applied, all the frequencies will shift linearly by the exact value of the frequency. Positive value will increase, negative value will decrease. This will RUIN all the bass, melodies and chords!

[@ioftheuniverse2384]

Super missed opportunity to teach in this one, by not continuing on to do the 'proper' mixing to these tracks, and conclude with a comparison. You basically just told me 'this is bad trust me' without proving it with a good version. Which actually would have been the teaching moment... kinda pointless video otherwise..

[@kriskropd]

This is what I don't get. I think it sounds better because it's exaggerated. Your "ruined" mix sounds way better to me - but beauty in the eye of the beholder, or whatever; you-do-you. The genre used here also doesn't appeal to me, so I'm sure that plays a part of it and the difference in our expectations. I'm listening to this one more as a consumer with a pair of MAudio AV40 speakers and not as a mixer whose trying to please the broadest audience - and so I think your intentionally ruined mix made the song way more palatable for me while the source would've lost my attention immediately. The only exception being the far-left guitar - that annoys me in your ruined mix because the field sounds so unbalanced. And the reverb, which basically undoes all the exaggerated clarity you mixed in. Thanks for your other videos though where I assume you actually explain why you would call this a ruined mix. Here you kinda just improved everything (not optimally, but improvements nonetheless) then told me they were worse than source material. Very confusing conclusion. edit: Before anyone tells me it's my speakers, which - sure - whatever - here's what I heard this on cvp.com/pdf/av40_user_guide.pdf I'm pretty sure it's just a difference in personal tastes though. Heard the source and ruined mix again with Apple earbuds too with same conclusion; I just hate the source mix and prefer the "ruined" mix.

[@mariok64]

this is messed up lol

[@HomeStudioCorner]

😊 it was kinda fun