Mix Monolith - The Basics Of Pre/Post Insert Position

[@musician1971a]

The luxury of having a plugin do the basic level mix for me is invaluable. I just got this and feel I have just scratched the surface of what it can do, but it already know this will be on every mix from now on. These videos only add to that conviction

[@ScanVoice]

monolith and cos are the best and most usefull tools i was without knowing waiting for for years.

[@1masterfader]

Great Plugin. I tell people about it all the time.

[@MankyFrilla]

It's great I use it on every mix

[@binahtrading8565]

Great up load love monolith !!!

[@renebrossard]

What happens to fade ins and fade outs used in your mix. How does monolith deal with that? Say you have a fade in start for example.

[@ayaicware]

Mix Monolith is not an automation plugin so it won't affect fade ins/outs...it will learn the average level of the noise element (track) and set it to the target LUFS.

[@renebrossard]

@@ayaicware I appreciate your reply. It's fascinating plugin.

[@somedood6621]

Ok so post fader seems most ideal, putting them on the end of my buses seems like it'd be the best way for me to do this. All levels feeding into the mix monolith to respect the integrity of my mix balances. Hope this is correct?

[@ayaicware]

Both pre/post fader position work great. That said, in post-fader position you can leave your fader mix as it is and use Mix Monolith to balance your levels to their nearest level-plane. In pre-fader position your DAW faders must be set/left at 0dB position and Mix Monolith will set levels to their perspective level-plane. Happy mixing.

[@riffer-t]

I am confused with one thing, Do i put a monolith on my Mix and or Main pre/post fader and if so, what do I set it as in the "Source" ? Or do you just put them on all the instrument tracks and not on mix bus or Main out fader? Hope this makes sense. Thanks.

[@ayaicware]

Insert a Monolith on every instrument track (last in the signal-chain in either pre or post fader position)...a Monolith on each stereo buss...then finally a Monolith on the mix bus. You can use multiple Monoliths on tracks & stereo buses if/when gain-staging is required pre signal-flow...in which case there'd be a Monolith at the front and a Monolith at the end of the processing-chain...the end/last Monolith placed in either pre-fader position with the DAW fader at 0dB, or in post-fader position to finalize the fader DAW fader level onto its perspective level-plane.

[@emretemel671]

Hello. I loved the mix monolith. Do we need to gain stage before starting this?

[@24k-n6x]

you can gain stage with a monolith right before monolith. :P

[@MankyFrilla]

Any black Friday discounts on the curve plugin?

[@ayaicware]

Yes there are...we will be offering COS Pro at 50% Off!...or if you already own Mix Monolith you'll be able to purchase the ProMix Upgrade and get COS Pro for only $79!

[@Rob.anonymous]

@ayaic Software: hello and thanks for the video. I have a question. Let’s say I trimmed prefader to -12 , then I set my input gain to -18 dbFS and go tru analog , come back with -18 dbFS and then I add monolith with all post faders at unity and hit learn - is it possible to move faders after learning and hit mix or are they still unity - mentioned is there a way that this plugin set the levels of my post faders to see on the console the db differences physically made by monolith ? Hope this question is clear now and not confusing 😊.

[@ayaicware]

As long as Mix Monolith is in the last post-fader insert slot you can write automation via your DAW fader to "level" the signal, then have Mix Monolith set it on it's proper level-plane. Otherwise, you can leave the DAW fader at 0db, insert a channel-strip plug-in before the Monolith and write your automation via it's fader, then have Mix Monolith set it to it's proper level-plane. However you choose to work, Mix Monolith is always the last plug-in in your chain/signal-flow.

[@Rob.anonymous]

@@ayaicware I will check this - thanks for responding. All the best.

[@royalinvasionproductionstv6370]

So from what I understand this adjust all channels in terms of volume right? I have been using the sonible smart eq3 which has a function similiar to this but I believe in does this in terms of frequencies., Can this two be used together or is this a either or situation?

[@ayaicware]

Mix Monolith utilizes Integrated LUFS and level-planes based on the universal rule of 5. There really isn't anything out there that works like Mix Monolith...virtually perfect gain-staging and mix leveling every time.

[@royalinvasionproductionstv6370]

@@ayaicware so I'm very interested in your software as a means for getting perfect mixes and working faster. I'm a bit of a beginner in mixing but I do understand the basics and trying to set up a templet so I'm ready to mixdown at the start of a new project. I do hip hop music and I watched your video on mixing rap vocals. I just have many questions about the process...... 1)A mix monilith goes on every track(indie verse tracks, sub groups, busses, and master) right? Should I use 2 to gain stage on every track as well? 2) The process throws me off a bit, should I do COS Eq on the indie track before bus processing or on the bus? 3) How am I to know which presets in the Eq to use as there are many in the COS or should I follow what you did in the rap vocals video? Sorry for all the questions but this does seem fool proof if set up correctly...

[@ayaicware]

@@royalinvasionproductionstv6370 It's easy to overthink COS Pro & MM as they can be used in many different ways and will enhance all of your other plugins. Although Mix Monolith should always be last in the chain for final leveling it also works beautifully for gain-staging as well...use it wherever & however you need it. Same with COS Pro...it can be used alone as your primary EQ wherever equalization is needed or in tandem with all of your other EQ's. Remember that the COS process first began as an equalization guide to make all of your favorite hardware/software EQ's much easier to use. This means, if you want to impart the tonality of say a Neve, Pultec, etc...simply place them before COS Pro and adjust them so that the sound/spectrum line follows the ceiling shape in COS Pro as closely as possible...then press "conform" in COS Pro and let the powerful 31/50-band EQ in COS Pro finalize the equalization process. Bottom line is, COS Pro and Mix Monolith are so powerful/efficient that you can experiment creatively and always enjoy the sonic results. I will begin producing many more tutorial/how-to videos very shortly. Happy mixing. - Menno

[@johnplainsong9769]

After using MM (last insert on tracks) to set levels on all tracks, and then I add some plugin processing to some tracks (lets say EQ and saturation to the vocal track), can I then just press Mix on the vocal track MM, and that will adjust the level if my plugin processing raised the level of the track a little bit?

[@ayaicware]

John, when you add additional processing to a track after it's been Monolith'd you will need to learn/mix "this channel" to reset it to its proper level-plane.

[@johnplainsong9769]

@@ayaicware Easy enough, thank you.

[@poorhouz5051]

No basically you should use this after you have done all of that. Do all your plug in stuff before you put this on bro. Or you will have to learn again every single time. From Your Boy Poorhouzzzzzzzz

[@delmixedit]

Here's where I'm baffled. If this plugin is designed to get a static mix pass done, why is it not the very first insert before any other plugins? Many mixers get a static pass before doing any type of EQ, compression, saturation, etc. Based on some of your responses to other commenter, each time you process and track it needs to be relearned and mixed. To me that seems counter productive and you'll always be chasing your tail in the mix. Perhaps I'm missing something.

[@ayaicware]

It's designed to be the very last insert plugin, placing every element on their proper level-plane. It can be placed in the pre-processing-chain position in order to gain stage virtual tape plugins and such. The hardest thing about using Mix Monolith accepting that level-planes exist. That said, the very first thing I do in my "Universal Mixing part-1" video is show you that they've always existed as part of sonic energy...we've just never used them before. Happy mixing.