Mixing a Trap Instrumental from Start to Finish

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In this video, we're going to Mix a Trap/Hip-Hop track from start to finish. We're going to explore the process through volume balance, EQing, compression, parallel compression & adding creative effects to your instruments. Let's dive into how to mix a trap beat & instrumentals!
You can use these techniques for every genre, such as dubstep, progressive house, future house, drum and bass, hip-hop, RnB, bass house, deep house, hard trap & many more!
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Happy producing!

[@j.sellzrap]

Your videos are very helpful and I find them useful in learning new skills. The only problem I run into is I'm constantly pausing and rewinding your videos bc you do everything so fast. I get it you're a lot better than me and probably anyone I know but not everyone is that good. Not everyone knows all the shortcuts and hot keys you're using. Your videos would be 10x more helpful to me, and I'm sure others if you just slow it down a little bit. I'm not complaining I just trying to help. Thank you for all your awesome videos

[@osvaldodomingos9041]

At the same time, I am an advanced producer and that was the right speed for me. So the middle term is just to add more captions/subtitles so people can follow. That way every one will be happy.

[@elijahjflowers]

time stamps would be useful too

[@alexsanchez3719]

why not play the vid in .75? no hate just spit ballin

[@djcontour]

I’m glad I saw your comment. I’m a small KZbin channel working on growing. This is something specifically I’ve been wondering about so I’m gonna make sure to to keep an even pace and make sure that the viewers can comprehend what’s going on. I know it’s not my video but your comment gave me insight on how to make my videos!

[@Mike_Wazowskii7]

Idk man I can't agree. When I pause, rewind, look around, learn it, push play, rewind again, repeat. I learn more this way. Ya, it takes a bit longer but if he's just feeding you all the answers none of it sticks nowhere near as good as going "OH SHIT I didn't know command+R did that!!" lol or you know whatever you're learning. Same can be said with learning a new language. Good luck :)

[@joshuaokparaocha331]

Please just make videos like this over and over again. One of the most helpful videos I’ve ever watched for figuring out the process

[@sahilshinde3511]

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[@KunalKumar-jt1xl]

Max is creating real producers.❤

[@yagel34]

‏Hi Max, I bought your mini-course of the 1,000 tips for 21 dollars, but it's 200 tips in general, and the second thing is that it's for Ableton and not for Fl Studio, please answer me 🙏🏻

[@djjelgui]

We miss you bro, nice video like always!!🤗💯🔥

[@Maesdy01]

Must rewatch 1000 time to catch everything even i'm not a beginner

[@HamsterBangers]

thanks dawg i needed ts so much 🙏

[@najaktpatni5109]

❤🎉 thank you bro for making this video

[@PizzaIsBetter]

AMAZING VIDEO ❤

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Mix elite is my favourite channel❤

[@juliusfischer6879]

This is a goldmine!

[@larxoyoriginall-loi8777]

Thank you sir for sharing

[@knightsole2311]

lovee to my favorite channel❤❤

[@nitinrana3876]

Needn more video on vocal mixing with free or stock plugins 😊

[@DaniCorbalanSpain]

Great video as always. I missed at the end the trick to glue the vocals with all except the kick, the Patcher preset Multiband Sidechain, and I usually put sidechain in the vocals, automate it, and only apply it a little in the drops or when the kick hits hard to make the song more bouncy. Would be nice to see similar videos with other styles like house, dance or melodic techno.

[@noviousmusic294]

Thanks max i appreciate your work you are a 👑 king 👑 of fl studio

[@polasbeatz]

Hi, Mix Elite. Do you have a mixer template for vocals and beats? Thank you.

[@emmaprincedonfichtner6130]

much love bro

[@Farabeats70]

Very good💣💣💣

[@freeuse5654]

Best video

[@Mike_Wazowskii7]

You finally got a new vocal lol congrats

[@marinopanapa]

Awesome video and tips. The one thing I really dislike about FL is the mixer window, routing and just general work flow for creating a clean and intuiative project for mixing. The fact that you have to change the colour of tracks in the pattern sequencer, arrange window and mixer window seperately is just a big time suck. Also, the metronome and the "preview sample" need to be routed to one of the 125 mixer tracks - Not a major, but is a slight annoyance

[@hoakerbeats4950]

I like that kick which drumkit is it from??

[@BE-wl9js]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bikashaindkeyboardist5690]

Love from assam. Small🤏 village 😇🥰🥰

[@arwezead]

🔥

[@briananthonyross6298]

Ooooh shit this is crucial to my game

[@jayarecordsofficial]

FL TIPS

[@eastkid9558]

do you need to create kick & bass buss?

[@owlnight4421]

Can I use Dirty LA to make some distortion? Is it same?

[@Its_neo07]

Can you do this mix to master tutorial?

[@JamesO606]

Can we download this beat , can you put it in a link

[@dacco9414]

I had to put the video speed to 0.5, to keep up! xD

[@tiandi5359]

Max why did you delete the refrance video?

[@Galaxis-X]

I want to see also faster EDM Track how is the approach on that

[@singalightobeato]

Hello

[@vaccat]

fyi its spelled "bus" not "buss" nice video

[@Ra_Sharpness_]

Can I send you a track to mix dor a video. I had to ask cause you never know. I'm about a 6 out of 10 but was in an explosion about 20 years ago that left my ears struggling with low end.

[@Pyrokingz16]

No gain staging ?

[@Dougiebot9000]

Not really needed in a daw

[@Pyrokingz16]

@@Dougiebot9000 isnt it needed especially when using analog modelled plugins that have that sweet spot at -18 db

[@jericoejones7376]

@@Pyrokingz16 i wouldnt say it matters much in regards to plugins but its just a good idea when mixing/producing in general. i see a TON of FL producers mixing tracks super hot and i think its because a lot of people think louder track "hit harder" when they are literally just hearing the sounds louder relative to the other sounds in the mix. if you gain stage everything....and then mix....you will get a cleaner, overall louder final track because you've given yourself the headroom on the master to increase the overall loudness before the peaks of audio hit the limiter. much easier to bring a track to life when you have 6dB of headroom than if nothing is staged and its hitting at 0d already and you're trying to bring instruments up. you gonna find yourself turning things down just to turn other things up and that's working backwards in my opinion lol. even if you want distortion and saturation...you dont have to get it from having the track inserts pumping to 0dB or beyond. for example you can easily get the same sound from an 808 / kick hitting at -12 dB with added saturation and distortion as you can from having it dry and hitting at 0 dB and you THINK it sounds hard because its loud or getting distortion from actually clipping in the mixer blowing past 0 dB. easiest way to have an unbalanced mix and a worse final master. its all subjective tho...whatever sounds good to you is literally all that matters on god.

[@4lexflp]

Pause, channel BUSS?

[@as_stream]

[@yagelzaguri]

‏Hi Max, I bought your mini-course of the 1,000 tips for 21 dollars, but it's 200 tips in general, and the second thing is that it's for Ableton and not for Fl Studio, please answer me 🙏🏻