Mixing Technique - Keep It Simple - The Devil Is In The Details

[@montblackmusic6908]

Matthew, even if your channel isn't as followed as other ones I must say you are one of the best mixing engineers out there but most important (for me) the BEST TEACHER EVER. I have been following you since the courses on ProAudioFiles and I have to say you always try to make your students understand the reasoning behind every single move instead of just saying 'do this, do that'. People want solutions that work for every case but mixing is about adapting to the record you are dealing with. Thank you for giving depth to your lessons, for diving into the complexity of things, instead of just making content for the sake of having a bigger audience. You're not just another youtuber, you're a top notch professional who knows what really matters and wants us to understand. Plus you empower other people. You're the older brother we wish we had!

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

I'm the guy Matt hands off to and I couldn't agree more! I've also been following him since The Pro Audio Files and I think his advice over the years has really empowered me to do what I love. I also love the older brother comment. My older brother pinned me down and farted in my face when I was young. I think mixing advice would have been cooler than that (I love my brother and I wouldn't trade him for the best mix engineer out there)

[@Yerjckk]

Those first 30 seconds made me stay, you got me

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

thank you for staying!

[@Yerjckk]

@@joshrichensproducer2201Thank you for the lesson

[@RayoBeatz]

idk why but it really ticks me off you only have 16.9k subs when you're littery a grammy award winning engineer who gives the best advice but yet these bedroom producers are the ones with thousands of subs it just makes zero sense. but i thank you for all the knowledge you willingly share.

[@AlwaysTehFool]

No need to try and put others down to up someone else

[@kontemplatemusic2189]

Algorithm. Kills the art. Values the quantity over quality.

[@rome8180]

I don't know if the clipper with the "boring GUI" you're talking about is StandardCLIP by SIR Audio Tools, but that's my personal favorite of the 4-5 clippers I've tried. Setting it to the Soft Clip Pro function, with the saturation at around 25% and 4x oversampling on, gives me great results every time.

[@Quazelle]

Standard Clip, Gold Clip, and T-RackS Classic Clipper are all great.

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

Thank you!!

[@rundajulesproductions7735]

Good info! I tried to learn something, but I was distracted bc I kept wondering what happened to that moth during the jump-cut? If you are asking somebody for their opinion, their answer will almost always be unanimous.

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

It got away from me! When I read "unanimous" in your comment, I realised it wasn't right. Hmmm maybe I meant "decidedly"

[@dand6450]

SIMPLE and at the same time CREATIVE 👊. Exactly that!

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

That's the idea!

[@alphaomega6062]

I think you are thinking of StandarClip bySIR Audio Tools

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

that's it!

[@NoQualmsTheArtist]

Standard Clip by SIR is the one you mean. It's my preferred clipper as well 🤘🏾😁

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

I've heard a lot of good about it!

[@rome8180]

It's my favorite too. I own maybe 4-5 clippers. StandardCLIP on the Soft Clip Pro setting with the saturation at around 25% and the oversampling at 4x consistently gives me great results. I will say that the new plugin from SoundTheory called Kraftur is pretty sweet too. I still prefer StandardCLIP because it's more intuitive. I have a hard time on Kraftur telling how much I'm actually clipping something. So I end up just moving knobs around until it sounds good. That's not a bad thing, but sometimes I just want something to be quick and easy. Still, Kraftur is a really great value for all the options you get.

[@STyonk]

StandardCLIP

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

thank you!

[@kontemplatemusic2189]

Decisions are made based on the quality of the source material, so I'd focus on the input aka recordings rather than spending hours on polishing the turds for hours on the other end of spectrum, just to prove how good we are at mixing craft.

[@RuggedAndPrez]

In addition to all the other quality recommendations, don't sleep on Newfangled Saturate. Currently $19 w/ holiday sales. Like others, I'd reach for the SiR when mastering. They all have different flavors and this one is real nice....No, I don't work for them!

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

thank you for the advice! I'll have to check it out! Maybe I'll have to splurge and do a shootout 🤔

[@RuggedAndPrez]

@@joshrichensproducer2201 bx_clipper is also on sale today, Dec. 12th 😅 might be one of the few that do M/S clipping?

[@samkenny3075]

Could be kazrog clipper-- sounds great and not much in the gui

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

I think StandardClip was the one I was thinking of but I've definitely heard of this one so I may have to check it out

[@corianjackson]

call me crazy but i miss some of the pumpiness in his mix, sounded more pop/hip hop against the rock instrumentation. your mix sounds right and it's a whole style thing, but his kick has a rough "trap" feel. a cool juxtaposition which i would try to play up a tiny it more. you definitely did. but i'd do it a litttttle bit more. your kick is "right". But maybe even just like 1dB of ducking on everything surrounding the kick, even the vocal. just my thoughts. thx

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

I don't think you're wrong! I think I big potion of this project was actually managing specifically that and, of course, everyone has their own taste with that kind of stuff. All in all, the artist was super stoked so I think the mix itself was successful but it's exactly those details we're talking about right now, that this video is about so thank you for your take on this. I think it's another one of those details I can hone in on and improve as I get better while I mix! (:

[@Jaysonjay]

Mudd everywhere and the guitars too loud . Mix is fatiguing

[@deanmasi6684]

Kazrog K-Clip

[@Chaos-Dynamics]

The low end was definitely not right at all in the reference mix.

[@joshrichensproducer2201]

for sure! It's actually kind of funny because if you check out Matsangs other songs, the low end is usually on point but this is the first time I think he's produced a much more "in your face" dirty kind of a production so I think he was just having some trouble fitting it all together while still maintaining the big low end he has on all of his projects.

[@Chaos-Dynamics]

@ Low end can be a thing, need to have a good room to get it right otherwise you’ll missing some nulls and try to add too much in the mix to compensate 😉