7 Untold Mixing Tricks That I Had to Figure Out Myself 🤯

[@mikem859]

I am speechless... Without your videos I would sound like newbie for few years. With your tutorials, last time I give my friends listen to my song (without telling them!) and they thought its radio hit! Thanks Alice, I know that you don't want to work with "collab bro/sis" guys but I have amazing melodies so maybe one day we will do some hits! If not, still I am very thankful for all your work. Good luck! 😃

[@xrabbz2010]

Ambience return channel is golden

[@Itsleakim]

Alice and her tutorials needs to be protected at all cost. Så jävla bra!!!

[@gutshisalamanca1191]

I never understood why people are saying this? It seems like such an empty phrase like what do you mean? Protect her tutorials from what?

[@Od3ll_Official]

@@gutshisalamanca1191 From tutorial theft 😂

[@PilzE.]

Pure gold. Thank you for sharing...... AGAIN! 🤍😁

[@__teles__]

I love you owning your new self! Well done Alice.

[@GASPYCM]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎶 Ajustar el nivel de graves es esencial en la mezcla, y puedes lograrlo comparando con una pista de referencia y reduciendo los graves en tu mezcla. 01:55 🎚️ Utilizar un "transient shaper" para controlar la dinámica de los sonidos y mantener la claridad en la mezcla. 03:38 🎛️ La saturación selectiva con dispositivos como el overdrive y la utilización de distorsión en bandas específicas pueden mejorar tus sonidos de manera efectiva. 05:22 🎤 Evitar la resonancia excesiva en tus pistas al escuchar y eliminar las frecuencias problemáticas en lugar de buscarlas. 06:23 🌌 Agregar profundidad a tu mezcla mediante la creación de un canal de retorno con efectos de ambiente para darle amplitud y ambiente a tus pistas. 08:21 🎚️ Aprender a mezclar de manera dinámica y estática, adaptando tu enfoque según la naturaleza de los sonidos en tu mezcla. 11:05 📊 Seleccionar y esculpir el sonido adecuado en la mezcla se trata de comprender la riqueza y la duración de los sonidos, lo que puede lograrse utilizando una escala de energía y duración. Made with HARPA AI

[@monochrome_sweatsuit]

you are a fantastic teacher! extremely easy to understand and your videos are paced perfectly!

[@Alice-Efe]

Glad you like them! Cheers! ❤️

[@peterelfman]

The quality of some of these tips are next level. Seriously, great video!

[@tomthexton7813]

I have to say, I've watched a few of your recent videos and I was glued! So many gems 💎 in such little time, thank you so much for all thr amazing knowledge and it's free!? I will eventually join your mixing course forsure when I get some money! You're an incredible teacher! Thanks so much Alice!

[@lorez6063]

You are awesome. Thanks for such great and educational videos.

[@appearingthroughdimensions8117]

The return trick is absolute Power. Appreciate it Alice

[@AllenKraft]

You're doing some great stuff! Thank you so much! You are on another level!

[@Alice-Efe]

Awww thank you!❤️

[@ALDVIR]

yall, this is the only TUT u need for bass! Youlean are heroes

[@Alice-Efe]

Youlean is truly amazing for a free plugin.

[@lackofaffektmusic]

Always appreciate the clarity in your style of teaching 🤍

[@MCForty]

That dynamic and static mixing tip I figured out all by myself just a couple of weeks ago. I've been really nerding out on my mixing and sound design in the past couple of months and I have to say that your channel Alice has really helped me a lot - keep up the good work.

[@Alice-Efe]

Happy to help! Keep producing!❤️

[@PaulEubanks]

Okay the ambiance/depth trick is cool. I've done the same w/ just a short reverb to put the mix in a room, but this approach takes it up a few notches.

[@FurkanTopal]

I love witnessing how music is endless and learning is literally infinite! This depth part is really f*cking logical! I was doing that with adding texture and according to the genre by adding some crowd fxs which also works, and I was adding freezed reverb of the main lead under it but using return channel with this way, I hadn't think of and it is really a gamechanger tip. And it gives me new ideas like creating automation of that return channel to manipulate that depth intermittently and imagine how it could be so catchy! The other thing I learned from this video is that I didn't know Pro-MB has a dynamic sidechain function. Lately, I was producing a song and I was adding two different dynamic Pro-Q3 parameters for whenever the vocal comes in, to compress the high-mid and high frequencies where the vocal's frequency is busy but this MB does that thing with more practical way without needing a second fx plugin. Damn. That was a precious information. Thank you for sharing these legendary tips Alice! Much love! ♥

[@Expandable12]

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[@williamchen454]

Video so good I'm gonna watch it twice

[@cwehden]

Your channel is very very helpful, thank you!

[@Alice-Efe]

Aww thanks a ton!

[@JustSkySounds]

Amazing tips. Thanks so much Alice! ✨

[@PhillTHEMusic84]

Very nice explained, very nice edited video. Real deal ✌

[@speedcrawlmusic]

So helpful! ❤

[@Keroser1983]

AMAZING! you are probably the best. Amazing video as always...

[@warequalsnofuture]

Vodka ad is a NO GO!

[@skarab9]

Nice remake of Spacedriver!! One of my favourite Boris Brecha tracks 👍

[@skarab9]

Maybe you can dedicate a video to it? What you learnt. Such a killer track. Those bass squelches🤩

[@Erebus369]

Great tips! Always love learning from you new production techniques

[@antoineschillemans]

thank for the tips Alice...greetz from amsterdam!

[@strud32523]

keep doing you!! i've learned so much form watching your videos!

[@Alice-Efe]

Thank you! Will do! 😊 ✌

[@higuyssssss]

thanx u my one and only

[@Antweezy]

this is some serious sauce, thank you

[@Alice-Efe]

Happy to spill the beans!😊

[@JakeTiddMusic]

Hey Alice, awesome video! That depth trick is a really good idea and definitely sounds like something I have been missing but couldn’t exactly work out what! Especially with more minimal styles. Do you have any videos going into this technique in more depth? Thank you!

[@FXWLL]

Brilliant tutorial. Your knowledge has really helped me take my productions up a level

[@Ravver]

I always learn so much from these thank you!! Best tutorials on here

[@gunnarschuettler]

Best video ive seen so far from you. Great lesson and reminder for every musician. thx ja

[@burtonrider08]

You are an angel 👼.. you give better advice than what I pay for. Amazing asset to the community! Thank you!! 🥰

[@P73-q5b]

You are my KZbinr teacher Thank you always.🙏

[@kai6424]

Thank you, Alice, for sharing to us all these techniques for free that takes people years of training to learn.

[@Alice-Efe]

I am happy to share everything I know! Hope it gelps upcoming producers and they make awesome tracks! 😊🎶

[@Not0ver]

This really helped me a lot so thank you for sharing!!

[@joshuajackson193]

These are all such original tricks, thank you so much :)

[@djvoid1]

Targeted distortion is something I was doing with Wavesfactory Spectre, but Overdrive actually goes one better with the dynamics knob. Thanks Alice!

[@hpnascimento95]

Great video, as always! Thank you, Alice!

[@hippienoise]

amazing, uir just amazing milady!!!!

[@LiminalStvte]

can you make a tutorial on tricks on making groove with things triggering fx on other things, like triggering distortion on cymbals when kick hits and stuff like that.

[@prodbydata]

Such a great and effective teaching style! Thank you, Alice!

[@Alice-Efe]

Glad it was helpful! Cheers😊

[@partlysimpson5154]

This is good forpeopel who are home producers, we can't hear the bass and kick so well, so we can see it

[@adpt_music]

insanely good tips. been trying to figure out some of these things for years

[@Alice-Efe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@_TheViewer_]

Never stop learning ! Thanks for the time and effort put into this, congrats as well on the Absolut-Possibilities 🥳

[@Alice-Efe]

Thank you! Learning never ends, but I will share whatever new trick I learnt here on this channel. That you can count on 😊

[@_TheViewer_]

@@Alice-Efe I’m sorry, it might sounded like I meant you would have to learn 😳😂 I meant in general and cause I’m learning here from your knowledge ✌️🥳 not meant insulting, anyway thanks a lot !

[@anonymerhiphop5427]

Big thank you, Alice ❤

[@Alice-Efe]

And big thank to you for being channel subscriber for 13 months❤️

[@abrahamseven8019]

Great knowledge thx❤

[@Od3ll_Official]

This is sooooo helpful!

[@Lateraluz777]

I was surprised to find out that Boris Brejcha doesn’t actually use aux sends. If you speak German, there is a 2 hour video of Boris in his studio giving you a lot of insight into his tracks, mix down, mastering, etc. Here it is: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3vao6Wbesp1rqs

[@zionhdhg8183]

legend

[@mdk1983]

Wow Alice! Thank you so much for such precious tips. This video is going into my favorites ❤

[@Alice-Efe]

So glad!😊

[@djronakdelhi]

What she is telling. Nobody's telling! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SonicDephect]

Thank you! What instruments are you sending to the depth channel?

[@ProfessorSaibertin]

Awesome tips Alice!

[@frankcerra3216]

Thanks 😘

[@keremcengizz]

Great videos thanks 🙏🏼 im just wondering the depth bus ambience effect, which channels are you applying that effect ? Just melody or synths or include drums ?

[@davidemori739]

Incredible video! Incredible!

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers!✌️😊

[@SuperElmundo]

as I couldn't see it, how much of the ambiance do you mix into the original sound? very interesting overall, thx for doing these

[@jeromelester8]

Thank you, it's always helpful!

[@Alice-Efe]

Cheers!

[@lo-dose]

Definitely popping open a refreshing bottle of absolut during my next mixdown!🎉

[@CayneCarva]

I really like you videos, I think you are a great teacher! Only thing I have to admit is that it's somethime a little to fast for me, otherwise I feel like I am really learning from watching your videos!

[@stenlyspa1325]

Very helpful and useful! definitely!!! And the Boris Brejcha track - sound so good! did you make already a tutorial how recreating this or... i should ask for this? (pleace)

[@Hanzi_96]

Very helpful!!

[@SpaceOfStarsDark]

🧡Gold Bass🧡

[@briancase6180]

Another useful video! I've found that saturation tools are critical. I've also found that airwindows makes a wide variety of saturation tools that are great when used in the right circumstances. I recommend Chris' plugins. It takes some time to understand them (no GUI at all), but there's a freedom you get from not looking at an interactive display. You listen instead of looking all the time. Thanks for another great video!

[@gutshisalamanca1191]

Nice video, thanks! The pro mbs attack & release times are program dependent so whatever you set the dials to is gonna be added ontop of their automatic gain reduction/makeup. In the example with the sidechained "beeps" you can clearly hear that this "added" release is too long, so with percussive sounds you can easily use the fastest settings.

[@johnwitcher7039]

Thanks a lot Alice!

[@Alice-Efe]

Any time!

[@kabirchoudhary1359]

DAMN THESE TIPS especially the low end one are such gems. You earned a sub from me!!

[@spasmenothlefono5861]

Thank You Alice for one more time

[@shirin6915]

Hey, thanks for this video, another great one! Just wondering, this Ambiance return channel, isn't it just like a Reverb return? Do you then have another channel for Reverb? Thanks!

[@Sunartica33]

I really appreciate what you do for the music community. 🤝 good one!

[@Alice-Efe]

My pleasure! We have a great community so I am more than happy to help.

[@rillegistechno4057]

I love your tutorials so much they help me a lot in my projects keep going with these wonderful tutorials!👍🎧🔈🔉🔊🎶

[@anseowesmile1143]

great vid!

[@bryanromero7206]

Fantastic content 😁🎉

[@pirymusic4804]

Nice video,Keep on the good work,consider doing a video teaching the groovy bassline in minute 4.31 it is really bouncing all the track.Cheers

[@jacksolarmusicmastering]

solid tips, dam

[@dani.papaya]

I just hitted the 1000nsd Like👍🏽 may I get any Bonus lesson haha? Thank you so much for this great advices!

[@bvrbvs]

great tip on the Overdrive device. i guess Fabfilter Saturn can accomplish same and more, but Overdrive is just there handy and easy.

[@Alice-Efe]

Saturn is great as well.

[@giggipoops]

I love you!

[@infesticon]

Im gonna try the bass mixing trick, One thing I ended up resorting to was using pink noise to mix to so every thing was basically the same level. But that's not much fun as you have the constant hiss noise as your getting your levels right.

[@Alice-Efe]

Give it a try. It is really straight forward and gets the job done most of the time.

[@gutshisalamanca1191]

Dont do that, as you said it yourself you dont like listening to noise so why take reference from it? One of those KZbin tips no pro would ever use exept when measuring acoustics. We are making music so take your favorite track of the genre as a reference and compare it to your own production soloing different frequency bands. This will help much more, promised!

[@in_10z]

Goals: master secrets of mixing......and get sponsored by a Vodka company.

[@misterphb2183]

I use your video. I download on patreons with my profile. have the files of the video is so much time saving!!!!! Especially after ideation phase when creating the song. Your advices make it solid. thx! Let's check the rest!

[@wRINGunet]

The bass comes from Boris Brejcha track. Cool

[@frano5957]

Brillant

[@PeterHoward-k2z]

What is the keyboard with the illuminated wheel @ 1:35 ??

[@bobrobertsNotUrBob]

Nova eq is a great free dymanic eq, you can side chain with it etc

[@ARCASIAUK]

How did you get camel crusher on the new mac ? 😮😮😭😭

[@808chadda]

You are truly amazing. I wish I had a girl like you by my side we would be unstoppable

[@Hanzi_96]

I have a question on the 1st tip. I need to increase the volume levels of my instruments way too much to get to minus 2-3db below the reference track. This leaves no room in my master volume. How do I fix this?

[@gerasimos-dimitriostheotok7071]

Another brilliant video! Thank you so much Alice! One question please, what is the purpose of the limiter after the transient shaper? Can’t we just decrease the level? I’m having trouble to understand usage of limiters outside the master channel 😅 thanks in advance and much love ❤️

[@gutshisalamanca1191]

A big part of mixing is managing your dynamics in order to create potential for loudness in the mastering stage. If you have ever seen the waveform of an untreated, recorded snare drum, you will witness a relatively thin sound but peaks near 0dB FS. What you now have to do, is to gradually shave off some db here and there (single tracks, busses, master) in order to push back those transients closer to the "meat" part of the waveform of your track. This is called the "crest factor" and it is showing the ratio of peak values to the effective value of you waveform. The Reason why she does not just slap one limiter on the master, is that it is not as transparent as managing the dynamics beforehand. Cheers!

[@gerasimos-dimitriostheotok7071]

@@gutshisalamanca1191 thanks so much for your response! I totally understand the purpose of managing dynamics. What I actually don’t understand, is why to use a limiter instead of a compressor? In other words, when to use a limiter instead of a compressor? Thanks in advance!

[@gutshisalamanca1191]

@@gerasimos-dimitriostheotok7071 there are multiple reasons I would opt for a compressor over a limiter. Shaping the envelope, the "sound" (mostly in analog models), Glueing or pumping & rythm. However if you ONLY want to attenuate the signal and shave off peaks, a limiter, or sometimes a clipper for that matter, is one of the most transparent ways of doing that (reasonable amounts obv.) Also dont forget that a limiter is basically a compressor with very fast settings and a ratio higher than 20:1

[@gerasimos-dimitriostheotok7071]

@@gutshisalamanca1191 yes that makes a lot of sense! So basically in this case Alice is using the limiter only to catch the peaks! Thanks a lot 🙏

[@Thilo-zh3nt]

Really Nice Especially the send and return track ambiance is a very good tip but what would you take as an alternative to fabfilter pro r?

[@Alice-Efe]

Thank you! Ableton's own hybrid reverb is actually pretty good.

[@lore6387]

Hi Alice, which pros do you know who use the ambience trick? I'd love to know so I can listen and compare.

[@Alice-Efe]

Good luck with your project!😊

[@dyscotopia]

Another tip. Don't master your track while drinking vodka

[@isekaiguy69]

Lol

[@benjoe999]

I was laughing so hard.

[@cedricblomhof1269]

Very helpfull, thank you 👍🏿 I see fabfilter mb, can you get the same result with pro eq dynamic ?

[@Alice-Efe]

Yes, absolutely! That would work as well. Pro-mb just gives you a bit more control but both works fine.

[@Walid.OnTheTrack6725]

she's a pro

[@juliouribe5290]

❤

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