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okay so mixing and mastering

I'm not even gonna pretend that I know

everything about mixing and mastering

I definitely don't know everything about mastering

I just know how I want my drums to sound

I know where I want my vocals to sit

and then I get it to a place

I bounce all the tracks down

and send it in a very easy file

where either Manny or Serban can

mix it even better than me

and sometimes

like with we don't talk anymore

the mix was like okay

and then we send it to Manny

and then he brought something out of it

all the instruments I added

he put it through an SSL board

and brought the song to life

so mixing engineers respect your mixing engineers

but right now

we're gonna mix prep

we're gonna EQ compress

all that fun stuff

and get it sounding really

really good um

I like to isolate the tracks I started with

and kind of just building it from there again

just listening to everything as a whole

and definitely listening to it very very low

it's actually mute the vocals right now

let's just focus on the instrumentation

but I guess I

and now they've been

so I got to go into a master I was just about

let's look at this face

again in the spirit of

not even remotely pretending that I know how to

oh just subtract this and gain

change this

blah blah blah

literally stick Neutron 3 on it

is the most powerful tool you can have made by isotope

it's a wonderful company

it's very very nice people

they've been very

very kind to me

um and I put it on balance medium

and it's analyzing algorithmically everything

going through the main output

and it's gonna give a suggestion

let's see if we like it

okay

it's kind of killing it a lot with this excited

let's see what it did in the EQ boosted about

I'd have to agree with that

what's the sculptor doing

okay so I just took the exciter off

I don't think it needs it

before

just push the mids a little bit

putting it before my cheeky little compression thingy

I like it commit

hide and make an active

it's literally what I do for the base

I think it's very very smart

maybe some proper I don't know sounds good though

hmm let that render out

okay tackle this hi hat a little bit

let's actually print all of this

so it's not too plug and heavy

okay that should be a lot faster

alright let's put this

literally put the neutron on it again

I never do that on the high house but I feel like

I feel like going crazy

let's do warm what let's do balance

definitely compressed it more before

might bring that down a little bit

I'm bringing No. 7 down a little bit

because I don't agree

I wanted to

stylistically don't want to be like too much

bring it down use your ear

kind of cool to dip the hi hat out right there

I love it commit

okay let's see here

I don't mind these high hats

I might just turn them up a little bit

still a little frequency that bothering me though

let's do the uh neutron 2 EQ

I think that might be better

bring these joints down now and

this little white noise thing

I think we can are you literally use neutron everything

what's that C

maybe that's five

see what that does

a little less harsh

can't really hear this open hat now

bring it up

hmm

you put a little plate on it

think it deserves to be a little wet

okay down

maybe these little high hats like like barely

it's

I don't like it I like the other one

my favorite

one more spacious

definitely take these strings down

let's see what neutron does to this

Michon 3 I'd be interested to know

oh I don't like what that did at all

I think I had to put the reverb after let me try again

boop boop boop

I might just use the EQ for

I just took the reverb off that completely

because it rides better commit

do do do do do do

take my fake guitar

honestly I don't know what I would do without neutron

so I hear all that stuff in between there

let's put a little gate on it to

kind of close all that shit off

so here's the C1

which one do I

think which one do I use

I think it's this one see one come yeah

let's do this

no that's not it hold on

this one they look so similar chop gate

kind of like the sound of that

I could chop it up but I don't feel like it

let's put a little bit of widening on this thing um

I know I said I don't really love using images

but this one's all right

before after

hear the wow wow wow

probably needs to be a bit more prominent

neutron

this lesson should just be called

how to put neutron on your track

I wanna make it up front

up front please

see what it did

let's do a great LA today

just to bring it up even pump it even more

I like that

let's print that

I think we're almost in a good place

let's just listen to how the vocals sit

and then I'd bounce everything down

and then bounce down an MP three

send it to Manny as a reference mix

and he'd make it 10 times better

cause he has more real stuff

but you don't need the real stuff to make a great song

just helps having someone

finish it up with the real stuff

this is still bouncing

oh one last thing

I think this deserves a little bit of love

you guessed it

hmm

I like I like what it did on the

sick fix cider off

I like the compression it's a little bit

it's nice let's bring

put the NS1 at the end of the chain

to get rid of that hiss

dope commit

boom

I'm hearing like a little

I think it might be the strings

it is and that's one what would we do without you

just as an Alt

there's another one that waves

makes great noise reduction

x noise and using it for a very very long time

I think that works better

hey let's listen to the music in the intro

let's focus on that base

um let's put it before the reverb um each round three

and I feel like you say

I love the panning

too much

I don't need to be

I took the sculptor off and took the excitor off

I love what it did with the EQ

sick commit

and keep it really really simple

do do do do do do do do do do do

do do do do

I'm gonna leave the rest alone

but let's just focus on that organ

hmm

so nice

okay

I love you I love you

great love it print

don't think just print

will never never never will never never will

never never never

this is not one snare I think that snare is good yeah

but just for shits and gigs

you never know what neutron can do to a snare so

say upfront

actually quite like that a lot before

hmm maybe maybe

off the compressor

hmm elongated it

let's go to the EQ

and just take it down just a little bit

great print

vocals

I rarely do

I'll never do this to like my vocals

I just focus on making everything underneath

the vocals pretty tight

but I guess I just don't

cause I'm thinking about our

I want those on a different

kind of track situation

hopefully it doesn't get mad at me for duplicating this

hey

but I guess I just

but I guess I sounded with the altered boy

but I guess I nope

but I guess I

but I guess I just

but I guess I just to

but I guess I just but I guess I just don't

but I guess I just don't live in real

but I guess I just don't

but I guess I can bring the fourth delay up too

but I guess I just

but I guess I

but I guess but I guess I

guess I'm thinking about

guess I'm thinking about

this right here I need some money

that needs to like

have something on it to smooth it out

what's this

act like I do not go and get my hopes up

and love me love

oh I need to put these on a different thing

39 40

39 40

good

I was wondering why there wasn't making a difference

I can back it off Jim okay

where's my come ons come on

just copy paste this so we don't have to stop

I like this here too and this

verse two

to this part I didn't know

go and get my hopes up and love alright boom

are you gonna show me thank you

okay let's listen to this all the way up to here

so this is a good mix

I think it's

if Manny were to mix

it would be better

if serving were to mix

it would definitely be better

but this is good enough for me to rock to

and then just about bouncing down all the stems

and making it easy for the mix engineers life

but let's listen to what we got

I think it's definitely

definitely much

much cleaner

that's a little loud though

I want to go down the road

I mean that sounds really

really much

dramatically different from the first demo

from yesterday

so I figured I might as well show you this

um somebody just told me recently that the volume knob

on the master on Pro Tools

I don't know about any other DW

but on Pro Tools

which is what I use

it's before all these plugins

so I had no idea about that

and I could make up the game by putting an L2

or something at the very

very end of it

but I start out the chain with this

Shadow Hills

compressor I put it on

I'll just tell you exactly what I do

this is what I use for everything

mastering Discreet Steel

on the very

very first one

I put this mastering setting off

the wave C6

which is been around for a very

very long time

but I think it has a lot

a little bit of color

I just boost up here

I just cut a little bit down here um

no that's not doing a whole lot

sometimes I'll push 16K

to give it a little bit more of a ring on the 3rd

on the third slot here on the API

but I'm just boosting 8K

make sure the analog is off

I couldn't figure out for the longest time

why my mixes were sounding hissy

and that was on the entire time

stereo with 17% delay

0.1 milliseconds

make it a little bit wire or wider

Brain Works

screenshot this

this is just

this isn't a preset or anything

this is just

shift the base just a little bit up

the presence a little bit up

what else did I do here

this and everything is pretty

pretty neutral here

um let's see here about the bow

the pull tech is really

really good

it is insane

how similar this thing sounds to the real thing

um super fun uh

boosting these highs up here um

you don't wanna do it too much

because then it sounds hissy

um so now you subtract

I take 3 decibels off the top

um and then add like one

and I think I usually put it on bring out the beat

I like that one a lot

does something to it

sounds like this

brings out the beat literally does what it says

um and then I will highlight it from here on out

everything's labeled

I know exactly where to end it

I will do command option B if I'm sending it to a label

I'll do a do a wave 16 bit 4:41

if I'm just doing it for me it's just an MP 3

call it day 1.1

um well now I can call it the title

since we have a title

hopes up 1.1

she really should be 1.0

but 1.1 sounds better than just bounce it

I don't really run it through a track

or anything like that

cause I don't really have an expensive

hardware rig to run it through

I'm just doing everything mostly in the box

so my song is done

it's bouncing down right now

now is the time for you guys to tune your vocals

make any last changes to the

any reverbs on any tracks you wanna do

mix and master your stuff

feel free to use my mastering cocktail

I can't wait to hear what you guys come up with