If you nail the MIDRANGE, you nail the MIX

Focus your time and energy on the midrange - and get mixes that translate outside of the studio EVERY TIME.

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[shea_o_keith]

My trick is making music no one listens too therefore I don’t have to worry about the mix translating outside of my room. 👍

[TrueGritProductions]

That's why I completely eliminate all frequencies below 200 hz and above 202 hz on the master, so you only hear 201 hz the whole time. That's where the magic is.

[L.Lyubomirov]

The most strange thing is that in Photography the midtones - midrange again is the magic and everything... :) I do Landscape photography and i am music composer, i have found alot in common in those 2 different arts.

[snuffpappy]

This is one of the most practical and helpful mix videos I've ever seen. Makes SO MUCH sense. I just did a remix, filtering out the highs and lows and reworked it until it sounded respectable within the incomplete freq. range. (150 - 8000) I then added back the bottom and top, did 30 seconds worth of fine-tuning, and was impressed at the jump in professionalism. My recordings have always lacked the warmth and richness of recordings I respect. This could be my breakthrough. Many thanks! (Halifax NS Canada)

[norwardradtke]

I've been trying to tell my producer friends about nailing that 200-2000 range for years now. I saw a country producer mention it on here and he even put a bandpass on his master and adjusted levels accordingly to being able to hear everything just in that range and, I tried it, and wow. I've even started to do sound design that way, and only modulated or boosted/attenuated frequencies in that range and it works spectacularly. For example if you're hearing your song in a department store, you're only going to hear that range I mentioned. He also said that the lows and highs will almost mystically align and balance themselves if you nail that midrange freq range I mentioned.

[Pringy]

I’ve discovered this over time, through just constantly messing around I noticed that if I got the mid range right then the mix would sound absolutely banging in the car, on my phone, on Alexa or but more importantly other people would say it sounds banging and I know they are all using various different devices or equipment to listen to what I’m sending them.

This video is highly informative but from a personal perspective it’s helped to re-affirm that I’m on the right path in terms of final output, I’m busting a gut to keep improving my tracks, which have started getting plays at festivals, nightclubs and on radio this year.

For those new to producing and/or mixing, take note of this video as it’s spot on.

Get the mid range right and the rest will fall into place!

[manipicao]

Dude. My mixes were sounding super hollow for months. This little bit of advice saved my mixes. Spend less time on the lows and highs and "Nail The Midrange" What a difference!

[Rickholly]

I agree 100%. It has taken me 30 years of mixing on pro equipment to realize just what you are saying. A studio I was working in had a powerful sub woofer system and while mixes sounded huge in the studio clients constantly came back asking for another mix because the mix did not didn't sound like what they heard in the studio. It also caused the high end to be over-powering in the mix just to get over all that low end leaving a huge donut in the mids. Thanks for this video. I hope it helps others get better overall mixes.

[adamnienke]

Great advice. You inspired me a few months ago to eq assertively instead of strictly deductively, and to focus more on the mid range. Proof is in the pudding dude, my mixes translate SO much better now. Thanks for the content, it’s been a lifesaver.

[PaulEubanks]

You don't need NS10s, just throw a midrange bandpass on the master bus from like 200Hz-5kHz on any set of monitors and you're good to go. Colt did this video a year ago, chances are it's the first related video link in the sidebar right over there -->

[lukecifer]

Dude this blew my mind and helped all of my mixes because like you said, I was always chasing the low ends for boom and boosting high end for more clarity not realizing clarity come from the low-mid and mids, just applied it to my mixes and the changes were drastic and more what i was looking for

[augustleo]

I have worked on recording, mixing and mastering home/friend projects for the last 15 years with varying degrees of success. I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate all of your no BS advice and pro tips. Sometimes the work can be very overwhelming and the results discouraging - your channel has provided a lot of new found hope. Thanks!!!

[nebstaism]

This video is the best thing I’ve heard about mixing in awhile you’re right....I had this revaluation a few years ago....the mid range is everything.... and everything you said about your ns10s is the exact same thing that happened to me.... When I got a pair of ns10 I really understood why they’re used to mix on and my mixes changed i also love auratone 5cs for this same reason.... I have both and they changed my life 👍

[Tyrell_Corp]

I've been slowly getting my mixing chops together and you just re-enforced so many points I've been coming across in less than 5 minutes. Thanks! Subscribed!

[illrich]

I needed to hear this info! Superb. This is probably why I feel like my mixes don't always translate exactly how I thought, I definitely focus on the extreme highs and lows way too much. Cheers! Also as an ex-intern of CLA I'm kinda pissed he didn't share tips like this :)

[jakobbengtsson]

My teacher used to call the mixes with boosted low end and top end "hammock mixes". Always wondered how I always ended up making those, now I realized I've spent approximately 0 seconds of my life thinking about the midrange... Thanks for bringing this up!

[orphia]

Right. Especially with modern music (post 70's) it's all about presence, instruments being right in your face. And as we discover, it isn't at all the soft shimmer of the 10-16K, or even the aggressiveness of the 3-6K that achieve that. It's all about that part above the low mids, and below the aggressive range 3-6K. That's where the thick of the instruments lives.

[victorcobane]

Thank you for the advice! I remember the first song I ever made and mixed I wanted building shaking bass on, but now matter how much I kept boosting and boosting my extreme low end on the bass and the master, it seemed to get weaker and weaker; I couldn't understand it, lol!
However, this mid range idea seems to make a ton of sense, and I can't wait to try it! I'm definitely focusing on that shit for my next mix.

[djcshaw]

This is the piece of advice I was looking for for about 3 years but I haven't started paying more attention to my mids and realizing that most industry tracks are not heavy in the low end at all

[firstname]

Man, your videos have been so helpful to me with my engineering journey! I get so hyped up to get home from my (non-musical) day job and put these lessons into practice in my little home studio. Thank you!