7 Tips To Improve Your Mixing Skills

In this video: Daniel talks about 7 essential mixing concepts to improve your growth as a mixer.

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[hjaltiagustsson]

Your tutorials are a level above most other mixing tutorial youtubers, dude

[iantanner]

Only discovered your channel a few days ago, absolutely the best audio mixing channel I have come across, superb, concise presentation, not patronising, not opinionated, just perfect.

Many thanks

I've been a hobbyist for almost 40yrs, still I have a lot of outboard, old synthesizers, samplers, drum machines etc, - but I'm always learning, and this channel really has, not only confirmed previous beliefs, but also, introduced me to extremely useful techniques and insights.

Quality stuff

[michaellarsen]

THIS! THIS IS GOLD! I will never be able to mix the same way again. thank you so much!

[StudioofOneAccord]

this video is legit. Definitely needed to watch this as I get ready to work on my mixing.

[sameelatif]

5:46 ">You should hear every instrument clearly" thats the one that reeeally grinds my gears and i've never understood, sometimes i enjoy using an instrument almost like a reverb in that you feel it but may not necessarily hear it, at least not 100% of the time... and vise versa sometimes i want my reverbs to be more than felt :)

[GioNailatiTV]

your awesome man! Thanks for the great tutorials, very well done.

[Barukh]

Great informative video! You're very good as a teacher, I like your method. Thanks a lot for the tips... God bless

[janminor]

I actually know and practice some of those tips, but it's good to be reminded once in a while. Great presentation!

[TheeDonnieRey]

Great info man! The philosophical part of mixing is always the hardest for me. I never know what to do next but this helps!

[creatorsremose]

Brilliant! Excellent, solid tips. Thank you!

[heavymetalmixer]

Though there are plugins that have autogain features (like the TDR plugins I love so much), but usually that's not possible.

[pinbac]

when you do A/Bing you could turn the sound up or down to the same sum. Similar to a fair experiment.

[SPLMixing]

@brain hamster - I suppose the distinction should be made between actually hearing what something sounds like as opposed to how it actually sounds and fits into the mix...Crank It doesn't specifically refer to turning up the volume (although it can), it's actually more about turning up the effect that something is doing so you can understand the quality of the sound, but as you rightly point out - the final decision of whether to use it in a mix should be made by level matching the signal.

[adamtaylor]

I really like the pre-mix check list. I've performed some of these in the past but I was doing a lot of them while "mixing." I feel foolish for not doing notch filtering and all the basic maneuvers first. However, I'm constantly getting better mixes with help of videos like yours. Thanks.
How long did it take you before your mixes became consistent? Like using the same mix setup, and work flow.

[kbjrecords]

Nice work on this vid. You got skills. Let me know when you upload fresh vids, maybe we can help someway.

[hachewie]

I don't know. I don't use protools.

[oggyjack]

PLEASE I do not own studio monitors but i have decent pair of mixing headphones... Can i practice hearing frequencies on my headphones ? Will the extreme frequency cause any damage to my ears when practicing on headphones?

[SirPugglesworth]

Trying to offer some constructive criticism here, so please don't take this the wrong way; Your ideas are good and your mixing techniques valid, but I didn't find the video very useful. Audio engineering can be difficult for some people and therefore informative material tends to bore beginners and hobbyists unless you make it exciting. I found this video is probably not engaging enough to capture the attention of the enthusiast and keep it for 12 minutes. However, someone more advanced who enjoys the subject matter might find this video to contain material a little too basic to invest 12 minutes. 
Hope that helps you. 
On a side note, if you like the BF76, then I would try out the Waves CLA 76 and the NI VC76, both of which I found to be a better 1176 type plugin (I can't compare to the hardware because I've never gotten my hands on one but I like them better than the BF 76). The VC76 is marginal improvement, but the Dry knob is cool to have which is why I like it better than the bomb-factory version. 
If you can afford it than I'd always suggest forking up the cash for the UAD 1176 package which not only gives you the best sounding plugin but also 3 different versions so you have choices. Also consider adding an LA-2A modeler to your arsenal if you haven't already if you like 1176.

[brainhamster]

ireally liked this tut, but... can't agree with #2 'crank it'.
you never
always listen low. if you can hear everything low, then you have a better reference.

[cortster]

I honestly don't understand what send and input does. I understand output, but not these.