How to get a perfectly balanced mix 🎛

[HowardCharlesUK]

I thought you were going to say to use a shitload of multiband compression on the master 😂

[davejohnsonmusic]

TB Pro Audio has a monitoring plugin called, ISOL8 and you can mute and solo 5 different bands with adjustable crossovers. M/S as well. And it's free. A great utility.

[clunt]

That’s a great tip, i remember when I learned that tip it legit changed my mixes so so much.

[sergedotcom]

Mad useful. This is one of the reasons i swear by Tonal Balance Control. But this is essentially the same thing just free af.

[JulienFade]

I use exactly that! Happy so see someone having the same thought

[jasonpieters]

First tip on YouTube that was actually usefully

[MikeBrayton]

I mean, you can really just do this visually using the analyzer while listening to the whole mix. After all, it's only in the context of the whole frequency spectrum that you can know which area needs to be increased or decreased. Soloing different bands is just a way of confirming what you already know.

[tdcmusicnow]

Excellent tip Balancing out each sound .. Some samples coming at a different volume or even DB

[BTL]

I also use that trick but with the multi band comp found in Reaper. I solo the bands and have a listen to the "bleed" of the instruments. That way I can check volume/energy and frequencies of the instruments and know if I need to clean something, say a synth that should not have any lows, etc.

[sj]

The plug-in reference is great for this! And more

[StormbreakerYT]

I use Ozone’s Tonal Balance Control to monitor the energy of the Frequency Spectrum. Way better than any technique I’ve seen

[na_der]

How do I know if the energy isn’t much or little?!

[SanctusKain]

When I heard "balanced mix" i was tgink youll talk about something very different, haha. Also a great trick for reference tracks as well. Comparing your track with the reference using the same MB idea.

[apep.]

how do I mix and master my beats better like you. my beats sound good and loud in headphones but externally the audio never sounds as good. why is that?

[OverdriveMusic]

The plugin Metric A/B from plugin alliance does this 😀

[anthonymetcalf]

Thanks for that! It gave me the idea that you could also run a parallel bus with no output, drop an EQ in there with low- and high-pass filters, and place a multi-analyzer behind it.

[merri]

Hey, I feel like PRO-MB default preset alters your mix a little. Am I right ?

[overseastom]

Anyone know if I can do a similar thing in Reason 12?

[fabian]

Bringing the little white line down does that do Anything to the sound on its own or is it only the threshold control?

[salski]

Best tip you can do is listen and balance in mono!