Achieve Studio-Quality Mixes: 4 Things I Do To Ensure Every Mix Sounds Pro

In this video we dive into the 4 things that I use every single time I mix a song to guarantee it will sound professional. This is probably not what you expect, but will level up your mixes from amateur or intermediate to sutdio-quality professional mixes.

[rasm]

I love your channel and have gotten a lot out of it. I got the $5 book just to show some love. QUESTION: do you have comments on using Mastered tracks as reference for tracks during the mixing stage as your doing here? I would have thought that this would be a little Apples to Oranges for a comparison, but maybe I'm overthinking it, and as long as you adjust volumes it's fine. Thoughts?

[willnada]

Finally some objective techniques. Quick question you said you don’t want to process the vocals to much at one time. Does that mean when you you process them with minimal activity do you then bounce the track and now you start processing again?

[officialWWM]

How do you monitor your reference tracks? Are you loading it into your daw? If so, when doing your mixbus eq, surely you are effecting the reference as well?
Also, that bass/kick thing is very useful.

[ontheruntonowhere]

Hey, thanks for the video. I don't understand the pink noise analysis window. You said, 'keep an eye on that, ' but you don't really explain what you're looking at or how comparing it to the mix analysis is helpful.

[officialWWM]

You don’t really like the Mr Brightside mix? One of the most successful modern songs ever! It can’t be that bad!

[crawlingman]

Your lead vocal is not uniformly loud like the reference. Solo the lead vocal tracks and get the compression right. EQ them in context w entire mix.

[Rolf]

30 ms attack on the "1176-style" compressor? That's really too slow, right?

[Durkhead]

Someone said that mr brightside sounds like its sang by jerry seinfeld and i cant unhear it

[franbert]

I agree. Mr. Brightside: great song. Horrible mix.

[morbidmanmusic]

Professional is not based on top 100, as far as quality. Stop saying professional ... you're using the word wrong.