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[Aexitprod]

1 : Dry Signal to Wet signal ( 1:29 )
2 : Kick to Bass ( 2:36 )
3 : Lead Vocal to Backing Track ( 3:16 )
4 : Lead Vocal to Background Vocal ( 5:22 )
5 : Lead Synth to Pad ( 6:11 )

[PulseAM]

That's a nice plugin and tutorial thanks!
I've been doing this a long long time, they made records in the past say 70's 80's that sound great without a lot of tools we have today. Part of me says learn how to shape your sounds with EQ, compression etc. to get your vocal to sit in the mix the other part of me says use only when needed the tools we have available. My biggest gripe about modern mixes and music is things are too perfect (perfectly boring), it's the anomalies that keep the listener engaged along with good song writing, arranging, use of effects etc. In the last example with the pad, I typically roll of the low end of pads at 220 Hz and up they eat up a ton of space that makes room for your bass synth and other low end material. I always harp on this, get a frequency chart and learn where the fundamental frequency starts per instrument, in general you don't need any information below that point. As an example a Viola's fundamental starts above 120Hz, pads are akin to a string section you don't need pad sounds at 80Hz.

[Quant-Beat]

Multiband side-chaining is a key to actually have two main parts separated but still as loud as before.

[bicrome]

Great! I've never thought of sidechaining pads!

[fitton]

Very cool! I've applied the same concept with dynamic eq. I use it with acoustic guitars to duck between 6-9k a dB or two whenever the vocals come in. Leaves the bright pick attack sound in for when guitars are on their own, but ducks it when I start singing. Very subtle but it works! Sidechaining dynamic eq's is worth it's own video imo. Great video man! Love the format! No BS and good demos of the technique at work. Cheers!

[troeteimarsch]

I side chain myself with a good mix engineer and boom - it works!

[cbro]

Mid-side side chaining my vocals against my backing tracks leveled up my mixes 10x. Synths vs pads is daaaangerous too. Too many gems in this video!

[benschotte]

I'm Using it often, great effect gives m/s pan to Mid then vocal coming through mix much better. It's easy tool to prioritise elements in your mix. 😊

[cosmicaddress]

Trackspacer is fantastic. Discovered it when I found Deep Forest uses it for their tracks. But I hadn't thought of some of the use cases you pointed out here! Thanks!

[stewartgc]

I do this same thing with soothe. I feel like I can be more subtle with it

[cryoflameaudioforge]

I am a solo artist and I Love your videos bro, you have been helping me for years now! Thank you for that

[shomm_music]

I love Trackspacer, it is an absolute gamechanger for mixing...good Tips and Tricks - there should be more content like this outthere for Trackspacer BTW...and i have to add: your channel is great, very helpful and authentic...

[brennyC]

As a Trackspacer alternative, FAST Reveal from Focusrite is a good choice.

[ScottThePisces]

Also Logic gang, if you ever want to bounce your sidechain in place. Route the output of the track to a bus, then create a new audio track and select the input to that bus. Record the section you want bounced in place. Done!

[DenisVolga]

* Track separation and Side-chaining must be used for bringing up the main instruments or vocals, for clarity of individual channels/buses, for over-all richness (hearable) of arrangements.
FabFilters, Sonible Smart EQ3, WaveFactory Track-Spacer, Sonible Intelligent Limiting & Loudness Compressor, ERA 6 AcuSonus Audio CleanUp Assistant, Focusrite Fast Reveal, Ozone 11 or Neutron 4 (Vocal separation/enhancer, Spectral Shaper or Stabilizer), Blue Cat's Dynamics (flexible compressor with prefilter, side-chain, over-sampling, look-ahead, peak envelope, modes, RMS), TR5 Quad Image (four bands with stereo-width and gain, solo-band control), TR5 Opto-compressor with L/R and M/S, NEOLD U2A and U17, ..
* WaveFactory Track-Spacer - is a simpler, cheaper alternative to FabFilter (and it is good).

* From this video (a Streaky way):
1. On side-chain (upper right) select the main channel that needs to stand out.
2. Place TrSp on the channel needed to be ducked, tweak it numerically and by ear (comparing to main tracks and the whole mix).
4. WaveFactory Track-Spacer for main vocals: blue dot for advanced features, LC around 800Hz, HC around 3kHz.
5. WaveFactory Track-Spacer can also be used for clarity and separation on drums and bass(es).

* Another way for clarity and standing out of vocals:
1. Send vocal to two buses, one with reverb, another one with delay.
2. Apply compressors on both buses after effects.
3. Sidechain the compressors to the vocal. This way the reverb and delay will be kind of on and off (less muddy).
4. Tweak to have aprx. -5to8db gain reduction with 100% mix in.

Or just reduce reverb and delay (along with low frequences, LC) on vocals themselves ;)
Or duplicate the vocal channel and apply different effects and stereo-placement to them ;)
Or..explore ;)

Of course, now i have to sort the tracks as the main and secondary, so i can apply a better, more appropriate limiters, compressors, EQ's and spacers, then split my very old 28 minutes pool (one of the firsts) into sections, apply tools and effects individually to sections (mix) and then glue everything together, and then master...agh..was trying to avoid this huge job, but there is no other way to make this one long, very immature piece of very variable music sound good. Reality has no short-cuts.

Now commercial came up: "flirt with woman when she feels about you, not thinks about you". Don't know why, i never used computer on these subjects, maybe because it is almost 2AM...Time to go to sleep. Yeah, humans trashed and raped the planet with garbage and wars, lets talk about sex.. Yepp...

[flossondatrack]

Love trackspacer, but Soothe 2 does a great job as well

[LBJedi]

Thanks for these tips Streaky! What’s the advantage in using Track Spacer as opposed to a dynamic EQ or a multi-band compressor?

[juliusway]

Super useful thanks. I’ve been using this technique with izotope neutron unmask but this has given me more ideas of how to incorporate it.

[deanstradins]

One of the few plugins out there that is ACTUALLY useful, easy to use and does exactly what it claims to do. There are other ways to fix these issues, yes. (There always are) But for a really easy and fast way to address and fix, then this is definitely a useful tool to have.

[ArtemTimakov-wo]

Killer video!!! Thx!!! I use another great pluguin - Neutron 4 Unmask, he work also very well