A Simpler Approach to #Mixing

#StudioOne #JoeGilder

[ChevyBoyEnt]

The first one!!!! Yes! Thanks for dropping all these great studio ones jewels!

[AnujSaxenaMusic]

Joe not just explain it really well, also adds the fun elements throughout the session.🤟🏻👻👻

[michaelpadilla]

Joe my brother, you are a light in the darkness. Thanks a bunch!

[nathansheeran]

This tip is incredible. I've been making my mixes simpler and simpler and I go and every mix gets better. I think you have the real secret here, thanks for sharing!

[winstonsmith]

Thank you, dude. Nice tune! It'd be great to hear the whole song.

[Frebad]

I have had Sphere for 4 months. I really didn’t appreciate the amount of content you put on there. I am now going through the material - Studio One is an incredible tool.

[LeftAloneTrusk]

I have been applying top down mixing since I really started "seriously" mixing, it was one of the first videos I had watched when researching Studio One. It stuck with me. Thanks Joe.

[novakillbones]

I started working like this about 2.5 years ago, during the first COVID lockdown. I decided to download a handful of MIDI files of some of my favourite 80s songs and do a few covers, just to pass the time. Initially i just wanted to get the songs working, so I added instrument plugins and did some quick levels before moving onto the next one. In just a week or two I had more than a dozen songs in that state. When I went back and started working on them, I realised that they were sounding pretty good with virtually no effects on them at all, so I consciously tried to finish the mixes without adding any.

When we, my Electro-Industrial band, started work on our next album I took this new technique/mindset with me and I've found it works at least as well in that genre as it does for my 80s stuff (which is now at more than 70 songs). It's been a revelation to me and my bandmate is just as impressed with the results it has given us as I am. I still need to put effects on my vocals but for all the electronic parts, I've found that I can get great results with minimal processing.

BTW, Joe, you're cheating. Fat Channel isn't really just one effect, it's at least two in the examples you've shown in the video. At least you're on the right track.

[JimmyFlame]

Incredible tip! I've been mixing/mastering for nearly 30 years, and it's easy to 'forget' about simplifying mixes and using buses to conflate multiple tracks through processing. It just happens. Haha. Thanks for reminding us old guys!!

[Marco-HidalgoMusicRecords]

It´s always instructive and fun Joe´s videos!!!! Learn a lot!! Thanks Joe

[thoveler]

Awesome video! I never understood the point of top-down mixing until this!

[emanuelwhitehead]

Great job man I do this all the time it works well

[loveMusic]

Brings the room sound out more to especially on the high end.

[bj]

Joe, great demo of an efficient approach. I could really use a little hand-holding with the use of folders (4:20). Maybe a past video has taught this?

[briankingart]

Very useful Joe, balance first, not plugins! Thx!

[HalcyonGuitars]

I’ve looked through your channel backlog and didn’t see it, but have you ever done a video about the faderport 16?

[nedim_guitar]

Over-mixing? ... Guilty as charged! About a year go, I started doing what Joe suggested in some videos: top-down mixing. Nowdays I usually just mix the buses, although I do go in individual tracks and put on HPF's and remove those really annoying frequencies with very narrow Q. Those are usually between 300 and 550 Hz. I'm not a pro, so it's good for me to "go easy on the plugins" (1:27). That leaves room for me to experiment later with more plugins and different effects in a more creative way.

[seancostello]

Hey Joe. At some point, could you show a comparison between top-down and bottom-up mixing on the same song? I mean - your best efforts at both on the same song.

[nickygacha]

@joeglider do I add deEsser on the bus or the trck. Also then do I add compressor.

[erifretrats]

it is a case of knowing when to stop and enough is more is less, not always better, it is too easy to overwork something and the thing you really wanted is then lost