Never Do This When Mixing

Have you tried by EQing your mix bus first, not individual tracks?

It’s best to adjust the tonal shape of the entire mix first on the mix bus and then if needed, you can go to the individual tracks for further adjustment…

By following this approach you’ll find that you do less processing and achieve a better overall finish due to the cleaner workflow!

#mixingtips #mixingandmastering #mixbus #equaliser

[astrokratov_official]

This works great when your music consists of prepared samples and ready to use vocals, recorded with a dedicated vocal chain. When working with live instruments you have to clean everything up first.

[machineagevoodoo]

That's what a mastering engineer would say now innit

[ohstudiousa]

I've been using this approach for about a year now and it makes things easier and more in the same room so to speak. Especially with live recordings.

[studiodsr]

I’ve had success for years mixing individual tracks in solo one by one first. I’m basically acting as the final producer, making sure each track sounds right before combining them and building up a coherent mix - drums first, then add bass and so on.

With experience you can do this while still keeping the final overall sound in your head, leaving room for vocals and various instruments.

[richymoore]

I’d love to send you a messy band session, full of hissing amps, chaotic sounds, 40+ tracks worth of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, vocals, samples and sound effects, and then demonstrate this theory. This is nothing more than applying a bit of comp/limiting colour on top of an already perfectly mixed, bland house track where most of the dynamic processing has been done by whoever created the loops.

[alessandrosummer]

I’m sorry but I strongly disagree to the top down mixing approach. It might be good for very experienced engineers who know their tools extremely well, but often the top down mixing can lead to overprocessing. I definitely start from the individual tracks and/or busses and have very little processing on the master bus - usually a little bit pf compression, a really tiny bit of clipping and sometimes some EQ bit not working hard

[lydfar]

Terrible advice. Unless you have a plugin to sell... 😅

[Ryan-xqkl]

I think its great advice to put filtering on the mix bus, but if you're designing sounds and synths then you will be forced to do individual filtering.

[derwiederentfachtermannith]

Dunno….all the top mixers I’ve been in a Room with used contrary a ton of plugins on individual tracks 😅…. Processing them to not really touch them much again 😊

[yheyivd]

If you get the gain staging bit first right, the song will mix itself in my opinion (if you know what you are doing). But hey, I'm open to try new methods!

[vitocorleone]

So there’s a master bus that goes before the master channel?

[NOTBK]

Everyone has their own way of doing things

[LoserDub]

Huh interesting, i do the other way, but sometimes you have to add eq on tracks while your making them

[ashishnoah]

What is a Mix bus?? ... Does that mean routing all the tracks to a single channel??
Usually we will have bus for vocal reverb, delay and also for instruments.. Then what does mix bus exactly mean?

[joshuadeleon]

where i get to browse your plugin a big fan from PH

[Vingul]

LOL, doubt I will ever follow this advice. I don't run every single thing through the same FX either before or after mixing.

[fwscoringmusic]

Is the colour box something like the black box?

[Exaltation-heliacal]

Thanks I’ve been losing my mind. Thank you

[GuyXVIII]

Now do this without placing anything on your mix bus cause when you'll bypass everything will sound weak and muddy ✌

[chnzn]

To say that one should NEVER work the tracks individually is the hot take. I very much prefer getting a rough level mix among the tracks first. But then again, I'm not a pro so...