How To Mix Orchestral Music in 5 Steps - My Workflow Explained

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How I use Reverb, EQ, Volume Balancing, Panning, Compression, Delay, Distortion etc. in my Mixing process.
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⏫ PRIVATE LESSONS: Coming soon...
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🎻 LIBRARIES & SOFTWARE:
(For each module, the libraries are sorted based on how much I like them).
- STRINGS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, Nucleus, Cinematic Studio Strings, Fluid Shorts, Cinematic Strings 2, Jaeger
- BRASS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, JXL Brass, Nucleus, Twelve Horn Ensemble, CineBrass CORE, Century Brass, Jaeger, Angry Brass
- CHOIR: Oceania, Metropolis Ark 1, Stormchoir 2
- WOODWINDS: CineWinds CORE, Nucleus, Metropolis Ark 1 & 3
- HYBRID PERCS & LOOPS: Damage, PercX, Decimator Drums, Cerberus
- BIG CINEMATIC PERCS: Los Angeles Modern Percussion, New Epic Toms Ensemble, New Epic Dhol Ensemble, CinePerc
- ORCHESTRAL PERCS: CinePerc, Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion, Kontakt Factory Library
- PIANO: The Giant, Woodchester Piano, Spitfire LABS Soft Piano
- HARPS & OTHERS: CineHarp, Kontakt Factory Library
- SYNTHS: Juggernaut, Serum, Harmor, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica,
- ORCHESTRAL SFX: Metropolis Ark 3, Palette Orchestral FX
- SOLO STRINGS: Tina Guo Solo Cello, Solos of the Sea, Cinematic Studio Strings Solo
- SOLO VOCALS: Jaeger, Vocalisa
- GUITARS: Basic Live Guitars & Bass routed into Waves GTR / Guitar Rig, Metropolis Ark 1, Heavyocity Atlantica
- TRAILER SFX: Custom / Private Samples, AVA Instinct, Cinematic Trailers Designed, Epic Sound Effects Quantum, Scenes From The Multiverse Vol.1, Juggernaut, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica, AizerX Classic Trailers Toolkit, AizerX Trailer SFX Tools
- REVERB: ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer
- MIXING & MASTERING: iZotope Ozone 9 Advanced, iZotope Neutron, FabFilter Pro-Q3, FL Studio Plugins
- DAW: FL Studio 20
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💻 HARDWARE & PC SPECS:
- Desktop PC: 3.7 GHz Intel Core i7 8700k / 32GB DDR4 RAM / 2TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD
- Laptop PC: Asus ROG GLW752 (2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ / 16GB DDR4 RAM / 1TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD)
- Audio Interface: M-Audio M-Track Plus
- MIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Keystation 49 MkIII
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"Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho (Pirates Of The Caribbean Cover)" originally composed by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer.

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02:09 - Step 1: Write a Great Arrangement
09:29 - Step 2: Reverb
17:40 - Step 3: Volume Balancing & Panning
25:26 - Step 4: Aggressive EQ & Surgical EQ
33:02 - Step 5: Fine Tuning & Comparing with Reference Mix

AlexMoukala

"If the cake sucks, you can put all the icing you want but its never going to be great". lmao

thomasnielsen

For the first time I'm mixing a track that I'm fairly satisfied with follow these steps, I'm at 23:44 but I will follow through tomorrow since well it's late here and I'm earfatigued.
Thanks for sharing this, it's people like you who are encouraging other people to follow their own path and dreams ❤

peshtiwarbotanimusic

I love all your orchestral production tutorials. They are so packed with useful tips thank you!! 😇

JoanneMoo

Alex! Those 37 minutes opened my eyes! What you convey in half an hour, a university professor would need a whole semester ... You're a magician. Even HZ does not convey knowledge in such a simple and accessible way. Thank you very much!

cubawak

Another great video from you, Sir! It's good that you emphasize the importance of instrumentation rather than super-heavy producing. If the music sounds badly arranged, it doesn't matter how much you polish the tracks, since they are not going to sound good.

ToastedCigar

Thanks Alex you are big inspiration to us, and IMHO this is the best youtube channel

julko

Very helpful about the composition/arranging, thanks👍🏽

JoshuaNaranjoMusic

You're videos are great man! When it comes to the Panning of the already panned Libraries, I just recently read that if your Arrangement needed for example, The String Section Panned to the Opposite side you can just Swap the Stereo Channels keeping the Fullness of the Library. Thought it was worth sharing.

Damon

It's good to see you're mostly concerned with instrumentation when mixing instead of production, whereas the popular trend in orchestral music nowadays (mainly due to trailer epics) tends towards spending 80% of the time producing instead of writing.
Suffice it to say you're doing a good job, so keep it up ;)

UthoRiley

Im a huge fan of you Alex! You have learned me alot. Thanks!

andrethomasson

Hi Alex, I'm an italian composer. I want to say thank you for your mixing tutorials. Sofar I studied composition, orchestration, music for films etc but mixing was a thing I didn't know almost anithing about and now that I was in need I found your tutorial very very useful, so thank you very much for your help!!

However before this I haven't ever hear about you, aren't you in the composer's forums? (VI Control, Redbanned...)

DanieleNasutiComposer

Thank you for so much informationen in one video.

Wow. This is what I really need right now, I don't know where to go after levels adjusting. Thank you for the content!

ibrahimgema

Thanks for the tips, I learned a couple! Btw, I enrolled in the EVENANT course Cinematic idea from start to Finish. I've been on it from about 1.5 mos now :)

DanzoSrife