3 Mixing Tips for Workflow in the Studio // Mixing and Mastering a Track quickly

Pt 3 of the series where i take a simple loop i made with a cheap setup ( ) and try to turn it into a full song! Today we'll be mixing with the bare basics that Ableton Live has to offer. I like to keep this approach simple and quick that way i don't spend a ton of time tinkering about slowly making my house track sound worse haha. Trust me it's happened. After the mixdown session we'll take it over to Landr to get it Mastered with their incredible AI that actually listens to your track and applies a custom mastering chain to your track where you can tweak it a bit to your liking. I prefer this over doing it myself because i have no clue what i'm down when it comes to mastering. And in the grand scheme of me making music for fun not a living, i don't want to spend an arm and a leg to get my track up to proper volume levels.

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00:00 Whaddup
01:05 Tip 1
09:43 Tip 2
15:25 Don't Waste Your Time With this
16:38 Tip 3
20:35 Bonus Compression info
23:36 Mixing Drums
27:13 Panning
31:53 Why I Use Landr for Mastering
34:19 Ableton Render Settings

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[dylanscott]

"All our music sucks and all our music is good, it just depends on who's listening" Those some words of wisdom right there! And for whatever it's worth Ricky, you've had a EDC mainstage-sized impact on my life as a house producer 🙏

[sinewaymusic]

Regarding the high pass filter on the kick, here's a pro tip I learned from a Propellerhead tutorial: regardless of how surgical the cut looks like visually in the DAW, there is an inevitable boost right at the cut frequency - think of it as a bit of a resonance hump right at the cutoff point. So, if you set the cutoff at 50 Hz, it will actually boost 50 Hz ever so slightly before sharply cutting off anything below it. I'm sure different EQ plugins will work slightly differently but this is at least the case with the SSL-modeled EQ in Reason. Professional mixers use this to their advantage. So, be sure to place the cutoff point where it sounds the best, at the root frequency of the kick, and use your ears. 👂👌

[kookiespace]

You're definitely right about the kick cut at 50hz sounding WAY sharper. These are really great tips that I'm going to play with. Thanks :)

[elsf]

"All our music sucks and all our music is good, it just depends on who's listening"

I think those words might be my first tattoo for a constant reminder😋🙌♥️

[ThMntnst]

About the „rules of EQ“, and regarding modular: there is a module by Shakmat which is simply called „Hipass“ which features two pairs of fixed Filters, cutting at 100 and 30 Hz. Ironically that little thing first got my attention to foundations of EQ-usage. Excellent in preparing stuff at the raw sum or whilst tracking.

[embersandash]

Cut the kick at 80hz with a 6db slope, then boost into saturation at frequency of your choice. Try on the kick / bass together or mix for tight lowend integration.

[Ywz]

I’m loving this start to finish series!

[BoxLab]

this series you've been doing is so helpful thank you Sensei Tinez

[GeorgeHzMusic]

I just saved this video under my “best mixing video” playlist (which doesn’t need any other video than this one)

[bo-bodad]

Great video! Quick tip, the EQ-8 has a built in gain stage on the lower right so if you're already using an EQ-8 you don't really need a utility for additional gain (you might still want it for bass mono.).

[wylatron]

Man, even when I’m not trying to learn anything, this is one channel I can always enjoy and count on
The vibe is right, every time.
Ricky your personality is super comfortable and easy to listen to and I always end your videos feeling just a smidge better about life. Keep it up yo, big respect 🙏

[lundsweden]

Great video Ricky, very generous of you to share your mixing knowledge with us. One trick I picked up years ago was to compare my track with a professionally mixed and mastered track in the same style. For example, if I am doing a Moby-ish type track, I'll A/B with one of his tracks.

[theundeads]

I don’t know how I came across this channel but wow this is insane. Every video I’ve learned so much. Your videos are the Grammy winners of videos meaning the advice you give connects every genre just like good music connects all different language speakers. I stick to hip hop and a lot of your videos give me such viable advice, thank you my man

[L.O.V.D]

Damnn Ricky, these series are soooo helpful!! Amazing content!!!

[brandonasprouse]

As someone who's made music for over a decade - but doesn't release anything due to a lack of mixing knowledge...THANK YOU SO FKN MUCH - this is a great great resource I'll be revisiting <3

[isaacanthonydj]

Great advice, Ricky!

I used to own a nightclub, i've seen most venue Xover subs at somewhere between 125-200HZ. You might take that into consideration, when you're thinking about when you want that sub-bass energy to really hit, in da club.

[ejmikk]

I’m sorry but the ”only one thing under 50hz” only makes sense sometimes. For example if you kick’s fundamental is at 40hz, it makes it sound like crap to highpass at 50hz. The real rule should be, ”only one thing at a time under 50hz”. Which is why sidechaining the bass to the kick usually solves the problem without making the kick sound crap.

[alexkourelis]

Ricky - just taking a sec here to say that your channel is a breath of fresh air in a world of click bait garbage and I'm so happy to have found it. A friend of mine and I were just talking about YT channels and we both recommended yours to each other unprompted haha

[ambeatstv]

That 50Hz cut even on some cheap headphones really brings out the definition, I’m using this tip! Thanks for all your videos 👊

[jkidou]

Hi Ricky! A really good trick on the master channel instead of using Utility for making every bass frequency mono is use EQ Eight with the Mid/Side option where u can sweep the bass frequencies from the stereo field as much as u want or boost higher frequencys to get even a bigger and wider atmosfere!