HOW TO GAIN STAGE IN STUDIO ONE : Studio One Mixing Tips : Mix Tip Tuesday : Episode # 2

This week on Mix Tip Tuesday we discuss how to gain stage in Studio One.

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[HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

What tips or advice do you have for gain staging your session?

[nickygacha]

Man I love this Guy. He the only one who just gets to the point. Takes you to where you wanan be. These other guys explaining, I be lost. When he explains it like. Ok I got it 💪🏾🔥💯💙

[retchidgretchin]

Using Cubase I just turn all faders down to -5 then turn wavs up or down till they are also showing at -5 in line with the faders (then adjust faders up and down as required) also put all groups, fx etc to a mix bus group which then goes to the Mastering (Stereo Bus) then if clipping when mastering can just turn the mix bus group down 5 or 10 db - works a treat and never clip this way. P.s. I will always turn the vocals back up to 0 then all other instruments etc will be around -5 give or take 1 or 2 db vocals will always be loud enough if using reverb sends and doubling the tracks.

[ZaryaMain]

This is by far the best gain staging explanation I've seen so far. Thank you for this.

[GavinSteiner]

ALWAYS gain stage using the gain knobs. They're at the top of your signal chain.

[QrchackOfficial]

Fader resolution aside, faders are post-FX. If your tracks come in too hot, your plugins will clip and/or operate suboptimally. This is especially important in amp sims, compression and distortion.

[stupidusername]

I would advise to do the Input trim method first, aim to get the soft volume and loud volume tracks at an equal level, give yourself a peak target for each track so that you are effectively working relatively even level. The peak value you set is up to you, i aim for peaks of about -12 or -10db. The Input Gain is pre effects whereas the fader is the very last in the chain (post inserts).

[The-Mad-Composer]

Hey!! Thanks so much for your technical approach and expertise in this... Unlike winging it like the so called Presonus experts. ( Not mentioning any names, but I'm sure you know who I'm talking about...😒

[ArmelionMusic]

then how do you do volume balancing? arent you adjusting the volume? what if you want the volume on an instrument to be low and vocal high wont that interfere with gain staging optimization this is showing?

[ELLIOT]

Hi, I've seen your videos on gain staging and they've really helped improve my mixes.

Will you please make a video on detecting and changing the key of a kick, clap, conga, etc, in order to match the key of your song. It sucks to work in the key of G whilst the kick is in C.

I normally use the spectrum metre to try and get the accurate key and sometimes it's not stable.


Thanks for your very helpful videos

[Brandon]

Hey. do i set the microphone level to 10db too, or is the microphone level for recording supposed to be at 6db.

[steveo]

I'm new to using Logic (not new to mixing or using other DAWs) I'm not sure I can turn down the input gain from the audio region itself like you had mentioned. I was wondering what you think about putting a gain utility plug in across each track and adjusting that so each track is around -12db while leaving the faders at unity gain.

[georgemateos]

Thanks man for this great tutorials. Bless you!

[Fretjoe]

Great video, message don't jump right into mixing, do this first and save a lot of headaches thanks so much

[zeppo]

I prefer to use the input controls on the console, or, the old cubase way, lower the clips.

[batacabatacon]

Hi question. I actually followed this all day today spent literally like 3 hours gain staging making sure I didn't go over 8db's and then another 8 hours of mixing adding plug ins etc etc... before I continue though I gotta confess I'am a newbie don't know crap about mixing. I'am a musician just tryin to produce my own music. Anyways back to the question. I spent hours gain staging made sure that I didn't go over your suggested levels, but then I routed my buses through my summing mixer and the levels dropped dramatically. Should I first route all my busses through my summing mixer and then gain stage?

[davefk]

Why not just drop the clip gain for all the tracks by -12db?

[FlashRomero]

Is all of this done before adding any plugins?

[sarahtonin]

If your overall starting mix is too hot with all the channels at zero, why not just drop the master fader down to your desired headroom level?

[stephenfell]

Hi can you not set in studio ​one​ a trim guage at neg 12 to start with so each tracks maximum setting dosnt peak above neg 12? And use a VU neter set at -​18(0) initially? Again please record drums with EZ drummer, the mass majority of your loving subscribers havnt got fully miked up drum kits in there bedroom lol