10 Mixing Mistakes Beginners Always Make | iZotope

So you have an interest in mixing music, and you’re looking to avoid the pitfalls that swallow up lesser engineers. You’ve come to the right video. What follows are some of the biggest traps we’ve seen bedevil nascent engineers.

TOC:

00:30 - Not having a clear idea of what you want to do
02:03 - Employing too much processing on a track
03:30 - Trying to turn a sound into something it isn’t
04:34 - Not paying attention to gain-staging
06:59 - Not paying attention to phase relationships
08:37 - Putting reverb on every track
10:18 - Working in solo for prolonged periods of time, and not paying attention to masking.
12:03 - Not paying attention to timing and tuning
12:42 - Adding tons of bass and treble
14:03 - Going for a mastered sound
15:19 - Outro

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[nthdegreesongs]

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[syntheshad]

If there's one plugin that will never ever ever leave my monitoring chain, it's gotta be Tonal Balance Control and Insight. Don't get me wrong, we should still use our ears and sometimes break rules in order to elevate the artist's vision, but not all of us have properly isolated rooms to mix with, especially me as a beginner, so having a tool to reference to, that gives you solid and unbiased information to work with, it really elevated my mixes to a different level, rather than buying another compressor or eq plugin.

[TheParadox]

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[daftHour]

This is superb advice, thanks a million!

[Freeziepop]

I really appreciate the Grand MA lighting console b-roll shots around 4:30. Gave me a chuckle

[vangelis.gavalakis]

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[JansleyMusic]

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[garyheller]

This is excellent for a beginner engineer. My ears are pretty good and I know when I don't like the mix but these "small" tips providing some general guidelines will save me a lot of time that I would otherwise have spent "learning the hard way". Thanks iZotope.

[NICUofficial]

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izotope content been really helping NICU move our album forward right now as a full-indie production where I'm songwriting, playing, mixing and mastering all myself in the home studio. appreciate this wealth of awesome info, it makes a big difference to me :)

[ridcomics]

Wise words of musical wisdom less means more and more means muddy messy musical know because I've been there too great video

[CarlosVazquez-emih]

I love these videos, as always, thank you iZotope, for everything!!!

[Torsten]

My favorite go to trap has always been (and sometimes still is) an everything at once approach. I always have to restrain myself. Don’t mix while recording! Don’t master while mixing! And vice versa.

[petermsull]

Actually you *did* miss a fairly big one: monitoring too loudly.

[brovibesvlogs]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This really hits me hard. Thanks, great advice!

[Writtenmirror]

Proud to say I made none of these mistakes. What I would add is not saving a 'ground zero' version to revert to if needed

[rayalexander]

"This goes up to 11", and my number 11 is mixing fatigue/ear fatigue when you have been at it for about 6-8 hours. Then the next day you realise your mistakes, and have to take a few steps back

[dspoet]

This is interesting. I have Nectar Pro and the trial version of Nectar 3 PIus. I did the vocal assistant with both and got two different vocals chains.

To my curiosity, I did it a second time and the same thing happened. Two different vocal chains.

My question is this. What’s difference between Nector Pro and Nectar 3 Plus and why do I get different settings from vocal assistant in each one?