Production skills, tips, tricks and techniques

[KodeAM]

Guys, really nice vid from Dudge & Fuski. They're dubstep producers but in this vid they give nice tips about mixing, that can be applyed to every gender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21KZPuf ... re=related

take a look mixing drums 101.

[Exley]

I have a question about eq/mixing, i heard somewhere that you shouldn't eq/mix particular channel in solo, but when all channels are playing. is is true ?

[Tobias Tune]

There really is no right or wrong I guess. That's just one way of doing it. By doing so you ensure that the changes you make go well with the overall mix. Small example: You add a snare to your track, so you start with a low cut. When you solo the snare channel and then set up the cut, how should you know how much exactly to cut? When doing this while playing your track (or elements of it) you can tell much better when it sounds good.

[DennieMeister]

I have a question about eq/mixing, i heard somewhere that you shouldn't eq/mix particular channel in solo, but when all channels are playing. is is true ?

I do it like D. Ramirez explains in that famous video course.
Just Mute all tracks and then put them up one by one, that way it's easier to avoid clipping and in my opinion easier to get the levels right.
But I guess it's just a matter of preference in this case.

[Chris1292]

Quick question. Sorry if it has been answered before. If I extract a sample from a track that I like, do i still have to compress it and all that since its already been mastered. Should I only use compression on that sample when im "gluing' the drums together? or is there more to this?

[Phuga]

Quick question. Sorry if it has been answered before. If I extract a sample from a track that I like, do i still have to compress it and all that since its already been mastered. Should I only use compression on that sample when im "gluing' the drums together? or is there more to this?

I usually put a compressor like you say to glue them together, but like you said it´s just gluing the sounds more than anything else.

[Exley]

Thanks for answering guys

[Durt_Grizzly]

I have a question about eq/mixing, i heard somewhere that you shouldn't eq/mix particular channel in solo, but when all channels are playing. is is true ?

Yes it's true.
Solo'ing while you EQ defeats the entire purpose of EQing in the first place... Think about it. You EQ to make a sound work better in the MIX with all the other elements in a track. You can have something sounding amazing solo'd, but then sound like crap when you un-solo it again. It's called "mixing" for a reason

[dyro]

Hi Guys, quick question:

I'm using Fabfilter pro-Q as me master EQ. Lately I noticed somekind of irritating side-effect on the latency mode.
When I turn Latency on, it sound like everything gets sucked in. Even a bare kickdrum gets sucked in. It's like if you have a four bar kick pattern and you would play it, everytime the kickdrum kick's in it gets sucked in like 10 milliseconds before it actually hits.

Anybody else experienced these problems with latency/linear phase EQ's?

thanks

[Durt_Grizzly]

Hi Guys, quick question:

I'm using Fabfilter pro-Q as me master EQ. Lately I noticed somekind of irritating side-effect on the latency mode.
When I turn Latency on, it sound like everything gets sucked in. Even a bare kickdrum gets sucked in. It's like if you have a four bar kick pattern and you would play it, everytime the kickdrum kick's in it gets sucked in like 10 milliseconds before it actually hits.

Anybody else experienced these problems with latency/linear phase EQ's?

thanks

Could be a delay compensation problem in your DAW maybe? Don't have Pro-Q though so can't really say..

[dyro]

Hi Guys, quick question:

I'm using Fabfilter pro-Q as me master EQ. Lately I noticed somekind of irritating side-effect on the latency mode.
When I turn Latency on, it sound like everything gets sucked in. Even a bare kickdrum gets sucked in. It's like if you have a four bar kick pattern and you would play it, everytime the kickdrum kick's in it gets sucked in like 10 milliseconds before it actually hits.

Anybody else experienced these problems with latency/linear phase EQ's?

thanks

Could be a delay compensation problem in your DAW maybe? Don't have Pro-Q though so can't really say..

It's on my master, so it doesn't have to be compensated regarding to something else.

[Gruneau]

Hey guys,

Just a quick question/thought here..

Let say I have a huge bass or toms that are deep and stereo, whats the best way of making sure the bottom end is in mono? Sometimes when you put the channel in mono the tom sounds weaker.


I usually do it by duplicating the tom, cutting it at 300 hz and putting the low channel in mono and the one above i just let be in stereo.. Sometimes this can really affect the sound though and make it sound "not so tight".

Do you guys know what i mean?

Is there any other more efficient way?

[mauricio]

Hi Guys, quick question:

I'm using Fabfilter pro-Q as me master EQ. Lately I noticed somekind of irritating side-effect on the latency mode.
When I turn Latency on, it sound like everything gets sucked in. Even a bare kickdrum gets sucked in. It's like if you have a four bar kick pattern and you would play it, everytime the kickdrum kick's in it gets sucked in like 10 milliseconds before it actually hits.

Anybody else experienced these problems with latency/linear phase EQ's?

thanks

Could be a delay compensation problem in your DAW maybe? Don't have Pro-Q though so can't really say..

It's on my master, so it doesn't have to be compensated regarding to something else.

What do you mean by sucked in? If you post an A/B render of ProQ off and ProQ in Linear Phase/High Latency I can probably figure out what's going on. Also do you use Live, Logic or FL or Cubase etc

[Exley]

Can u recommend me some nice piano vst ? (besides nexus )

[Siyabulela]

Hi Guys, quick question:

I'm using Fabfilter pro-Q as me master EQ. Lately I noticed somekind of irritating side-effect on the latency mode.
When I turn Latency on, it sound like everything gets sucked in. Even a bare kickdrum gets sucked in. It's like if you have a four bar kick pattern and you would play it, everytime the kickdrum kick's in it gets sucked in like 10 milliseconds before it actually hits.

Anybody else experienced these problems with latency/linear phase EQ's?

thanks

Could be a delay compensation problem in your DAW maybe? Don't have Pro-Q though so can't really say..

It's on my master, so it doesn't have to be compensated regarding to something else.

What do you mean by sucked in? If you post an A/B render of ProQ off and ProQ in Linear Phase/High Latency I can probably figure out what's going on. Also do you use Live, Logic or FL or Cubase etc

By "sucked in" i think he just means that the kick drum plays 10ms earlier than what it should. The Pro-Q does that though(Well, lin-phase Eq's), depending on how much latency is applied.A linear phase eq has a constant time delay (latency), independent of frequency.I'm Not too good at explanations, so i'll leave that to Mauricio. His the best when it comes to the heavy technical stuff.