Archives for November 2016

The following is an excerpt from a tutorial on Logic Pro X, it is regarding Stem Mixing. You’ll first need to create an accompanying arrangement track, if you want to put the aux fader into stem. Any sounds you’ll want to compress together will have to remain in the same stem. Lastly, keep the compression bus floating at the top of the mix.

Key Takeaways:

• To put the reverb’s aux fader into the stem, you’ll first need to create an accompanying arrangement track
• As with reverb and delay, any sounds that you want to compress together have to all reside in the same stem
• Keep the compression bus floating at the top level of the mix (remembering to route its output to the corresponding bus

“As a final check, it’s well worth creating a new project and importing the stems, which should have been placed in the Bounces folder. Balancing all the faders at 0dB should recreate the full stereo mix, complete with the FX.”

http://www.musictech.net/2016/10/logic-stem-mixing-2/

Well, it won’t make your coffee for you or put lemon in your tea, but the Neutron Advanced can give you advice about how to mix your tracks. IZotope’s latest plug-in is made up of an EQ, two multi-band compressors, a multi-band exciter, an improved transient shaper module and last a limiter. It’s pretty powerful and is relatively easy to use.

Key Takeaways:

• iZotope’s latest plug-in has an AI Track Assistant that helps you make refined mix decisions
• Studio assistants aren’t just useful for making coffee and comping hours of vocal takes
• The Exciter Module is solid enough and has the ability to blend between four decent algorithms on an X/Y pad

“Spectral Shaping essentially splits the spectrum into 32 bands, then applies material-dependent attack and release characteristics to each band to transparently compress and smooth out the signal.”

http://www.musictech.net/2016/10/izotope-neutron-advanced-review/

For a mix to turn out well, it’s important to make good use of your compressors. Something most people don’t know about compressors is that they are simply just automated volume faders. Think about that. Some other important components to this series are subtractive EQ, additive EQ, level matching and Mix buss EQ.

Key Takeaways:

• Compression is not only one of the most confusing effects in your audio tool kit
• it’s also the one that can do the most damage to your mix when used incorrectly.
• Today I want to begin a new 7 part series about how to mix with compression to pair up with my 7 part EQ series.

“Compression is not only one of the most confusing effects in your audio tool kit, it’s also the one that can do the most damage to your mix when used incorrectly.”

http://therecordingrevolution.com/compression-automated-volume-fader/