Your videos are really clear, concise, and informative. I appreciate the straightforward instruction you offer, and the lack of rhetorical flourish. I often find that some other recording how-tos provide 5 minutes of information in a fifteen-minute video, but your sizzle-to-steak ratio is 100%. You are a born teacher, and I am subscribing to your channel now. Thank you!!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Sizzle to steak ratio! I love that analogy!!! Thanks for your comment. Cheers 🍺

Brother, as always, you are absolutely AWESOME, knowledgeable and selfless for you service teaching others how to make one's music better and worthy of being listened to by others in amusement!!!!!! 💯

Thank you. You are definitely one of the best teachers here on KZread. I hope you get back to putting out videos

you such a great teacher you will live long ❤🇳🇬

so many years after... i really understood that i did wrong in compression... thanks a lot for the video!

pure brilliance!!!! An 8 minute video and now I totally get it. I've been doing It by what sounds good and with this now gives me the science to it. YOU ARE THE MAN. I've literally been sucking the life out my mixes.

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

Жыл бұрын

Great! Glad it helped 👍

10 years of mixing in my homestudio, I’ve learned everything « alone » (with tutos and courses) and I have yo say this video is one of the best if not THE BEST about this topic 👌🏽

@lifepath7741

Жыл бұрын

Your comment make me very angry.

@teamoseguela4072

Жыл бұрын

@@lifepath7741 I don’t see why 🤷‍♀️ I’m telling this teacher that his course is one of the best existing. So there is no reason for you to be angry 🙄

@err0rc0degames

Жыл бұрын

@@lifepath7741 Why?

@lifepath7741

Жыл бұрын

@@teamoseguela4072 Because not all the people had your brain.

@teamoseguela4072

Жыл бұрын

@@lifepath7741 you didn’t read my first coment entirely, you are just searching excuses to pick at somebody else. I wasn’t bragging about my brains, I was telling everybody how much time I wasted by learning by myself and that it would have been better and faster to learn with a teacher like the one in the video ! Don’t answer to somebody with hat comment before understanding what he is saying 😒🙄🙄🙄

Maestro I love these videos as they help me refresh my memory

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Good, so you already have a strong foundation. But it refreshes my memory too, as I'm doing it. Because now I have to actually explain it! Thanks for the comment.

In my personal opinion I feel like for this comparison to be accurate you would also need to adjust the threshold so that you are getting the same amount of gain reduction for each attack setting. On each one of the comparisons in this video There was a huge difference in gain reduction. If you have 15 dB of gain reduction happening on a signal it does not matter what the attack time is, it is going to sound like trash because it's being decimated.

@airbourne145

2 жыл бұрын

Well said 💯

In logic, on the compressor he’s using, I liked using the graph view instead of the meter view to visually learn what the attack and release we’re doing. Using my ears alone helped the most of course but this video is solid info as usual.

really great video i was doing it backwards before this video!

NICE AND STRAIGHT FORWARD. EASY TO UNDERSTAND . THANKS

Learned more than most of the time in Tutorials and im high af Great Vid!

Thanks a million for enlightening us. I'll now look for all other video clips of yours.

Thanks for sharing Arty!

You are awesome brother!

Thank you! it makes more sense now. Can't wait to go back to my studio later tonight and mess around with my compressor!

Thanks for the detailing ,it's very well explained

Finally. Glad to see you are back. 💪🏽 🔥

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, so we have 3 new videos in the past month, so we're getting better at putting out steady content. So please stay tuned ! 🎸🍺 Cheers

Been trying to figure this out for a while and always got confused. I love how well you explained everything and it really stuck to me. Overall an amazing video. you got my sub! cheers!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ren. Glad it helped! Cheers 👍

Thanks for this brothahood! It's been a blast learning all the nuances of audio engineering! Because of many hours on KZread and discussing with friends in real time, I finally set my clubs system up to a great standard! THANKS!

With regard to drums, percussions, one MUST use one's EARS and even FEEL the "vibration" felt from either one's mixing speakers cones, listen with headphones, even feel the vibration on one's desk or whatever platform where one's speakers are placed in order to decipher that density of the SMACK or THUMP, as he said. Vocals and instruments should ALWAYS retain NATURAL sound yet with dense crisp resonance

This guy understands the old adage of "a picture is worth 1,000 words". He SHOWS the knob, its setting, and whether it is Slow or Fast! Simple stuff. Not not for some of his peers. I just watched a YT vid for 18:20.....ALL TALK, no Pictures! No Vst examples on that one. This one was GREAT!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, thanks! It takes a lot of work to throw in all the graphics, So I really appreciate that you appreciate it! Cheers!

Thank you SkyeLap, learned an awesome lesson❤️👍😎👏👏👏

Thanks for the great tips!

perfect, thanks. Just what I needed to know

*Awesome!! Thanks for this*

Thank you! Great insight about less attack on compressors making the sound brighter!

I love your channel your tutorial’s are always straight to the point and easy to understand I totally appreciate you

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony! I really appreciate the comment :)

Great tutorials Arty! So effective, easy to understand, straight to the point. Keep it up! Best regards from Johan Stockholm-Sweden 😊

Facts 👌🏽 my mentor pointed out this mistake to me personally. Good content.

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

You have a good mentor! Attack is a very underated, often ignored function that is just so vital to get right. So... nice Aaliyah type beat on your channel. I would just tighten up that bass and maybe give the overall mix a little more compression. But that's just my humble opinion. Thanks for the comment :)

@MGDee

3 жыл бұрын

SkyeLab Music Group thank you 😊

Very good advice

good tutorial! Thank you

I love your videos Arty. Thank you!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Freda! I do appreciate the comment. 👍

Thanks. This has helped a lot

Love it, Arty!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lara. I appreciate your help with it. 👍

Thanks for the lesson!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Corey, Glad it was helpful!

Another awesome one Arty!... Please more like this.. It took me forever to understand this, wish you would have started doing this years ago.. Thank you none the less, many will benefit from your knowledge

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pibay. Glad it's helping you! Seriously. So we have a long list of what to do next. But I think it's going to be a full anatomy of a song. Stay tuned, The next one should be good episode. 😁

Awesome tutorial ❤️🔥

Very informative and love that you’re using stock plug ins.

Finally some real wisdom! Thanks for your time on teaching this knowledge...

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you got something from it! I appreciate the comment. Checked out your short film on Cereal. What did he say to his father? (english interpretation)

Finally, I grasped this. Thanks so very much. Please mix huge drums

Thanks great video

Thank you for your help thanks 🙏

Awesome 👍 thanks

Great video

Thanks to your videos Im learning a lot

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! That's why I'm doing it :)

You are great !

Thank you sir...😃

Thanks!

Amazing. Straight to the point and very insightful. No more guessing for me! LOL

thanks ! Good explanation again!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!👍

Awesome thank you. I just found this out about Attack a few months ago.

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, such an underated ignored knob, but so important!

Thank you buddy.

Thank you

very helpful sir

Such a good channel - I've learned so much from watching your vids man

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that! Then I'm doing something right :)

Thanks it really helps me!!!! 🤗 I'll try to get more good sound with my vocal!!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mystic. You should check out our video on Mixing Background vocals. Some of the techniques also apply to lead vocals. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKx7q9axYsa2mJM.html

@ERA_Music

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great advice!! I've subscribed your channel so definitely I'll go through your tutorials!!😆

And, especially according to this engineer mixing tutor's lesson, the defaults of these applications at time MAY have a better setting than what one may manually set, depending on one's ear and experience.

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Drose, the defaults depend on what you're looking for. So when they design these, they often make the default the most used settings for the plugin. (if it applies) On compressors and eq, it's usually going to start out flat. But on effects like reverbs, modulation and delays, you never know so I always check it out first. Thanks for the comment. 👍

What’s your recommendations on vocals ? Fast attack / Fast Release o Slow Attack and Slow Release ? 🤔 ! Thanks for your amazing videos

dude you're weird af and I love every second of every video, thank you so much!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Francisco, Weird is a compliment I greatly appreciate! Thanks, and glad you like it. More on the way :)

@franciscohurtado3357

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkyeLabMusicGroup one of the best compliments, you have no idea how you've helped me

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

@@franciscohurtado3357 So I just checked out your channel! wow, You're so good!!! The animation and the 3d figures are amazing! Is that what you do for a living?

@franciscohurtado3357

3 жыл бұрын

SkyeLab Music Group yea I’m a 3d sculptor and renderer. Thank you for checking it out, I do a lot of work for the US🤘🏼

i wish i found this tutorials years ago. what have i been doing with my life 😂

Could you do a video on Delay ?

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely. Thanks for the suggestion. It's a great subject, and as I'm thinking about it, there's a lot to discuss.

Thank you! What do you do with the non-compressed attack transients if there's an undesirable variability in peak levels? Limiter?

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

Жыл бұрын

You can use a transient shaper to tame those peaks. Or a limiter, depending on what sounds like. 👍

It wouldnt be fair if i dont comment. You videos are Gold. I hope we meet and work one day

Hi what’s your attack and release. Thanks on a stereo track ,, thanks

I always use on the masterchannel an multiband compressor . and i always set the attack for the lowband on 10ms. , and on the mids and highs on full fast attack . is it wrong ??

thanks daddy...u saved me ..

compressor is so misunderstood Thanks

What would you recommend if you were stem mastering and the producer used too fast of an envelope attack on the bass, which caused some unwanted clicking? Would you have to automate a fader for every click or..? I was thinking maybe using a transient shaper but so far I haven't had any luck with finding the right sound. Kind of stumped at the moment but I'm probably just not thinking in the right direction lol happens sometimes when I'm caught up with a busy mix and have a lot going on. I also tried using an LFO tool to kind of do that automation for me but the effect was just too much. Just trying to avoid having to automate the entire bass track but I may have to?

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

2 жыл бұрын

Frequency based, multi band compression, like a de-esser might work. See if you can use an analyzer and isolate the frequency of the click. If worse comes to worse, yes, automate it. Tedious as f@#$ but sometimes that's the only way. And I probably won't take you more than 15 minutes. 👍

fast attack results always count after make up gain (for the db matching) and slow attack don't need make up gain I kinda confuse by this duality can you help me to understand these better, is there any wrong believe in what I said?

Can we get this same video with a limiter please?!

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

With a limiter I would take a whole different approach. But yes, I'll try to do a video on Limiting. Thanks for the suggestion :)

@ErreGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkyeLabMusicGroup Amazing, already waiting for it :D !!

Awesome. Subscribed I'll check fb page rn!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

How do you determine the threshold??? I can’t seem to find a single video talking about how to set the right threshold.

@SkyeLabMusicGroup

3 жыл бұрын

That's an excellent question! Different for a compressor or a gate. A gate is easy. You want to set it high enough, so it only opens for the sound you want to hear. Then you use the release and hold to determine how long it stays open. You have to do a lot of fine tuning until you get it just right. Or sometimes, like with live drums, it just might not work on everything because the dynamics are too wide. With a compressor, you have to first determine WHY you're using a compressor on this sound. Is it to subtly control the peaks of a vocal? If it is, then you would set your threshold high enough so it only engages when the vocal is nearing the peaks. But if it's on a guitar that you may want to smash and limit the whole dynamic range, then you would set the threshold low enough so it engages constantly. And make sure you pay attention to your ATTACK settings :)

@jetdeleon

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkyeLabMusicGroup - that makes sense. Thank you!

@izvarzone

3 жыл бұрын

i do by ear... same with all other settings, ratio, hpf/lpf, etc

Just to assume that: The higher the frequency the slower the attack should be?

what about the release time. you didn't talk about it

master buss equal mix buss ???

@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579

Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, but it could be. It depends on the mix, some have one to several busses for guitar, drums, vocals, etc. The Master bus is typically everything.

🤦🏽‍♂F A C E P A L M 🤦🏽‍♂

Still NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND!!! I am stupid or the rest of humans

super

I thought I understood compressors, I've made several albums at this point; then the other day when I was brushing up on the difference between downward/upward compression and expansion -- I realized something, there is something about compressors and how they are used that literally makes NO sense ... You set a threshold, but then everyone says to set a medium release so the transient can pass through... OKAY?? (anyone else see a fundamental problem here?) The threshold is set according to the peak of the transient... which you don't want affected... but you use that peak to then compress the part that is already quieter????? If that's literally what one intends to do that would make sense... but that's not what people's stated purpose tends to be... they claim they are controlling dynamics, controlling transients... buuut, to do that you WOULD have to affect the initial transient.