Streaky, I've been watching you for years now and you're an incredible resource. I purchased your FabFilter presets which are really useful and a huge time-saver. It feels great to support you. I'll be looking into your other offerings. Really appreciate how you're helping a lot of producers up their game.

Been recording professionally for 20 plus years but i'm new to mixing and mastering my own music and your videos have been like GOLD to me!! I just bought your FF ProQ3 preset pack and was'nt sure how much I would use them, if any but your some of your presets sound like they are polishing up my mixes to an industry standard level... This preset alone is worth the $30 I paid fo the whole pack so I am a more than happy customer! Thank you for sharing your secrets and wisdom with us aspiring engineers!

Been following you for a while, but just wanted to say that your channel continues to be the most useful resource in my feed. Thank you :)

Absolutely amazing pro tip, thanks so much!!!

Thank you, Streaky! You are God-sent! Keep doing what you're doing.

You quickly became my number one teacher. Great techniques and easy explanation. Thank you.

I never ever EVER thought about doing this! This is why I subscribed and hit the bell notification you got the good stuff!!! 🙌🏾

Thank you so much for all you do.. I love you man!

*Streaky* this is cool, and fascinating to me because I was once asking Izotope if using their Master Assistant to reference another track would be impacted by the reference being in a very different key than the key of my own song being mastered, and they agreed it does make a difference. VERY cool that you created the FabFilter ProQ presets. Just bought it. Thank you for the deal!

I’ve done this before in small degrees, it’s awesome. I limit it to only turning up the notes in the melody up dynamically instead of removing the notes not in the melody. Similar concept

I've learned more in a few months than I have in many years of trial an error. The journey is fun, but this type of micro-learning is great, easy to assimilate and retain. Thanks again.

Streaky, what a great idea! Thank you!

Absolutely brilliant mate! goodness what a pro tip!

Amazing! Streaky, you are one of the best!

Yes streaky this is a wicked tip. I also use this technique in general sound design (I make sampled hip hop).

You're awesome! Ty sir for sharing with us. I watch everything u upload lest i miss out on the gems you're giving freely. Your Mixing Accelerator Course is also awesome. ❤

In Cubase 12 there is audio to chords function, it gives you all the chords to the entire song in a second.

Pure Gold My good man. Been producing, mixing and mastering for about 15 years now and probably watched most of the videos, trick and tips out there, but you come up with stuff I've never seen or heard of before on a regular basis. I just tried the Pro Q3 vocals sidechained to the instrumental method in my last mix and was blown away and how effective it was. This sounds bloody awesome too, can't wait to try it out!!!!

@Streaky_com

Жыл бұрын

Nice one cheerfs

@eroero830

Жыл бұрын

@@Streaky_com I want to master from stems but I don't own a plant can you help me?

@shellunit

Жыл бұрын

@@Streaky_com Can someone link me to the "Pro Q3 vocals side chained to the instrumental" video? Thanks.

@branchyapple

Жыл бұрын

@@shellunit you mean this one? kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4WV1JJmpJeeqM4.html

@branchyapple

Жыл бұрын

@@eroero830 you dont own a plant?

Wow this is a great tip. Thanks for sharing!

Streaky !! Yo a G.O.A.T...everyday yo i get to learn n know new techniques that have seen n never heard of!!Yet the tricks are mind blowing ..thanks streaky❤

Wow unbelievable what it does ! This is magic ! Thanks for sharing again !!!

This is frigging amazing work. The difference that step made was insane.

Seriously powerful techniques, again!! Thanks Streaky 👌👌👌👌

omfg this is life-changing. thank you streaky i hope you know how much we love you

dude your the man I have to hire you to master one of my records in the future.

I was always taught that using too much eq (and narrow bands) will make a sound dis-jointed. This example sounds great, you have amazing original ideas that I was never taught!

@Streaky_com

Жыл бұрын

Tight cuts broad boosts

this is amazing. sounds so much better. I wonder what related techniques exist.

Thank you Streaky. Subscribed. Best mixing and mastering channel ever. I even bought FabFilter plugins because of you. God bless 🙏🏻

@tilliinfinity

8 күн бұрын

do you know mr bill? its more about production and sounddesign but also some mixing tricks. he is my absolute favourite youtubetutor and i learned a lot from him.

Other KZreadrs definitely give some value but you can just tell how much more of the real deal Streaky is.... thanks!

Splendid, you’ve done it again Streak

Streaky you are a blessing - ty

Golden as usual! We gotta work on something soon. I been super loaded with content.

Amazing thanks for the tips!!!

This is great man! Thanks

Brill, cheers streaky.

Another great tutorial, thank you

Tried this technique for the first time tonight, and it worked great. Great trick to keep in the toolbag.

too awesome !!! love it

Streaky you seem amazing been watching for a while,looks like I’m gonna binge on Streaky videos for next three days

Never thought to do this before - as I play in key! But it's so obvious! Thank you!

You kick ass, Streaky! Can you pls do a part 2 (a related concept)?

This is great! What a cool trick.

Interesting! Thanks so much!

Thank you for sharing this technique 🙏👍

WoW!!!Now THIS is a gamechanger.. tnk man..!

Streaky always brings home the bacon 💪 Cheers for another G tip mate!

@Streaky_com

Жыл бұрын

Very good 😂

You're such a cool assistant-teacher! Thanks!

Woh, definitely going to give this a try!

Great guide, been a long time silent follower.. some great content!

@Streaky_com

Жыл бұрын

🙏

Mind blown. Instantly transformed into that PNAU sounding mix magic but actually Nightcap in this case.

This is hilarious. Very interesting. Almost all of your mixing techniques involve the fab filter! Lol.

WOOOOWWWW!!! That was crazy!!!! Thanks dude...

Yo Streaky, this is a very interesting technic. Will try it!

Great technique, Streaky.

This trick is great for folks mixing for artists who exclusively stick to one key, but many songs will borrow notes or chords from other keys, and I wouldn’t trust these auto-detect websites to catch that. For example, buddy holly by weezer is mostly in F minor also. It’s a very simple song in almost every sense, but even in something as basic as that, in the prechorus, the song uses a C# minor chord which is not in the key of F minor. That chord has an E natural, one of the notes we saw that you should turn down in this demo. So if I’m the client and my mix engineer puts negative gain on all the E naturals across the mix, I’m probably firing that person. Theyr reducing the impact of my prechorus by using cheap tricks and internet shortcuts instead of learning how to actually analyze my music and treat it properly. This truck works fine for top 40s style pop for the most part, edm, house, club, etc, where many of the artists don’t understand this either… but I want to mix for truly creative musicians who are pushing the boundaries of their genre, and I will never impress them with tricks like this. I’m sure this video wasn’t intended to be a “one size fits all” solution, but it was presented that way, with no mention of talking to the client, or analyzing different sections of the song to ensure that the verse and chorus are in the same key, or alternative solutions like having an instance of pro q with E natural turned down for the verses, and another instance with E natural turned up that would get turned on or off with automation for the appropriate sections of the song. My point is-as a mixing engineer who also is a musician and composer, this trick is indeed great, but is much more advanced than this video implies. In the wrong hands, it can cause way more problems than it solves. This would never work on a Radiohead song. I’m not saying don’t use it, I’m just saying… be careful, and maybe make sure your clients know you’re doing it so they have a chance to let you know about that E natural in the pre chorus before you unintentionally damage your own mix

@molem348

Жыл бұрын

I did think the same as I was watching.... great tip but does need care. Another thing to consider is if the track is in a mode like Phrygian, a lot of the key detector apps usually default to telling you it's Major

@zwsh89

Жыл бұрын

@@molem348 that’s true, I thought about that too, but then it hit me that even thought the websites will probably tell you that something that’s technically in G mixalidyan or D Dorian is in C major, that’s all still the same 7 notes. So I give the pushers of this trick a pass on that aspect, but you’re asking the right questions. Another concern I had with this trick is overtones and harmonics that don’t fall into the natural key pitch frequencies. Reducing the “out” notes could be unintentionally changing the tone of the instruments in a mix, like a piano for example. Some of those frequencies might be clashing with other elements of the mix and muddy it up, but if you just throw this trick on every mix because it’s being sold as a “make anything better” pill, you might piss off the piano player who invested thousands in that vintage Steinway and treated room, and then paid you to bring it to life, not to use free, untested, aggressive mix moves to try to make their incredible piano somehow sound even more “musical.” We don’t need to try to fix problems that aren’t there, and while I love some of the content on this channel, click-batey tag lines like “the pros do this on every mix” are definately confusing the message. It’s a cool trick but you gotta consider when, and more importantly, how to use it.

@relaxactive3545

Жыл бұрын

@@zwsh89 dude the tip it´s there, what you say it´s obvious for any mid-lvl producer... and if you are a beginner you shouldn´t even be watching how to mix hahaha but ye i got your point, obviously if a song is in more than a key dont do that, ok, tho you could then automate 2EQ´s(one for verse and other for chorus) or maybe even 1 EQ looking at both scales...no?

@chaddonal4331

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Also, I don’t like the idea of websites to tell you what key a song is on or what notes don’t belong in a scale. If you don’t have enough music theory to determine these things, then this whole tip is appropriately out of reach. Also, the technique - even if used by those who know what they are doing - seems specious. Generally, non-tonal notes aren’t played, so cutting them is reducing harmonics which provide richness. If they ARE played it is intentional for spice (to go out of the key) and shouldn’t be randomly reduced. I’m thinking that there are other ways to suppress resonance. But I admit have not tried this selective approach.

@zwsh89

Жыл бұрын

@@relaxactive3545 ya that’s really what I’m saying. I’m not saying “don’t ever do this, streaky is wrong.” I’m just saying you gotta be careful. Two eqs, automating, there are plenty of solutions, you just have to already know the material you’re mixing and what’s appropriate for it. The way this trick is explained in the video implies that you don’t need to worry about that, it will just work. The problem isn’t with the trick, it’s the presentation. It’s like me saying “you can use a preset you like on a compressor for any sound and it will always do the same thing…” no, you need to know your input level, the dynamic range of the material being fed in, the appropriate output volume for the track, the harmonic content (is it a bass with lots of boomy low end, lots of sustain, and dull smooth attack, or is it a high-register synth pad playing short sticatto notes) etc. there’s almost nothing that works as a “one size fits all” mix trick

Cool like always🙌❤️🔥🔥🔥

Brilliant!

That’s a nice trick to get a cleaner mix 😊

For those that own Soothe by oeksound, you can achieve a similar effect sidechaining soothe. I find it to be a really transparent way to do this. Trackspacer is another great plugin for spectral sidechain. Also, techno would like to have a word with your "every track has a key" statement 🤣🤣

@lamarasamuel

Жыл бұрын

soothe does it by key?

@hearmenow909

Жыл бұрын

Techno isn't really known for pianos and vocals and Trackspacer is a really limited plugin and not useful in any way for this method. Soothe is ok but you can't pinpoint notes that are not in a key like you can in Pro-Q, unless you have a method for Trackspacer and Soothe that you want to share with us?

@TheChromaticz355

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@hearmenow909 soothe and trackspacer will only tame the opposite of whats feeding them when in sidechain mode! But doing what streaky is showing here, is more of a specific scenario where you haven’t much control on individual elements! Bcz you are taking way so much harmonics making the sound thinner! And creating phase artifacts!

@kaneel36

Жыл бұрын

@@TheChromaticz355 that's true with phase. but all of us can hear difference in this video, vocals are clearer

@naughtyducky6325

Жыл бұрын

@@TheChromaticz355ou can do exactly what he’s showing here in sooth2 aswell just sidechain an audio source containing all the notes outside the scale to it. Just generate a sine wave in serum or sylenth and put it to the midi you want. It will tame those frequencies then

Streaky always has some unique and useful tips. A great teacher.

@johnc3451

Жыл бұрын

He’s a fraud is what he is lol

Great tip!

Great video! 🎉

Thank you very much!

A great lesson!

Interesting Can you do more of these with the eq?

good idea!

Streaky! I've watched so many of your videos and even going back through, I really wanted to try to find a good video on backings and adlibs, how to get them to sit in the mix properly. No one does it well on youtube, I've learned how to use Multiband compression to assist helping vocals sit right, but how do you properly differentiate your backings from your main vox from your adlibs within the beat??? Would be amazing to see you do a video on this I really hope you see this

That's some mad stuff Streaky, nice. I have a piano up here in the flat and sometimes use the keys to figure out which notes i don't like in a sound and EQ the sound that way. Kinda similar, kinda :)

I appreciate the help because circumstances are the best at the moment Thank you ❤

You don't need presets for every key, just a minor scale and a major scale, then just drag it to whatever key you want (select all nodes and drag them in the piano display, they will snap to an exact note as you move the entire selection).

Those scale things get my music wrong often. Also I wonder how much different this sounds to turning instruments down ~2dB and using a +2dB high and low shelf boost, given how subtle it is reducing midrange.

@sarpyilmaz7697

Жыл бұрын

what he did would almost sound exactly the same if not better if he sidechain compressed the piano to the clashing frequency range of the vocals slightly , I assume what u suggested would also do the same job with better results then his comb filtering weirdo technique , Some may think Im a noob and he is a pro so he must be right , although I would simply say I have just as much experience and knowledge as he claims he has ( btw if he would grant us his real name we could investigate his credentials but because he hides it , we simply can't ) has but because ad homenum argumentation is a proven fallacy I would just ask one question to the ciritical thinker , How did any legendary engineer or producer used this trick "THEY ALL USE" before roughly 2010 's where unlimited band digital EQs with unlimited flexibility in frequency choices and q settings came on the market, how did they simply do it ? With Graphic EQ s ? very unlikely cause as we all know Graphic EQ s are fixed frequency , with all due respect teaching a techique U think would work and showing it to others is fine but advertising it in a way as if u are revealing a secret technique that every pro uses but is hidden from the masses kinda thing is just another level of .....

@ElectricEddieDaus

Жыл бұрын

@@sarpyilmaz7697 Everyone's needs to stop trying to put a Bandaid on things with Sidechaining , Compression and other Plug-ins. Get the music tight first. Don't try to fix a bad arrangement or sloppy playing by having the engineer try to fix it in the mix......... Also if the singer and the Piano player are all plying in the scale of Fmin then there should not be an issue with wrong frequencies unless were dealing with a bunch of harmonic overtones which can be possibly fixed in the arrangement.... I think more of the problem is the arrangement and the lack of Good Lyrics that fit nicely over the instruments... There's more going on in this example then notes that are not in the Fmin scale.... Thx ElectricEddie 😎

@johnc3451

Жыл бұрын

@@sarpyilmaz7697yeah I’m not buying this technique. This seems like a very improvised noob technique that just seems clever because it’s different. No human ear is discerning the difference in doing this comb thing from just sidechaining out a whole band and inharmonically saturating it back in. There’s a lot more standard ways to tackle that frequency mess, easiest of which is binning that whole mess of a song. The lyrics don’t need to be slamming with the same energy and pace as the keys are doing and conversely that obnoxious synth / piano that hits overly percussively is doing nothing for the feel of the song except giving a headache. Engineering should never be used to fix bad music compositions. This is powertool chiropractor stuff

thank you so much for teaching can useful each instrument ?

Clever. So u prefer this approach vs trackspacer?

This is brilliant. just slightly decreasing all dissonant harmonics.

This is a good one !

holy shit dude that's so cool, i guess you could also sidechain the vocal to this eq so it only attenuates the piano when the vocal is there

I been using this concept for the past 2 years amazing

wow, that's a good one!

very nice Thx Streaky

fantastic Steakster!! greetz from amsterdam,,,,,,,i bought the presets

Maybe using something like Wavesfactory Trackspacer would be better for this problem. This seems like a way to create some nasty comb filtering. But that's only my opinion. Love your videos.

@soundscienceuk

Жыл бұрын

exactly my thoughts and the phase shift would be bad if not in linear mode

Thaks for this!

Thanks Streaky, is the preset in the master or mixing folder?

Great lesson. Thank you. Links for preset aren't working for me.

Funny, a good friend of mine explained this to me but I didn't understand. I saw this video and now I see. This is a game changer

Excellent Streaky 🎉

Next level!!

Thank you for the wonderful explanation and information from a wonderful person... My question is why did you add a key (F#) from among the keys and reading why from the site did not include this note?It F was just not F# please explain ❤❤

Huge difference! Niceeee

Nice video !👍

I've been doing this on just kicks and it shocked me how much changes

You can do a similar sorta thing if you have sooth2 just create a track with an audio source containing all notes outside the scale you could use a sine wave, then sidechain that to what U wanna tame.

this is fuckin wizardy to even think to do that technique!! streaky doing the lords work!

Excellent little tip. You can probably get away with just saving two presets (Cmaj/Cmin) and then transpose up and down to match the key of the song. Easy as pie with the Pro-Q. Good stuff 👍

Lovely !

What a gem of a channel. Theory is much better than specific tutorials because you can apply this to countless tracks. Subscribed.

brilliant!

Thanks for that tip

Thank you! Just bought the presets!

Just use a broad scoop, people. The net effect is a broad scoop, but this will eat up 10x as much of your processor. Just scoop your dang mids