Mixing Mistakes to Avoid || Don't fool yourself

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Ever tweaked a channel to perfection, only to realize you were on the wrong channel, or the wrong knob? Or how about the whole processor is bypassed! Today I'm walking you through the less obvious mistakes you can make when mixing, so you don't trick yourself, when things actually sound bad.
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  • @henryjirsak6844
    @henryjirsak68442 жыл бұрын

    “Nobody leaves church humming the kickdrum”😂👌🏼

  • @23Guitardood
    @23Guitardood3 жыл бұрын

    "nobody leaves church humming the kick drum" lmao 🤣 love it

  • @PanRider939
    @PanRider9393 жыл бұрын

    Really appreciate the last tip, 85% of it is good gain and the mix, that’s where I came in and for a few years not even knowing what a compressor was or much else, but somehow it worked.

  • @Ethan_N
    @Ethan_N3 жыл бұрын

    Such well rounded quality content. Thanks a ton!

  • @cee128d
    @cee128d3 жыл бұрын

    I once spent an entire Sunday morning working with a guitarist whose battery in acoustic guitars pre-amp was going dead. The volume was weak and extremely distorted. She spent the entire time telling me there was nothing wrong with her guitar and I didn't know what I was doing. Even after plugging her guitar into the other guitarists channel and his into her channel proved that it was her guitar she continued to argue the point and asked the Worship Leader to put someone else on the console (which he refused to do). It sounded so bad I ended up just turning her guitar channel off completely. And yes I suggested placing one of the SM58s on a stand to mic her guitar to get us thru the morning but they adamantly refused. The next week the Worship Leader (her husband) told me that the battery was indeed essentially dead due to some wiring fault in the pre-amp that had been repaired, but stated I should have been able to tune the sound system to compensate for it. I told him he was crazy if he thought you could tune a system around a bad input like that. Needless to say, when his contract ran out both of them were let go. Neither of them ever apologized and still bad mouth me to others about it.

  • @dannycobra9339

    @dannycobra9339

    2 жыл бұрын

    Was it a Taylor? I have a friend that's having that same issue. Luckily she's not as stubborn. But I feel your pain, so many musicians think running a sound board is just moving a few dials and calling it good.

  • @cee128d

    @cee128d

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dannycobra9339 Honestly, it's been so long since it happened I don't remember. They had two identical guitars and they both had that problem. The Worship Leader had his repaired but didn't think to have his wife's identical guitar checked. I do remember that it was a common failure on that specific model of guitar and was covered under warranty, but he was too lazy to worry about it until it failed. I was so glad to get rid of the two of them. It's been six years and neither the old WL or his wife have been able to find a Church that is willing to put up with them. The volunteers that replaced them were not nearly as musically adept as they were, but they were so much easier to work with. They always asked what they could do to make things sound better and thanked the Sound Crew after almost every service.

  • @siulnoredlac4951
    @siulnoredlac49513 жыл бұрын

    Any chance you can make a video about how to set up a lavalier mic for a preacher with live sound? EQ, gate Comp tips? Thanks!

  • @itsmatchew

    @itsmatchew

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes we would love to see it!

  • @obidavekenobe

    @obidavekenobe

    3 жыл бұрын

    With gates and compressors, understanding attack and release times and how they affect the tone helps in controlling the transients and sustains. And set the make up gain to zero, compress 2:1 to 2.5:1. Keep in mind attack times on compressors feel like they work differently then they do on gates. Think of a fast attack like throwing a door open quickly when signal reaches threshhold, and this acts quicker on the transients. While release times determine how the tail or sustain sounds or feels.

  • @blakeb8981

    @blakeb8981

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @OtherTheDave

    @OtherTheDave

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn’t bother with a gate on a lav mic unless there a bunch of people on stage and you’re just wanting to turn down whoever isn’t talking. It’ll help hide compression-induced feedback, but only until the AC kicks on (or something else raises the noise floor) and then it’s squeal city. Plus, it sounds weird in the recording.

  • @paulmorrey733
    @paulmorrey7332 жыл бұрын

    Thanks James

  • @michaeltablet8577
    @michaeltablet85773 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much!

  • @deancarr5153
    @deancarr51533 жыл бұрын

    dude i love these vid's. thank you ,i still run an LS-9 ahhhahh hell on earth!

  • @pica6sedg
    @pica6sedg3 жыл бұрын

    Loved it!

  • @dwaynearthur1476
    @dwaynearthur14763 жыл бұрын

    Yes correct , the blend is the real goal . I Like that gritty guitar 🎸 tone , sooo nice 👍🏽 . You mentioned playing with the delay , would you still use this effect in an untreated room with hard surfaces ?

  • @robfriedrich2822
    @robfriedrich28222 жыл бұрын

    I listen in solo mode too, but doesn't forget the context of the part. When I treat vocals, I have the goal of a believable voice sound and when there are more than one vocal part, I change the setting after this, that multiple vocal parts will match together. I modify the instrumental parts to match with the vocals and I use the equalizer first to get a good sounding part and when this part doesn't work in the context, I change it. Some changes are about the low end. When the bass guitar covers the bass, the piano got a low cut and maybe some cut in the midrange, to left space for the vocals. Acoustic guitar when recorded over pickup needs some cut around 4 kHz and cheaper ones also some at 1 kHz and in a complex arrangement I would cut frequencies below 800 Hz.

  • @diebeatz
    @diebeatz3 жыл бұрын

    Alright, Nerdville trip.. all aboard 🚂💨💨💨

  • @johnmalone3256
    @johnmalone32563 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. Ive been on an adventure for a couple months as a green horn mixing my own recordings. I feel im getting ahead of the game quickly with your help. I could probably even mix live music at this point, okay maybe not quite yet.

  • @danielredfearn7318
    @danielredfearn73183 жыл бұрын

    Yessss with the JHS Shoutout. Loud is more good

  • @MalikAmer87
    @MalikAmer872 жыл бұрын

    Really nice video

  • @jimpemberton
    @jimpemberton3 жыл бұрын

    Mixing in the headphones. I hate it! The only thing I really use headphones for is hearing what an individual part sounds like. And really, I only use one headphone. I keep an old headphone with one end broken off so I just hold it to one ear. I listen for a couple of seconds to train my ear to it and put the headphone down to listen for it in the mix. That's the sound I adjust - the one that's in the mix, not the one that's cued in the headphone. "Temporary Threshold Shift" I'm going to have to remember that term. This is something I've always been aware of and have worked to keep my hearing as neutral as possible, kind of like a wine or food taster that has to clear their palette. I have an established SPL range that works for the congregation that I aim to stay within so things remain consistent. I also play unfiltered canned music between services. If the music in between services sounds weird, then I did something wrong in the mix at the previous service and got used to it. I listen to the canned music until it sounds right and start over at the next service trying not to duplicate the same error.

  • @xXdyingfaithXx
    @xXdyingfaithXx3 жыл бұрын

    I have learned a lot from you... Too bad my church does not let me change anything.... Their lead sound tech "knows best" ....

  • @winmusique9309
    @winmusique93092 жыл бұрын

    God Bless you

  • @silan2335
    @silan23353 жыл бұрын

    How do you accuratly adjust the makeup-gain on a Studiolive 32? It seems really difficult to me to guess it based on those in/out bars on each side

  • @AttawayAudio

    @AttawayAudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    By ear. Bypass it, see if it got quieter.

  • @obijuan8466
    @obijuan84663 жыл бұрын

    How does one award a price?

  • @keithdarwin5786
    @keithdarwin57863 жыл бұрын

    Should the relative levels of vocals vs instruments be different in church than at a concert?

  • @AttawayAudio

    @AttawayAudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes and no. Depends on the church, depends on the concert. Norah Jones is different from Sting and the Police.

  • @DavinPetersen
    @DavinPetersen3 жыл бұрын

    Nailed the 2db, but wrongly assumed there was some compression. Probably was in the synth?

  • @AttawayAudio

    @AttawayAudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    The level change gives the perception of more highs/lows. That's why it's tricky

  • @colonelsanders1617
    @colonelsanders16173 жыл бұрын

    Compression is my guess for the process!

  • @colonelsanders1617

    @colonelsanders1617

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oops

  • @stephenstange4194

    @stephenstange4194

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@colonelsanders1617 I was going to say the same thing... lol.. The quieter parts were louder... I totally missed that so were the loud parts.. oh well... But I wasn't brave enough to publish my guess.

  • @user-dp7wi8sc3h
    @user-dp7wi8sc3h11 ай бұрын

    what is the sound tech solo?

  • @AttawayAudio

    @AttawayAudio

    10 ай бұрын

    It's where you make a mistake so obvious to everyone in the audience that they turn around and look at you.

  • @protoman247
    @protoman2472 жыл бұрын

    James? I thought your name was Attaway Audio 😝😝😝

  • @NuckingFuts520
    @NuckingFuts5203 жыл бұрын

    Bbe sonic maximizer

  • @ArthurPrince03
    @ArthurPrince032 жыл бұрын

    Me: shimmer 😂

  • @alanizalaniz1967
    @alanizalaniz1967 Жыл бұрын

    Mystery processor

  • @CED.Dweller
    @CED.Dweller2 жыл бұрын

    B.

  • @victormwangimaina6344
    @victormwangimaina63442 жыл бұрын

    B

  • @verdi260
    @verdi2603 жыл бұрын

    I guess saturation.

  • @droidfan
    @droidfan3 жыл бұрын

    Trying to read: "its all a boutt hel" Whaaaat?

  • @dalesmith12
    @dalesmith12 Жыл бұрын

    Make up gain? What is that?

  • @AttawayAudio

    @AttawayAudio

    Жыл бұрын

    it's a gain stage after the compressor. If you turn up the input gain before the compressor, the compressor's ratio pushes down on the additional input level. But if you turn it up after the compressor, you get the increase without more compression

  • @TerryGeiger-rh8dr
    @TerryGeiger-rh8dr Жыл бұрын

    A

  • @NeiraRamirez
    @NeiraRamirez2 жыл бұрын

    amigo muy buenos consejos es oro puro 🎤🎚🎛🔊

  • @TerryGeiger-rh8dr
    @TerryGeiger-rh8dr Жыл бұрын

    A

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