Tutorial: Fix competing sounds & Overlapping Instruments
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0:00 Before and After
1:01 The Right Sounds
2:07 Arrangement Tips
4:47 EQ
6:32 Plugins
7:45 Listen & Learn
8:33 Final Thoughts
In this video I show you 5 ways to fix muddy mixes, competing sounds, and overlapping frequencies in your mix. This is a how to mix tutorial to address just that problem. I should you how to choose the right instruments in the first place, then arrange your song to avoid overlapping sounds, then I show you how to EQ your sounds so that they are not competing with each other. Next I show you how to use plugins to help fix overlapping sounds. Finally I give you some advice on how to continue learning how to mix better.
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Please make more mixing videos, they are so useful! (Maybe a tutorial about making your tracks wider or how to get a tight mix)
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Orfeas! How are you doing? Great suggestion for a video! Thank you!
@orfeasmusic6677
3 жыл бұрын
@@SanjayC I am doing great, making a lot of music lately.
space and silence is so underrated!
This is so useful. Also love that you stress that the most important trick is a skill one can master rather than a plugin one can buy. I've been using EQ and compression for a long time, but after this gonna practice more side-chaining. As always, thank you!
Perfect. Just finished my classes watching the video 👍
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Love that! Classes first, Sanjay C next!
Such a clear video. The use of before and after is particularly helpful for understanding.
Finally, a video on mixing after a long time. How are you, Sanjay and Dharti?
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Andrew. Yes, bringing some tutorials that I've been wanting to post for a while! Dharti is doing better. Thanks for asking, bro
I LOVE Trackspacer 😎👍
Amazing tips! I really like that now the videos come out on Tuesday, mixing tutorials are really helpful to stay creative in the week 😄
Sanjay, these videos are great! Thanks a lot, sounds great!
Love this video. Thanks so much Sanjay!
literally just started the Andrew Huang monthly course and this is such a good supplementary lesson with so many others as well.
Thank you for these tips and reminders as the little things make a big difference.
One thing I learned awhile ago was what adding subtle white noise or room ambience can do for a track. Amazing when sidechained. One of those things you dont even notice until it's not there.
I have never seen a video so succinct and clear and with examples that are so on point on this topic, as the one I just watched. I loved the tip on raising the octaves of instruments!! You are an Amazing instructor! Thank you Sanjay!!!
Great tips and very useful. You're an excellent "teacher", i wonder: what if, one day, you made the ultimate course on Ableton about how to create a song from zero to publishing. I think will be awesome and surely different from other ableton-like courses !!
Out of words to describe this video's importance for everyone. Thank you sir for the video
This is full of amazing and best tips. Listen and learn only then we can know what is good sound and mixing then emulate them, otherwise we are just aiming in the dark, going in circles. Thank you bro.
Thank you so much for making this video Sanjay...😍
Man!! Harmonica Andromeda Hits Hard!!! Great video Sanjay!!! Thank you :)
Just the perfect video we need !
This is one of the most helpful videos you have shared. Thank you. I think I am your biggest fan!
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks!
Not saying you did for me, but this was something I asked for when asked us what we wanted to see! Thanks!
As usual Sanjay.. Thanks
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Always welcome
Thanks for all the work you put in Mr. Sanjay.
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure. Let me know how I can improve these videos.
Thank you sir I needed this. this will be very helpful going forward from here.
That song sounds amazing
Thank you Sanjay!
Been watching you for a bit and love ur tips. Still relatively new to Ableton but can't wait to see what I can do with more XP. Thank you, Sanjay!
Thaaanks Sanjay!
You have been so helpful 👍
I've always worked on EQ alot but I've never thought on arrangement sir and this tip could help me a lot sir.🙂☺😃😁😀😌
Probably the most professional looking and sounding production I've seen in any category of educational video! Simply amazing work! 👏
Really helpful...as usual you rocking..:-) Thanks!
This is probably one of the most helpful things for any producer to hear and be reminded of. Carving out notches of eq spikes for each instrument always helps. You can do the same thing with the phantom image too.
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I make these videos to remind myself of best practices! :-D
Great tips!
OmG this has been so helpful!💌 especially my mixes sounds muddy as always lmao😂 ThankU for this plus knowledge.
Great, great, great and necessary ´basic´ lesson 👍 THX
Awesome videos, you are doing a very good job here :)
I loooove this music!!!! We need to put vocals on it!
@Hextiana
3 жыл бұрын
How are you feeling now, Sanjay mentioned you were sick, hopefully nothing serious. Best wished from me and the rest of the fam
@Only1Dharti
3 жыл бұрын
@@Hextiana 🙏🏽♥️💕 Thank you SO much for asking! Means a lot! So yeah 🤦🏽♀️ I fainted and blacked out for the first time in my life I hat morning. Sanjay found me in the shower and brought me back to consciousness. It was definitely scary but I’m 95% better now! I also started getting normal but unexpected for me, symptoms from my second covid vaccine with fever chills Pain etc and o have asthma LOL bad combination! But worth it to make the world more safer and healthier. 🙏🏽💜💕
@Hextiana
3 жыл бұрын
@@Only1Dharti oh my god take care. Must have truly given Sanjay a fright. Take care. Looking forward to seeing u in the next artist of the week announcement
@seanodonnell1271
3 жыл бұрын
@@Only1Dharti oh no that awful, hope you get better soon!
@Only1Dharti
3 жыл бұрын
@@seanodonnell1271 Thank you!!! I’m so much better now!💜💕 rest helped! And Sanjay handled it so well!🙏🏽
This is gold
More mixing tutorials please! this is amazing
Very informative I like this video 👍🏾🙏🏾well done
This is Great Sanjay! New Music Producers should realize the Value of a "Rest" in the Music they are creating. A "rest" is equally as important as a Note Played! Thank You for Track Spacer tip as well!!
Excellent advice and demonstration. The before / after was very well done, as some videos the before and after is so subtle I cannot really identify what has changed (and that's listening with good headphones, too)!
Finally more tutorials! I always love these videos. I’m an a Maschine guy, but you’re inspired me so much I have used Ableton some as well. Just purchased Trackspacer based on your thoughts and must say this is a game changer for mixing! Thanks so much! Also can you do more tutorials for creating tracks in Ableton?
This was very helpful!!!! Thanks Sanjay, oh and hopefully Dharti is better!❤️🥰
Very helpful, thank you
This is very helpful, hope you make more videos of production Sanjay. Thanks a lot.
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I will
Nice tips! The one thing I rarely do anymore is play with the stereo field(Besides occasionally auto panning and adding some width) . Not even sure why I stopped paying attention to that. Good reminder. I have the most trouble with the low end. Some of that is how I want my music instrumentation to sound on the low end. I usually use a filtered sine wave kick, more of a feel / thud then a click. Same with my bass. I keep it low in the mix too just to feel the pulse instead of hearing a hard click. I sidechain the bass. I roll off some of the lows . I use izotope to see where the frequencies clash but even then it’s tricky. I don’t always do this, but when I’m making dub techno or ambient I like to have a rhythm and groove to propel you for head nodding but I want it very subtle. Thanks as always for the content. Good suggestions.
I’d love a section where you take a look at interesting producing techniques in songs and break it down to see how the artist/producer did that! Great video :))
Sanjay, Keep sharing music making tips like this it really helps. Thanks for this one.
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I will. What did you find most useful?
@vinylstudi0
3 жыл бұрын
@@SanjayC The change of guitar by an octave to help the mix, as well as the question and answer pattern of kick and bass. Super useful
Coooooool!
Thanks for posting 📫
Thank you!!
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
This is awesome ❤️
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Vatsal! :-) What would you like to see next on my channel?
@vatsalismusic
3 жыл бұрын
Sir i would like to see you making a song or beat by limiting your self as much as possible! Less plugins, less gear and just music!
Trackspacer is the best plugin...... like the most important plugin.......
Thank you :)
Great tutorial. The way I’ve learnt to “space” similar frequencies was to basically sidechain and compression, as you’ve described later on. I will have a look at track spacer plug-in though, it may just make things a bit easier. PS, I love these tutorials as of late, lots to learn from them!
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear that, Fernando. I like making these tutorials too
MANY THANKS BRO ✌🏽✌🏽
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Anytime. Hope you find this useful. Let me know what you'd like to learn next.
Thanks for explaining things again in such a compact and example based way. Could you do a general video on side-chaining too? That is what Trackspacer does, if I am not mistaken?
Mixing👌😍
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks ✌️
Loved the video. Am working on a beat right and the tips in this video will help a ton! 😁😁😁 BTW, for a future video idea, this might be a kinda obscure request, but would you (or have you already) ever do a video where you show how to make a midi electric guitar sound more realistic or where you showcase good midi guitars 🎸to use (preferably free ones 😂😂😂)?
Would be very grateful if you could cover the problem of the mixes sound differently on different devices. Any tips on how to fix that? Love your channel, keep up great work!
Sanjay, I just want to take a moment to tell you how awesome you are. You are an amazing artist, producer, teacher, and person. You’re music and content is so inspiring, top quality, entertaining and highly informative. Thank you bro. You are the best. I love your music and I believe you can truly have a successful career as an artist in the music industry if its something you really want to do aside from youtube. Sending Love from NYC bro. Keep inspiring never stop! #MTMYL
@johnnygarcia6359
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Sanjay is surely multitalented!
Yes yes yes before i go further watching this video would like to say, your the man bro, what an amazing video, been looking out for this. was wondering if would not be too in convenient, if you could make a video showing from scratch bringing in samples n stuff and arranging a track from start to finish on as to how different instruments fit and should fit in the frequency spectrum at the source, this video already shows this from an arranged point of view, would be great to learn your thought process from scratch brother, as to how you approach n choose you instruments and samples, big fan. Thanks
Sanjay-C your videos are the high of my day! Question have you ever thought about making a Udemy Course on Music Production I would totally buy it. Also when is your Studio Tour video coming?
Always a pleasure watching your videos, Sanjay! Feels very warm 🙂 Btw, are you Indian?
One plugin that does the job: TrackSpacer
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, its pretty awesome. one of my faves
Make more videos like this we are waiting
First comment Thanks for making this video on the request of the fam
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Of course. Fam comes first! Always here to support you all! How are you, Ayush?
@Hextiana
3 жыл бұрын
@@SanjayC great today, done with most of the video
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I really love your tips and advice, Mr. Sanjay C and I'm learning a lot. Also, do you have any tips or advice about volume mastering especially the final volume of the song, like what's the recommended loudness of the song? Thank you so much!
Sir how to connect or setup motu m2 audio interface with Android phone plz reply sir.
Nice video
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. What do you want to learn next?
Hey, thanks for this video ! I personally do naturally the 1st and 2nd tricks, however I don't always know how to give more room to some of my projects because I already do pretty "simple" music with only a few tracks
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes keeping it simple, is the solution. Good for you!
Notification squad 🔥🤟
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Squad is in the house!! What's up Shiv!
@iamshiv21
3 жыл бұрын
@@SanjayC doing well, what about you brother.
Thanks for this video. I learned a lot, Sanjay. By the way, what do u suggest for lofi hip hop/chill music? Muddy is good?
Thanks for this. Would love to see a tutorial on sends.
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Good idea. Thanks!
Which Studio Monitors Are In Back 😅
Great. Please more workflow producing and mixing tips (as a combined workflow as opposed to separate).... , ideally around ableton
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
OK, that's a good idea.
@bvrbvs
3 жыл бұрын
@@SanjayC thanks for the great content as always.
Just finished it, GREAT VIDEO!!! Suggested video Idea (may be a bit personalised) orchestral composition. Any tips suggestions will be very usefull.
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Great idea. I'll work on that
Thanks for the helpful tips on mixing. I have some questions about mixing and panning and maybe you could even make a video on some of these. If I have recorded both vocals and piano/guitar at the same time and am wanting the mix to sound like I'm singing and playing at the same time, normally you would have both your vocals and piano/ guitar down the middle. Now that is simple enough. But then if I bring in a bass guitar and kick drums and snare, those are normally in a mix they are panned down the middle too (compared to on a stage where they would be off to the side). And if I had a pad or strings to fill out the sound, wouldn't that normally go down the middle as well? All of this would start to make the mix muddy. If I panned the piano or guitar to the right or left wouldn't that give the impression it is someone else playing even if I recorded both piano/ guitar and vocals at the same time? And if moved the pad/ strings off centre, won't it sound like it's not really gluing the whole thing together but as if it's coming from a different direction. I can understand with other instruments like an electric guitar, or if I had a guitar or piano that weren't the main instrument but just accompanying as those could easily be panned off centre. But when you want that singer/songwriter sound where you're playing and singing at the same time how do you pan everything in the mix? Thanks.
Great video of useful tips. May I ask what type of LG monitor you have?
Great video, why when you add a loop they are so high? Is there a way to change this?
Trackspacer invented the concept, but I think Sonible improved on it with the spectral sidechain ducking function inside their Smart:comp. There seems to be some kind of lookahead in Smart:comp that provides greater precision (admittedly, this could be a problem in communication with Live's compensation, since I haven't tested this on other DAWs).
Stumbled upon this. Do you have suggestions to mix vocals with Bamboo flute ?
saved the best for last 😉
Useful, my mixes are questionable at times 😂
what vst or kontakt bank you used for the guitar ?
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Hi sanjay c. Whot I make my song and remix what is best. place tell me what I do. and thanks God bless you
Hi! Thank you for a great video! I came across it searching to solve glitch I've come up upon in a recent production with Logic Pro X. In two sections, vocal sounds like if the voice was duplicated. If I mute the guitar, the the voice is fine with all else: drums, bass, keys, duet vocal. If I play that vocal "solo", it's fine. If I move those two sections to other parts of the song that have the same vocal tune (different words); I replace it where the tune fits, swap it, and those same vocal sections give me the duplicated voice effect, no matter where I put them in the song, as long as the guitar track is playing. Mute guitar track, vocal is normal. I'd really appreciate whatever possible causes and/or solutions you might happily give me🙏 Thank you!
would you please make a review on Donner DMK 25 Midi Keyboard and compare it with arturia minilab mk2
Need a tutorial of mixing vocal with stock and some free plugins.
PLEASEEE MAKE A COMPARISION BETWEEN M-AUDIO AIR 192/6 VS FOCUSRITE SCARLETT 2i2 pleasssseeeee🙏🙏 btw your studio is getting great everyday
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Biboy. Those two interfaces are great. the M-audio will give you more inputs though
Hey man I have a question, do you make your own music? (I mean have you made any releases?)
Any tips on making interesting "ear candy"?
Mr Sanjay c can you please make a tutorial on how to gain stage in ableton if you haven't already please sir
nice one bro! Trackspacer vs unmasking using izotope neutron/nectar, what is your take bro?
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Trackspacer is super fast to use and I love it for that. And easy low/hi adjustments make it even better
wassup........ Notification squad is now discord squad
@SanjayC
3 жыл бұрын
Discord Squad is in the house! I need to get on Discord today. Hopefully my schedule cooperates
@nachiketajeyaraman5674
3 жыл бұрын
@@SanjayC thts awsome