5 Minutes To A Better Mix: Proper Gain Staging - TheRecordingRevolution.com

Part 1 of 31 - In this video I show you how to properly setup your mix before you start dialing in on all those great sounds. If you skip this step in the mix, you risk compromising clarity and audio quality when it's all said and one.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• mixing
• tutorials
• tips
• protools
• pro tools
• signal
• master fader
• gain
• staging

[freedom0speech]

@TheProgmagog

Also, appeals to popularity and appeals to authority mean nothing to me. I've worked with lots of famous people, and the most important thing I learned is that they are human beings like everyone else, and they do stupid shit (like copy everyone else for illogical reasons) like the rest of us. I don't care what they use, I care what sounds good and what works good.

[freedom0speech]

@TheProgmagog

I've been running my entire Nuendo DAW at under 1ms latency for the last 8 years, and it integrates into outboard gear flawlessly. These advantages are 90's ProTools advantages. It's 2012 now.

[hexfix93]

DEPENDS ON THE KIND OF MUSIC YOU ARE MAKING, if you make clean pop crap yes these rules are correct, making power noise, industrial, do not follow these rules.

[typpracoholika]

the best advice ever - i just finished pre-mixing my song 1 of my biggest mixing assignment to date - and now I actually can hear all of the 100 tracks this song has!

[2020jonnybravo]

@freedom0speech yet your on youtube looking at tips because your a pro?

[rharold]

from what i have learned -- never turn down your master fader. leave it @ 0db. turn down/up everything else; separately or individually.

[rharold]

@EclipceTV Pro Tools

[ajcblanco]

damn part 1 and i already failed. lol great tip. i'll remember this

[antoniozambranote]

en español por favor!

[wredhyn]

Clipping on a channel is fine if you're using a 32-bit daw since it's a floating point calculation (16 and 24-bit is integer based). If you render your tracks in 32-bit, it's actually fine to clip on the master because you won't loose any sound quality when you reduce the gain. The only sound quality loss you get is rounding errors which is negligible. Still, since most people don't understand that, you're better off making sure your master is well below -3 as Graham rightly points out.

[Mast3rMindProdz]

i have a question i cant find an answer to, iv been recording music for a long time my way but want to get really professional with it so my Q is, what is the proper way to do your final mix? and i mean do i need to export my instrumental track for track and load them track for track and then record the artist vocals on other tracks for paning and mixing reasons? or can i mix/master the instrumental export it as a single track inport the single track into my DAW and then add the vocals?

[westchelsea]

It looked like when you grouped "All" and lowered the master fader lowered too. Would you want to raise it back up to 0? If not why not just lower the master fader? Although I still have questions, this is a very helpful video dealing with my biggest problem in recording. Thanks!