You can also use the make-up gain to make up for the gain reduction that may have taken place as you were compressing the sound. Now you want to tighten your sounds and their dynamics so that the softest parts are a bit louder and the louder parts are a bit more compressed or softer.Īnd threshold of your compressor to set how much compression is needed,Īnd the attack of your compressor to set how quick your compressor starts acting on your signalĪnd your release to set how quick/slow it lets go of the signal. Normally I’d mix all the sounds completely one by one, starting with the kick, the rest of the drums and bass, then the other sounds, then do final touch ups on the mix when everything is mixed just to make sure that the sounds I mixed first still sound in marriage with the sounds I mixed last, which is usually not much of a problem. Vocals from around 120Hz maybe to R180Hz depending on the vocal you’re mixing, and other sounds accordingly as well. In your subtractive EQ, you also want to hipass the lows of your sounds to remove the unnecessary low end mud, kicks and bass from 20Hz to 30Hz or maybe a bit higher depending on the specific sound you’re mixing,
The gain nob to set the number of decibels you want cut or boosted in that specific frequency you chose,Īnd the Q bandwidth nob that if set thin will make sure you only affect the specific frequency you selected and not much of the surrounding frequencies, and if set wide affects more frequencies closer to the frequency you’re working on. Or my favorite because of the accuracy, the parametric EQ called Frequency.Ī parametric equalizer rectifies the tonal imperfections of your sounds using a frequency selector to select the specific frequencies with the issues, Now you can remove all the harsh and unnecessary frequencies in each of your sounds with an equalizer, preferably a parametric equalizer like Cubase’s Studio EQ, You do this by setting the threshold to the desirable level. On your vocals you might want to cut off the sibilances so that they’re smoother and not too harsh on the ears.
Used mainly if there are some off key notes on your vocals, or you don’t like the pitch/tone, or maybe you just love the effect it has on your vocal. If you feel your song needs autotune, which is more apparent in today’s music, after all the levels of your sounds are set right, and everything is clean with no background noise, you can go to your vocals and instert it. For my main vocals though, I add distortion as a send after the complete processing of the vocal so that it’s not into the vocal (if that makes sense)Īnd I like cutting off the lows and some of the mids on the distortion on my main vocals as well.Ĭall me crazy, but sometimes I feel like a bit of reverb works on the FX Channel of my distortion, I normally add that reverb as a send on that channel. I do this in case the distortion plugin adds some frequencies I don’t like as well while it’s adding the ones I’m looking for. I like adding the distortion before the subtractive EQ on my bass or adlibs if needs be, Distortion/Saturationįor my bass, I sometimes like to saturate it with a distortion plugin so it has more of the mids and high mid frequencies for more visibility in lot of small sound devices. Then you can select the part you want to silenceĪnd silence them on the process options on the left one by one. Cubase has this cool option where you double click your audio wave file, Chopping your audio waves on the quiet parts (or at least where the sound that was being recorded is quiet)Ģ. With this, you’ll set the threshold of the lowest point it starts cutting at, or you can gate manually byġ. You can either do it with a gating plugin which you put in your inserts. Here you’re removing background noise that’s not needed on your recordings, maybe from overlapping sounds that come from surrounding noise that wasn’t supposed to be picked up by that specific mic. GatingĪnother one of your first stages of mixing is gating. I normally make sure my kick peaks at 9db, then set everything else to how I want it to sit in comparison with the kick in the mix.
I usually start with my kick, bass, then the rest of the drums and then other instruments. I’ve heard aspiring engineers ask for plugins to do this, but you can easily achieve it by going to the studio optionĪnd using your faders. Right here you’re setting levels for all your sounds or instrument channels.
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