Overview
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Multiplatinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf defines the terms used and found in the notes that mix engineers receive, and shows how to achieve the intended sound.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What are mix notes?
- What you should know
- Lo-fi glossary
- Make it lo-fi
- Make it distorted
- Add some grit
- Add more saturation
- Overdrive it
- Drum destruction
- EQ glossary
- Brightening something
- Add more presence
- Darken the bass guitar
- Make it warmer
- Make it more edgy
- The vocal is too harsh
- Adjusting muddy, tubby, or woofy mid-range bass tones
- EQ and dynamics for acoustic guitars
- Add body to the snare drum
- Volume glossary
- Faders and pan pots
- Specific frequency EQ boost
- Balancing conflicting requests
- Balancing lead and background vocals
- Blending male and female vocals
- Inner balance of the drum kit
- Manipulating the levels of drum samples
- Make it more roomy or make it less roomy
- Make it wider
- Give it more space
- Using ambience to position the drums
- Give it more sauce and other specific examples
- Location glossary
- Applying spatial modifications to vocals
- Affecting location in a stereo blend
- Designing frequency specific location
- Altering the spatial location of drums
- Attitude adjustment glossary
- Make the vocal crunchier
- Getting a good feel with timing and EQ
- Setting the chorus up for success
- Augmenting the production
- Other techniques for attitude
- Compression glossary
- Basic principles of compression
- Basic principles of peak limiting
- Combining two processors for the perfect sound
- Special processing: Multiband compression
- Special processing: Transient design
- Avoiding overdoing dynamics devices
- Glossary terms that don't fall into a particular category
- Unusual terms for basic mix moves
- Understanding the aesthetic
- Relating to transients
- Other terms you should know
- Next steps
