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Mixing Guide (massive)

sendtoglennc
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Posted : Oct 23, 2009 16:15
Wow..this seems like a really good book=)

Thanks a lot for sharing!!
bandarlog
Bandarlog

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Posted : Oct 23, 2009 16:54
thanks!           http://www.soundcloud.com/bandarlog
http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/bandarlog-memoirs-of-the-moment
kambro


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Posted : Oct 24, 2009 16:48
this is exactly what i was looking 4
Thanks

          Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
dj chichke
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Posted : Oct 25, 2009 02:40
at page 8 it's written that percution doesn't make tones. i know it's wrong.. i know that kick should be at the same tone as bass.
Becktrank
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 20:55
this deserves a up           ``We shall not cease from exploration - And the end of all our exploring - Will be to arrive where we started - And know the place for the first time.``

bahia
0hz
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 21:16
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On 2009-10-25 02:40, dj chichke wrote:
at page 8 it's written that percution doesn't make tones. i know it's wrong.. i know that kick should be at the same tone as bass.



the kick doesn't have to be at the same tone as the bass, its not a rule.
djfada


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Posted : Oct 31, 2009 01:30
thx, downloading =)
Fragletrollet
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Posted : Oct 31, 2009 12:50
isnt there a v2 allready?           http://www.myspace.com/fragletrollet
http://www.myspace.com/unknowncausesound
http://www.fragletrollet.com/
orgytime
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Posted : Oct 31, 2009 12:52
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On 2009-10-31 12:50, Fragletrollet wrote:
isnt there a v2 allready?




i dont think so, maybe google helps           www.soundcloud.com/orgytime
vision dream
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Posted : Dec 13, 2009 04:02
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On 2009-10-19 11:54:30, orgytime wrote:
hey guys, i found this on another forum and wanted to share it with you.

http://www.filefront.com/14752057/mixing.zip

Guide to Mixing v1.0
by Nick Thomas
February 8, 2009


Table of Contents

1 Sounds 5
1.1 Frequency Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Patterns of Frequency Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.1 Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.2 The Human Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.3 Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2.4 Cymbals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 Time Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4 Loudness Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.5 Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5.1 Clipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.5.2 Sampling Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.5.3 Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.5.4 Standard Sampling Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.5.5 Sampling Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2 Preparation 17
2.1 Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.2 Volume Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.3 Plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.4 Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.5 Sound Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Mixer Usage 20
3.1 Leveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.1.1 Input Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1.2 Headroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1.3 Level Riding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.2 Effects and Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.2.1 Inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.2.2 Auxiliary Sends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2.3 Busses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2.4 Master Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.2.5 Advanced Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4 Equalization 25
4.1 Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.1.1 Avoiding Masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.1.2 Changing Sound Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.2 Using a Parametric Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.2.1 Setting the Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.2.2 Setting the Q and Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.2.3 Evaluating Your Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.2.4 High Shelf/Low Shelf Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.2.5 Highpass/Lowpass Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3 Typical EQ Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3.2 Kick Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3.3 Basslines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3.4 Snare Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3.5 Cymbals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3.6 Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3.7 Vocals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5 Compression 33
5.1 Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1.1 Reducing Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1.2 Shaping Percussive Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.1.3 Creating Pumping Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.1.4 When Not to Use Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2 How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2.1 Threshold, Ratio, and Knee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.2.2 Attack and Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.2.3 Compressor Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3 Procedure for Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.4 More Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.4.1 Limiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.4.2 Serial Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.4.3 Parallel Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.4.4 Sidechain Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.4.5 Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.4.6 Expanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.4.7 Shaping Percussive Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.4.8 Creating Pumping Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.9 Multiband Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6 Space Manipulation 44
6.1 Panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.2 Stereo Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.2.1 Phase Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.2.2 Left/Right Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.2.3 Mid/Side Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3 Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.4 Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.4.1 Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.4.2 How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.4.3 Convolution Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.4.4 Mixing With Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
7 Conclusion 53
7.1 Putting It All Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.2 Final Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54


cheers






thanks to orgytime and NIck Thomas who wrote this ... and i will put it into my topic i opened before.. could be some one need and find it faster...
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