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You’re a great teacher and this series is everything I need , thank you James!
Great great walkthrough. I’m happy that the smallest gripe was that the automations were a bit tough to follow. Also, very pleased at the use of the word “penultimate” on the Outro vid. Can’t say I’ve ever heard that in normal speech. 
Thanks James for a very good tutorial.
In the final mixdown, it seems that there is no head room left, you are peaking at around 0 dB, right? How come - didn’t you say in the beginning of the course to leave between 3-6 dB of head room?
Hey there @Denvall
When referring to Head Room and the good habit to keep a 3 to 6 dB margin, it’s about Dynamic Range which is basically an average measurement of the loudest & quietest audio in the all Mix.
Peaks that you can read on Live’s Master Channel Meter are showing the audio signals “peaking” ( hitting a certain dB level in real time ), the meter doesn’t give you a read of your Head Room. So you could have some peaking values around 0 dBFS but still retain some Dynamic Range in a Mix.
That said, this Head Room thing is just a good practice habit, especially if you plan to send out your Mix for Mastering ( or do it yourself ) later on, but it could vary from one Mix to another and the goal you’re aiming at, so it’s not a rule set in stone.
You might be interested into this course perhaps : Loudness and Metering with Kirk Degiorgio
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Amazing course thanks so much @James_Dymond
I have a question please, I’m using Ableton Live and not FL studio, and I was wondering if you put your reverb and delay effects directly on each channel as inserts? It seems like it but I wasn’t sure.
Would you recommend to put (those effects specifically) as inserts directly on the channels or on a return/send track and send to them?
Thanks again
Hey guys,
A question about boosting the fundamental tone of the sub-bass: in this case James knows it’s E2 so he can boost it, but what can you do if the sub bass note might change over the course of the track? When you eq according to E2 you cannot change the notes, right?
In such a scenario then you could automate the EQ frequency to follow the fundamental note change or even use a second EQ instance to avoid crossover frequency boost and again use automation to enable/disable the desired EQ over time.
Generally you want your bass to be pretty stable in terms of what freqs are being boosted so its ok to boost a single frequency to give an overall sense of more bass and let the upper mids or higher octave denote the pitch.
you can add on a multiband compressor with a few bands covering the bass area or specific notes. this can help even things out after boosting with EQ.
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Aye, very good point 
makes much more sense than the EQ trick 
That’s great thanks a lot Stephane and Phil
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge! The best tutorial I’ve have ever seen.
So stoked with this course. James does an amazing job of walking through his arrangement and mixing process. 5 stars and would recommend this course to anyone!
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Hello,
I have a question please, I noticed that with some of the presets James doesn’t turn off the internal reverb (on Sylenth1 for example), is this done deliberately? In those cases where the reverb isn’t switched off it actually has two reverbs, one the internal and the other is the reverb on the bus.
How in general would you recommend to use (or not use) the internal reverb/delay effects on vsts?
Thanks in advance
Hey there @omer-f
Mainly it comes down to 2 things :
- How does the preset & internal effect sounds & sits in your Mix ?
- Workflow & routing and what you’re aiming at with the reverb.
If you feel like a synth preset with an internal reverb sounds great in your Mix, then why not using it, but if you’re after a more solid, mono"ish" sound or if you feel like the effect is too much pronounced or if you just don’t like how the reverb sounds then you might want to disable it and use your own reverb.
When it comes to workflow & what you’re trying to do with reverb, it might be more easy to automate an external reverb plugin than the internal synth one. That will likely depends on the plugin allowing internal effects automation or not, some don’t or aren’t that easy to map/automate.
If you’re aiming at drastic reverb effects like for example a gradually washed sound for pads, then it’s more easy to use an external reverb set to full on a return channel and automate your sends than an internal synth reverb.
But mainly it all comes down to how it sounds in the Mix in the end, do you feel that the internal reverb/effect is doing good to the sound or not.
I see thanks a lot for your detailed answer!
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The tips in this are brilliant - the compression and EQ tips really help with the production.
Great Course 
good work