Hi,
It’d be great to have a more in depth look at mixing, eqing and blending tracks and stuff. An advanced look at clearing up your mix. I find the mixing tutorials already here to be somewhat basic. Would be great to have another chapter in that series, preferably in Ableton.
For sure! This is what i’m looking for also, I would love to have the standard breakdown of the track but include a detailed mixdown explanation as well. It is the single hardest process to get correct, at least for me 
Usually when I mix down my tracks I use the pink noise technique it works really well for a general idea of where sounds should be in a mix
http://www.sonicacademy.com/Video+Player/?course=4986¤tvideo=4988
Mix downs are a werid thing to do tutorials on as much of the work is done at the early stages when you are putting sounds together.
i.e finding the right kicks claps bass lead sound etc.
I find personally that i very rarely do a “Mix” it just happens as i go along.
Mixing is one of those things that will get better as your ears get better. But I do think it would be cool to see the sonic guys mix or work on some of members tracks.
It might be the most boring tutorial ever (or the most pointless) but as Phil has said, allot of what makes a mixdown right is having the right sounds to begin with. It might be good to have a tutorial showing your process for picking out the right sounds. Or is it just a matter of hit and miss with no clear thought process?
I haven’t had a chance to login in a while, thus my delayed reply. I believe an example of what im talking about is you’ve just finished building a drum track, you have your bassline, now your about to fill the rest of the frequency spectrum. How do u go about eqing your mids, and highs on your other synths and tracks. Cutting the bass, finding sweet spots etc. a tutorial on that is what I would like to see, not so much a final mixdown of a track once its finished, or stem mixing/mastering. More of a mix as you go kinda tutorial, such as teaching you how to fit sounds together with an eq so that they meld nicely. Where do you start, what do you have to think about (as in what should have the most prominent sound or how to make a track sound full.) If this is already covered in a tutorial then it’d be great if someone could link me that way.
Thanks
The thing is each and every tune is different…
You might be working on a tune where the beat is really full and taking up a lot of space so you have to work on getting the other sounds to fit.
or you might have a big bass line that is overpowering and you want to try and get it to fit.
there are hundreds of different permutations of these type of issues.
There isnt a one size fits all approach. Its about artistic decisions (i.e what do you want it to sound like) and using the tools in the right way to achieve it.
This is why its so hard to do a single all encompassing mixing tutorial as what might work for one tune will be completely wrong for another.
Maybe a bunch of mixing tips might be more useful.
Maybe if you guys give me some examples of problems you are having or specific areas you want covered i could get to work on some tips.
How to get your massive reverby/delayed leads to sound good in mono 
[quote]gamlow (19/11/2012)[hr] I do think it would be cool to see the sonic guys mix or work on some of members tracks.[/quote]
here’s an idea 
[quote]jjdejong0 (04/12/2012)[hr]How to get your massive reverby/delayed leads to sound good in mono :P[/quote]
‘Nobody listens to Mono’ - Phil, 2012.
[quote]phil johnston (04/12/2012)[hr][quote]jjdejong0 (04/12/2012)[hr]How to get your massive reverby/delayed leads to sound good in mono :P[/quote]
‘Nobody listens to Mono’ - Phil, 2012.[/quote]
HAHAHA
Wow
seriously tho… try soloing the reverb and making it mono just to check if it is the reverb or the synth sound that is having problems.