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I WANT A HTSL ON ELECTRO HOUSE!!!



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Another great couple of posts Howie… those bad boys are being printed out too.

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You are all very welcome. I teach everything that I have learned. :slight_smile:

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cool trick to achieve more depth

There are always questions about getting more depth into mixes.



Here is a setup which guarantees you more depth in your mixes !

(for this example im using altiverb,you do not have to though)





Step 1

Insert an FX channel and choose Altiverb



Step 2

Load a preset: whatever you like



Step 3

Turn off direct gain and turn off the tail knob

Increase the early reflections gain knob (about 2 o’clock) and set delay at 30ms



Step 4

Send your instrument to the FX channel at 0 dB



Step 5

Turn down the effect return fader completely from the FX channel



Step 6

Now you can slowly start to increase the effect return fader till depth arises and stop where you like it. Check by turning on and off the FX send on your instrument’s channel.

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since i mentioned a reverb unit i might as well write about how to properly set up the gain structure for your reverb fx return channels.






  1. create a new audio channel,place a pink noise wave


  2. Set up the FX Reverb return channels to equal levels in the following way:



    – send the pink noise to the Reverb channel at 0dBFS



    – look at the stereo master bus and lower the fader of the FX Reverb channel



    until it reads between -18dBFS and -22dBFS .



    – repeat this step to all the other Reverb channels



    Whats the point of this? for one example, if a snare hits the reverb unit you

    have to adjust the send level of the snare and NOT THE CHANNEL FADER OF

    THE RETURN CHANNEL.





    another quick addon tip to this one would be to place eqs (before,after or both)on your fx return channels.this creates more space/depth in the mix,it provides contrast between the wet and dry signals.
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Learn and evolve are the biggest and most important things ever.

For me I picked a topic, take compression, find out what it is, what it does and how all the dials work. Keep going to till you have exhausted the subject (which you won’t) and this will raise other questions/topics and the cycle starts again.

Remember the brain can only listen to one thing at a time. You might notice that hats are high in the mix so you bring them down and something else sticks out, so you are constantly adjusting. The perfect mix is just a comfortable balance, give yourself periods in the track where each element you want to hear stands out by removing other elements.

I watched a video of a conference based on how the human ear and brain perceives sound. I can’t find it right now but a women plays a track backwards and asks the audience what they can hear, which is not alot. Then she reads out words over the track playing backwards and the brain makes the words fit the sounds.

If anyone knows about this video please, please post a link.

Add detail to the mix. Once you think you have finished a track go back to it and think what you can add in the way of filtering, panning, drum fills, fx and atmospherics to keep elements moving around the spectrum.

Treat music like a box, ball or 3d puzzle. Put something in the spaces.

Panning moves it left and right

Effects move it forward and backward

Frequencies/Eq moves it up and down.

Now go fill those spaces and complete the puzzle. But watch out for phasing issues. (Now go research phasing)