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This week we welcome back Protoculture for an in-depth look at one of the most important aspects when making music - Mixing.
Following on from Phil’s brilliant Understanding Mixing Fundamentals course, Nate takes things a step further, looking at ways to help your workflow, the pitfalls that you need to watch out for when mixing a track and tips and tricks that’ll get you heading in the right direction when tackling your mixdown.
Whether you’re just starting out or already releasing music, getting things right when mixing is vital and can literally make or break a track, so this is a must-watch for producers of all abilities out there!
Get on it, level up and make those tracks shine above the rest!
really nice. Learned a lot
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I loved the course! Its really good, has some interesting ways to play with FX that I didn’t knew, so useful also to clear basic stuff I was failing at! love it!
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Great and interesting ways to use the buses and send FX channels, Loved it. Super cool stuff
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Great tutorial. That ones going in the favorites.
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Question about the stereo vs combined panning - is this just an issue when working with audio? Or does this also effect midi? My understanding was that with midi, with something panned hard left or right, the entire sound would be panned in that direction, so that nothing is actually lost. And that with midi, I could also pan something hard left or right, but then narrow the stereo spread so that it wasn’t so far out on either side of the stereo field. Do I have that correct or am I missing something?
Not much to do with Midi since Midi itself does not process any audio, the signal is passed to audio after everything that’s happening in Midi and it then likely depends of your Midi Instrument or Effect build in audio inputs/outputs : stereo, mono and some are even multi channels.
That said most instruments and effects will output stereo audio but then Panning is something happening at the DAW audio processing stage and not all DAWs are equal or offer to split channels.
Usually in normal Stereo Mode, which is the way Panning works by default in most DAWs, the entire sound would be panned in the direction of the Panning yes, so the signal should not be lost yes.
You might want to duplicate the track if this is the only Pan mode available with your DAW to get larger stereo field effect, that said you might run into some phase cancellation issue doing this.
Some DAWs have a Split Stereo Pan Mode that let you adjust panning for Left and Right audio input separately.
i.e : Here’s how it works inside Ableton Live from the Manual-Mixing section
The Pan control has two different modes: the default Stereo Pan Mode, and Split Stereo Pan Mode. In Stereo Pan Mode, the Pan control positions the track’s output in the stereo field. To reset the Pan control to center, click on its associated triangle. In Split Stereo Pan Mode, the sliders let you adjust the position of the track’s left and right input channels separately. Double-click on the sliders to reset them. You can switch between the two pan modes via the Pan control’s context menu. With multiple tracks selected, adjusting the pan knob for one of them will adjust the others as well.
You might want to check this other tutorial as well : How To Create Wide Mixes with Protoculture
Ok, that’s what I was thinking, so thank you for confirming. I realize that midi itself doesn’t process any audio, I was thinking of the potential impact while working with midi or in the midi stage of production. I have Nate’s video on my list to watch, looking forward to it. Thanks.
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