Lesson 8-Mixing – mattredlin.com

Normalize Audio

Normalization is probably the most important application used in digital audio recording. The quieter the music is, the louder the volume has to be to hear it. The louder the volume is, the more you turn down the volume, the less background noise is heard. It minimizes the background noise by making the volume of the sound file as loud as possible, without distortion or clipping.

[Right Click] on every track and select [Normalize Audio].

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Speaker Simulator for Rythm Guitars

Drag Ampire Amp 3 to the rguitar insert part.

This is the speaker similar for lguitar and rguitar.

Every guitar is double tracked. There is a guitar in the left speaker and another guitar in the right speaker.

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Add in all the FX Pluggins into the Insert boxes from this chart.

Track Name	Fader Level	FX Pluggins
1 -Drums	-2db	Room Reverb
2 – Bass	-14db	Fat Channel – Direct Bass
3 – Rhythm Guitars	-9b -12db(solo)+	Ampire – Amp Simulator
4 – Lead Guitars	-9db	Ampire – Amp Simulator
5 – Acoustic Guitars	-12db	Chorus Mixverb – Aguitar Chamber

Adjust your fader levels to the chart above. Notice the Master Output is -4db. This will change in the lesson on Mastering.

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Plugin List For The Drums

Room Reverb – Flat Plate July 25

Plugin List for Bass

FatChannel XT – Direct Bass 25

Plugin List for Acoustic Guitar

Chorus – Acoustic 18

Mixverb – Acoustic Guitar Chamber

Auto Volume Control

We use this control to turn down instruments during certain parts of the songs to make room for solo sections. The drums and bass are rarely affected because this sounds bad. Although there were sixties bands that would turn up the drums in between the vocal passages. I wouldn’t do it. Rythm Instruments like horns, guitars, and keyboards are all turn down around -3db, or %70 maximum volume.

You may not need to turn them down; it depends on how crowded they are. A Rythm guitar in the right speaker and one in the left speaker, and a solo guitar in the center may not need attention. AC/DC does it all the time. But A lead guitar in both speakers and a rhythm guitar in both speakers sounds so crowded you need to turn down the rhythm section. Most instruments that fall in the midrange are affected. The Bass guitar and drums are more treble and bass, so they get left alone.

Select [Read]

Select [Read]

Select [Add/Remove Parameters]

Make sure volume and pan, if you want to automate pan, are on the left side.

Push the button.

Zoom in and set the four points that control the auto volume.

The volume of the rhythm guitar over time. The lead guitar solo is in the -3db range. In the real world the slopes of the lines would be almost strait up and down.

Point the mouse clicker at each of the four points and give them values. I set the Rythm guitar volume at -9db on the faders. the four points are in order {-9db, -12db, -12db, -9db}

Notice that the Rhythm instruments where turned down (-3db(70%)) to make room for the guitar solo. The guitar solo is the same volume that the rhythm guitar was throughout the rest of the track. Instead of making the solo louder than everything else, we turn down the rhythm instruments to make room for the solo.

Yet another view.

Mixdown

Fader Levels
Master Fader	-6db
Acoustic Guitar	-12db
Drums	-2db
Bass	-14db
Rythm Guitar	-9db
Lead Guitar	-9db

Better Time FX.wav

Select [Export Mixdown]

If the address doesn’t end in […Home\Better Time\Mixdown] then Click [three dots] and do the following instructions.
if it does then [click ok] and go to [+Window opens up.]