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    5 Minutes To A Better Mix

    For the entire month of May 2011, I posted a daily video tutorial to help you get better mixes in your home studio. The idea was simple, create a ton of great free video content that was easy to digest and implement into any mixer’s workflow.

    It was such a successful video experiment that I did it again in January of 2012 and March of 2013. Each video is about 5 minutes and gets right to the point. Below are all three rounds of 31 videos in order. Watch them, leave a comment, and then go use the tips and techniques you learned to help you in YOUR mixes.

    • Round 1
    • Round 2
    • Round 3

    Day 1 – Proper Gain Staging

    Day 2 – Mix Bus Compression

    Day 3 – High Pass Filter

    Day 4 – LCR Panning

    Day 5 – Gating Drums

    Day 6 – Subgroups

    Day 7 – Tape Saturation On Drums

    Day 8 – Room Mic Compression

    Day 9 – Kick Drum Low End

    Day 10 – Instant Effected Drum Kit

    Day 11 – Compressing Bass Guitar

    Day 12 – Bass Saturation

    Day 13 – Piano In Mono

    Day 14 – The Mute Button

    Day 15 – Pre Vs. Post Fader Sends

    Day 16 – Reverb Pre-Delay On Snare

    Day 17 – Vocal Delay Trick

    Day 18 – Wider Lead Vocals

    Day 19 – Panning Harmonies Wide

    Day 20 – Vocal Stutter Effect

    Day 21 – Vocal De-Esser

    Day 22 – Telephone Vocals Effect

    Day 23 – Mixing In Mono

    Day 24 – Mixing At Low Volumes

    Day 25 – Vocal Rides

    Day 26 – Drum Overheads Automation

    Day 27 – Automate Subgroups

    Day 28 – Reverse Crash

    Day 29 – Limiter For Reference

    Day 30 – Separate Mixing Sessions

    Day 31 – Mixing Templates

    Day 1 – Volume Fader EQ

    Day 2 – Most Important Section

    Day 3 – Most Important Instrument

    Day 4 – Phase Check Drums

    Day 5 – EQ In Mono

    Day 6 – Subtractive EQ

    Day 7 – Avoid The Solo Button

    Day 8 – Instant Drum Polish

    Day 9 – Snare Drum Distortion

    Day 10 – Cut Through Kick

    Day 11 – The Fat Fader

    Day 12 – Kick And Bass EQ

    Day 13 – The Pain Frequency

    Day 14 – Punchy Acoustic Guitar

    Day 15 – Depth With EQ

    Day 16 – Vocal Cleanup

    Day 17 – Stacking Compressors

    Day 18 – Vocal Presence

    Day 19 – Sidechain Compression

    Day 20 – Dynamic Delay

    Day 21 – Switch Vocal Delays

    Day 22 – Reverb Glue

    Day 23 – The Attack Principle

    Day 24 – The 4db Rule

    Day 25 – The Instant Double

    Day 26 – Octave Guitar Tricks

    Day 27 – The Wide Chorus

    Day 28 – The Minimal Verse

    Day 29 – Percussion Layers

    Day 30 – Power Of The Pad

    Day 31 – Mix Versions

    Day 1 – First Impressions

    Day 2 – The 24 Track Mindset

    Day 3 – Steal From Pro Mixes

    Day 4 – The Mix Buss Half Rule

    Day 5 – The Static Mix

    Day 6 – One Stereo Track

    Day 7 – The Mixing Console Mindset

    Day 8 – Buss Mixing

    Day 9 – Compress Drums Quietly

    Day 10 – Wide Drums Trick

    Day 11 – Kick And Bass Sidechain

    Day 12 – EQ Before Compression

    Day 13 – Gain Matching Plugins

    Day 14 – Fatter Snare With EQ

    Day 15 – Fatter Snare With Compression

    Day 16 – EQ Carving Guitars

    Day 17 – The Center Guitar

    Day 18 – The 10 Minute Rule

    Day 19 – Drop The Bottom

    Day 20 – Mute The Guitars

    Day 21 – Mix Vocals Last

    Day 22 – Vocal Compressor Options

    Day 23 – Tighter Vocal Harmonies

    Day 24 – Delays Into Reverbs

    Day 25 – Mono Vocal Delays

    Day 26 – Mixing Background Vocals

    Day 27 – Panning Pockets

    Day 28 – Reverse Mixing

    Day 29 – The Mix EQ Check

    Day 30 – Multiband Compression

    Day 31 – The Final Listen


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    Graham Cochrane is a creative and versatile producer, engineer, songwriter, and worship leader based out of Tampa, FL. He provides remote mixing, and mastering services to clients worldwide.

    As the founder of The Recording Revolution, Graham's articles and tutorials have been featured worldwide by Avid, PreSonus, Slate Digital, Editors Keys, and Behringer to name a few, reaching readers in over 40 countries.

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