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Looking for a way to tighten up your drum tracks and bring clarity to your mix? Using a gate/expander on tracks like Kick, Snare, and Toms can go a long way to giving you a more focused sound with less unwanted noise. Today’s 5 minute mixing tip covers exactly how to make that happen in your sessions.

For Both Studio And Stage

Something to keep in mind as you watch today’s video. Gates are a great tool both in the studio and in a live setting. Once you learn the concept, you can apply it to more than drums and more than studio situations. If you can control sound on a crowded stage you can really clear up your mix and prevent feedback. Nice!

Day 4 of this mixing tip marathon has arrived and it’s time to talk about panning. You may be like me and think you already knew everything there was to know about panning in your mix. But until you’ve tried LCR panning, you truly are missing out.

Take Back The Stereo Field

This simple yet powerful mixing tip can truly help you shape and focus your mix with just a few quick turns of a knob. As you’ll see in the video, by moving parts farther away from the center, you open up a pocket of space that allows your mix to shine. Enjoy the video everyone!

Welcome to another edition of 5 Minutes To A Better Mix, where we’re looking at 31 mixing video tips in the month of May. Today’s tip is so simple yet it will totally change your world if you aren’t already using it. It’s called rocking a high pass filter in your sessions; and it couldn’t be easier to implement…

The Best Technique You Won’t Hear

Using a high pass filter on your tracks is one of the best things you can do for your mix that you don’t actually hear. It’s what you take out that actually helps your mix come together. Do you have 5 minutes? Watch today’s video and start mixing better!

Welcome to day 2 of our month of mixing tutorials! I’ve got another 5 minute mixing video for you, and this one covers how to (and why you’d want to) use a compressor on your mix bus or master fader.

A Classic Technique

Compressors can really help bring some punch and energy to your mix, and if you use one properly on your mix bus, it can really gel or glue your entire mix together before you even begin to do the actual mixing as it were. Take the next 5 minutes to find out what to do and not to do with a compressor on your master fader and try it out in your mixes!

Welcome to the first of what’s soon to be 31 videos in my “5 Minutes To A Better Mix” tutorial series. We’ll be looking at 31 mixing tips in the next 31 days, so hold on tight people!

The Crucial First Step

In today’s video we cover a crucial and often overlooked step in the mixing process: gain staging. It’s not flashy and it’s not glamourous, but I promise you this one step is critical to getting clear and focused mixes. Spend 5 minutes, watch the video and apply it to your mixes. I’m sure it will help!

Share The Love

We’ve got plenty more mixing tips where that just came from so get ready for tomorrow’s post. And please, if you are enjoying this video series, share the love with another musician or engineer. Pass on the video or link to someone who might appreciate it so their mixes can benefit as well!

Do you want to get better at mixing? I may have just the thing you need. Starting this Sunday,  I will be posting a new video mixing tip each and every day for the entire month of May. That’s 31 mixing tutorials in 31 days!

A Whole Month Of Mixing Tips

These videos are part of a new free series I’m giving out called 5 Minutes To A Better Mix. In about 5 minutes I cover a helpful mixing tip or technique that’s designed for you to use right away in your sessions. Some are simple, some are more involved, but all of them can be implimented by anyone mixing in a modern DAW, no matter what your skill level.

Stay Connected

Like I mention in the video, I don’t want you to miss a single video. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel, follow my Twitter feed, like the fan page on Facebook, and subscribe to the newsletter. All of these are ways for you to stay in the loop and catch all 31 of these great mixing tips.

When the month is complete I plan on collecting all 31 videos and putting them together here on the blog, but until then, tune in each and every day for the month of May and spend just 5 minutes with me as I try to help you make better mixes now!