Mixing Masterclass with Bob Power [MixCon 2017]

1:55 - start 2:15 - mixing is gain & tonal balancing 3:32 - creating a vibe 3:48 - seeing the producer & artist vision 4:34 - can you hear everything? 5:35 - reflections on all of the below topics 6:29 - dimensions of a mix 10:03 - careful of reference tracks 10:36 - thoughts on mixing for clients 11:45 - trusting your monitors 13:36 - all audio tools can be split into two categories: gain control & ambience 14:44 - what do we do with these two type of tools? 16:38 - genre 17:55 - making room for instruments/resonant peaks 19:40 - do you need to boost? 20:48 - High Pass & Low Pass 22:25 - gain control / compressors 24:23 - tuning (not your job but the producer's) 26:23 - organization 30:05 - presentation of artist Ester Rada 31:43 - figuring out what the mix needs 32:52 - playing the track 35:21 - done playing track

I cannot believe what high quality content is here for free.

This is one of the best mix videos I've ever seen. No bullshit, no egos, just a straight up talented dude doing what he loves. Shares his philosophy, then demonstrates it with a mix. Cheers mate.

1:55 What mixing really is? 6:28 The dimensions of the mix 10:04 About using reference tracks 11:10 The quality of the recordings 11:45 Trust your monitors! 13:35 Building blocks in mixing 14:38 How to use them 16:38 The importance of genre 17:53 Making room: the resonant frequencies 19:39 About the boost 20:48 High pass and low pass 22:27 About gain control: compression and more... 24:25 Tuning and Autotune 26:26 Organization Issues 30:08 About the singer Ester Rada 32:39 BOB'S MIX LISTENING 35:20 General comments about this mix 35:54 About grouping instruments 38:26 DRUMS 41:33 Tips about compression 46:29 Tip about boost 49:00 Tip about how you can listen better what you are doing 50:00 Percussion wich is driving the song (bongos, etc): tape compression and more... 52:18 About ambience reverbs 53:00 ''Snare'' 55:41 About harshness and high frequency equilibrium 56:30 Snare delay effects and more... 57:11 Work in touch!! 1:01:14 Hi Hats: Devil-loc plugin and more... 1:05:06 Claps: why use pitch with them? 1:08:16 Shaker 1:08:55 Name your buses!!! 1:09:41 Toms 1:10:27 Be careful with the panning!!! 1:12:01 Be careful enhancing the attack 1:12:51 About using well known tools 1:14:34 Background vocals: eq tips and more...

The first part before he went into the song was 100% good information.

Best bit of advice I got from this video: "Carve up the frequency spectrum to hear things in a mix". Most instruments have a resonant peak. It often changes with the pitch of the instrument. Raise up an EQ with a medium width and start sweeping it through the frequencies until you find the weird bit that really sticks out. That's the resonant peak. Pull back the EQ a little bit on those resonant peaks for every track in your session before starting to mix and you'll find there's so much more room for everything else because those resonant peaks won't be masking the other instruments.

" My career is a result of my clients knowing that I will work much harder than they will" My hats off to you my friend

My sound-quality went way up, when I discovered removing those resonant peaks. Game changer for me

This is a basic education in fundamental mixing. Three years and hundreds of videos and VST"s. Ill add 1000's of Recording Sessions to that as well. I 15 minutes in and If this was the first thing I ever watched, Id been where I am today 2 and 1/2 years ago. Putting this on repeat. Thanks a ton for this video.

Hats off to the "rogue presenter", who preferred to share brilliant advice with everyone, so we could understand why he does what in the mix later! And thanks to the guys in the background for not cutting him off :)

49:00 the blind compressor A/B test... GOTTA LOVE IT! Mr Power is truly aware of the psychology that goes on in this work. You have to fool yourself sometimes to stay humble enough to actually IMPROVE what you are doing!!!

This was awesome, my major takeaways: 1. Always use high pass and low pass for a clean uncluttered sound. 2. On drums, dip just above the boost to make it snap better. 3. Add some pitch shift down to handclaps to make them meatier. I actually was struggling with handclaps before, glad to get that tip.

Watched this to appease the YouTube algorithm. Was not disappointed

Unlimited gems in here. Basically watch this thing 1000 times and you never have to go to school again. Bob Power is a boss!

"Do this because of xyz, don't do this other thing because abc" - this is the best kind of masterclass! So much better than other lectures that focus on "me me me my my my, I'm famous because of me me me."

I can not believe the thumbs down on this. They must not like the fact that he knows more than they do.

This is randomly one of the most cinematic, well shot seminar type videos I've ever seen, (that wasn't for an actual movie). Usually these videos looks terrible. kudos to the camera crew.

I truly enjoyed this.  I feel like the first 30 minutes was the most important part.  Great video!

Not only a skilled mixer but also an excellent and very engaging speaker/presenter/teacher! 👏

Bob Power is a LEGEND. ATCQ used to shout him out all the time in their music. I was amazed to find out he had mixed an produced so much classic R&B. I learned a ton from this video. Thanks Sonicscoop