All language subtitles for Audio SUBMIX in Davinci Resolve 16 - What, Why & How to Use It

Welcome back,
everybody. It's great to see you here.

And if you're new to the channel,
my name is Jay Lasky.

And here we talk about the vagaries
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And in this video we're going to be
talking about audio subgroups.

I want to tell you what it is,

how to set one up
and why you might want to be using one.

So let's jump into the video.

We all love DaVinci Resolve,
and here in the Fairlight tab,

they got a great set of tools to really
take our audio to the next level.

So one of those tools that we can use
is a subgroup.

So a subgroup is basically a group
of audio channels.

You can put as many channels as you want
into the group or as little as you want.

You need at least two.
Otherwise you don't need a group, right?

So you want to take a few channels
and you want to put them in a group.

So why might you want to do that?

Let's say
you've got two different vocal tracks

and you've adjusted the faders
for each track individually

so that both tracks playback
at your desired volume or desired level.

Now let's say that you needed to raise
or lower the volume of both tracks

at the same time.

So instead of taking each slider
and trying to move one,

you know, the same amount on each side,
you could put both of these channels

into one group

which would allow you to adjust
the overall volume of those two channels

while still keeping the relationship
of those two channels the same.

So it might sound a little confusing,
but let's jump into the different resolve,

and I'm going to show you

exactly how this works and you're going
to see how helpful it can be for you.

So let's jump in the result
and check it out.

Here we are
in DaVinci Resolve in the Fairlight tab,

and this is where we're going to do
all our audio work.

I've already gone ahead
and put in some audio tracks here

from a recent multitrack recording
that I did of our church worship band.

And as you can

see here, I've got three vocal tracks
and then I have four instrument tracks.

I have a bass, a keys
left, keys right, and a guitar.

As I've already mentioned,
a subgroup is a group of channels,

so we can take any channels we want
and put them together in a subgroup.

The first thing I want to do
is set the faders on my four instrument

channels over here

to make a good mix, to blend together

nicely,
to sound the way I want it to sound,

and then we're going to go ahead
and create a subgroup.

So I'm going to play through I'm going
to bring in each instrument to a level

that I think sounds good, and then we'll
go on to the next instrument.

Okay, Let's say that I like that.

That sounds good.

So now my subgroup is going to allow me
to control the volume of all four

of these channels together without having
to touch the individual faders.

So this way I've got my relationship set
between all my channels.

It sounds good.

I just might want to raise and lower
the volume as a whole,

but not touch the individual faders.

So to create a subgroup we come up
to the Fairlight tab at the top here.

I'm going to click on bass format
and here we have

our main output that contains
all of our audio for the entire project.

In order to create a subgroup,
you come up here, click on sub,

and that's going to add a subgroup down
here.

We can name it whatever you want. I'm
just going to leave it

sub one for now,
but you can name it whatever you want.

I'm going to make it a stereo subgroup
and then I'm going to click okay.

And then if I come down here and drag out
my mixer panel a little, you see now

we have another group called Sub one
in order to add our channels

into that subgroup,
You want to scroll down here

in your little mixer area up top
and you see we've got different numbers.

We have our main mix.

So that is the channel
going to our main output.

And here right now
you see all of them go to the main output.

So for the channels
that we want to be in our subgroup,

you want to uncheck the main output

because we already have the subgroup
going to the main output.

We don't want these
also going to the main output.

Now in the sub mix, we want to take

the bass keys and guitar
and we want them to go into the subgroup.

So down here is our subgroup
and you can see

we can click these on and off
and you want it to be clicked on

and what that tells Resolve

is take all these channels
and send it over to this subgroup. One.

Now when I adjust the fader
on subgroup one, it will adjust the volume

of these four channels, but it will keep
their relationship to each other

like I've already set it
in the individual faders.

So let me just play through a little
and I'll just show you how

I can raise and lower
the volume here using the subgroup.

So there you go.

You can see I didn't have to touch
the individual faders.

I only used the subgroup
to raise and lower the volume as a whole

because I already had a good mix
and I didn't want to change that.

So you may run into a problem
where you move

your subgroup slider, but
it doesn't seem like it's doing too much.

If you accidentally leave the main group
checked on here

for the channels in your subgroup,
this is what will happen.

See, I've turned it all the way down,

but we still hear it.

Now you do notice when I raise it,
you get more volume out of it.

So you got to remember to uncheck the main
mix there

for your tracks so you can have a bunch
of different subgroups.

So let's say I also wanted
to create a subgroup for vocals,

so let's go back up to the fairly tab
bus format.

I'm going to add another sub.
This one is going to be vocals

stereo, and I'm

going to change this color
to Let's do Violet.

Say, okay,

so see here we've got the vocal channels

and we have number two selected now,
just like we did here.

You want to uncheck the main mix,
So I'm going to mute my subgroup here

so we can listen to the vocals
and see how those sound.

And I'm just going to bring them up,
get a good relationship

between each other,
and then we can adjust our subgroup.

If I pull this out a little,
you see, there's our vocal subgroup

hiding over there,
so let's play the vocals here.

We'll get them adjusted Spin D.

I'm a child of God.

Yes, Siam

In my father's house,

there's up this for me.

Okay, let's say I like that mix
so now I can just leave him where it's at.

And if I had just my vocal subgroup,
we can change the volume,

but keep the relationship of our faders
on the individual channels consistent.

I'm a shout out.

Yes. So

now you don't just need to use this
for mixing music or band.

You can do this with vocals, with effects,
with multiple effects,

multiple tracks of effects,
multiple tracks of effects and music.

Any combination of audio
you can add into a sub mix.

So that way you can set your relationship
of the tracks to each other

and then adjust the overall volume
of all those tracks together

without disturbing the relationship
between them.

All right, So there you go.

How to create a subgroup here
in DaVinci Resolve.

And it can be super helpful,
as you've seen,

and hopefully maybe this is something
that you might be able to use.

And if not, hey, keep it in your tool bag

because you never know down the road
you might need it too.

So thank you guys for watching.

If you're into DaVinci Resolve,
photography,

Photoshop, Lightroom,
and even a little bit of video

video editing,
consider subscribing to my channel.

Thanks for watching.
We'll see you in the next video.