All language subtitles for 3 (Lesser-Known) Mix Tricks with Soundtoys Plugins

my name is Ryan Earnhardt from

creativesoundlab.tv I'm hanging out at

the Sonic scoop Channel today to check

out the sound toys 5 bundle I want to

show you a couple big wins that I was

able to make in this difficult mix

the song by Jordan okron called higher

mind but I found out after tracking that

the drums were kind of dark and tubby

they just had no life to them and the

chorus is needed kind of a lift I also

wanted to add some effects to the

background vocals to fill up some space

let's get started

to a higher mind

so these drums I really struggled with

because they're very dark and they're

very easy to sound

um kind of dull and lifeless and so I

wanted to have some sort of spatial

effects to bring them to life and add

some Dimension let me play you these

same drums but without any of the sound

toys plugins

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now the real struggle with these drums

is the fact that the snare just sounds

very very dead and I really needed to

add some life to this and I found that

the micro shift is actually perfect for

the job check this out

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so it's actually not just the snare that

has this applied I created a bus with

the micro shift on it and I'm actually

feeding it kick and even Toms I started

out thinking well this is great for

snare but then I found man it is

incredible for kick just to bring a

little bit of spaciousness to the kick

sound I don't want to add a review on

Kik but this is allowing that attack of

the kick drum to have a little bit of a

dimension to it

thank you

another part of this drum sound is the

short Reverb I needed something that was

bright and added just a little bit of

lift to that snare I actually found one

tucked away hidden in the Echo boy

Junior I never would have guessed that

you can use delay in this way and

control the sound of it using the delay

time and the feedback it's really nice

to lay that works actually quite well on

snare works also great for vocal just to

add a little bit of a dimension it's

like a short room sound

no

No One by me

when I see it so fake

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now these are fairly extreme settings

for the context of the mix but I want

you to really hear the effect that I'm

talking about now speaking of tucking

the effect away in the mix we actually

have the option of normal versus wide

and of course ping pong one of my

favorite ways is to start off in the

normal dial on the effect and switch it

into wide the effect immediately becomes

more Audible and then I can tuck it down

in the mix using less of it and

hopefully have less Mud In the Mix

because of the effect

his reactions the hallway

so many rooms to choose

and take a step back once but that's not

what I'll do

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the next big win for me was creating a

simulated choir during the chorus

section and this was done through little

altar boy and through two vocal takes

out of the main Vocal Track and a backup

vocal take and through the process of

layering these same takes also to make a

choir let me just break this down for

you on how it's created

to a high of mine

I'll hide your mind

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behind your mind

yeah so it's pretty incredible because I

only had two takes now I guess you could

have said well why not just take the

chorus 2 and chorus 3 copy it over to

chorus one and basically get enough

vocal Parts there but I wanted to see

how far I could take the ultra boy so

this is the main vocal track right here

and then these are all the duplicated

vocal tracks so you know one of these is

actually the exact same vocal as the

main vocal but thanks to the ultra boy

we've changed it enough to really make

it work it doesn't sound like a

duplicate so my first instinct was to go

low on this and so I pitched down by

negative 12 and then I also did the

format at negative two or negative three

and I found this actually gave me a

really nice result and it's kind of a

dead giveaway when you pitch shift

something if you don't adjust the format

so this actually is key to making this

work so again I started with two of the

pitched down layers here's what that

sounded like just on its own

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a higher mind

to my mind

a higher mind

to a higher mind

so this is really key to get the right

tone in these vocals to create our fake

choir so we have two at the low and then

I was like well why don't we do two at

the high so we did two pitched up an

octave higher

to a higher mind

oh hi your mind

so I like that sound it sounds like it's

you know some dude singing at the false

at a range I'm just gonna go with that

and see how well it works but I also had

an idea to just take the vocal track and

just do one right down the middle so

here it is without changing the pitch

but just changing the format this is

actually a really cool trick if you want

to use a duplicate Vocal Track and make

it blend with the original but it's not

so obvious that it's coming from that

original because it's a different format

to a higher mind

a higher mind

man that just sounds great I mean that

uh that I think really works so from

here it was just a matter of panning the

layers so we have low on each side a

high on each side and we have a format

adjusted only right down the middle so

let's check out how I process this at

the bus level

so we have a compressor and then I

immediately followed up with a micro

shift now we haven't actually been

hearing this so far I just turned it on

let's see how it sounds

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yeah so it's just helping to add some

largeness and kind of skew the layers to

kind of blur the lines between some of

the tracks there's a little bit of kind

of uh almost like a vocal fry effect so

I'm trying to kind of just ease that

make it sound a little bit more Blended

from here I added a CQ I took out some

of the lows took out some of the highs

this is kind of a simulation of physics

as we have a microphone that is more and

more away from a source we're going to

lose high end as sound travels through

air

so I took out some of the high end just

to simulate the microphone at a distance

from a choir then we added some Reverb I

just put this right in the track I just

went ahead and did a mix of wet and dry

a lot of times I like to bust my effects

but for this I just figured hey you know

I know exactly what I want out of this

so kind of uh you know kind of a big

Reverb here but not much loan at all

because I really don't want to muddy up

the mix did another compressor here did

another CQ and here I'm just taking out

some of the lows here just to make these

vocals pop and allow the main vocal to

have a lot of that vocal body I don't

want these vocals to compete for that

low end the main vocal occupies

a higher mind

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a higher mind

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now my third Big Win of the sound toys

five bundle is the effects rack it may

seem like a quick way to load up plugins

but I really like the added features

such as this recycle knob the mix knob

even the input and output are extremely

helpful now this output is basically the

wet signal so it doesn't affect the dry

signal over here which is great for

balancing out the effect versus the dry

and of course each of the individual

plugins has a lot of you know control

over the mix of wet and dry but this is

over the entire chain now you can see

how this goes pretty crazy in a hurry

because we have this recycle option and

something like the decapitator doesn't

have a feedback loop necessarily built

in

but now it does so my idea was to take

something that regenerated and then went

back through the decapitator and slowly

got more and more distorted and slowly

just fell apart and even if it's not

right for the mix it just goes to show

how much creativity these plugins bring

to the table

oh

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my God

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so it may not be that I need such a long

tail especially distorted one at that

but what's really cool is the

crystallizer is ringing out slowly doing

a pitch bend down just adding some

interest to that huge space in the track

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no need to wait on the weather

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cause I am part of a higher mind here it

is tucked into the mix

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no need to wait on the weather

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yeah yeah it just really I would have

never thought that a pitch pin would

have been something that the track

needed but

just playing around with it it's a sound

toy you know I ended up really liking

that and how it fills the space it

almost seems like something's just

falling into that void there really

really cool dramatic effect so I've

really enjoyed checking out the

soundtoys 5 bundle and you can see it

it's done some fantastic things to this

mix I was able to revive some really

dark and dull drum sounds I was able to

create a fake choir that really made the

chorus pop and then add some really cool

atmospheric effects that filled in the

space and these long gaps in the track

you can find more information on the

sound toys 5 bundle at soundtoys.com

once again my name is Ryan Earnhardt

from

credosoundlab.tv behind the comments

below to hear your questions and your

thoughts talk to you soon

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