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Mixing tips and tricks: Creating mix depth

Mixing tips and tricks: Creating mix depth - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools

Mixing tips and tricks: Creating mix depth

Remember, through the use of Reverb, Delay and other time domain processors, you can really start to rein in on the emotion and the message of this song. But before trenching everything with the verb and slap-back echoes, go back to your mix plan and think about how these spacial processors can work to achieve your idealized goal for this song. Is it wet and dreamy, close and intimate? Is it off the distance or in your face and big at the same time? Here some of my tips for using Reverb and Delay. Again, remember a little goes a long way. Every element doesn't need to be wet. So, it's normal to have a few completely dry elements. For example, in this mix the electric guitars are for the most part dry. They have the little bit room verb on them just to give them a little bit of space, to put them in a room, but I'm not washing them with a ton of plate. Again, dry elements are going to borrow tails off of the wet ones, all becoming sort of one as they gel together in the mix. You also…

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