The move that will change your mixes: start with the mix bus!
Starting the mix by processing the MIX BUS is a very popular way of working among mixing engineers, and in this video, I show how I managed to polish the sound of a song in just 5 minutes, using only processing on the drum bus and the mix bus. I transformed the sound of the mix before even working on the channels individually.
00:00 - Initial Comparison: The Impact of the Mix Bus (Before and After)
00:48 - The Concept of Top-Down Mixing: Where to Start?
01:48 - Session Structure in Pro Tools (Drums and Channels)
02:37 - Drum Bus Processing
03:15 - The MIX BUS chain: SSL Fusion and SSL Bus Plus
03:26 - Plugins on the Master: Curve Bender, ATR-102 and Shadow Hills
04:26 - Demonstration: The result of unity and glue in the Mix
05:15 - Only plugin used on individual channels (SoundToys Little Plate on guitars)
06:21 - A/B Test: The real impact of processing on the Mix Bus
07:05 - Detailing SSL Fusion: Vintage Drive and Saturation
08:15 - Violet Equalization and High-Frequency Compressor
08:52 - Stereo Image and Transformers
09:37 - The role of SSL Bus Plus in the "glue" of the mix
11:55 - Hardware vs. Plugin (SSL Fusion/Kiive Audio N-Fuse)
12:53 - Conclusion: Why Bus processing facilitates individual decisions
14:18 - Acknowledgments and Channel Members
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