
Experiment by playing one bass after another to hear how they blend in context. Adjust the low end to add brightness, reach toward the high end, and lower the knee.
Learn a simplified mixing workflow that uses a universal channel strip across all tracks, emulating an SSL console in your DAW to speed up decisions and focus on the song.
Set up a Pro Tools session with a virtual SSL console, groups for drums, bass, harmony, and vocals, and eleven auxiliary returns to speed mixing with SSL channel strips.
Set up a Pro Tools SSL-style console with color-coded tracks and subgroups to quickly balance drums, bass, and vocals, using compression and filters.
Learn how to make the bass and kick sit together using SSL compression, low-end filtering, and blending two bass lines for a tighter, musical groove.
Enrico De Paoli demonstrates hands-on mix techniques, dialing drums with SSL knobs, compression, and transient shaping to enhance the snare. He compares reverbs and three room mics to sculpt brightness.
Learn how to build a song mix by balancing drums and instrument tracks in context, shaping transitions for impact, applying low-end cleaning, high-end brightness, compression, and vocal-led guidance.
Learn to mix vocals across four interplaying tracks, route to subgroups and auxiliaries, and shape tone with precise eq and compression, then add long reverb and delay with automation.
Apply outboard compression and SSL-style EQ to tighten and thicken the vocal, then shape tone with targeted EQ, add reverb and delays, and finish with automation.
Automate instrument tracks to sculpt dynamic hits, adjusting snare, piano, and high lead with faders, filters, and compression while exploring read and write automation in a mix session.
In this video making-of, the multi-GRAMMY® awarded producer/engineer Enrico De Paoli, shows exactly what he does when mixing a pop song. By creating an 80's big studio style SSL console inside ProTools® and mixing as if it was a large analog studio, the engineer saves time and distractions focusing exclusively in the music. During this "behinds the scene / making-of" video, you will see a direct-to-the-point mixing session that reaches a radio-ready sound in a very short amount of time.
Again: this is NOT a course. It is rather a step-by-step, making-of video where the engineer Enrico De Paoli shows you his GRAMMY® winning simple mixing/engineering/producing techniques and workflow to achieve a hit-song sound.
The music in this video is by the artist ZEE, and it was produced by herself, Enrico De Paoli and Emmanuel Tuffet.