Free Mixing & Mastering Templates
Are there any free mixing & mastering templates that I can download that have different genres other than the ones that comes with Pro Tools? I make mostly R&B, Pop, and some Hip-Hip. But I would love to have some templates that has whatever eq, compressor, reverb, etc placed on your standard instruments for each genre. If anyone knows of any please let me know.
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Re: Free Mixing & Mastering Templates
If you have waves.... The eq presets by great mixing engineers are available for free on their site, waves.com
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Imho these kind of templates and presets are nearly useless. They might work in 1 situation from a thousand, but really, you cannot go too far with them.
You have to learn how to use things, and the added bonus with this method would be that you are actually able to manipulate the sound the way you want, and not only praying for the best. Presets are only starting points, but many times they even failed to be that.:eek: |
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Never heard of such thing (I believe you're talking about PT session templates, not plugin presets). The reason why this doesn't exist I think is because everyone has got a different way of laying down their tracks, aux, fx, etc...
As far as routing goes, I have made an MS routing template that I'd be happy to share you if you want. It's just a basic MS matrix decoder using the standard PT plugins that I use in Mastering. It is available here: www.se.audio/free-downloads/mastering |
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I usually mix on different 8 channel mixers, therefor I place from left to right -
...and so on and so on. When I ride the unit with the Bank selected I always have Matering tracks on my left hand to the left and have my vocal-tracks last on the right side... I just did this long posting to clear out that a basic strategy saved as a personal template can save a lot of time. (Don't forget to add a setup with Memory locations and place you most used genre typical naming like Intro, Vers 1, Ref 1, Vers 2, Outtro and just drag them into position) |
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Here's a bit of a guideline to get you on the track of clean sessions...:
As a general rule, every track should be routed to a bus that will group different frequency areas: kicks drumloops (as well as parallel comp drumloop bus) guitars (divided into more buses if using acoustic + electric, both then router to a master guitars bus) piano synths bass reverb1 reverb2 delay (really short that acts like reverb) delay (FX, usually triplets with low feedback) delay (FX, quarter note with longer feedback) master fader Every bus should have: HPF on it, where you put that filter depends on the instrument being processed. EQ should be applied with "niche EQ" techniques. transient designer (only on some buses though) Compressor brightening EQ Tape saturation Master should have: EQ Comp Harmonic enhancer Brightening EQ tape saturation Limiter But then again, this is only a guideline and may not work in every situation. But at least it'll give you a good starting point... Good Luck! |
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Izotope Ozone has some halfway decent presets that would get you going.
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Hahaha... Reading these post you gotta admit that my first advice was the best - buy a guy a couple of bears to sit beside you and help you out doing your personalized template!
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I understand they work for berries and grubs...and some "Silly Old Bear" will mix for a pot of honey at "the 100 Acre Woods Studios". But I hear all his mixes sound like "Pooh" -- and the faders are always sticky when he's done. :D LOL! |
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