Mixing in Reel Time
Platinum producer / engineer Kenny Gioia returns with his most in-depth video series yet. Follow along with Kenny as he mixes a complete song from beginning to end, leaving NOTHING out. At over 8 hours long, you’ll hear and see Kenny’s every move, including the mistakes, thought processes, and ultimately all his secrets for getting a pro mix!
Videos
• Introduction (03:25) - Kenny Gioia introduces this series of videos where he will go through the process of mixing a song from beginning to end.
• Importing & Creating a Rough Mix Pt. 1 (14:50) - The series starts with Kenny importing tracks into his session and start organizing with naming tracks and starting a rough mix.
• Importing & Creating a Rough Mix Pt. 2 (17:54) - Kenny continues his rough mix and his ‘riding the fader’ technique to get things started.
• Importing & Creating a Rough Mix Pt. 3 (14:22) - In this video, the drums get reordered, renamed, and rough levels are set.
• Importing & Creating a Rough Mix Pt. 4 (21:58) - Kenny finishes up the rough mix of the drums and starts to organize and set faders for the vocals.
• Organizing & Trimming (16:53) - Now it’s time to move on to arrangement and organization including trimming dead space from each track.
• Adding Color to the Tracks (05:21) - Once the tracks are arranged and rough levels are set, Kenny starts color coding the tracks.
• Master Buss Processing (19:17) - Now Kenny moves on to adding effects to the master bus.
• Kick Drums (09:28) - Now it’s time to start working on individual tracks and because of how this song is starting to sound, Kenny decides to start with the kick drum.
• Snare Drums (08:35) - Moving on to the snare, Kenny works to not only make it sound it’s best but also to blend well with the kick.
• Percussion (17:26) - In this video, Kenny starts working on the remaining percussion tracks.
• Bass Tracks (10:44) - Moving on, the bass is worked on next.
• Basic Vocal Sound (11:41) - For this next video, Kenny works on a basic vocal sound so he can get a nice rough blend with the other instruments.
• Acoustic Guitars (11:18) - Back to the instruments, Kenny starts to work on the acoustic guitars.
• Electric Guitars (21:21) - Here, Kenny moves on to the electric guitars.
• Guitar Solo (10:30) - Kenny starts making the guitar solo and the reverse guitar fit into the evolving mix.
• Keyboards (21:40) - Kenny notices a difference in sound for the kick during the solo so he works on that, then moves on to making the keyboard tracks blend with the song.
• Vocal Effects (10:15) - Time to work on vocal effects tracks.
• Markers or Regions (09:24) - Now is a good time to add markers to make it easier to jump to various parts of the song.
• Background Vocals Pt. 1 (07:57) - Kenny starts working on background vocals.
• Background Vocals Pt. 2 (13:19) - Here Kenny moves on to the higher pitch background vocals.
• Verse Lead Vocals Pt. 1 (12:13) - Kenny’s goal here is to make the lead vocals sound good in a static mix.
• Verse Lead Vocals Pt. 2 (13:42) - Continuing with the lead vocal, Kenny moves on to the second verse.
• Chorus Lead Vocals (15:30) - Next, Kenny starts the chorus lead vocals.
• Double Vocals & Throws (09:50) - Once the verse and chorus leads start sounding right, it’s time to work on the double vocal and vocal throws.
• Ad Lib Vocals (19:24) - Time for Kenny to work on the ad libs.
• Misc. Changes (06:57) - Kenny makes a few changes here and there to the vocals before moving on to the final mix.
• Broad EQ Adjustments (13:44) - Before getting deep into mixing, Kenny likes to apply what he calls ‘Broad stroke EQ’.
• FX Sweeps (09:51) - Time to start making instruments pop by using automation with FX sweeps.
• Lead Vocal Automation (18:57) - Now Kenny will ride the lead vocals for maximum effect.
• Background Vocals & Throws Automation (15:15) - The main vocals are done for the most part so here Kenny puts the final tweaks on the Background vocals.
• Chopped Vocal & Guitar Solo (15:31) - Kenny automates the chop vocal and guitar solo to really make them stand out in the mix.
• Guitar Rides (20:09) - Now it’s time for Kenny to ride the automation for the guitars and make them sound great in the mix.
• Keyboard Rides (14:10) - Here Kenny uses automation on the keyboards to help them find their own space in the almost completed mix.
• Final 2 Busses & Fade Tweaks (13:42) - Almost done with the mix, Kenny tweaks the sounds for the final 2 bus and fades.
• Final Mix Playthrough (03:17) - Listen to Kenny’s final mix uninterrupted.