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About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« on: January 10, 2016, 03:47:23 am »

(Madeon - Technicolor)

I always wondered. How the heck does he manage to mix every single components of the track without clipping or sounding messed up. Also tell us about your own mixing/mastering tips!

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2016, 04:06:31 am »
I believe that Madeon has talked about spending hundreds of hours on individual projects. I would bet that he's just careful with the addition of each new sound to ensure it sits well in the mix. If you do that, things won't clip no matter how many new things you add.

If you're getting issues with clipping, try producing with no limiter and set your default volume for each track to half-volume. Try fixing sound mix issues by lowering the volumes of certain things vs raising the others.

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2016, 04:21:16 am »
ahahaha i remembered seeing this from his tweet two years (?) ago. damn that scared the hell out of me.
the amount of automation is crazy though.

I believe that Madeon has talked about spending hundreds of hours on individual projects. I would bet that he's just careful with the addition of each new sound to ensure it sits well in the mix. If you do that, things won't clip no matter how many new things you add.

If you're getting issues with clipping, try producing with no limiter and set your default volume for each track to half-volume. Try fixing sound mix issues by lowering the volumes of certain things vs raising the others.

yea he's real careful. neat too

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2016, 05:55:21 am »
this type of project, you dont wait to the end to mix everything. It's definitely an "as you go" type of process.
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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2016, 05:56:14 am »
To be fair most of the picture is just automation.
Stop overdoing shit. Stop downloading new plugins for the sake of it. Your fancy stereo enhancer won't make you any better musically, your hard work will.


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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2016, 06:41:44 am »
My favorite mixing tip ever:

If you distort something a certain way (distorting a sound to the point just before you actually hear the "clipping/distorting" effect) it has the same effect as compression. That different approach definitely helped me make my sounds so much more pleasing to listen to.

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2016, 02:10:14 am »
To be fair most of the picture is just automation.

+1

One reason why everything sounds so cohesive is because he's only using what he needs to use, there really aren't that many instruments or sounds happening all at once. The sounds aren't just some random presets he found and threw into the song, careful consideration is taken when making the sounds and deciding where to fit them in. The sound fill up the spectrum without clashing because they're each assigned to a different part of it. Unless you're layering sounds on purpose, it makes no sense to have two bass sounds or two lead melodies playing simultaneously. The automation makes sure everything fits together over time.

A lot of this is hard to do objectively so of course the amount of time he puts in plays a large role too. He's someone who puts literally hundreds of hours into a single project and has thousands of hours behind him in experience.

Music at this level only comes with hard work and crazy amounts of dedication, but always trying to better yourself with every project you take on. As long as you focus on making every track even a tiny bit better than the last you'll get there eventually. Just gotta put in the hours :)

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2016, 10:41:50 am »
Is there a full size version of that image? Interested to see the tracks and groupings :)

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2016, 01:39:20 pm »
Is there a full size version of that image? Interested to see the tracks and groupings :)

if you're not lazy, try to find it on his twitter :P
but i think that one's the biggest

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Re: About Mixing [Madeon - Technicolor]
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2016, 02:03:48 pm »
Is there a full size version of that image? Interested to see the tracks and groupings :)

if you're not lazy, try to find it on his twitter :P
but i think that one's the biggest

Found it on Twitter, you're right that one is the biggest :(

Madeon has a profile on here too, maybe he'll come across this and be the nice guy he is ;)