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Cubase Pro: Master A/B Mix Referencing in 2024
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Spotify to Cubase to OBS with this FREE Plugin (2024)
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The FREE Spectrum Analyzer You Should Know About – SPAN by Voxengo
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These Mixing Mistakes are Slowing You Down
These Mixing Mistakes are Slowing You Down Here are 12 common Mixing Mistakes that are Slowing You Down. In this video I show you how you can fix them, and increase your mixing workflow, and speed. Today, I’m going to explain what groups and VCAs are, show you how to
The Magic of the VCA Compressor by Softube – FREE DOWNLOAD
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Can this New CUBASE 13 Plugin Stand Against UAD’s Pultec EQ?
Can this New CUBASE 13 Plugin Stand Against UAD’s Pultec EQ? The Pultec EQ is one of the most well-known hardware EQs out there. But it’s not in everyone’s budget to own one of these hardware units! Thankfully, dozens of plugin companies have made versions of the Pultec. UAD has
Why I’m downsizing my Monitor Controller to the RAM SYSTEM 1000
Why I’m downsizing my Monitor Controller to the RAM SYSTEM 1000 A monitor controller is a very useful piece of gear to have on your desk. It keeps you from having to fiddle around with a bunch of cables… plugging and unplugging stuff to hear different speakers… Swapping over to
Boost Your MIXING SKILLS with the Technique Nobody Talks About
Boost Your MIXING SKILLS with the Technique Nobody Talks About In this video, we’re talking about one of my favorite, underrated techniques for getting a great mix… Rough mixes! That’s right! I know that we all love our massive plugin collections (and can be very useful), but starting your mix
The new Joe Chiccarelli Plugin – That’s a Different Kind of Reverb
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Master the Art of VOCAL Depth & Dimension with CUBASE Plugins
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Give your Kick & Bass more Separation for a Tight Low End
Give your Kick & Bass more Separation for a Tight Low End No more muddy low-end mixes here… In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to get a tight, clear low end in your mix using only Cubase stock plugins! These are some of my favorite techniques for
Boost Your Workflow with my FREE Cubase Color Set
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Is the Warm Audio WA-2MPX The Best Preamp of 2023?
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The MAGIC of the 1176 Compressor: The Complete Guide
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Vocal Recording Secrets of the Pro’s
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How I Get GREAT MIXES Using HEADPHONES
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Mixing VOCALS with the CUBASE Compressor? I find that lots of people underestimate the power of the stock plugins in their DAW, and Cubase has some extremely powerful ones. Today I want to focus on the stock compressor and show you a trick I use to get a great vocal
Hey Chris
Great work, love the your vids, very informative and professional.
I would like to know if you could give me some assistance with my recordings, I seem to be having some sort of noise in my vocal recordings.
I first thought it was my audio interface( behringer umc202), which I then bought a new one(scarlet 2i2), but still heard the noise.
Then thought it was my microphone (behringer c1), then I bought the Rode Nt2a, but still heard the noise.
I’ve monitored my input levels on the interface, but it doesn’t seem to be clipping.
The noise if really frustrating as it is ruining my vocals.
Please could you assist me in finding out what could be causing this noise, I can send you a sample of the recording.
It is not throughout the track but as certain times.
Im using a 2012 iMac, 8 gig ram, i5.
I will really appreciate any help.
Thanks for the great work, I’ve learnt a lot from your youtube channel.
I have watched several videos on channel levels, bus levels and master levels but still having trouble with the control room level meter when looking at average loudness. How important is that level meter and what meter scale should be used there. Great job with your videos. I may look at others but always come back to see what you say to make my moves.
Thanks
Greetings Chris, Hope all is well. I requested the free template download and still have not received the download link yet.
My email is starr7rcs@yshoo.com.
Also, I was wondering if you can help me solve an issue with midi? Sorry, to be off topic. I sure could use some help with playing midi with my controller. For some reason now all my midi notes being recorded as I play are at the same volume, velocity stuck at 75 no matter how soft or hard I pressed the keys. Never had this problem before. I tried other keyboards that worked normally before, however, they all present the same problem. I tried resetting the preferences. I tried repairing Cubase. I even uninstalled Cubase 9.5 and reinstalled it to no avail. I checked for any hardware changes, all was normal. I reinstalled the current Steinberg interface, ur22 drivers. I tried Greg Hondo suggestion, that did not work. I am completely stumped Is there something you can think of that is causing this? how do I restore back to how hard I press the midi keyboard to affect the incoming velocity according to how hard or soft I play, instead of a continuous velocity stuck at 75?. Thank you for sharing your Cubase knowledge.
All The Best
Tim
September 15, 2018
Chris, I’m trying to download or even receive your Mix Template I have filled out the information but have not received your email with the Mix Download book/info
Could you please send it to me.
p/s love your program and learning, hard to find someone who can identify like you can.
Cheers and thanks
Bruce
Bruce,
I just sent you an email. Very happy you like the channel 🙂 Thanks!
Hi Chris, thank’s for lot of very useful videos. I have a special question. I use to record mainly live recoding (worships) using C 9.5 for multitrack. At the postprocessing – this is my question – how deep are you going to clean up the overlappings between track (especially toms, SD and HH). Could you give some advise what is enough/sufficient. Up to now I used to clean up everything between every single hits on SD or HH also toms. – which is lot of work. Thank you in advance for your response.
KR Jan.
For drums, I will clean toms and use a gate on Kick and Snare only if the bleed is problematic. Hope that helps!
Hi Chris,
I’ve been considering purchasing the Steinberg UR-RT4 interface. You review was most timely.
Can I ask you what interfaces do you use in your studio.
Eddie
Hey Eddie,
I use the Lynx Aurora16 which is old but sounds very good. No preamps, only converters.
I’m thinking about maybe getting something more recent, we’ll see.
I also have the UR-RT4 to use with my laptop when I’m on the road
Gday Chris.
Loving your tips and info but wondering if you could tell this nooby how to import your template into Cubase 10.
Cheers Matt
Hey Matt, check this one out, it was done on C9.5 but it’s the same process with C10 https://youtu.be/kVaRWxCkqYs
Hope that helps!
Hello Chris,
I bought your ultimate guide to cubase because i’m new in the DAW world.
I really like your work and i also subscribe and follow you it helps me very much thank you for that.
So my question: i bought cubase 10 pro and 4k monitor (27 inch) and in cubase i check the HiDPI in preferences (Like you said in your tutorial) but if i open Halion soninc SE it is very small can almost not read aut if i open Groove Agent that one is big and ok to see, also the 3rd VST are small.
On my PC in display settings i set the scale to 150% but still its small.
Do you also work with 4k? is there something what i have to do in preference? or on my PC?
I hope you can help me.
Regards,
Richie
Hello Richie,
Sometimes I work in 4K (150%), if not, 2560×1440 works well for me.
All the Steinberg VSTs and plugins are supposed to work well in 4K, some third-party plugins will work well but most of them are not yet adapted to 4K, so that’s why they are small.
If you have a problem with Halion Sonic that displays too small, I would suggest getting in touch with the Steinberg support 🙂
Hallo Chris, might be a basic question but…: what is the difference between compressor and limiter in reality, do I need both of them? Peak control (C) = ceiling (L), make up gain (C) = gain (L) these are the main functions. Thank’s in advance for your response maybe tutorial (video). Jan
I can make a vid on this, no problem!
Hi Chris,
I have been watching your videos for an year or so and I don´t miss any.
I would like to see a video showing how to solve this situation in Cubase.
I do a lot of recording exchanging files (I am in Brazil and my partner in California). A common situation is the necessity to put to “identical” files aligned … what happens is that sometimes one of us inserts a silence at the beginning for an intro or something like this and when sending the file back everything has to be moved accordingly to the “new” main file. “Identical” files with two different starting points, have to be aligned in order to keep the other files in the right place.
I am sure there is an easy way to do it and you already know how.
If you’re using the same DAW, you could just share the DAW Project file to do your work.
If not using the same DAW there’s also AAF and OMF format that you can export your project on and open in another DAW. AAF is newer and has more information than OMF but still limited compare to a DAW project file. Exchanging files using the same starting point is imo a very good option if not using the same DAW
Hello Chris, thanks for this website and all your youtube videos, they certainly help out a lot and solve lots of problems.
I am using Cubase Artist 10 and it does not come with the “Control Room” feature as in Cubase pro.
The problem is this…..I want to set up a headphone mix for the vocalist, but I can’t figure out how to do that in Cubase Artist.
All the youtube videos all instruct how to use the “control Room” and even Cubase online help says cue mixes are only avaibale in Cubase pro with the Control room.
Is there a way to do headphone mixes or Cue Mixes in Cubase Artist?
It depends on which sound interface you have. It will be more simple to make a video on this but basically, you need to use a second stereo output and route an FX channel or Group channel into that output which will be used to send out a headphone mix from your interface. Send Pre-Fader the signal of each channel you want to feed the headphone mix to the FX or Group channel and that will be your headphone mix… I will do a video on this.
Hi Chris,
You’re video’s are a little addictive. I keep watching several video’s.
Especially about Cubase 10 Pro which i also own.
I’ve learned the basics how to work with Macro’s, Project Logical Editor and Generic remote.
Wonderful things you could do with it.
For now i want to make two Macro’s (to use with Generic remote)
1. Change a specific Midi Channel of an active Instrument Track (f.i. Midi Channel 3 to Midi Channel 4) in the Inspector.
2. Change a specific Input Routing device of an active Instrument Track (f.i. MOTU Midi Express 128: Port 2 to Port 3) in the Inspector.
Could you tell me how to do this ?
Thanks for your great help.
Jan.
Happy you like my videos 🙂
To answer your question, it requires some research since I don’t have a quick answer for you.
I won’t be able to look into it at the time being with my crazy schedule. To point you in the right direction, you will have to search in the list of Commands to build up your macro.
Macros will only work if the steps you want to do are available as Commands.
Hey Chris,
I am a very longtime user of Cubase and yet I have learned so many interesting technics and cool tricks from your Youtube videos!
There’s a topic I would love to see you broach in a future video! “RE-AMPING”
How do you approach it? and what are your best practices about it? Do I need a re-amping box or will one of my preamp do just fine?
There are a few videos about it on Youtube but somehow they just aren’t as informative as your video!
Thank you!
I love that idea!
I will this to my list
Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Hey Chris,
Was all through the main course pages and general site for some kind of contact info for you. I could find anything except this blog page. Is this the only place to ask questions, give feedback etc.?
Thanks,
Mark
Send me an email info@mixdownonline.com
Hello! How do i split the MixConsole in CUBASE 10.5?
MyBest/Peter from Stockholm/Sweden
Hey Peter, check this one out https://youtu.be/z4-SyjKCX28
Hi Chris…..please help…I have a large number of Cubase 4 projects on an XP computer which is showing it’s age so I purchased a Windows 10 computer and Cubase 10 Pro.
When I transfer either a project folder or just an audio clip from cubase 4 to Cubase 10 the new clip seems to have masses of reverb which I can’t get rid of. If I transfer a dry audio clip and play it using Windows (ie not within Cubase) the clip sounds dry, perfect but transfer it into Cubase and presto REVERB REVERB REVERB or what sounds like reverb.
Hello Jim,
That is a weird problem. Make sure the output of the audio track is not Routed in an FX channel, make sure it goes directly to the Stereo Out.
It’s a Reverb plugin in your Session that does that. Also, you can try to import those audio files in an Empty Cubase project
Can you do a video receive a Cubase plugin called rotary.
Hello,
Thank you for the great template and video. It is helping me to get up to speed very quickly on a great DAW. (Coming from Sonar), So there does seem to be a small problem I can’t solve with the template. After loading, I decided to load my midi drum kit, Absolute Drums 2 (as an instrument track). The tempo seems to be sped up. This is true when I Cue/sample the beats, as well as when I import midi into the new track. The tempo is way off, too fast. I tried the same thing with a new template and Groove Agent. Same thing, fast tempo, like 200bpm, etc. even though the tempo setting is 120 or 90bpm. When I create a new project and load the drum, no issues, all normal. Only with your template. Is there some setting I’m not seeing that is in your template? I love the template and work flow so hoping you may know what’s up or I’ll have to build it manually from scratch. Any thoughts?
Hello David, happy you like the template.
Your problem is a bit odd. On my side, it works fine when I load a VSTi in my template. I have to say that this template is more a MIX template than a recording/production template but still works ok.
My suggestion is to create yourself a Empty Cubase Project and use the “Import from Project” feature if you have the Pro version to import all the tracks from my Cubase Template CPR project. Then, save this project as your new template. Hope that helps!
Greetings,
I just wanted to post the solution, as it always helps. So your idea to “Import from Project” is the correct way. I’m happy to have great gear and mix at 96K, so importing after creating a new empty project was the way to go.
Hi Chris,
I’m taking your Cubase beginners course and although is very informative it falls short in a sense it is not provided on a context of a real example. It would be great if you could prepare a song or a couple of songs in which you use almost all the most important functionalities of the software. To be honest, I am a bit frustrated since I really cant link what you are explaining with a real life example. Without that, I feel Im not getting enough bang for my buck. Many thanks.
Hello Joe, I assume you’re referring to The Ultimate Guide to Cubase? This is a course on Cubase itself as a software, explaining all the features, and not on recording, editing or mixing techniques. But I did use a song to explain some Cubase features though.
I’m working on a Mixing in Cubase course that will focus on Mixing techniques using Cubase plugins, maybe that new course will meet your needs better. If you’re not satisfied with the course and you think this course doesn’t help you out managing Cubase, send me an email and I will issue a refund no problem my friend 🙂 At the same time, let me know what kind of course you would like to see. info@mixdownacademy.com
Hello,
I have one question about Cubase, is it possible to export signature track. I’m using last updated version of Cubase.
Thanks in advance.
greetings
Dalibor
Not that I know of!
Hey Chris.
Thanks for all your fantastic Cubase advice.
Have you ever used Cubase to connect to other musicians, live via Jamulus?
All the very best
James
Hey James,
No, I don’t even knew about Jamulus. Thanks for sharing!
No I didn’t, never heard of Jamulus before so thanks for sharing!
Hey Chris, I also have been learning som much from your videos. I purchased your first Cubase tutorial as well. I have been trying to get your mix template and color scheme as well. I’ve filled out the info and subscribed many times but never receive the email link.
Hello John,
Glad you’re learning from my videos 🙂
Weird, maybe that’s because you’re already on my mailing list. I just sent out an email with the link to access the Workshop.
Have a nice weekend!
Greetings Chris,
I’ve noticed in your videos that you are using a Kensington Trackball. It would be great if you would create a video tutorial on how you use it with Cubase
Yes, I recently put my hands on one and LOVE IT so far. Maybe I can do a quick video on this 🙂
Chris,
I truly appreciate all of the help you have given me so far both from the YouTube videos and your responses to my YouTube posts.
In their quest to make it possible for us (brickwall) limited budget types to do more and more with stock plugins, Steinberg has given us more stuff to figure out in V12. Catch 22.
I’m wondering if you would consider any of the following topics: (1) side-to-side comparison of Raiser and Maximizer (2) side-to-side comparison of MB Compressor chained with MB Expander vs. Squasher (3) side-to-side comparison of Brickwall Limiter+Maximizer+Lin Dither vs. Waves L2.
Thanks.
Looking forward to the Mixing course. The thumbnail is hilarious, BTW.
Great Article! Thank you for sharing this is a very informative post, and looking forward to the latest one