Brauerize setup

A diagram displaying the routing of the Multi-Vocal set-up ITB along with recommended plug-ins can be found in Figure 4. It may be desired to send the entire mix there as a parallel, or the ABCD busses and the Vocals, or maybe your mix works without using it at all. Figure 5: Parallel OTB. To replicate ITB, simply set-up a stereo auxiliary with your choice of emulation inserted and send desired audio to the bus.

See Figure 6 for an ITB routing diagram. Figure 6: Parallel ITB. There are no hard and fast rules regarding what channels should be routed to what busses for the Multi-Bus Compression stage, just as there are no rules for the amount of compression, so experiment until it sounds good!

The above is merely a guide to get you started. However, if your mix is lacking to begin with, Brauerizing will expose this further and cannot be used as a substitute to good mixing. It can aid to finalize, but not replace mastering. Figure 9: B Bus Grot — Decapitator. Maybe one feels more punchy, or one seems to convey emotion and dynamic more than the other three.

Individual levels have not been adjusted between mixes and the finalising techniques are all that have differed! Feel free to send your comments to me via e-mail using the contact form below. Name required Email required Website Comment required Submit. C is all kinds of weirdly colored, to me. Rather unnatural. Initial thoughts were that i prefer A, Wrapped up with wow, that sounds like a brauer mix, but i found that i was listening to d for longer amounts of time, and feel that it has more emotional interaction than a after first listen.

Channels are out putted to the dummy output and the channel sends are used to send to the ABCD busses. The dummy output acts as a means of removing those channels going to the ABCD busses from the stereo bus. So channel output to dummy bus and then channel sends to ABCD. ABCD busses to stereo bus. Nice article! Im having trouble fully understanding the calibration aspect, i would be very greatful If you could explain in more detail how to calibrate with a Daw.. Sorry for the delay, this wordpress was used for my uni study and once completed, i neglected it.

One question… I have followed your conversation with Alex and that has helped… But, I was under the impression the Brauer also used a Buss with no effects on it? Am I wrong or have I missed it in the article?

I never came accross the aforementioned in my research, but its certainly a useful avenue that i wouldnt be surprised if it is explored.

Remember that Brauerizing is adapted for each mix, so there may be the instance where one of the ABCD busses acts in this manner. I am going to start this experiment but i will have the possibility to compare with real outboard. If you are interested i can share the results too and setup some parameter so it fits your study.. Let me know if you are interested?

How does harmonic content affect the frequency spectral analysis of a track — ie is it ever used to smooth frequency response in… Mastering for example? It affects the spectral analysis in a host of ways, I find particular compressors to have a smoother top end, some have a harder attack etc..

What ratios and attack release settings are you using for the A, B, C, D busses? The same ratios discussed by Brauer on his site! Try to keep it as low as possible, though there are particular mixes that demand a different flavour and for those recalibration may be neccessary.

Anyway, great article. I want experiment on what things i could do with it. Albeit not perfect, but certainly works. It sounds a lot better, if the plugin is on the B bus aux and using the blend control on the actual plugin. Blend control is cool, I agree, but I like independant control on a fader. In terms of my settings, it changes from mix to mix.

On darker mixes I set it bright and vica versa on brighter mixes. Sorry if that passage was unclear. What I meant was the summed signal contains 15dB worth of gain reduction, with each individual channel having 3dB reductions, but yes never more than 3dB.

Thank you for clarification. This is a fascinating approach to mixing. Now I am experimenting with sending those buses into intermediary summing Auxes, each with a different compressor and EQ, so something like a modified Michael Brauer approach.

So all the instrument group Auxes are sent to the appropriately selected Submix Aux. Right now I have Rhythm Instruments, 2. Non-Rhythm Instruments, 3. Vox or Lead Instrument, 4. FX all effects returns from reverbs, delays, etc. So that has been achieved through this method. I am still also doing compression on many individual tracks, and on some of the instrument Group Auxes.

I have not yet tried the following: — sending some instruments or instrument groups, in whole or in part, directly the stereo Mix — sending some instruments or instrument groups to multiple Submix Auxes — multiple parallel compressors on vocals I often use a single parallel Aux for vocals, as well as for drums.

Riding it throughout a track can really play with the intensity. Delay Compensation is essential when utilizing this method in the computer, to avoid undesirable phasing, flamming, and timing smear. Of course, particular plugins may still cause problems, if they do not accurately report their inherent delays to Logic. One standard work-around to provide more reassurance about consistent timing of the various buses is to instantiate exactly the same plugins on all the buses of the multi-bus configuration, and then bypass all but the desired one for each respective Aux.

That seems rather clunky, may still add to processing overhead, but presumably does the job. One positive aspect of that is it easily allows experimenting with the choice of compressor on a given Aux: just active and deactivate the various plugins already present on the Aux. Brauer auditions and comments on the high-quality rough mix provided by the producer and guitarist John Shanks, then discusses potential improvements.

He also discusses pre-compression signal levels, automation moves, overall dynamics, artist requests, and more!

Subtitled in. Become Pro Member. There are no comments - Login and leave a comment. Related videos. Watch Trailer. Michael Brauer Mixing Setup 1 Series 00h Watch Video. Michael Brauer Networking Video Watch Now. Michael Brauer Mixbus Chain Video Michael Brauer Slowcycles Video Michael Brauer Wrong Direction Video Michael Brauer Being Aware Video Michael Brauer Plugins Video Michael Brauer Workflow Video Michael Brauer Highlights Video Finally, it is important to consider that instruments need not only be sent to a single buss.

We have had a lot of success sending the bass guitar to both the guitar and drums buss in a simple rock mix. This method can become difficult to stay on top of, especially if you want to bring the instrument up or down in the mix without altering the behaviour of either buss. But it can also help the instruments to sit together and work as a mix. In this example, the bass will come up in the mix as either the guitars or the drums come down, as the buss compression on either channel starts working less hard and will drop out slightly as the instruments come in and push the compressor into gain reduction.

One of the key advantages of multi-buss processing over a single master buss stage is that you can pick and choose the types of compressor to suit the nature of the instrument. Some compressors will add a sonic signature simply by passing audio through them and no gain reduction will be required.

This way you can select your favourite low-end processor for the drums or bass, while something with more top-end sheen can be kept available for vocals. Each of these send effects is actually just another compressor, which Michael uses for parallel processing, and by having each of the six on a send effect he can quickly bring up each of the six processors one at a time to see what each one adds to the sound.

You can emulate this in the DAW very easily by simply using six or however many you want more buss channels assigned to your favourite plug-in or hardware compressors, and then bringing each one up on a send. Assign an input buss to each.