Secrete Preset Tip
Say you’re in the mixing stage and you're EQing away on all your channels to manage/separate frequencies. You’re cutting and boosting frequency ranges to achieve a great sounding mix that works for the project you have. But all of a sudden you run into a stopping block because you now want the same EQ settings that is on your snare channel on your tom/percussion channel. Some FL Studio mix engineers will suggest saving your settings by clicking “save preset as”, renaming the preset to something that makes sense, opening another copy of the EQ plugin in the channel you want to use it in, then select the snare EQ preset you just saved. This is great and all, but I don’t feel it’s the best way to do it for a number of reasons. 1) If you are saving an EQ preset it’s to use it again on different projects, but why when the next project will require a different EQ setting. 2) It takes time to properly organize and name these presets the more you use this method. Why if all you want to do is copy the EQ settings temporarily without crowding your EQ presets list? I’m here to tell you that you can, and it’s a lot easier than you think. Follow these steps:
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| Click on the box at the top left corner of your plugin. |
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| Click + Hold the "Save preset as..." |
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| Drag and drop the preset to the desired channel. And that's it! |
Effeciency and speed are key when it comes to mixing and the more time you have to be creative and less technical speed bumps the better, although I think presets could also be useful if you have an instrument where you know the general frequency as a good starting point to start carving out the sound. Great tip!
ReplyDeleteYou are 100% correct man. I will always encourage others to make the mixing stage as fast and easy as you can. The longer we take the more unnecessary tweaks and adjustmental we make.
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