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Aug 23, 2018 14:56:26 GMT -6
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Post by c0rtland on Aug 23, 2018 14:56:26 GMT -6
Thanks for the replies. Motivated! I'm definitely going to try your excersize. I think separating project editing and organization from mixing is valuable as well. Much Appreciated!
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Post by drbill on Aug 24, 2018 10:33:39 GMT -6
c0rtland - you've got to find your own path and what works for you. There is no "right" or "wrong" way. I disagree with many of the posts on this thread - BUT - I mix pretty differently than a lot of successful guys out there. One thing is for certain - even after almost 30 years and well over 10,000 tracks, I'm still learning every time I sit down to mix. A wise engineer once said "you never finish a mix, you just give up on it"....and I think that's true. You'll continue learning. Tips and tricks from others can help, and may point you in a direction that works for you, but there is no substitute for "putting in the 10,000 hours" it takes to master a craft. Keep mixing. That's the only solution. No shortcuts.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 14:28:31 GMT -6
For me there's two sides of the coin, the technical and the preference part. Today we tend to do tracking / mixing / mastering as an all-in-one system and whilst there are no hard and fast rules there are things to follow and other things that seperate the amateur from the pro.
For e.g. when my first ever recorded song peaked over 0dB with no mastering limiter, I played it on an old Sony full range HI-FI system and it shut down when it clipped / rebooted. Instrument seperation is a given, there's only a finite amount of space so if you overlap too much in the stereo field instruments will get lost.
Phase issues when tracking can make a song small / weak sounding, not using compression or overusing compression of the wrong types can cause issues galore. You can end up anywhere from a small sounding track to something that causes mastering limiters to clamp down / pump. I've had tracks that were relatively "compressor free" sound great on the limited playback systems I tried it on only for a broadcast compressor to wreak utter havok with it.
EQ'ing the low end incorrectly can cause speaker breakup, I've had it where on low quality devices (headphones / laptop speakers) you get too much distortion. That doesn't happen when it's done right..
Digital distortion / excessive clipping always sounds bad, there is no workaround for that. Etc. Etc. Etc.
You just learn these things through trial and error, the rest is just how you like things..
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Post by jeromemason on Aug 24, 2018 20:45:49 GMT -6
c0rtland - you've got to find your own path and what works for you. There is no "right" or "wrong" way. I disagree with many of the posts on this thread - BUT - I mix pretty differently than a lot of successful guys out there. One thing is for certain - even after almost 30 years and well over 10,000 tracks, I'm still learning every time I sit down to mix. A wise engineer once said "you never finish a mix, you just give up on it"....and I think that's true. You'll continue learning. Tips and tricks from others can help, and may point you in a direction that works for you, but there is no substitute for "putting in the 10,000 hours" it takes to master a craft. Keep mixing. That's the only solution. No shortcuts. So true.... Take little nuggets here and there and if they work verbatim, awesome, but what lead me to being a good mixing engineer was by finally taking the nuggets I'd learned from some major mixing guys and use them if I liked it verbatim, but if I wasn't successful with their technique I would use it and modify it to my own workflow.
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Aug 24, 2018 20:53:19 GMT -6
Post by guitfiddler on Aug 24, 2018 20:53:19 GMT -6
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