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Post by ragan on Jun 28, 2021 17:55:24 GMT -6
Tanks, Townhouse is also on sale for $39! Yeah any of the PA plugs that have been out for awhile get these big discounts. I never liked Townhouse myself, but some people seem to really dig it. |
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Post by phdamage on Jun 29, 2021 8:26:04 GMT -6
I stopped using reference tracks for a good long while, but once I got Metric AB, I started back up again. It really makes it super easy - it's almost silly not to make use of it. You can match your levels in a second and then just look at the spectrum analyzer and compare - you can even zoom in easily on a frequency range. I have my old standby references I always use - one bright (Here Come the Rome Plows by Drive Like Jehu - those guitars are searing!) and one dark (End of the Road by Neurosis - round and warm goodness while still being crushing). If my mix is somewhere between the two of them, I'm in good shape.
Sonarworks and Metric AB have been the biggest game changers to my mix game in recent years!
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Post by gwlee7 on Jun 30, 2021 8:11:35 GMT -6
You can pick up MetricAB for $19.99 right now with the PA sale and the $20 voucher And I just did that.  |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jun 30, 2021 9:23:56 GMT -6
I only use reference tracks when I'm having an issue. I only compare how much low end I have and width.
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Post by the other mark williams on Jul 5, 2021 11:10:28 GMT -6
re: references, lately this is what I’m doing. I check out a lot of references, mostly a 10 second listen to get ears calibrated and verify if I’m in the ballpark. I have a few: Demi Lovato is what I use for too much low end, I don’t go beyond this. U2 every breaking wave was free, has a sub kick thing, I use that same way. Mostly I use older mixes that I enjoy and happens that they aren’t pumped. Chris Isaac, Meters, Zep, etc etc anything/everything that I can get into. In a project: I import 4 or so of these on a track, line them up after the session so I can scroll over and listen. lower the fader until it’s roughly same loudness as my project. Then I pop around see if my low end is in between Lovato and Zep for example. The problem I’ve experienced: clients might say they REALLY want one thing, but then they compare it to a modern pumped track and think it’s all wrong. When you get them to compare it to the thing they want, magically it’s better again. What I resonate with here is something similar to what I use reference tracks for: I use them as sort of "guardrails" that tell me if I've gone too far in a particular direction. I tend to be fairly conservative at times in my mixing choices, so if I'm pushing a processor further than normal (for me), I'll have a nagging part of my brain that says, "hey, that's unusual - why am I adding 7dB at 6k on the lead vocal?" When I compare it to a reference track and hear that, no, everything sounds fine in my mix, it sets me at ease. Likewise, I'll use two reference tracks where one might represent as dark (or as bassy, or as mellow, etc.) as I want to go and the other reference represents as bright (or as trebly, or as aggressive, etc.) as I'd want to go. Then I know as long as I stay between those two, I'm in totally acceptable territory. But I have to listen for longer than 10 seconds, personally! |
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