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When I mix a track, I dont have a fancy mathmatical formula for the process or anything. I just try to keep the percentages from stacking i.e with reverb mostly, I'll never have the reverbs on the same percentage. I try to spread them out as much as I can, but still try to keep a sence of clerity.
But with the E.Q.
thats all ear baby
How do u mix?
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04/30/07
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bla
havent really done any mixing yet- not multi track mixdown stuff anyway
but if im programming anything with lots of channels or voices i always try to set everything to a different value
i always want to get the full spread of values for every parameter and i often end up setting things to the right number according to whatever system ive thought up instead of listening and setting it to the best sounding value
ive been thinking about how ill mix when ive got all my gear ready (hopefully this year!)
its going to be 8 tracks of reel to reel each with their own compressor (alesis 3630) parametric eq (tascam pe40) effects (digitech studio quad v2) midi controlled mixer channel (fostex dcm100)
then mixed in my desk with 2 quadraverb gt's on the auxs and then sent to 2 graphic eq's (peavey q431f) and a master compressor i havent got yet and into a cd recorder i havent got with some of it going to my analyser and monitors
i really dont know how its going to work out- lots of theorising and analysis and not much listening probably
04/30/07
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subset
that's a purdy pitchur
04/30/07
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subset
I think mixing should always be by ear, if it'smeant to be heard by ears later.
Any heavily conceptual process (ie mixing by mathematical formula) just becomes moot for me. I guess it has its place, but it might as well just exist as a set of instructions rather than a piece of music.
and, that's a purdy pitchur.
04/30/07
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tonearm
always with the ears. I run Inspector to look at my freqs and phase but otherwise I go for the ears, jughead
04/30/07
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energygiant
i definitely monitor the deep deep bass with a spectrum analyzer.
but aside from that i just try and burn cds/make tapes and listen to my songs in as many different enviornments as possible, see what stands out and what needs boosting.. i used to be very trusting of the tape player in my car, but now my songs must also past an earbud/mp3 player test.
thats with my computer songs though......
on the fourtrack its a different story, its mostly with closed eyes and slider action!
my mixes are always very quiet, i think i do that on purpose...but im not sure
i think i want a hardware compressor..but i dont know a thing about them..
05/02/07
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utofbu
my biggest thing is presence and the mean power inside of the wave. I am always trying to get the right % difference between peak and mean rms of the wav. This usually helps your speakers do their job better and then mixing becomes leveling and eqing after you have done work on the power of your wave.
presence is what Im also working on... Its super tricky and I have arrived at the fact that I need to figure out good ways to utilize sidechains to better de-clutter my low end and low mid. I have become good at getting things to sit across varieties of speaker sets but I have a long way to go before I can say Im good at this stuff.
Also dynamic fields are important, things that have different ranges of dynamics, some that have very similar peak thresholds but very different mean levels.
Im tired of digital post mixing all the time though... I need a mixer and some toys damnit!
05/02/07
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mlbot
John McKaid, the Mixer of Light, is opening a store in a mall near you.
edited: May 02 2007
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Roshi
Yes, but does he like to pee on everything like Thomas Kinkade? link
05/02/07
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mlbot
Sonically, yes.
05/02/07
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Roshi
And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.
"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.
05/02/07
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mlbot
He Peed on Pooh?
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Roshi
-1 points for easy joke
05/02/07
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monty
i mix with my ears.
sometimes ill open up the wav in soundforge just in case it looks a bit wonky.
05/02/07
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zfigz
I've got a spectrum analyzer, but I rarely use it. I occasionally use it to find the niche for each particular instrument, but that's about it really. So I mostly use my ears and look at the shitty level meters in Live.
Anyone wanna give some tips on how I should better utilize my spectrum analyzer which I paid a bit for though rarely ever use?
05/02/07
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astroid
i just use as many filter sweeps as possible so mixing becomes irrelevant
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