Quicksand - HB Mix

[Olli H]

I love the nitpicking.....it makes us better mixers

Yes, I like also nitpicking, but quite often I dare not to do that. I have seen too many inflamed discussions around here and I don’t want to participate in them.

Nitpicking is quite diffucult, because one never knows when one enters area of taste or artistic choise. BUT if every now and then we had a common technical task with same reference, then we could rehearse hearing a most minor details and discuss about them. Just for the sake of learning the art of mixing. For example ”Make these track sound exactly like CLA’s mix”, then we would be extending our hearing limits and we could be finding new essential details and nuances from the mixing process that we probably won’t find if we just follow our undeveloped artistic taste or vision.

And then fi someone comments ”your kick has too much low end”, then it would not be a subjective evaluation (”your taste is bad and mine is excellent”), but rather it would mean ”when I compare you mix to CLA’s mix, your kick has much more low end”.

Maybe we could establish a club of Nitpicking Patreons and sometimes try to do a common mixing task. Just to practice the art of listening. I’m sure we could find nice tasks for our selves. I think it would be worth of trying. Most of the time it would be enough to find one excellent top quality reference for a chosen song, and then go together towards that sound. Sometimes the task could be more specific: ”create similar drum sound”. Or whatever.

Anyone interested?