23-08-2015, 10:57 AM
To me it’s a possibility to learn from one’s own mistakes. I want to test all the time strengths and weakness of my own vision. Just to know area where I must focus and what I must practice more.
As I don’t know personnally any good professional mixer, it’s quite difficult to get reliable feedback. But with this method I get easily feedback from CDs: ”bass-kick relationship bad”, ”too much reverb”, ”dull top end”, ”too bright top end” etc. If I do the same mistakes all the time mix after mix, then I can pinpoint to myself at least some of the weaknesses of my vision or my ears or my system. When I notice that my skills and results are quite far from top level mixers, it makes me try harder. Of course I must be able to choose my references well to fit the song that I’m mixing and idea I’m after.
As I don’t know personnally any good professional mixer, it’s quite difficult to get reliable feedback. But with this method I get easily feedback from CDs: ”bass-kick relationship bad”, ”too much reverb”, ”dull top end”, ”too bright top end” etc. If I do the same mistakes all the time mix after mix, then I can pinpoint to myself at least some of the weaknesses of my vision or my ears or my system. When I notice that my skills and results are quite far from top level mixers, it makes me try harder. Of course I must be able to choose my references well to fit the song that I’m mixing and idea I’m after.