12-12-2022, 04:12 PM
There are a couple things you might have misunderstood and/or I didn't make myself clear enough, the danger of the written words. My bad.
Techniques and tricks are good to learn though some of them can only be applied in certain cases. Nothing is ever one-size-fits-all, right? But that's not the reason to neglect the process. I can name a couple ways one can use in any song, parallel compression, m/s processing, sidechaining, etc, for examples. To me. it's just one more way (hopefully a cleverer way at that) to tackle the task at hand, the more I know the better. I may not use all of them but I am sure I will use some of them, and some of them will be better at dealing with the problem than the rest, therefore, the more techniques I know the better. And yes, who doesn't know that every song is different? My goal is to know, if possible, all tricks and techniques. Who says I have to use them all the time, right? All else equal, if I know one more trick than you, I hold the advantage. That's just the way I think. Yours may differ.
Musical knowledge is good to know. I wouldn't say it's a must to be a mixer, but clearly it's an advantage. I know enough about it to make a connection between mixing and music theory, and I do see the close relationship they form. Knowing music theory helps me mix better, true in my case. But lots of people wrote killer songs without knowing how to read music. Lots of people who are killer mixers without knowing music theory. We know that, right? In this business I think the ears are most important everything else comes second.
Why do you think it's (music knowledge) a must? Can you elaborate? I am curious as to the connection you come up with the two. I have my own ideas but I want to hear yours first. It'll be nice to know what I've missed.
Sure, we should know our tools. How can we not? I'd definitely agree that the more one knows about his/her tools the better s/he is at work.
Techniques and tricks are good to learn though some of them can only be applied in certain cases. Nothing is ever one-size-fits-all, right? But that's not the reason to neglect the process. I can name a couple ways one can use in any song, parallel compression, m/s processing, sidechaining, etc, for examples. To me. it's just one more way (hopefully a cleverer way at that) to tackle the task at hand, the more I know the better. I may not use all of them but I am sure I will use some of them, and some of them will be better at dealing with the problem than the rest, therefore, the more techniques I know the better. And yes, who doesn't know that every song is different? My goal is to know, if possible, all tricks and techniques. Who says I have to use them all the time, right? All else equal, if I know one more trick than you, I hold the advantage. That's just the way I think. Yours may differ.
Musical knowledge is good to know. I wouldn't say it's a must to be a mixer, but clearly it's an advantage. I know enough about it to make a connection between mixing and music theory, and I do see the close relationship they form. Knowing music theory helps me mix better, true in my case. But lots of people wrote killer songs without knowing how to read music. Lots of people who are killer mixers without knowing music theory. We know that, right? In this business I think the ears are most important everything else comes second.
Why do you think it's (music knowledge) a must? Can you elaborate? I am curious as to the connection you come up with the two. I have my own ideas but I want to hear yours first. It'll be nice to know what I've missed.
Sure, we should know our tools. How can we not? I'd definitely agree that the more one knows about his/her tools the better s/he is at work.