07-02-2023, 08:54 AM
To get a good mix I think you sort of have to get everything right at once, but it's impossible to learn how to do everything in one go. You have to kind of accept you have to figure it out a bit at at time, stick at it and inch closer to your goal bit by bit - and hope that at some point it will all start to come together. For me I feel it's like to learn how to mix, first - you have to learn how to mix, if that makes any sense!
I actually think the first question I asked someone on here was how they managed to get such a good snare sound. For quite some time I used to get comments that my snare sound was a bit odd to say the least. Mainly because I realised I didn't really know what a good snare sound was, let alone how to go about getting one. I still think it's likely that my idea of a good snare sound and everyone else's probably differs somewhat....
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I don't at all consider myself at all to be on any level as such. A lot of my mixes on here are pretty bad in one way or another as I learn. I've just been interested in music and mixing for years. I signed up here as I'd picked up Mike's book, there were lots of tracks to download and mix and it seemed like a good place to get some feedback, and to hopefully figure some things out and improve.
I see you working at it, trying different things and posting up different mix versions here. I just felt that I might have some ideas that I thought might help and move things along in the right direction, as others on the forum have helped me. I've had some good help and info along the way here and there, so it's also about trying to pay it forward too really.
Personally for me it's people like Blitzzz that I find pretty inspirational. The impression I get is that he sat down and decided to really work hard at this to try and figure out how to mix at a high level, so he could do the best possible job he could for his band's albums. I think he did a top level job and got great results. I feel it gives some hope for the rest of us that it might just be possible to figure all this out and learn how to mix, and that you might just be able to achieve something if you really work at it and put the effort in.
Oh, I must confess that I don't use all stock plugins, but I do regularly use quite a fair few stock ones. I do have a very small set of plugins that are my goto's as it were. I mainly use just the one eq and compressor, etc. I don't have a lot of additional plugins installed and I try to keep those I do install to a minimum. I've been through the process of buying all the plugins I thought I needed, you know spending money on the ones that were going to of course make my mixes amazing... and I've uninstalled nearly all of them. Now I've settled on a small handful of plugins that seem to work for me. I don't really bother chasing new stuff or spending on things I now know I really don't need. I found that I really don't need 20 different eq's and 10 different compressors. Other people do like having lots of choices and things though, which is fine, it's just not for me and I don't really have to think about which eq I'm going to use or whatever.
Cheers!
I actually think the first question I asked someone on here was how they managed to get such a good snare sound. For quite some time I used to get comments that my snare sound was a bit odd to say the least. Mainly because I realised I didn't really know what a good snare sound was, let alone how to go about getting one. I still think it's likely that my idea of a good snare sound and everyone else's probably differs somewhat....
.I don't at all consider myself at all to be on any level as such. A lot of my mixes on here are pretty bad in one way or another as I learn. I've just been interested in music and mixing for years. I signed up here as I'd picked up Mike's book, there were lots of tracks to download and mix and it seemed like a good place to get some feedback, and to hopefully figure some things out and improve.
I see you working at it, trying different things and posting up different mix versions here. I just felt that I might have some ideas that I thought might help and move things along in the right direction, as others on the forum have helped me. I've had some good help and info along the way here and there, so it's also about trying to pay it forward too really.
Personally for me it's people like Blitzzz that I find pretty inspirational. The impression I get is that he sat down and decided to really work hard at this to try and figure out how to mix at a high level, so he could do the best possible job he could for his band's albums. I think he did a top level job and got great results. I feel it gives some hope for the rest of us that it might just be possible to figure all this out and learn how to mix, and that you might just be able to achieve something if you really work at it and put the effort in.
Oh, I must confess that I don't use all stock plugins, but I do regularly use quite a fair few stock ones. I do have a very small set of plugins that are my goto's as it were. I mainly use just the one eq and compressor, etc. I don't have a lot of additional plugins installed and I try to keep those I do install to a minimum. I've been through the process of buying all the plugins I thought I needed, you know spending money on the ones that were going to of course make my mixes amazing... and I've uninstalled nearly all of them. Now I've settled on a small handful of plugins that seem to work for me. I don't really bother chasing new stuff or spending on things I now know I really don't need. I found that I really don't need 20 different eq's and 10 different compressors. Other people do like having lots of choices and things though, which is fine, it's just not for me and I don't really have to think about which eq I'm going to use or whatever.
Cheers!
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