26-03-2024, 01:46 PM
Hey ERJEE, I come back to your interesting comment in which I noticed something that surprises me.
You say "don't spend more than an hour on a mix"mode 2 or mode 3", that seems excessively little to me. So I understand: you make corrections and once they are done you listen (once?) to your entire mix and it's finished. That seems like a very short time to me. Demonstration: when I have finished a mix, I listen to it first on my near-field monitors and then on my professional three-way speakers with sub. Then I listen on headphones. Then I go to my office where I listen to the mix on the speakers integrated into the computer screen. There, very often it starts to go bad. Back to the studio. New corrections. Once again the same listening scenario described previously. Not good yet. Re-belote a third time. This seems to be OK. But to really finish the test, listen on a smartphone or a bluetooth connected mono speaker and to finish in apotheosis, a ride to listen to the mix in the car.....Phew, that's it we arrived. Conclusion: one hour seems very, very short to me...
Cheers
Francis
p.s.: I am often amazed and surprised by certain comments from our mixer friends like: I did a quick mix or I didn't spend more than an hour. Simple, rather philosophical question that I ask: why?? What is really the point of presenting work that appears “unfinished”? This is ignored if we ask the community for advice to perfect the mix. But otherwise it's better to do nothing than to present a sloppy mix for even the untenable reason of lack of time...
You say "don't spend more than an hour on a mix"mode 2 or mode 3", that seems excessively little to me. So I understand: you make corrections and once they are done you listen (once?) to your entire mix and it's finished. That seems like a very short time to me. Demonstration: when I have finished a mix, I listen to it first on my near-field monitors and then on my professional three-way speakers with sub. Then I listen on headphones. Then I go to my office where I listen to the mix on the speakers integrated into the computer screen. There, very often it starts to go bad. Back to the studio. New corrections. Once again the same listening scenario described previously. Not good yet. Re-belote a third time. This seems to be OK. But to really finish the test, listen on a smartphone or a bluetooth connected mono speaker and to finish in apotheosis, a ride to listen to the mix in the car.....Phew, that's it we arrived. Conclusion: one hour seems very, very short to me...
Cheers
Francis
p.s.: I am often amazed and surprised by certain comments from our mixer friends like: I did a quick mix or I didn't spend more than an hour. Simple, rather philosophical question that I ask: why?? What is really the point of presenting work that appears “unfinished”? This is ignored if we ask the community for advice to perfect the mix. But otherwise it's better to do nothing than to present a sloppy mix for even the untenable reason of lack of time...