Help needed

[Krabbe]

I live and breathe for the debate, especially this kind of debate. I mean, at the end of the day, isn't that what a forum like this is for?

Obviously a "nice mix" or "sounds good" is ... well, nice, but the critiques so much more helpful, not to say what it becomes when we add this extra dimension. It's f*cking gold!

I should be clear to everyone that we do all have a dozen of option in the tool box, but they require knowledge. If you don't know what you've got, how can you apply it correctly? At the end of the day, I guess it all comes down to the basics. If you know your basics, then you'll know when to side-chain, when to parallel compress and - in my mind - most important of all, when not to.

On a side notes, while some of us live off happy clients, their valuation of your work is a mix of a lot of factors, where most of them has nothing to with the mix-technical side of it, and isn't it excatly mix technique, were are talking about here? Isnt' it what this site is created for? Happy clients are nice, essential even, but in here they doesn't really count.