(23-05-2023, 01:45 AM)mikej Wrote: I know a lot of people say oh, I'll save that for the mastering engineer.[Narrows eyes....]
This whole narrative reminds me of something from Hitchhiker's Guide to the...etc.
“what about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project.”
“Ah,” said the marketing girl, “well, we’re having a little difficulty there.”
“Difficulty?” exclaimed Ford. “Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It’s the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!”
The marketing girl soured him with a look “All right, Mr. Wiseguy,” she said, “you’re so clever, you tell us what color it should be.”
We're talking around the minutia. Make the mix sound good. Move me. I don't care about phase. I get it. I was obsessed with M/S stereo recording back in the day. There's a lot of fascinating aspects to audio. I just want a good mix.
We're going on about scales and I just want some shredding. I want a solid rhythm section and some guitar fills and some upfront vocals. I do not care if the kick tracks are in phase. I don't even care about kick tracks. This could be a kick [redacted] mix without the kick drum. We're talking about audio, which is important, sure but we're not talking about music which is more important.
I'll admit I've not done it, but, just make a good mix. Don't mix for the mixer on here this site. Mix for your friends or mix for your enemies or mix for your kinda deaf aunt and move her. Also buy her flowers she's lonely. Mix for the guy underneath the hood or bonnet in whatever weird land uses the term 'bonnet'. They're hard at work changing the Johnson rod and timing belt fluid. It's due and they want a quality song to listen to while being butch and dirty. And/or for doing their makeup, I don't care because it's a mix for everyone. And this is all bs but it's intending to be motivating and that's more importnat than worrying about what's in phase or not or the typo that I'm leaving because it's still a quality post.
It's my bed time.