Chibi Nappa said:The best way to practice mixing is to just do it. If a cover song works for you, do that. Offer free recording demos to local bands. Go to bars and get all the live recordings you can. Write you own songs and mix 'em.
Honestly, any mixing activity will teach you something, so just pick whatever's the most fun and go for it.
punkin said:Do a search on this forum for "Public Mix Contest". Contest #8 has been the most recent. Good raw multi-track recordings to work with.
gtrman_66 said:I second the "just do it" advice. And do it and do it and......
darnold said:i at times spent hours and hours each day just listening to mixes i liked. just listen to them for a while. Get it stuck in your head on how things sound on your monitors. It will really help when you know what the frequencies sound like so you can recognize them when you get good enough. then you can listen to a pro mix and be like "that guitar has alot of 300hz and 1600000Khz". Then you can start to learn what frequencies are creating the color you are looking for.
Start with 1Khz. When you get 1Khz in your head its easy to learn others using relative pitch.
Get test tone generator and randomly generate some frequencies and try and guess them. Its alot of fun. if you come close its good too. When you start recognizing the tone and harmonic characteristics of a frequency its easy to recognize it.
danny
darnold said:i at times spent hours and hours each day just listening to mixes i liked. just listen to them for a while. Get it stuck in your head on how things sound on your monitors. It will really help when you know what the frequencies sound like so you can recognize them when you get good enough. then you can listen to a pro mix and be like "that guitar has alot of 300hz and 1600000Khz". Then you can start to learn what frequencies are creating the color you are looking for.
Start with 1Khz. When you get 1Khz in your head its easy to learn others using relative pitch.
Get test tone generator and randomly generate some frequencies and try and guess them. Its alot of fun. if you come close its good too. When you start recognizing the tone and harmonic characteristics of a frequency its easy to recognize it.
danny