I didn't really know where to post this, but here seems ok, because it involves mixing techniques.
I've been offered to work along side someone who works with commercial audio productions, like lingos and short 15s clips. It sounded good at first. But my passion is mixing acoustic music. Acoustic music has a purity and free from auto tune and free from fixing small timing errors here and there - it is what it is. That's part of the beauty of folk and acoustic, it flows freely and purely without many artificial fixes, retaining the integrity of the artists. The commercial world of advertisements have to be perfect in pitch, perfect in timing, or it gets thrown out. It's so artificial. So I'm wondering if I'm dumb to pass this up. It could bring in some dough from royalties, but it would feel fake to me. I'm a musician first, and I don't want to mix things to sound like a automatic machine.
Any thoughts on this?
I've been offered to work along side someone who works with commercial audio productions, like lingos and short 15s clips. It sounded good at first. But my passion is mixing acoustic music. Acoustic music has a purity and free from auto tune and free from fixing small timing errors here and there - it is what it is. That's part of the beauty of folk and acoustic, it flows freely and purely without many artificial fixes, retaining the integrity of the artists. The commercial world of advertisements have to be perfect in pitch, perfect in timing, or it gets thrown out. It's so artificial. So I'm wondering if I'm dumb to pass this up. It could bring in some dough from royalties, but it would feel fake to me. I'm a musician first, and I don't want to mix things to sound like a automatic machine.
Any thoughts on this?