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twonky
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hi folks,
I am in a real quandry here. This is a problem that I have been aware of for a while now. But my mixes are sounding kind of dull in general. I record lots of different kinds of music, from bad emo punk to super sparse Ry Cooder type acoustic stuff, to stuff thats sounds like Wire to stuff that tries to sound like Steely Dan and XTC.
Anyway, the tracking will go great, the individual insturments will sound really good, as I mix, they will still sound good, but as I continue mixing I run into the problem that everthing seems to be fighting for the same sonic real estate. So I adjust levels, I pan things, I try not to eq to much, because it seems like I always end up going for the mids and cranking those up. Not a good idea I dont think.
I try not to use too much compression and stuff like that:
A. Because, I like to try to get things to sound as good as possible befor "fixing" it w/ comp and eq
B. I still dont feel like I have a true grasp on how to use it correctly.
So if I spend enough time on it eventually I will come up w/ something that sounds pretty dang good in my "control room"
I will bounce it to two tracks get the levels pretty close to 0 and then burn a cd.
Then the fun begins. It seems like every system I listen to the stuff on, the mixes end up sounding kinda dull and 2 dimensional.
Mostly, it seems to lack the sparkly high end and the nice tight mid-lows. All in all it just doesnt sound very round.
It also seems really quiet even though I have cranked up the levels.
Now I know a good mastering job can help but isnt it better to try and get it as close to "perfect" as possible befor mastering?
For whats its worth, I am mixing on a pair of Tannoy reveals using Samplitude, oh yeah and thiis is being routed through my Makie 1604 VLZ.
Any words of wisdome are appreciated
Twonky
I am in a real quandry here. This is a problem that I have been aware of for a while now. But my mixes are sounding kind of dull in general. I record lots of different kinds of music, from bad emo punk to super sparse Ry Cooder type acoustic stuff, to stuff thats sounds like Wire to stuff that tries to sound like Steely Dan and XTC.
Anyway, the tracking will go great, the individual insturments will sound really good, as I mix, they will still sound good, but as I continue mixing I run into the problem that everthing seems to be fighting for the same sonic real estate. So I adjust levels, I pan things, I try not to eq to much, because it seems like I always end up going for the mids and cranking those up. Not a good idea I dont think.
I try not to use too much compression and stuff like that:
A. Because, I like to try to get things to sound as good as possible befor "fixing" it w/ comp and eq
B. I still dont feel like I have a true grasp on how to use it correctly.
So if I spend enough time on it eventually I will come up w/ something that sounds pretty dang good in my "control room"
I will bounce it to two tracks get the levels pretty close to 0 and then burn a cd.
Then the fun begins. It seems like every system I listen to the stuff on, the mixes end up sounding kinda dull and 2 dimensional.
Mostly, it seems to lack the sparkly high end and the nice tight mid-lows. All in all it just doesnt sound very round.
It also seems really quiet even though I have cranked up the levels.
Now I know a good mastering job can help but isnt it better to try and get it as close to "perfect" as possible befor mastering?
For whats its worth, I am mixing on a pair of Tannoy reveals using Samplitude, oh yeah and thiis is being routed through my Makie 1604 VLZ.
Any words of wisdome are appreciated
Twonky