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K-dub
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... I guess I mean "Appropriately for residents of the northern hemisphere"
One of the drawbacks, if you will, of gaining more knowledge and honing one's skills at mixing is that the time needed to finish mixes exponentially decreases.
What used to take two weeks is now roughly finished in a matter of hours.
It's kind of funny. Once one's individual procedure is established, mixing becomes a matter of choices.
Meaning ... half of the battle is knowing what the tools and techniques do to sculpt the sound ... so that when mixing ... if one desires a particular "sound" to a part, it's no longer long puzzled out as to how to get it -- eventually you just do it w/o having to think about it.
... which increases one's efficiency immensely. Not that it's perfect ... there's always something that needs finishing touches. But the bulk of the work can be accomplished much quicker.
Nor does one ever get done learning ... for there's always new stuff/new techniques to experiment with ... and one ALWAYS has to weigh one's approach to a mix -- particularly relative to features and editing -- but it does get a bit easier and more fun once the knowledge of the basics is settled.
Anyways, I guess all that preamble was a quick explanation and apology for posting another up so fast on the heels of the one now sunsetting ...
This particular piece was done by myself and my pal Stu. He plays all of the electric guitar parts and does the bgvs. I do the rest.
The drums, again, are midi -- DFHS.
The tune, which I wrote concurrently while Stu and I were piecing the arrangement together, falls largely in a more modern "adult alternative" genre for me -- likely due to the fact that I wrote it late last summer.
Thanks in advance for the listen, and doubly so for any comments.
Best,
Kev-
... I guess I mean "Appropriately for residents of the northern hemisphere"
One of the drawbacks, if you will, of gaining more knowledge and honing one's skills at mixing is that the time needed to finish mixes exponentially decreases.
What used to take two weeks is now roughly finished in a matter of hours.
It's kind of funny. Once one's individual procedure is established, mixing becomes a matter of choices.
Meaning ... half of the battle is knowing what the tools and techniques do to sculpt the sound ... so that when mixing ... if one desires a particular "sound" to a part, it's no longer long puzzled out as to how to get it -- eventually you just do it w/o having to think about it.
... which increases one's efficiency immensely. Not that it's perfect ... there's always something that needs finishing touches. But the bulk of the work can be accomplished much quicker.
Nor does one ever get done learning ... for there's always new stuff/new techniques to experiment with ... and one ALWAYS has to weigh one's approach to a mix -- particularly relative to features and editing -- but it does get a bit easier and more fun once the knowledge of the basics is settled.
Anyways, I guess all that preamble was a quick explanation and apology for posting another up so fast on the heels of the one now sunsetting ...
This particular piece was done by myself and my pal Stu. He plays all of the electric guitar parts and does the bgvs. I do the rest.
The drums, again, are midi -- DFHS.
The tune, which I wrote concurrently while Stu and I were piecing the arrangement together, falls largely in a more modern "adult alternative" genre for me -- likely due to the fact that I wrote it late last summer.
Thanks in advance for the listen, and doubly so for any comments.
Best,
Kev-
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