Are you Striving to make your music sound like professional?

[jerberson12]

In my case, YES I AM


YOU? WHY?

 

[Track Rat]

No, I'm striving to suck.

 

[Richard Monroe]

No, that's my mixing and mastering engineer's problem.-Richie

 

[Cyrokk]

I mix according to what my ears consider to be the best sound possible.

Whether that is "professional" sounding I don't know, nor do I care.

Cy

 

[FattMusiek]

You: Yes.
Why: Because it sounds good.

Hope I could be of service.

 

[tjohnston]

I used to agonize about professional sound. Then I thought wait a minute... the room isn’t even soundproof and the acoustics are less then stellar. Now im just trying to do something decent. However; one day I will own a house and I will build a real recording space and then I will agonize about professional again.

 

[Beltrom]

Yes, because the advice I've always been given is to use a reference I like, that reference has always been a professional recording (an album of some kind). That is not the same as saying I'm succeding or that I consider myself a failure if I don't get there.

 

[faderbug]

if pro means sounding like the crap you hear on the radio : NO!

 

[mixsit]

Hell yes. But as I go, I continue to get pounded by 'If it ain't there at the source, I'm in for many hours-per-song in deep dodo'.
That's the toughest pill.

if pro means sounding like the crap you hear on the radio : NO!

Styles vary to taste, and to each his own. But DOA do to the absurd levels of compression and processing, is still SHIT IMHO. And the more I train, the more it drives me up the damned wall. (Let's not go there.

 

[tjohnston]

Take for instance the mixing clinic. I've heard very little in there in there that made me say, "WOW! thats professional. There are some really talanted people in there. I really enjoy listening. Ill be the first to admit that my recordings are definetly not professional. Go to the golf corse and look at who you see playing. You would have to stay there many months until you found someone who played with "professional" skill. I guess It can be summed up by saying high quality professional results are the results of some serious practice, knowlege and skill.

 

[Sonixx]

Hell no...

just better than my last one...

 

[lost studios]

Take for instance the mixing clinic. I've heard very little in there in there that made me say, "WOW! thats professional. There are some really talanted people in there. I really enjoy listening. Ill be the first to admit that my recordings are definetly not professional. Go to the golf corse and look at who you see playing. You would have to stay there many months until you found someone who played with "professional" skill. I guess It can be summed up by saying high quality professional results are the results of some serious practice, knowlege and skill.

agreed!
ls

 

[Chris Shaeffer]

Well, yeah.

And, No, not at all.

I want the mixs to sound good and I know many professional engineers who get a lot better sound than I do. Professional sound, to me, just means making it sound the way you want- *exactly* the way you want. Its not making it sound like some external standard.

So I'm not aiming for some external standard, but there are sounds that I hear on some recordings that I want elements of and haven't figured out how to get them.

Take care,
Chris