bad phonecall

  • Thread starter Thread starter Roel
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Hehe on thing that helps with the band is this scenario:
You tweak the compressor a bit (and the waves C1 loooks pretty impressive on the screen :))
So one of the band members usually goes:
"What are you doing now?"
You put ur "veryprofessionalmixerface" on and say:
"I'm tweaking the compressor for the bass."
So the band members usually goes:
"How does it work?"
You put ur "evenmoreveryprofessionalmixerface" on and say:
"Took me years to learn, I won't be able to explain it to you in a couple of minutes."
So the band members usually goes:
"Ahhhhhh...."
And you can almost see how the bands trust in your mixing abilities grows. :)

This is very good if you are mixing a band for the first time.
If they are on their second or third project then they trust you from the beginning based on your previous work.


Keijo
 
The band also trusts me because I mix all the live-shows they organize... Because -even with my limited, but steady growing experience-, I'm better than the dude that comes with the PA. So they hire the equipement without the dude, and I do the mixing... Actually, all the experience I have is thanks to these guys, and the guys in one other band...

And I grew up with these guys. I even started the band with the bassplayer, just before our first band split up...
 
To answer the question as to why item number one exists. If you have been playing alot or even a few
live gigs recently, there is a good chance your hearing is already fatigued to a certain extent. When your ears have been subject to high amount of pressure they become desensitized to quite a number of
frequencies. To compound the problem, the live "sound" hampers their ability to make good mixing choices, i.e. they have a bad reference sound to make judgments on a new sound. Try staring at a bright light for 60 seconds, then right away, look at a colorful picture, you should notice an inability to distinguish some colors from others. You ears are very similar to that analogy. You can expalin these conditions to your friends and tell them either to be more trusting and quiet during mixdown, or put off the mixdown until they have had some sort of sonic break for their ears.

My thought: Experimentation = Experience

Peace,

Dennis
 
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