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Ketchup
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What is the hardest thing about mixing to produce the best sounding music to sale in the market?
dobro
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The hardest thing about mixing to produce the best sounding music to sale in the market is understanding the exact nature of your question and poll...
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bizarre
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*LOL*
yeah - sorry Ketchup - but I didn't understand your question ????
bizz
yeah - sorry Ketchup - but I didn't understand your question ????
bizz
Blue Bear Sound
New member
Could you repeat the question please? 
Bruce
Bruce
Slackmaster2K
Gone
The hardest thing about mixing is trying to make a shit smell like a fart.
Slackmaster 2000
Slackmaster 2000
Buffalo Bob
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Wha?
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Wallycleaver
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(Insert funny phrase here) I just wanted to raise my post count!
vox
Member
The hardest thing about mixing is realizing that it takes practice and patience to "produce the best sounding music to sale in the market", there are no shortcuts, you have to pay your dues just like with learning to play an instrument, you have to train your ears and you have to study other peoples work.
The good news is that the guys here are always willing to help someone who is trying to learn.
Good Luck
The good news is that the guys here are always willing to help someone who is trying to learn.
Good Luck
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Wonder
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ketchup...i realize where you are going with this and what you want answered........mixing is an art......like palying basketball.......mixing has very little to do with the market out there. mixing has to do with your preception of perfect. Every Mixing enginneer has their own way of mixing a song.
To make a long story short.....mixing is up to you....not the guy who mixed the latest Biff Naked single. its has nothing to do with how the guy who mixed you favorite song did it...it has to do with you.
Get the picture
To make a long story short.....mixing is up to you....not the guy who mixed the latest Biff Naked single. its has nothing to do with how the guy who mixed you favorite song did it...it has to do with you.
Get the picture
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RWhite
Well-known member
I THINK I know where you are going with this.
Assuming I got the question right, I think the hardest thing for many home musician/artists is to accept constructive criticizm from others. Many times artists have rather large egos to begin with. Now that we are in the new era of cheap home recording equipment, a lot of people are trying to create the next big chart hit in their basements, and any sugestion that their efforts are lacking in any way can cause a bad reaction.
Good artists are able to check their egos at this point, talk frankly about their work, and continue to try to improve it. And accept that it is a life-long learning process.
So the hardest thing about mixing is to play back your work for 10 people, take constructive criticism from them, and then accept the fact that no finished work is ever going to sound perfect to all of them.
Assuming I got the question right, I think the hardest thing for many home musician/artists is to accept constructive criticizm from others. Many times artists have rather large egos to begin with. Now that we are in the new era of cheap home recording equipment, a lot of people are trying to create the next big chart hit in their basements, and any sugestion that their efforts are lacking in any way can cause a bad reaction.
Good artists are able to check their egos at this point, talk frankly about their work, and continue to try to improve it. And accept that it is a life-long learning process.
So the hardest thing about mixing is to play back your work for 10 people, take constructive criticism from them, and then accept the fact that no finished work is ever going to sound perfect to all of them.
Sonic Misfit
New member
The first thing is to really listen to a LOT of music and pick out the ones you really like. Then listen to each part of the song and figure out what it takes to make the sound you hear. For instance, why do the drums sound good in a particular song? What makes the lead part stand out?
The thing is to make each piece of the mix stand alone and then blend them so that each part fills its own space....
Uh...What was the question?
The thing is to make each piece of the mix stand alone and then blend them so that each part fills its own space....
Uh...What was the question?
Queue
Active member
Learning to mix...
First you must master the art of the Home Recording dot com BBS forum poll option.
Then you have to learn how to listen to a song so many times everyone you know, including yourself, hates the song.
At that point, your mix is finished!!!
If you are one of the lucky ones, everyone will hate your stuff right away, but this is genius status, and Nobody is a Recording Genius anymore...
********Sarcasm above*************
********Serious answer below************
To learn to mix, read everything you can get your hands on, listen to everything you can, start mixing, post some stuff in the MP3 mixing clinic. Eventually it will start to make sense.
Queue
First you must master the art of the Home Recording dot com BBS forum poll option.
Then you have to learn how to listen to a song so many times everyone you know, including yourself, hates the song.
At that point, your mix is finished!!!
If you are one of the lucky ones, everyone will hate your stuff right away, but this is genius status, and Nobody is a Recording Genius anymore...
********Sarcasm above*************
********Serious answer below************
To learn to mix, read everything you can get your hands on, listen to everything you can, start mixing, post some stuff in the MP3 mixing clinic. Eventually it will start to make sense.
Queue
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charger
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The best part is that "best opinion" is winning by 2 votes.
Blue Bear Sound
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I still want to know what this crazy-ass poll is all about!!! ????
MISTERQCUE
Not Just Anutha Brutha
Ketchup said:
Trying to hire George Massenburg to mix your song.
tubedude
New member
Well, I attempted to make sense of it all.
Here is my take....
there are only 24 hours a day, 8 of which is given to sleep. Divide the remaining 16 hours by 2.7 (best opinion)which leaves 5.92 hours and then take 16 hours and divide by 3.4 (rules on recording/mixing) and then you have 4.70.
As you can see, when you do the math, everything comes out obvious in the end. You take 4.70 and multiply it my the frequency of low E on a guitar, 440, which gives you an even number, 2068. Divide by 2, and you have 1034. Add the number of hours in a day, then the number of hours you record a week, 15 in my case, and you have 1073, which is a fantastic sounding Neve preamp model.
Therefore, the obvious vote is on "rules on recording/mixing".
I thought you guys were pro enough to know this. Geez.
Here is my take....
there are only 24 hours a day, 8 of which is given to sleep. Divide the remaining 16 hours by 2.7 (best opinion)which leaves 5.92 hours and then take 16 hours and divide by 3.4 (rules on recording/mixing) and then you have 4.70.
As you can see, when you do the math, everything comes out obvious in the end. You take 4.70 and multiply it my the frequency of low E on a guitar, 440, which gives you an even number, 2068. Divide by 2, and you have 1034. Add the number of hours in a day, then the number of hours you record a week, 15 in my case, and you have 1073, which is a fantastic sounding Neve preamp model.
Therefore, the obvious vote is on "rules on recording/mixing".
I thought you guys were pro enough to know this. Geez.
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bizarre
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tubedude said:
Oh my - that's why my mixes never sound "Real Pro" ... I'm no good at math
bizz
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atomictoyz
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Whoa! ok, in a nutshell.
1) You must first understand what everything on a console does.
including where the cables go ;0)
2) you need a style of music in which some part of the public want to hear(this is my problem).
3) you need to realize that the public rides a wave, its constantly moving. Moving targets suck!
4) you need to realize Blue Bear burned the Mixing and Mastering Cookbook, now nobody has access!
5) you need an open mind.
6) you need ears.
7) you need time to gain experience, for rewriting the Mixing and Mastering cookbook.
8) You need money, for the equipment, or for hiring the operator of the equipment.
9) Desire.
10)a good attorney.
11)lots of talented people to help you.
12) Marketing Scheme for getting to the public once 1 thru 11 are met.
13) The realization that getting 1 thru 13 fulfilled is HARD!
Peace,
Dennis
1) You must first understand what everything on a console does.
including where the cables go ;0)
2) you need a style of music in which some part of the public want to hear(this is my problem).
3) you need to realize that the public rides a wave, its constantly moving. Moving targets suck!
4) you need to realize Blue Bear burned the Mixing and Mastering Cookbook, now nobody has access!
5) you need an open mind.
6) you need ears.
7) you need time to gain experience, for rewriting the Mixing and Mastering cookbook.
8) You need money, for the equipment, or for hiring the operator of the equipment.
9) Desire.
10)a good attorney.
11)lots of talented people to help you.
12) Marketing Scheme for getting to the public once 1 thru 11 are met.
13) The realization that getting 1 thru 13 fulfilled is HARD!
Peace,
Dennis
BBB
Member
The best opinion is orthogonal to the rules on recording/mxing, thus the angle of the dangle is directly perpendicular to the heat of the beat.
Blue Bear Sound
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Well... actually... I just chewed it to shreds.... sorry....atomictoyz said:
Bruce