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bucchild
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I really hope I'm not starting something back up here, but I started a new thread 'cause the last one was just too damn long.
I have a couple questions/comments on the whole thing.
1) I'm not calling out any names, but I started off making the same mistake as a certain regular, until I realized that the purpose of this forum is to get various opinions from people with various experience. NOBODY knows everything, cuz everybody has different tastes, has different techniques, is recording different music through different rigs, and is looking for different results. There is NO right or wrong....that's the beauty of music. The moment you think you're right, you're wrong.
2) I read somewhere (I forget where now), that there is such a thing as "too hot." It said that usually singles sent to radio stations are mixed and mastered really hot - since it needs to be for the radio waves. On the other hand, a full EP or anything more than a handful of songs shouldn't be recorded as hot, since listening to really hot mixes leads to aural fatigue, and therefore isn't as enjoyable. Doesn't that come to play here? If you were to record really hot every track, every time, you would probably only be able to listen to 4 or 5 songs at a time before it's too much for your ears to enjoy.
3) I'm showing my inexperience, but this question is regarding the concept of EQ'ing a tracks differently: I don't even know what it's called, but the concept is to cut certain ranges of EQ to create a 'groove' for the next track to 'lay' in. I'm not sure if this makes any sense at all. But what I'm wondering is that in doing this, is the ultimate goal for the final mix to have a perfectly flat EQ, with certain tracks filling in the different ranges?
I have a couple questions/comments on the whole thing.
1) I'm not calling out any names, but I started off making the same mistake as a certain regular, until I realized that the purpose of this forum is to get various opinions from people with various experience. NOBODY knows everything, cuz everybody has different tastes, has different techniques, is recording different music through different rigs, and is looking for different results. There is NO right or wrong....that's the beauty of music. The moment you think you're right, you're wrong.
2) I read somewhere (I forget where now), that there is such a thing as "too hot." It said that usually singles sent to radio stations are mixed and mastered really hot - since it needs to be for the radio waves. On the other hand, a full EP or anything more than a handful of songs shouldn't be recorded as hot, since listening to really hot mixes leads to aural fatigue, and therefore isn't as enjoyable. Doesn't that come to play here? If you were to record really hot every track, every time, you would probably only be able to listen to 4 or 5 songs at a time before it's too much for your ears to enjoy.
3) I'm showing my inexperience, but this question is regarding the concept of EQ'ing a tracks differently: I don't even know what it's called, but the concept is to cut certain ranges of EQ to create a 'groove' for the next track to 'lay' in. I'm not sure if this makes any sense at all. But what I'm wondering is that in doing this, is the ultimate goal for the final mix to have a perfectly flat EQ, with certain tracks filling in the different ranges?
