what made it "click" for you?

[WhiteStrat]

I don't know. It hasn't clicked for me yet.

 

[arcadeko]

thanks for all of the input everyone!

But wait brother rat, i didn't give you MY input.

If you lower the volume of the click track...


no that's not it...

Umm -

I would have to go with performance - but after reading Chili's post I think maybe I will get a focusrite preamp

 

[random effect]

copious amounts of lsd

 

[random effect]

I mean... ear training!.. yea ear training

 

[superspit]

I know it's kinda lame.......but Izotope Ozone gave me that little push over the edge that I thought I'd never get....(without going external).
But that's not withstanding the use of 'a proper flat response monitor system', fair quality rack of cmprs, eq, delays/verbs and a good sound card (Motu 24io) going through a reasonable desk, along with mic placement changing/checking...rarararararararara.......
Yep, I 'sorta' got there (in my way) with what I had, now I can't go back to just passing my final mix through a limiter and widening the stereo field.
Wish I had this s/w a couple of years back....but then I think that I may not have gotten my (very basic) engineering skills and concepts if I did.
Just my take....cheers!

 

[jdutchak91]

COMPRESSION!

Once i figured out how compression actually works, my projects sound way better.

 

[grimtraveller]

Uncle Phidippedes?

Great Uncle Phiddipedes.

 

[grimtraveller]

Because no one really reads what anyone posts - they just start typing random crap.

Mind you, if the dustbin men only do collections every two weeks instead of weekly, there's bound to be problems with foxes, rats and hobos.

 

[grimtraveller]

What made it "click" for you?


What was it for you that made your projects start to "click"?

To be honest, there's never been any one thing. My recording life has been a series of little incremental steps, enough trial and error to blow a professor's entire lifetime budget and constant learning and picking things up from myriad sources.
If I did this for a living or every single day, I could see myself getting rather good at this. But.............
So progress {even 20 years progress ! } has been slow. Perhaps the main thing that's at least steered me in the direction of clickology is recognizing the importance of arrangement. There was once a time when, if I started to listen in the middle of one of my songs, I couldn't tell which song it was ! At least now I always know where I am, even if my mixing skills are on par with that of a deaf walrus. A gentleman deaf walrus, no less.