Where's the category of 'Mixing techniques'?

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Post by fossiltooth » Tue May 24, 2011 11:47 am

subatomic pieces wrote:Thank gawd this forum doesn't resemble a text book.
Totally.

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Post by JGriffin » Tue May 24, 2011 12:14 pm

@?,*???&? wrote:
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dwlb wrote:Well, the board has eleven categories already. If we want to add categories for mixing, or miking, or effects, or compression, or tracking vs. overdubbing...you could subdivide this into infinity. But there is, quite simply, no point to doing that.
I think you're being unfair. I would like to see more discussion of mixing techniques too, and there is a clear difference between that and recording techniques, which seems to focus more on tracking, in all its incarnations. No need to be so aggressive.

+1 on a mixing techniques category

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This could be parsed further:

http://www.myspace.com/musicianengineer ... A381277%7D


Or, instead of arguing semantics, we could actually discuss mixing.
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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Tue May 24, 2011 12:47 pm

except we all know that actually discussing anything is not how jeff rolls.

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Post by Bro Shark » Tue May 24, 2011 12:51 pm

Wut R U Guy's fave Mix techniques. I like 2 run it threw a sonic Maximazer, and put tha Bombfactory compresser on tha Vocals for that Phat 'industry' sound.

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Post by JGriffin » Tue May 24, 2011 1:04 pm

Bro Shark wrote:Wut R U Guy's fave Mix techniques. I like 2 run it threw a sonic Maximazer, and put tha Bombfactory compresser on tha Vocals for that Phat 'industry' sound.
:wink:
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Post by @?,*???&? » Tue May 24, 2011 2:03 pm

Hey, I was just saying...that's all.

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Post by joelpatterson » Tue May 24, 2011 10:46 pm

Well, essentially the way I look at it: you've got a bunch of knobs and faders and controllers. They each do something. So what you're after is the combination of settings that make the music sound really good. There's absolutely no way to predict, beforehand, what this arrangement will look like, and it will be completely different, song to song.

So the process to apply is one of incremental experimentation, paying careful attention to the results you're getting and the improvements in clarity and force and groovability and then realizing when you're at the peak of perfection-- and then stop and print it.

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Post by cgarges » Wed May 25, 2011 7:14 am

In terms of being nit-picky, I find it incredibly ironic that this wasn't posted in the Tape Op Message Board forum.

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Post by chris harris » Wed May 25, 2011 7:39 am

I think we need a "Things You Can Learn From An Imaginary Professional" forum, moderated by @?,*???&?.

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Post by JGriffin » Wed May 25, 2011 9:26 am

cgarges wrote:In terms of being nit-picky, I find it incredibly ironic that this wasn't posted in the Tape Op Message Board forum.

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Post by drumsound » Wed May 25, 2011 11:30 am

This thread makes me chuckle.

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Post by @?,*???&? » Thu May 26, 2011 1:19 pm

drumsound wrote:This thread makes me chuckle.
Dude. I hate Chuckles. I much prefer Gummy Bears, but really can't stand sweets overall, although the occasional piece of chocolate is nice...

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Post by JGriffin » Thu May 26, 2011 1:51 pm

I actually really like Chuckles.
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Post by Brett Siler » Thu May 26, 2011 4:57 pm

Does anyone else beside Indiana have Chuckles gas stations?

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Post by @?,*???&? » Thu May 26, 2011 10:32 pm

subatomic pieces wrote:I think we need a "Things You Can Learn From An Imaginary Professional" forum, moderated by @?,*???&?.
No clue what this means. My discography is way longer than yours- yours isn't even documented! bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Get to work young lad and stop wasting our time up here!

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