THIS is why you CAN'T FINISH your MIXES
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Endlessly reworking a mix is a soul killer. The fix is dead simple but, as Gregory Scott soothingly points out, can be incredibly hard.
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I'm no mixing engineer, but hot damn: I never miss any of your videos. I've found that a great deal of what you say can be abstracted and applied in other fields as well.
Exactly! I produce Dubstep and Drum and bass and always find something useful by these videos haha
If you've never studied it and learn as you go, then you'll be a great engineer. Those who go to schools and uni to learn it tend to be rigid with rules and regulations. Go for gold bro!
@@alexmoscatelli149 is drum and bass hard? What do you focus on?
I'm a hobbyist and think this channel is very good when it comes to perspective. That said, I solely depend on my own ears when mixing. Ok, my friends will be the best test to figure out how my mixes sound. "Hopeless". Or even worse.. "Great! Another orc dance.."
But that was 15 years ago 😁
@@DraconiusLux Learn the clichés of your genre. Once you learn those you're on your way. It's about immersion in the genre. But every genre has it's clichés.
Don't tear the work you've done, move forward, trust your instinct, and get it done. Most meaningful learning and growth comes after a project has been finished
I’ve taken to A/B testing my mixes with a range of successful “example” mixes right in the project. You’re right - it’s possible to do every stage (writing, arranging, composing, mixing, mastering) - but Dua Lipa mixes sound totally different than Weezer . . . and I can imitate the EQ and stereo field of either IN REAL TIME . . . finally I said “screw it” and focused on imitating myself 😆
As long as you don't forget to move away from the mix to breathe in
With some autotune, a proper Vocoder, perhaps the new vocal synthesizer EMVoice one we should soon be able to imitate Dua Lipa/Weezer. Heck maby even YOU! 👍
Hey cool... Im getting a notify of kushs Video and i see a comment from tay zonday, the legendary choclate rain dude.... Love your style... Greets from germany
Hey it's the legend.
Wise words!
Absolutely love this dude, he gives free mixing lessons while handing out actual life advice. just golden, I'm greatful for Gregory to exist in this community. thanks for the contributions, always giving a boost of confidence to hyper critical producers/mixers like me 😂
i mean, you can't have that hair, and not be this way. facts. 😂
the best
Totally agree. And these videos should have a million views.
Amen. This dude is a god amongst men, and should be named our quiet emperor of the mix.
I love you, Kush. You have saved my mixes so much so my EP is coming out next Friday. I owe it all to you sir
@Zack Darce thanks man
Nice! Details, like where we can listen and/or purchase? I'm, for one, ALWAYS down to listening to some new music! Keep us posted, please (and thank you!)
@@jeremiahpeterson7490 hey! So it will be released under my artist name “sleepsmile” and it will be about everywhere you love to listen to music 04.15 :)
@@sleepsmilemusic Ahhh, cool, so just around the corner! Thanks for the reply! Look forward to listening!
Same for.me! Somehow whenever I got stuck with my song there would come live a new Kush video and it would help me forward. It's been great. Good for you finishing your EP!
My trick is to sit on my mixes for a week or two, then listen to it with friends; Usually I realize all my nitpicks are insignificant and my mix is fine, or I just need twenty minutes to tweak some things. But I think after 20+ years I'm better than I give myself credit for.
When you listen with others, you can hear it through their ears. It's almost mystical.
I agree with your last statement fully, sometimes we underestimate ourselves.
I'm constantly amazed by how 'off' my own judgement has been on my mixes. I completely agree that the only way to get better is to finish stuff and move on. Even better if you upload said stuff, it's like the answers come to you as a reward for having shared stuff that deep down you're not really happy with.
That's my experience as well. Even better, once this channel popped, my engineering hit a bit of a quantum overdrive. It's like the collective experience and judgment of the whole YT audience is with me when I work now, it's friggin' amazing!!
Every time I feel like swiping the table of my mix I remember you said this and it keeps me going.
I was literally stuck at one place after a few revisions that all resulted in somewhat the same place when I find this video. Thank you so much for this!
I'm going to do my best to take this on board going forward 🙏
"Have faith, trust your instincts, get it done"
Captain life advice disguised as mixing advice strikes again. Get you a bar! Love these video's bro, thanks.
There's a lot of truth to this. I finish 95% of all the projects I start. Having a steady release schedule(once or twice/month in my case) forces you to come to that point where you're "done" with a project/mix. Retrospectively, listening to mixes I did a couple years ago, there's a lot of room for improvement, but I see growth, and in the end I think that's what matters.
This video came at the perfect time for me. I had mix I was working on with parts that I really liked, but there were some tempo issues that was making things crazy. Was SO tempted to start over, but this video encouraged me to keep going and a week later, I have something that is getting close to being maybe the best thing I've ever recorded and mixed! As a bonus, I learned new skills by commiting to the mix I had that will certainly be useful in the future as well. A more knowledgeable sound engineer would have probably fixed things WAY different than what I did, but in the end I'm really happy with the end result. This is why I ALWAYS come to this channel fir mixing wisdom! Thanks!
Awesome!!!
This is what it sounds like when you completely grasp the concept of your craft to a primal degree. Yeah you might know how to use a compressor. But this gentlemen knows what a compressor is thinking.
hes made hardware and software he knows so much
This is what I needed to hear to get my mixes finished. As someone who works alone, I really appreciate your perspective on things.
Trust your instincts... yes! Wel said!
My thanks are beyond rational comprehension. Amen, preacher of Art
Man I'm straight yet I'm falling for this guy! 😂
I'm currently working on a mix for my first ever paying client; this advice came at exactly the right time. Thank you!
I mastered a song and was happy with it! Three Days later I did something else to the master and it was more transparent and clear but the bottom end and the overall feel was almost gone. In the end I was not sure what is the right thing to do.
After this video I decided to stay with the first master and now I´m happy! RESPECT YOUT WORK!
Thank You Gregory!
Every project I work on has a saved version as “ROOT Version” which basically is the primary instinct mix. In my experience it’s usually the one with the most groove and feeling. After hearing it a few weeks later with a detached perspective and comparing a/b with the “very technical mix” I usually fall back in love with the root version. The fact of having done a very “technical mix” gives me the ability to pin point and choose wisely the technical decisions I’ll be adding to the root version. Usually its just some nuances here and there and I lost hours and more hours doing all sort of technical decisions in the “technical mix”. Its like trying all options and choose which one’s to apply on root mix.
I guess this is more due to not having the perfect audio environment, so its the only way I found to be “sure” of what’s necessary to polish properly the mix.
I love it when I instinctively have thoughts and then hear those exact thoughts coming from you, Gregory. Makes me trust my gut a little bit more.
Hey Greg, in my experience it doesn’t matter if you do restart, it still ends up sounding the same, so unless you’ve made some shocking mis-judgement, you’re only wasting time.
If you’re really hating the mix, its much more likely a song problem, or a recording problem.
Bro, you're speaking to my soul
Best piece of advice you could ever give to anyone.
THANKS
Great advice!!!! Thanks Mr.Gregory Scott......Oh Captain! My Captain!
I desperately love this man.... Gregory... you are worth a subscription
I know it's not literally the same analogy, but Theseus' ship comes to mind here. Great video and amazing philosophy here!
This might be your most important video. I wish I heard anyone tell me what you’ve highlighted here years ago. It would have spared me a lot of needless suffering lol.
Golden words of Kush!
I never start a new tune until I've finished the one I'm on. I had hundreds of unfinished tunes until I started doing that about 15 years ago. The problem is that working on the same tune becomes boring. But the sooner you get the 'boring' tune finished, the sooner you can get on with a new one. Wouldn't work for everyone, but it works for me.
Good lord this is one great, gut-wrenching reminder delivered with humility. Thank you, mix Jesus.
Ya know I agree almost fully, and will offer some further food for thought. Despite mixing albums for 20+ years now, I'm still learning and levelling up, and spending a great deal of time on a project can be valuable if one has that luxury. Case in point, I've been producing this one (personal) album now for almost two years with well over 1000 hours just on the mix. Yes I could have called it 'good enough' ages ago, however the ensuing journey has taught me a lot of new tricks and I've raised the standard for myself that I will not be comfortable walking back from (hearing the earlier versions is night and day difference). So from my perspective there can be value in getting into the weeds and spending 'unjustified' time in the subtle nuances of a project (as long as you're able to keep perspective, which is where those breaks are key). And looking back, every album that I've spend way too much time on has stood the test of time (at least mix wise), even from my early days. I think if you listen to a thing enough times, you will figure out everything that it needs.
We Just Love you Greg!!! 👍👍👍
Will you please consider writing a book?
The last great mixing book I read was "Zen and the Art of mixing"
You don't really give any information thats different from anyone else.
But your energy, Your soul, who you are is why a lot of us come here.
I dont want to know your compressor settings, I want to know philosophy on things.
Being serious, I would pack up from Minnesota in a nano second to come intern for you.
Thanks for your contribution to all of our education.
On piont, as always!
The first 20 seconds of what you said translate to life also.
Those who haven't, just give it a try and you'll get the formula of life 😊
This guy is really incredible tallented, talking about the workflow with mixes he hits my weak point... great track, great mix, great arrangement, chord progressions... and I stuck ... can`t finish it ... I make adjustments all the time... 300 backup copies with prevoius versions... no progress just digging and adjusting all... nightmare!
Well formalized! I am at the terminal stage of this redo disease (although - strangely - this is a disease without a terminal stage) where you have to give up mixing or start mixing finally. The deep root of my problem is that I love the things I am mixing and they are too important to me to be just a part of a compulsory learning curve. I wish I would never have to start mixing myself, but unfortunately had to. So above is the last and may be the most valuable music manufacturing video I had to see. Thank you.
Thank you! This is where I'm at now.
All serious mix engineers go through this until they learn how not to. 100% spot on advice Greg.
This video was much needed at the right time in many ways. Respect as always.
Needed to hear this real bad.
Thanks, Gregory, I learn something from every one of your videos and you are appreciated. This is so true about time and perspective. What I usually do, due to having no time pressure other than the Human Condition, is to reach a credible almost done pause point and then put that mix aside for 1-4 weeks while I take note of things to fix. I'm doing orchestral scores these days, working with samples, and the tempo editing is the thing that surprises me the most.
Cheers
I love this channel.
Ahhhh... and chillax!! Thanks Gregory for another moment of calm reflection and realisation... when you're doing it all yourself and for yourself (the worst kind of client) it can be really hard to detach from the internal critique! Absolutely you hit the spot... you should do therapy sessions!! 😎👍
You are wise and I always enjoy these. You got me through quarantine and two years of a pandemic. I am grateful. May you rest your head knowing you have helped others and have made a difference. Never question that. Don't ever think it's all in vain - you've made things better. Thank you.
I had endless loops of obsessive cycles of mixing over and over, changing this, changing that, recoding over and over again, but luckily I came across the mindset that nothing is ever perfect and it’s better to finish and settle so we can grow with new material down the road. I discovers this philosophy before watching this video, but damn, your videos made me feel less alone for sure.
Excellent message, great cameos.
I just took your advice. I spent 30 minutes messing with the shaker, changing the rhythm quite a bit. That was right after watching this video. I put it back the way it was, and moved on to finishing.
Ok this video is beyond important, kush ya just made one of those rare ones got to the point of all points, to which expanding said point is no longer an option, assimilation is complete lol...seriously this is some yoda level info....thanks keep at it
I needed to hear this right now. Great timing to see this upload. Thanks for the great videos.
I watch most of your videos and love your content, thank you so much. Just got to say that this one hit so many home truths I cant even begin to tell you! Crazy. I feel like I've just come to a lot of these realisations for myself only to have you relay them back to me more eloquently and concisely. Very reassuring and superb advice.
I couldn't agree more. Well said. Thank you.
While all your videos are incredible, this one might be the most important one.
There is no one formula you can follow to mix every song, but there is only one mix for each song that will serve the vibe and most accurately match the mature artistic vision.
Your perspective on this game never ceases to amaze me. 🤟🤓🤟
You're a wise man Gregory. Love all your vids!! Cheers.
Once again you are talking about something totally relevant to me and my work. I really trust your outlook and enjoy the way you present yourself and your topics! Thank you. The fact that you can be thinking about a mix being a, "... highly interdependent, extremely complex, somewhat random, somewhat scientific arrangement of synchronized relationships..." and NOT get lost down the rabbit hole is awesome! Take it Dream by Dream you Sneaky Little Devil... 😎
dude, you never miss
This advice is such needed gold
This has helped so much. I am working on my podcast and this helps. and helps in my writing as well. Putting together a podcast is something new. But i feel that with the knowledge i get from your channel as well as experience and maybe some other videos that help learn the dynamics of the mixing world. All these come together and makes one think things thru and learn how to make a mix sound better. The perspective you give is way different than a lot of content out there and Yours makes sense, thank you for doing this show. rock on dude!
Super helpful.
Needed to hear this.
Thank you Sir Kush
Needed to hear this. Thanks Gregory.
dude you are the best thank you so much.
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puh-LEEZE. I'm a L'Oreal man! 😛
You just addressed my problem with mixing, my problems with recording, and some of my issues in general life: indecisiveness and going against the gut. Thanks for this video!
Great advice Mr Scott. Respect ✊🏿
Dude.... I wanted to comment rt away... but then you made so many AWESOME points that I can’t do anything but APROVE this video 100%
Just wow man.... was feeling ya the whole way!!!
I've thought this before. Trust what you did and also trust what you're going to do. You have taste, we know this. During the creation process, act like your opinion is all that matters, because it is. Make magic.
I think a lot of us needed to hear this - cheers :)
Good words from the wise my friend, bravo.
Great advice. Thanks!
One of the best mixing engineers, yo Gregory, not only you have taught us how to mix but, you also coach me, you also teach me how to personally go beyond myself. I fuckin love you man,
Thank you for your hard work Gregory Scott, yessir 👊
This guy just brings the best advice, exactly when it's needed! Love the approach 😊
What an excellent bit of advice. Thank you
God I love/relate to your analogies.
Thank you so much Gregory! Thank you!!!
Literally needed this right now. Good reminder bro. Thx.
Good advice, I reckon. I've watched this video before but now with my current mixing issues it's more relevant to me.
This is absolutely spot on. Guilty of this many times over. And yes it does have all the problems you indicated. I’m starting to get beyond this I hope. Confidence is tough when you’re start out.
NIce one. Definitely been on both sides of this, caught between going forward and going back.
So good. And timely for me.
Been away awhile, not surprised that Mr Scott brings another lesson on music/life, the Grand Master. Always a pleasure
Great advise! For real! I just stumbled on this video accidently.
True Story... sometimes i am already done, but so deep in the progress. Then i cant find a place to stop... until i go to sleep, listen to the track 2 days later and then directly see, what was good or bad. Another aspect. A song or track is what it is. Sometimes i try to "add or fix" things that where missing to me in a mixing and adding stuff process.. but nothing good will happen. i then have to respect, what i did, accept the piece of music that i did and go on... the learnings i made on one track never get "into" this particular track... it always adds to my skills on the next and the next and the next track... keep building and going on... true story
Excellent piece of advice! I'm so familiar with these situations described!
Thanks for the video. You threw it away with a reason. Even famous painter thrown away their work and started over again with the same idea xD Sometimes it has to be deleted to become good afterwards^^
Needed this. Thanks man
I think you have became my "Mixing" Father with this talk...sorry Dad
HAHAHAH great video mate, great advice
THANKS GREG, always helpful
Just what I needed to hear :) Thank you!
I needed this. Thanks a lot man.
This is sooooo good!
Love how you share your experiences with us thanks dude 💯
Decisive! Thank you so much!
I needed to hear this. Thanks
I needed to hear this. Thanks.
Amazing video. Really needed!
thanks for all your videos!!!!