Mixing Your Own Music (Tips for Mixing Faster and Keep Perspective)
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Mixing your own music (instead of other peoples) has a hidden layer of potential pitfalls that, with a few simple tips, can be avoided so that you can write and release more music. Here are my top 10 mixing tips to get you to stop faffing around and make more music by not losing focus and keeping your objectivity and perspective.
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0:00 Intro
01:24 Decision making problems
01:50 Top 10 mixing tips start
02:32 Goal setting before mixing
03:12 Maintaining objectivity
04:09 Using reference tracks for mixing
05:15 Using the Metric AB reference plugin
06:46 Song arrangement tips
08:16 Left brain, right brain activities when mixing
09:03 Mixing instinctively
11:07 Creating space in a mix
12:38 Tips for recording your own music
13:40 Bloopers! 😂
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-- Mixing Your Own Music (10 Tips for Mixing Faster and Keeping Objectivity) --
When you've written, recorded and produced a song it should be easy to mix, right? Well, no. Often, for some reason, it's harder to mix your own music instead of somebody else's.
Why is that? Well, in this video I have 10 mixing tips that will help you avoid this situation, resulting in you being able to mix faster and release more music. When mixing someone else's music you have a level of objectivity built-in to your mixing mindset that is absent when mixing your own songs.
By being more productive and intentional in the studio, you'll find that your confidence grows and so will your ideas and inspirations, so with a bit of forethought and planning, before even walking into the recording studio, you'll be able to make your mix sound professional whilst, at the same time, having an easier and more fulfilling mixing session
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Do any of these pitfalls resonate with you? Can you add to the list? I'd love to know and maybe I can add them to another video. Let me know in the comments!
you are making a music not an audio file .. this is my motto :), thank you so much Sara! i always admire your precious tips
@@gurumajuindonesia Thank you! I'm glad to help :)
perfection is the enemy of progress. this is so true
indeed!
Three little rules I use:
1. When tracking (from the point where you have decided exactly what what a part should be, i.e. not just experimenting/jamming) you will never play it better than the second or third take because at that point you will be at the all time peak of your emotional involvement with the part and emotion trumps everything else bar a serious mistake. One of those two takes will almost always be better musically than any further attempts even if they are not as perfect, sometimes precisely because they are not perfect.
2. A very useful rule of thumb I picked up for arranging is the two things in/two things out rule for transitions. Putting two things in is not so hard. Taking two things out can be harder. I say "thing" because it can be literally anything. This generates contrast and therefore enhances interest and engagement throughout a song.
3. I believe in classical music orchestration class they talk about five main parts max at any one time. At different frequencies (although they talk about octaves, alto/baritone clefs and such). I take the view that these classical music types generally know what they are talking about and what they say is often applicable to all styles music.
I love this, thank you!
Fabulous - I love how concrete your advice is - and I have to agree - committing a sound during tracking is a revelation. BTW - the blooper reel at the end was a charming outro... cheers.
Glad it was helpful and that you liked the bloopers!
This is gold, thank you !!!
You're welcome!
I love it! This channel is very good!
Thank you very much!
This was really useful and practical advice. Thank you so much for sharing them🙂
You're so welcome!
Thank you for your generosity.
No doubt I make some of those mistakes. Especially about not committing to sounds. In fact, sometimes I keep my programmed drums in MIDI just so I can change my samples midway, lol.
I'll try to be more objective.
Again, thank you very much.
You’re very welcome!
Thank you for such wonderful, common sense advice. I know that it’s going to help me with my projects.
You’re very welcome ☺️
You have such a soothing voice. Perfect for resetting the mind. Thanks!
Thank you! 😊
Very much enjoyed this. I am a long time Music and audio professional, but it was still great to hear a lot of very important basics presented in such a well organized way. Kind of felt like audio engineering meditation. And I absolutely LOVE bloopers. LOL.
Cheers. Gonna go add some tambourine to my last mix.
Great to hear! I've wanted to include them for a while because I love them too
Sara...how did you know I needed a good kick in the ass! thanks so much for sharing!
Haha! Intuition I guess
This is the video I needed!
That's great!
Fantastic!
Glad you like it!
Thank u. A females perspective!
My main takeaway is that I need to start using tambourine.
YES!! My work here is done..I can now give up on this youtube lark and retire happy haha! 😂