Another banger of a video. Thanks Brent! Perceiving your work from different angles, and also maintaining a sort-of "arm's length" perspective on your work - being able to ask "Is this what this work needs, or is it just what I want?" is so important. It's not just about what sounds good to us, but also how others will perceive it.
Thank you, and for sure-actually your arm’s length comment made me remember one more thing, which is to render the sound out and play it outside the DAW. It totally changes the perspective and kinda divorces it from the gigantic pile of layers and plugins that you just spent six hours on and helps to see it for what it really is. I bounce stuff down constantly now and it helps with that!
I always come back to a mix an hour later, a day later, a week later and every time make some small adjustment. if I don't have enough time I find listening to a few tracks (just music I like not stuff I do) to be helpful to "rinse my ears" cool vid
I always heard you should mix at low levels (probably good for your ears, beyond being good for mixing), but I can never do it. I’ll wind up turning stuff way up to hear it, and then the balance is all off. So I mix too loud. BUT turning a mix way down to reference is so useful for checking things. Like if I can’t tell whether my levels are right, I’ll crank the volume way down. If I can still hear everything clearly, then my levels are right. If something’s off, it’ll stand out immediately. If an element is too low, it’ll get completely buried at a low level. Too high, and it’ll stick out like a sore thumb. Point being, that first tip is golden, even if you lack the discipline to mix at an appropriate level like me. 😂
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Another banger of a video. Thanks Brent! Perceiving your work from different angles, and also maintaining a sort-of "arm's length" perspective on your work - being able to ask "Is this what this work needs, or is it just what I want?" is so important. It's not just about what sounds good to us, but also how others will perceive it.
Thank you, and for sure-actually your arm’s length comment made me remember one more thing, which is to render the sound out and play it outside the DAW. It totally changes the perspective and kinda divorces it from the gigantic pile of layers and plugins that you just spent six hours on and helps to see it for what it really is. I bounce stuff down constantly now and it helps with that!
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Wha!! That’s amazing, thank you!
nice
I always come back to a mix an hour later, a day later, a week later and every time make some small adjustment. if I don't have enough time I find listening to a few tracks (just music I like not stuff I do) to be helpful to "rinse my ears"
cool vid
same here! and it can be tricky to know when to call it done instead of tweaking forevermore 😬
nice! thanks
I always heard you should mix at low levels (probably good for your ears, beyond being good for mixing), but I can never do it. I’ll wind up turning stuff way up to hear it, and then the balance is all off. So I mix too loud. BUT turning a mix way down to reference is so useful for checking things. Like if I can’t tell whether my levels are right, I’ll crank the volume way down. If I can still hear everything clearly, then my levels are right. If something’s off, it’ll stand out immediately. If an element is too low, it’ll get completely buried at a low level. Too high, and it’ll stick out like a sore thumb.
Point being, that first tip is golden, even if you lack the discipline to mix at an appropriate level like me. 😂
good vid