i learned to mix down as i went and after 4 - 5 years it just comes natty, not that i always get it right first time, practice make perfect
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:59 am
by RandoRando
zerbaman wrote:
Radiant wrote:. (Listening to music being the biggest factor by far.)
Sums it up really.
But I rarely mixdown myself tbh, my mum normally does it for me
how much would your mum charge to master a track for me?
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 11:48 am
by Electric_Head
make sure your monitors or headphones are also of a good quality and giving the response you expect.
Nothing worse than eq'ing a track only to notice that you`ve eq'ed the track to your system which really isn`t as good as you thought from a response standpoint.
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:33 pm
by dj $hy
societyloser1 wrote:Try to find a copy of the mixing engineer handbook by Bobby Owsinski...
It's really not that hard to understand, not to long & it really improves your mixdowns.
EQ & compression is something you'll learn over the years, but read about it... (http://www.dnbscene.com/article/88-thin ... q-tutorial)
& if somebody speaks dutch... pm me, I did my dissertation on mixing, I could send it to you!
Dude I'd love to read that dissertation?! Is it a file like a word doc? I can get a translator...! PM Me?
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:34 pm
by gen_
TheBassTest wrote:keep listening. your ears will teach with time
Just make sure you listen to the right people. You ears will teach you that too. Also, I thought I was s**t hot two years ago, and I wasn't bad, but I cringe when I listen to my stuff from two years back and I've been at it for seven. As you evolve your idea of a good mix does too, just don't expect to be like the people who's records you buy overnight. In fact you probably shouldn't expect to be them in a years time.
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:10 pm
by ToxicBass
I found the Andi Vax mixdown secrets very useful, there is 7 videos 10 minutes long each so you need to stick with it. Gotta get used the the accent but the guy sure knows his stuff.
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:03 pm
by killakam98
Frodo Bassbins wrote:Where did you learn to mix a tune down and get it sounding profesional. (if you can do this)
I am tired of writing tunes that sound flat and bland because i know nothin about how to eq / limit / compress correctly. and also have no idea how to mixdown a tune so it sounds professional. IE. every sound is very distinguishable from one another.
I am not talking about choosing profesional sounds to begin with as i know that is something completely different, and something im also looking into. but basically im asking about where you learned the technical side of audio engineering.
im sure ill get alot of the same "just practised and slowly learned over time" but i have been trying to do that myself for about a year now and i havent gotten anywhere. does anyone have an epic source that teaches these things or some truely epic advice that can get me on my way to being able to make profesional sounding tunes.
thanks in advance and sorry if the question was vague.
I learned it on my own, did it myself, didn't look at any tutorials or anything, I just kept in mind that everything had to fit together while im tweaking the mixdown.
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:31 pm
by Attila
Learn how audio itself works and what each effect does. Once you fully understand how everything effects the process it becomes really logical. As in "I want A to sound like this, so I need to use B to reach that result". Its a bit like music theory. I find that people who work hard and don't really progress in mixdowns usually don't take that genuine interest in making everything sound the best it can
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:23 pm
by drake89
well i don't think anyone's said it thus far...but arrangement is pretty overlooked in these parts. cause it is a DSF and not classical music forum or whatever. i don't think some people consider the frequency space sounds take up in the context of other insturments, and also over time. I notice a lot of pro sounding tracks I like don't have more than 4 or 5 main elements going at once, but the ones that are there sound huge. and that's probably because they can be turnt up without clashing. these aren't dubstep tracks i'm referencing though. dubstep is dead
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:43 pm
by Sharmaji
watch every single episode of Pensado's place. seriously. It's amazing what knowledge they are literally giving away (until it expires and you have to buy it).
There's no better resource for audio in the world right now.
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:00 am
by dublerium
Sharmaji wrote:watch every single episode of Pensado's place. seriously. It's amazing what knowledge they are literally giving away (until it expires and you have to buy it).
There's no better resource for audio in the world right now.
I started watching some of these but forgot about them cheers for the heads up. They're expiring?
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:24 am
by Bassf4ce
I like to think I am good at mixing, but I am probably only kinda decent at it. I get the concept and stuff. I just listen to songs and kinda try and hear how they did there mixdown. I guess it is just practice. You could read the mixdown thread but I am too lazy that would take weeks to go through and read each thread in there!
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:11 pm
by MassAphekt
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
And of course DSF and youtube videos.
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:35 pm
by hifi
RandoRando wrote:
zerbaman wrote:
Radiant wrote:. (Listening to music being the biggest factor by far.)
Sums it up really.
But I rarely mixdown myself tbh, my mum normally does it for me
how much would your mum charge to master a track for me?
mom* because you're american
Re: Whered you learn to mixdown and ..
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:13 pm
by Triphosphate
Sharmaji wrote:watch every single episode of Pensado's place. seriously. It's amazing what knowledge they are literally giving away (until it expires and you have to buy it).
There's no better resource for audio in the world right now.
