Mixing Practice

OfficialDAPT · Post by **OfficialDAPT** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:57 pm

I've been looking to get better at mixing recently and I was hoping you guys could help me out with that. Could anyone export stems for a track that may already be complete or is close but take all the effects off or all the EQ compressions etc. Then you could send me the stems, I could mix them and send the song back and you or post it in here and you/others could critique my mixdown. Let me know if you are interested.

Isley · Post by **Isley** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:18 am

lol thats smart.. end up like Reark

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:22 am

I think this is a great idea - there was a dub reggae song I recall seeing stems for in the last year but honestly wouldn't know where to begin to look for it.

But srsly a good education for all.

Turnipish_Thoughts · Post by **Turnipish_Thoughts** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:25 am

Isley wrote:lol thats smart.. end up like Reark

tbh Id trust officialDAPT. He's been around for time and is a fairly active member of the community. He wouldn't be trying to scam someone out of a tune because he wouldn't risk utterly killing his rep here.

It sounds to me like a genuine request for mixing practice and I see nothin wrong with it myself.

If I had any tunes ready I'd send you the stems. You should on theother hand, check out sites like this. They do remix comps all the time, sometimes you get stems for a whole tune, check out the archives, perfect for mixing practice.

Sure_Fire · Post by **Sure_Fire** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:34 am

I'd be insterested in this. I have a song that I really can't be bothered mixing down, it's a good song but I just got too much else on the go atm.

3za · Post by **3za** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:49 am

Turnipish Thoughts wrote:
Isley wrote:lol thats smart.. end up like Reark
tbh Id trust officialDAPT. He's been around for time and is a fairly active member of the community. He wouldn't be trying to scam someone out of a tune because he wouldn't risk utterly killing his rep here.

I'm guessing you have never heard of Zomby...

OfficialDAPT · Post by **OfficialDAPT** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:32 am

Sure_Fire wrote:I'd be insterested in this. I have a song that I really can't be bothered mixing down, it's a good song but I just got too much else on the go atm.

Yeah I'd love to have a go at mixing it.

And about stealing peoples songs, I don't do that and never will. Can't get any lower that that. There's really no way to make sure though so I can see where you guys are coming from.

Thanks for backing me up Turnipish btw and no I've never heard of Zomby.

Sure_Fire · Post by **Sure_Fire** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:07 am

OfficialDAPT wrote:Yeah I'd love to have a go at mixing it.

I'll upload the stems to megaupload/mediafire then (I forget which one got taken down?). Did you want to do Absolutely all the mixing? Like kick/snares EQ and compression n stuff aswell? Or just the levels?

Kilo beats · Post by **Kilo beats** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:06 am

cool idea, id give you one of my tunes but im not happy with my own mixdowns yet! haha

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:34 am

I'll send you something later OfficialDAPT

didi · Post by **didi** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:44 pm

http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f ... e#p2973773

Burgeamon · Post by **Burgeamon** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:17 pm

I'm happy to hand over any stems to any of our tunes if you wanna have a play. We have some new tracks coming out on wednesday.

OfficialDAPT · Post by **OfficialDAPT** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:07 pm

Awesome you guys, could you pm me the link with the stems and I'll get to mixing them down!
@sure_fire: Yeah I'd like to do all the mixing so if you could take the EQ and compression off of the drums etc. that would be awesome!

Edit: If you could also let me know what you want the focus of the mix to be or what vibe I should go for that would help me.

Triphosphate · Post by **Triphosphate** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:11 pm

Would you be interested in exchanging stems OfficialDAPT? I want to become a career mixing engineer, and would love the practice too. I'd love someone to talk technique with, too. I'll PM you my Dropbox account email tonight, if you'd like.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:33 pm

Why not a mixing competition - where everyone gets the same stems and put some basic restraints on how wacky you can get with DSP... ?

In fact, it'd be really cool if it could be done in tandem with another contest here - like the winner of another one gets their song mixed, and then they get a free set of mixdowns of their tune to choose from while everyone else benefits from the learnin'...

I really think contests like this contribute to the educational value of the Production forum - doing instead of talking about doing. Community stuff.

Triphosphate · Post by **Triphosphate** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:43 pm

I like the idea alphacat, but to be totally honest I'm more interested in a mock client mix environment. Wherein you get stems (whether they are dry or not being up to that individual client), you get particular requests/instructions, you get a reference track, you have a deadline, you get the rough mix done, the client reviews the track and gets 2 revisions/recalls, and you send him back finals with different edits.

OfficialDAPT · Post by **OfficialDAPT** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:12 pm

Triphosphate wrote:Would you be interested in exchanging stems OfficialDAPT? I want to become a career mixing engineer, and would love the practice too. I'd love someone to talk technique with, too. I'll PM you my Dropbox account email tonight, if you'd like.

yeah, I'd definitely be down to exchange.

Triphosphate wrote:I like the idea alphacat, but to be totally honest I'm more interested in a mock client mix environment. Wherein you get stems (whether they are dry or not being up to that individual client), you get particular requests/instructions, you get a reference track, you have a deadline, you get the rough mix done, the client reviews the track and gets 2 revisions/recalls, and you send him back finals with different edits.

I was thinking about this too. Since I don't plan on being a mix engineer like you, I'd be more interested in EQing drums and compressing them to fit in a mix, which is what I would do on my own track.

On a side note, I think I'd rather have those who are sending me stems leaving the spacial effects like reverb on though I think because those effects kind of tell me where you want them to sit in the mix and they definitely affect the vibe of the track.

mthrfnk · Post by **mthrfnk** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:18 pm

Isley wrote:lol thats smart.. end up like Reark

Idk why but this just made me burst out laughing.

I'd be cool doing it maybe, if you'd wanna do one of my tracks, although you'd have to wait till next week as I haven't finished the track yet.

OfficialDAPT · Post by **OfficialDAPT** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:22 pm

mthrfnk wrote:
Isley wrote:lol thats smart.. end up like Reark
Idk why but this just made me burst out laughing.

I'd be cool doing it maybe, if you'd wanna do one of my tracks, although you'd have to wait till next week as I haven't finished the track yet.

Yeah I'd still be interested. I need all the practice I can get.

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