Agonize over a mix!

[johnnydean1]

Here's one for ya. I have spent days 'weeks doing, say, ten different mixes and when I come back a month later I can't tell one from the other!

[arkjack]

Yeah man.....Im there.... I keep notebooks on my activity in the studio so I can keep some semblence of order.... What I hate more is comeing back in and listening to a mix I thought was ok the night before, and its almost like a different room....ArkJack

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Yeah man.....Im there.... I keep notebooks on my activity in the studio so I can keep some semblence of order.... What I hate more is comeing back in and listening to a mix I thought was ok the night before, and its almost like a different room....ArkJackUnfortunately Jack I am nowhere near as organized or patient as you.

[horacejesse]

Only ten, grasshopper? I am serious. Sometimes I do 40. One reason is I am not at a DAW like most of you folk. The perfect mix has to be done in one pass instead of a series. There are always instruments or voices that need to be turned up or down in certain spots, and if I miss even one, it is back to square one.But related to your experience, I sometimes do parts over on another track without erasing the one with perceived tiny flaws in it. When I go back sometime later to do another mix I often cannot remember which is which. Only after much painful comparison can I distinguish the two.

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Only ten, grasshopper? I am serious. Sometimes I do 40. One reason is I am not at a DAW like most of you folk. The perfect mix has to be done in one pass instead of a series. There are always instruments or voices that need to be turned up or down in certain spots, and if I miss even one, it is back to square one.But related to your experience, I sometimes do parts over on another track without erasing the one with perceived tiny flaws in it. When I go back sometime later to do another mix I often cannot remember which is which. Only after much painful comparison can I distinguish the two. Do you have any automation at all horace?If your talking like I think your talking my Hard Disc nearly got a flying lesson from a second floor window!

[nomiyah]

Quote:Only ten, grasshopper? That brings back memories... I was recording with the legendary producer Lionel "Mr. Music" Randolph in his Rock Fu Studio in Oakland. I stood over his shoulder and watched everything he did, normal behavior for me, and he started calling me "grasshopper". It was every other sentence. But he wasn't kidding, I learned a lot from him.

[horacejesse]

Quote:Do you have any automation at all horace?If your talking like I think your talking my Hard Disc nearly got a flying lesson from a second floor window!How's that?

[arkjack]

Goes back to one of my first threads... Is it Soup Yet? Laying down so many tracks with so many punches and re-takes it all becomes like trying to sort out a bowl of vegtable soup.... lets see.... put the carrott slice half way over to left.... mid bowl.... no wait more peass more peas....!! That is also the plight of the self-contained record company... creator, writer, arranger, performer, producer, track engineer, mix engineer, master engineer, promoter, booking & management, artwok design, secretary, executive, webspace maintenance..... I find the hardest of the hats to wear is the mix engineer, since that is the place where all the sound ideas are coming together.... HAppy New YEar,,,,ArkJack