Getting production advise

[ezpowell]

Taxi is good for advice on production sometimes but more often than not you just get generalizations like the reviewers don't have time. Taxi I find is more likely to give out general comments on production quality and good commentary on content, structure, and so on.A better place for production advice is garageband where they can get very nasty and bitchy with comments about production .... but read between the lines of the negatives and you will get some very good pointers on how to improve your production quality - albeit over a very, very long period of time. I now know why audio engineers go to college and get degrees in audio engineering - it's more than just simple physics really.

[k o star]

Jun 24, 2009, 8:26pm, ezpowell wrote:I now know why audio engineers go to college and get degrees in audio engineering - it's more than just simple physics really.hmmm, I actually like to approach mixing/composing with a simple view point, almost like painting a picture on an empty canvas... as long as U don't paint too much color on one spot... the mix will come through nicely... maybe I'm wrong cos I'm pretty much self learnt Kel

[bacanador]

I think mixing, mastering and production and all that stuff is very subjective, I don't think going to school will make you a great producer, mixer or mastering engineer, of course it will help to know all the technical aspects but in the end it doesn't matter if how much you know but how you use what you know.I went to school for electrical engineering not exactly audio, but all my focus was on audio, and always had an interest for DSP, I even attempted to write a few VST plugins myself, I know about audio sampling, and all that stuff, have read a few books, made a couple projects processing audio and stuff, but doesn't make me a great mixing engineer or producer it is still about taste and creativity and hands on experience. I guess great mixing engineers, mastering engineers or producers have most of all great taste and a good ear, I still find it amazing that some engineers out there tell you things like "I set the compressor to 10 ms instead of 30 ms for this type of sound and with a ratio of 4:1" and I try these things myself and hear no difference, I wonder what these guys have in their ears, they sometimes tell you they can tell a gain boost of 0.5 dB, and I always think to myself that something must not be right with me.With years of listening to music and I have become better trained, but still can't hear some of the stuff the great award winning mixing engineers claim they hear.