[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

[jonetsu]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:51:17 +0200
Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk at gmail.com> wrote:

> jonetsu, with all due respect, I think that you don't really know what
> mixing is. 

Good.  I know what I like and I like what I know.

> You keep talking about that as if it's just an objective
> (as opposed to subjective) kind of work, done AFTER what the tracks
> must sound has already been defined. It's not.

Well, in most, if not 98%, cases the client goes to the mixing engineer
after he has a set of tracks, or rather, a song.  In most cases.  And
when the mixing is done with the mixing engineer, then the result goes
to the mastering engineer.  This is how mixing engineers usually earn
their living.

> Mixing is part of defining how the music will sound.

Ah ?

> Opeth recently issued a remix of their Deliverance album: it has more
> "growl" and less "bite", the palm muted guitars were more defined and
> more cutting in the old mix, while the new mix has more weight in the
> low frequencies.

> Wich mix is the "correct" one? How can you answer this question? It's
> a matter of taste. Mixing is full of subjective decisions.

You are free to take a listen to any, and more if you are so inclined.

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/jam12

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/jam25

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/jam22

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/jam15

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/jam6

Sorry, no progressive metal.  Now, the way it went with this so far, is
that now it might very well veer off with a critic of those songs.  So
I would like to say that despite the trend, I would - strangely -
welcome critics on the songs and the way the sounds are put together.
I always ask anyhow when I post them. Which will get totally off the
subject here, but it's OK. Some are possibly itching to talk about
actual mixing.