22 Oct
2016
22 Oct
'16
3:55 p.m.
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:51:17 +0200
Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk(a)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.