Mix With Your Ears Not Your Eyes Part 2 |
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Mix With Your Ears Not Your Eyes Part 2 |
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Mar 3 2014, 12:11 PM |
Part of a brief but at times interesting interview with heavy metal mixer/producer Andy Sneap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwtlcEkgu6E...768D01116ECC8B6 Nice to see that Andy, just like me, doesn't use a spectrum analyser (@ 4'05''). Whilst they can at times be helpful to someone who is learning to mix they do not help in the long run and you should learn to mix with our ears not your eyes. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Mar 3 2014, 10:07 PM |
trusting ones ears is a crucial skill indeed But as was mentioned, in a home studio setting, have an analyzer available (like the izotope advanced one for example) can be a great way to make sure your ears are not lying to you due to your room/speakers/etc.
Part of a brief but at times interesting interview with heavy metal mixer/producer Andy Sneap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwtlcEkgu6E...768D01116ECC8B6 Nice to see that Andy, just like me, doesn't use a spectrum analyser (@ 4'05''). Whilst they can at times be helpful to someone who is learning to mix they do not help in the long run and you should learn to mix with our ears not your eyes. |
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Mar 4 2014, 08:30 AM |
No monitoring chain - including the room - is ideal. What you should do is correct it as much as you can and then learn how the chain affects things. You do the latter by listening to a lot of pre-recorded commerical music to see how it translates to your system. By all means a beginner can use an analyser to help but it is not a long term solution and over-relying on one will be detrimental in the long term.
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Mar 4 2014, 12:46 PM |
What we can do is just trust Your experience Tony
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Mar 4 2014, 01:14 PM |
Thank you Darius but it's not just mine. It's that of pretty much every professional mixing and mastering engineer, including Andy Sneap in that video .
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Mar 6 2014, 10:28 AM |
... Also..I think there is antoher advantage of using analyzer for people with hearing issues. For example I have a friend who have a huge loss somewhere around 6 kHz. He avoid to adjust this range because after diagnosis he's afraid to mess up the mix... I'd argue that what you need to do is spend time learning how to identify frequencies by listening and not by looking at a screen. Critical listening is a skill that used to be one of the first things taught to aspiring mixing engineers: how to identify frequencies, how to identify production issues, how to identify the amount of gain/attenuation applied and so on. The best advise albeit it may not be what your friend may want is to do nothing in that area if s/he has a hearing issue @6000. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Mar 7 2014, 08:37 AM |
yes that makes moe sense Darius
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Mar 7 2014, 09:35 AM |
Ha ha...it's a bit funny how people might misunderstood even though both speaking the same language....))
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