There's loads of stuff, such as the classic taking breaks, honing down what frequency range your instruments are in and weeding out the clashes, change some octaves - especially this as some hooks sound great on their own generally in octave 2 or 3 but only 1 will sit there in reality. But TBH nowadays if a mix really isn't working out well, I generally scrap the whole thing or at least great parts of it. Mixing shouldn't be so difficult that it won't gel together and I realised years ago that usually it's me trying to cram too much stuff in or using phrases that simply don't go together on the instruments I'm using. I saved myself a lot of brain-ache by just letting it go. If it doesn't work, delete and start over, because it's never going to work, or the compromises will lose the whole feel of what you initially wanted. Kinda brutal but saves you time in the long run. Persistence is not always healthy if it's just stubborness.
I enlightened myself enough to know that if I'm making shite music that can't be mixed well, it's not the tools, it's not my emotional state, it's not wrong filter settings that need fine tuning - it's me making stupid music that won't mix because it shouldn't mix.![:shrug:]( "Shrug")
I enlightened myself enough to know that if I'm making shite music that can't be mixed well, it's not the tools, it's not my emotional state, it's not wrong filter settings that need fine tuning - it's me making stupid music that won't mix because it shouldn't mix.
Statistics: Posted by kritikon — Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:51 pm