how many of u mix and master your own tracks

[Opera Populare]

ive been tryin to get into this more i got a couple books on it i juss feel limited cuz im only workin wit headphones for right now but im takin a class at school that teaches us how to use pro tools and our last project is to mix and master a song but jus wonderin who does their own engineering

 

[Agent Smith]

i wish...i just gotta learn all the science behind it...if i knew it well enough i could just use the shit i have now i bet...

 

[nonie]

I wish I knew how to, but right now, I'm just trying to teach myself and read up on things online.

 

[jclay12345]

I mix and master my own tracks, but I cheat on the mastering. Check this out. If you can, get a hold of a program called T-racks. It is made just for mastering. I haven't had time to master it though. Actually I haven't tried. It has a preset called General Master 2. That is all I use.
Now the way I cheat is I rig the mixing so that it sounds right with that preset. So far it worked on all kinds of tracks. If I run it through the mixing preset and something sounds too high, I just turn it down on the mixing and re-submit it through T-racks. That preset usually turns up sounds that are panned to the left or the right, so I just cut them down lower on the mix. Let me know if you wanna hear some samples and I will pm you.

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To get good at mixing, it is pretty much trial and error. Mix it to the best of your abilities and then listen to it in your ride. When you burn it on CD, burn it after an industry track and you can see how it compares.

 

[orpheus]

yeah, its pretty important if you want to take your sound to the next level. just start practicin and search on the internet for eq techniques...it'll really help you bring out the quality of the audio

 

[Opera Populare]

i tried a couple of times but stuff juss sounded muffled i have the waves bundle and lets juss say i used the L1 UltraMaxamizer a bit too much i was juss usin presets for any of the plugins i use im tryin to actually kno wat those things do lol this class is helpin me along wit pro tools tho i tracked out 2 of my beats and juss go up there and mess around wit em its weird cuz i rarely hear the difference juss gotta get my ear tuned i guess

 

[shadeed]

I give it my best shot, but for me that ain't good enuff, so I'm
gonna make some moves to really get my audio sounding good.
I know a lot of videographers that can shoot a clear picture but
don't know the audio side, so I'm gonna step in there and get that
$$$$$.

 

[KurtisRich]

Same here, I try my best to make it sound as good as possible.

 

[MarkN]

im learning at the mo with pro tools but im a long way from being anygood !

 

[K.C]

Are you talking about mixing down just beats, or mixing whole tracks with vocals ? I have been mixing track's for over two years, for the group im in (I use Cubase SX) I get dope results with the techniques that I've tought myself.

 

[Ash Holmz]

i mix my own shit ...

 

[Equality 7-2521]

i mix and master my own shit now that ive completed my audio engineering course at sae. theres so much more to it than i realised. if you dont have enough money for a course i recommend just reading up on it. same as anything else.

 

[Formant024]

ow there's so much to it lol! But, before peeps start talking mastering already, you gotta fix your mixing skills which makes mastering all the easier. I know theres cheats and the good thing about pc's is you can do realtime the whole process of mixing and mastering, but it also makes you kinda lame, because if your mix is well, your mastering is just slight limiting and proper downsampling (depending on the masterrecorder). In any case, less is more!

 

[Greg Savage]

I dont Bother with all that.. I just get my tracks sounding good in all 3 monitors

Krk's

Roland's

Cheap Nady's

If i can get it good in all 3 its gonna sound good anywhere else.. I'll let the techs do all that technical shit when it comes to Mastering

Focus more on cuttin tracks

 

[Anubis-Ra]

I use Waves Bundle for mastering in Cool Edit. I test the beats out in the ride to see what's wrong and if I did a good job or not.

 

[Agent Smith]

yo opera, what books do you ahve?

 

[Honesty]

I mix my own stuff... at first I was skeptical because as a producer I thought I should only concerned about making the song... let the engineer's worry about everything else...

But low and behold... after learning to mix... I've learned that doing your own mixes helps you create your own sound...

 

[JPeg]

mixing aint that hard, people think its difficult then make it harder than it is. but as a hip hop producer u really should be able to do most mixing urself mastering is something else but these days the software is available u can get that sounding good too.

dont worry if u only have headphones cos end of the day u listen to all ur music thru them, so if u do a comparitive mix and get ur track sounding good in the headphones then its likely that it should sound good enuf on other speakers

 

[Opera Populare]

j i have the art of mixing by david gibson and the mixing engineers handbook by bobby owinski

 

[OUTTHERENJ]

I learned the hard way over the course of like 6 years mixing projects i put out.
It requires an ear for detail, and at least some understanding of frequencies.
I dont think of mixing as being easy to do 90% of the time, because you have to
essentially take a song apart, and find the elements that work and dont work.
make things blend together in such a way as to make listening to what you end
up with easy on peoples ear. peoples voices are different and require different
techniques, and different tracks affect the way people sound on them.
Believe me, i'm not all-star, but i know what i know, and when i do a mix for
someone they can clearly hear the difference.

As a producer you need to know a little engineering for the sake of knowin
what to tell an engineer if you're having someone else do it.