ive done a few tracks for albums - done the technical side then engineered then mixed to produce the final track- then it was masterd along side the other tracks that where on the album made by other people- it sounded so much different to my master copy - i like a track to have a reasonable dynamic range so the kicking punchy bits are louder than the spacey and mellow bits - but after it was masterd this range was reduced to fit with the other tracks produced by the the other engineers-the e'q was also alterd in short the master chapy tries to make all the tracks for an album fit well together eq compression ect and makes track marks (trk no's) if its a cd again, me thinks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bennett" <womble@arach.net.au> To: <orb@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 6:06 AM Subject: RE: [Orb] flaming, etc. / also, what the hell does 'producer' mean, anyhow?
*sound of brakes being applied suddenly*
Mixing to me is pushing the sliders, adjusting the volumes and that sort of thing. Not much if you ask me, but I would also think that they are the same to some degree.
Well it may not sound difficult to you but there's a fine art to getting the levels perfectly right, then scooping and boosting EQ so things aren't colliding with one another needlessly, punching things in and out as need be, compressing the levels to even the dynamic range up as need be.. a lot of work goes into mixing, you know. Even fine adjustments of less than a
dB
can make quite a difference to the listening experience of the song.
Consider the job that Blue Room would have been, probably 24 tracks (if not more) times 40 minutes of _heavily_ layered techno which all needs to be seen to, mixed and engineered. It's a pretty demanding task being a mix engineer in control of all that.
--kwook
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