| I find it serendipitous that i happened upon this site and this thread the very next day after sitting in with a studio engineer and him telling me a lot of the same things i'm reading in this thread. (how's that for a run-on sentence?)
i can't say anything now that hasn't been said by someone else in this thread, but after last night and today, i am convinced that the past 12 years of writing my own stuff and the last 5 years trying to perfect them has been because of a lack of collaborating and using live instruments. my mixes would just not get to where i wanted them and i would assume it's because i didn't know much about mixing. i know plenty about it now and i am at a point in my life where i am about to invest in some serious gear and start networking like crazy.
i came so close to releasing my first album after doing everything myself and then having someone else master it. i wasted $1500 on the mastering process because he smashed everything and because he was in a different state, it was difficult to tell him what i liked and what i didn't like. after a while, he got frustrated with me because i was nit picky about it. he became harder and harder to reach.
i decided not to release the cd because i just wasn't totally happy with it.
this thread has really opened my eyes to what i have been doing and, like most of you, kept feeling like you were the only one having these frustrations.
this is my first post. what a great community this is turning out to be! thanks everyone!
-sean |