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Originally Posted by beebay007  Yes, I've done it.
Also you can suffer from being too close to the songs with little objectivity. Be careful not to spend too long on songs, and don't be too much of a perfectionist with the details, because you will lose the big picture. Its better to sacrifice perfect engineering and have good songs instead of making songs that lose their artistic focus because you tweaked them for too long. |
NO DOUBT... I've done a few songs completely on my own for college projects, and my limitation on time was a HUGE +. However, I just finished with the mixing of my bands record, and OH MY LORD... for every other band I've had in the studio, time was an issue for them, so when I mixed, I did it all as one large unit. For our songs, I started by making everything saound as great as possible on its own (which meant making it sound BIG) then I put it together and began to mix and tweak an dmix and tweak and so on.After 2 months of trying to make it perfect, an dfocusing in on every little thing, it sounded like mud -- squashed, dull, and lifeless. I was so frustrated, I shelved it for over a month. I pulled it out again about 3 weeks ago, pulled up the original untouched backup files, and on my free nights, I'd mix a song a night, then check it the next day, then be done with it. What a difference.