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Originally Posted by JP11 if you're in a pro environment with top gear and top musicians and top songs, how hard is it to set the faders and pan some shit and snort some coke and scoop up the sloppy seconds... |
Not really, the stress just shifts rolls. Sure, you got all kinda pretty lights and nice flavor to play with, you got a great song to mix and your "feelin it".
What happens when the producer hears the mix and flips out because the bass dosen't have the punch or warmth he wants. What happens when the artist hears the mix and things you f'k up his song. What happens when the assistant turns on the fader motors mid mix and upsets your balance, so you gotta start over. What happens when PT's crashes and you can't get your mac to boot. What do you do when you have to look the A&R in the face, who has to have the album delivered to stores in 2 weeks, and tell him/her that the files on the hard drive have all been deleted. The album budget is $15,000,000. How do you explain the intern who slipped in the room and asked everyone in the band for their autograph. How do you explain the smoke coming from channel 35?
All those pretty lights....
I agree with the above comments about the song. The most important trick/technique is to learn to hear the song for a song, and make it sound that way to everyone else.