bobchops
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The truth about audio production is that, its the biggest swindle in town!
Everybody always wants to blame their tools. Its a lot easier to say that your reason daw sounds bad or your speakers are garbage then you don't know what you are doing.
Many producers will come at you and will say stuff about smooth transitions and knowing music theory. But its not all about that at all.
The first myth is that you can't mix on laptop speakers to get a good sound. The truth is that you can mix down over a skype connection and still get a good sound if you follow these 3 principles of mixing.
The turn up the bass and end up with to much bass is a strawman argument as well. A strawman means someone is fitiously inventing a what if story and poporting it to be true.
The truth is your music probably already is mixed at a professional level and does sound fine anyway.
As a software engineer, I can tell you, all audio equipment sounds the same. There is no real difference between 1 microphone and the next. Or a $20 vst compressor and a $200 one. Its all the same science algorythems behind it.
When you computer program like me, you quickly come to learn that all the fancy software you are using, is really just computer codes and then stuff photo shop PSD files to make the front look nice.
The same is true of speakers.
Right on he main thread about speakers or heaphones, the thread starter you have to use good monitors.
But he overlooks a key point. Mixes that sound good on monitors will sound bad on other speakers. And most people have the other speakers and not monitors.
The real truth is you should only use very small speakers for mixing and cheap headphones.
If you know about how to play the piano good, you will know that you can move up and down the keyboard to seperate the frquency of your song. So you have the chords half way down the piano, the bass at the far left of the keyboard and play the melody at the far right of the keyboard.
That is a kind of mixing you are doing there, you are chopping your songs frequency range into sections.
To many people, want to jump in the DAW and play with the faders because it all looks so cool. The litte pictures on screen.
But when you are like me, and its your job to make software products, I just see things as photo shop files and some computer codes.
I even feel angry using other peoples vst because I should be making my own, but I am to dayum lazy to do it!!
Even the Mpc drum machne is really just computer codes, but instead of having a photoshop file, they made a plastic box to put the codes in.
So just take a logical apporah to your music. 1 thing I recommend is don't read magazines or forums on the internet to gain knowlegde.
The best way is to work things out for yourself.
IF everyone in the magazines or web forums knew what they were talking about they would be famous, not giving advice.
Also we warrry of producers who are better then you, because they might give you phoney information to throw you off track.
Everybody always wants to blame their tools. Its a lot easier to say that your reason daw sounds bad or your speakers are garbage then you don't know what you are doing.
Many producers will come at you and will say stuff about smooth transitions and knowing music theory. But its not all about that at all.
The first myth is that you can't mix on laptop speakers to get a good sound. The truth is that you can mix down over a skype connection and still get a good sound if you follow these 3 principles of mixing.
The turn up the bass and end up with to much bass is a strawman argument as well. A strawman means someone is fitiously inventing a what if story and poporting it to be true.
The truth is your music probably already is mixed at a professional level and does sound fine anyway.
As a software engineer, I can tell you, all audio equipment sounds the same. There is no real difference between 1 microphone and the next. Or a $20 vst compressor and a $200 one. Its all the same science algorythems behind it.
When you computer program like me, you quickly come to learn that all the fancy software you are using, is really just computer codes and then stuff photo shop PSD files to make the front look nice.
The same is true of speakers.
Right on he main thread about speakers or heaphones, the thread starter you have to use good monitors.
But he overlooks a key point. Mixes that sound good on monitors will sound bad on other speakers. And most people have the other speakers and not monitors.
The real truth is you should only use very small speakers for mixing and cheap headphones.
If you know about how to play the piano good, you will know that you can move up and down the keyboard to seperate the frquency of your song. So you have the chords half way down the piano, the bass at the far left of the keyboard and play the melody at the far right of the keyboard.
That is a kind of mixing you are doing there, you are chopping your songs frequency range into sections.
To many people, want to jump in the DAW and play with the faders because it all looks so cool. The litte pictures on screen.
But when you are like me, and its your job to make software products, I just see things as photo shop files and some computer codes.
I even feel angry using other peoples vst because I should be making my own, but I am to dayum lazy to do it!!
Even the Mpc drum machne is really just computer codes, but instead of having a photoshop file, they made a plastic box to put the codes in.
So just take a logical apporah to your music. 1 thing I recommend is don't read magazines or forums on the internet to gain knowlegde.
The best way is to work things out for yourself.
IF everyone in the magazines or web forums knew what they were talking about they would be famous, not giving advice.
Also we warrry of producers who are better then you, because they might give you phoney information to throw you off track.