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In the thread linked above, profeesional AE Slipperman walks you through his mix of an entire rock song. Don't be put off that this is not about dnb or other electronic music, because it's truly funny and insightful. He doesn't bother with explaining basic stuff like "how does a compressor work ?", it's more about the approach to a whole mix, his "methodology", as he would say. Later on, he even starts to post the whole thing as mp3 lectures.
Little quote to whet your appetite :
In the thread linked above, profeesional AE Slipperman walks you through his mix of an entire rock song. Don't be put off that this is not about dnb or other electronic music, because it's truly funny and insightful. He doesn't bother with explaining basic stuff like "how does a compressor work ?", it's more about the approach to a whole mix, his "methodology", as he would say. Later on, he even starts to post the whole thing as mp3 lectures.
Little quote to whet your appetite :
Quote:Imagine yer 2 buss is a telephone booth.
Imagine yer mix is a bus stop full of loomers from a local college cheering section.
You might have....:
Some fat guys, some skinny guys, some chicks with big asses, some dudes who play rugby, a coupla jockeys, an occasional basketball player. Ya might even have baby Mastodons(Hey! He might be the mascot!!!) Etc.
Yer mission, should you be stupid or crazy enough to accept it, is to jam all these characters into the telephone booth in a fashion where.....
1.) The smartest and most important guys can reach the handset.
2.) You can close the door and the booth is still primarily intact.
3.) As few people as possible die in the process.
Now these might not be THE ONLY objectives you'd be concerned with in any given mix... But these would be the ones you'd ALWAYS be dealing with.
Fer instance: You might ALSO decide you wanted to be able to:
1.) Take a photo of the whole shebang where the chick with the great face and stunning lungs is jammed up against the front glass looking like she's getting rogered by the drum major.
2.) 3 different guys alternate placing and answering the phone whilst the mastodon whips up a enchanting cheese fondue and screens unreleased Fellini films on a stolen eggplant/camcorder.
3.) You keep as much of the original clothing and body shape/mass of the landscaped Gospel choir intact whilst shrinking the rest of the occupants down to personal voodoo doll size and set them to work powering the South Bayonne Elks Lodge on tiny Velcro hamster wheels.
All common scenarios.
See it every day.
OK.
Be right back.
Duty beckons.
SM.
