The MOST Overrated Skills in Mixing
There’s a lot of bad mixing advice out there. And there’s some decent advice that we just pay too much attention to. Justin Colletti explores.
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What do you think are the most overrated mixing skills and tips?
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ChatGPT says that the Coldplay song with drums recorded out of phase is 'God put a smile upon your face'… but I don't hear the effect you're talking about.
Tip 4 is also great to avoid ear fatigue and keep your eye on the ball of the overall mix vs a single element
I would love to hear your thoughts on some of Pryda // Eric Prydz mixes and masters vs modern electronic music. To my ear at least, his sound quality is above the rest in edm
I'm a live broadcast engineer for BBC. Great advice about doing the mix quick.
Grrreat Work JC…Thank You!
If everything is important than nothing is important. If everything is huge then nothing is huge. If everything is wide then nothing is wide. If everything is loud then nothing is loud
The most overrated skill is “technical competence.” Knowing how to work an EQ or a reverb pales in comparison to having good tastes. You only need a fairly low minimum knowledge set of the technical side.
Great Overall Sweep (pun intended) with this video!
As a singer songwriter doing my stuff DIY and genre hopping I’m diggin it ☮️???? #godvious
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Yes !!! It is one of my best videoS. Surely ! And i have several of its, of course in some of my playlists, …. Great to fell where we are with our skills and needs to understand all these concepts … Thanks !
I am on tip nr. 1 and I am just happy I am not using pro tools, but ableton. Probably just because I'm used to it, PT is undoubtedly great software. But it looks so complicated and cluttered to me, with all this really small text. I could be wrong, but to me ableton just seems easier and more usable. I could set up a reverb aux in a lot less steps for sure, it would not at all feel like breaking my creative mode or my listening mode
Yes, I saw Dan's video. With the very steep filters, you can get some bizarre side FX like big notches. The curves with parallel eq sometimes look a bit like a pultec curve. Everybody loves the pultec curves.
Thank you for your thoughts and great advice, Justin. It is always a pleasure and really useful to listen to you. It is wise and push us to reflect on our choices. In this video I was particularly impressed ???? by the “mixes too impressive” overrated skill; I’ve never thought in that perspective, that making some tracks worse than what it is possible can make a song better. Great ????????
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I honestly don't like templates, they feel constraining and keep me from coming at each song as its' own thing. Do stuff enough times and you don't have to think about it. YMMV.
Regarding reverb sends, it’s just most probably a DAW workflow problem. I find PT to be generally slow when it comes to workflow. Simple tasks need a lot of clicks. Compared to Studio One, putting a reverb sends is just as easy as putting it in the insert: just drag and drop the plugin to the send of a channel and S1 will create a bus for that plugin and send the channel to it at the same time. Also double clicking the send will open the first plugin of the bus that it’s being sent to so you can open the reverb directly from the channel that sends it. For that reason, I almost exclusively send all my reverbs except for some specific cases because I can do it just as quick if I would put the reverb as an insert.
Tip no 3 is gold. As a mixing engineer we are like doctors fixated on curing cancer on a patient rather than thinking about the overall health of the patient. The doctor feels successful when the patient is cured but the expanse of decreased overall health leading to death.
i hope YT fixes the audio so i can come back and listen
Nothing o we rated about correct monitoring setup squire.
I’m experiencing the cutting in and out too; I’d certainly like to hear what you have to share
Overrated skills in mixing: getting your monitors perfect, hipassing too many sounds, and making it max loudness.
Stopit.
Quantization (timing) and tuning are overrated and overused
The most overrated tool is compression
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