[RWP] Completely new to mixing

[Crystal Dennis]

Thanks Chris!  I am definitely going to look into all of those things:
 I've always just been told "Mixing is easy just open up the program
and try" and everytime I have I was like eek -close ten seconds later-
lol.

Does the corispondence course cost anything?  I want to weigh all of
my options:  I want to be able to produce my own tracks, so I am
serious about this :)

Crystal

On 2/24/12, Chris Smart <csmart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Hi Crystal.
>
> well, I learned CakeTalking through reading the tutorial that comes
> with it, but that really isn't a tutorial on mixing, only on using
> Sonar and CakeTalking.
>
> Two things I did that helped were:
> 1. I read lots of books on the subject, plus looking up any terms I
> needed defined online.  A good mixing book will come with audio
> examples. A couple books which I found useful were:
>
>     * Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools, by Roey Izhaki.
> This one comes with an entire DVD full of audio examples in wav
> format, so you can hear everything being described in the text.
>     * Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio, by Mike Senior. That one
> has a Website associated with it, with lots of additional content,
> including multitracks for many different songs so you have material
> to practice on.
>     * Also, train your ears! I can't emphasize this enough. A good
> training series is a set of CD's called Golden Ears, produced by
> Dave Moulton of Moulton Labs.. Reading a lot is helpful, but if
> someone says there's a peak at 3K and you aren't sure what they're
> talking about, you can benefit from these CD's:
>     * http://www.moultonlabs.com/full/product01
>
> 2. I also took a correspondence course through BerkleeMusic online
> in mixing. That forced me to mix a tune each week for twelve weeks,
> gave me feedback from an instructor and my classmates, allowed me
> to critique mixes from the other people in my class etc. There was
> no textbook for the course. But it gave me practical experience
> actually mixing tunes. If you don't need the structure of a course,
> books are probably the way to go.
>
> There's no shortcut really. Someone here can tell you how to insert
> a reverb effect on one of your tracks, but telling you what every
> parameter of that reverb does, how to adjust it, what situations or
> kinds of material might benefit from certain types of reverb ...
> all of that could take a lot of explaining.
>
> If you're serious about this, and I think you should be, unless you
> want to always pay someone like me to mix your material *grin*, dig
> in. Software manuals, including documentation for any plug-ins you
> use, mixing books, forums, online glossaries of terms, how-to
> articles in magazines such as Sound on Sound, Mix and EQ, youtube
> videos, and maybe taking a course ... it's all out there if you dig
> and keep reading and practicing everything you learn.
>
> Of course, if you do want someone else to mix your stuff, by all
> means, check out my website at www.ctsmastering.com. I can
> professionally mix and master your material, and I'm very
> reasonable when it comes to pricing - don't just go by what it says
> on my pricing page. I'm quite willing to negotiate. :)
>
> Chris
>
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