Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
https://youtu.be/AT-5Ptz7rtc
Just a reminder that Me and@EdThorneare still battering away at@WorkingAudioToolspodcast every week. Sharing our audio journey as well as industry professionals (MsM, Turra Medina, Prizzie Reid, ill factor, and many more)
This week we compared our mixes of the most recent@ProducelikeaproRate My Mix contest. As content creators in the audio field we both feel that it's important to publicly share our current mixes as its something that not many content creators in this space do. I know it's tough to get varying opinions, some good, some harsh, and it can get confusing if you lack confidence but you just need to learn to block them all out and be happy with the decisions you made (unless you definitely aren't happy with what you have done, then compile and experiment). End of the day, what's done has been done and you move on to the next mix.
When I speak to many industry mixers they all tell me that it can be tough when you get a big hit as you start to hear praise & criticism from far and wide but it's part and parcel of growing at your craft. You accept the world has opinions and everybody hears and percieves differently and you can't make everybody happy, unfortunately that perfect mix doesn't exist.. And never will.
If you don't have the confidence to put out your work to the masses due to fear of criticism then it'll massively impact your output. You'll constantly second guess yourself and doubt every little decision you've made which will impact the time it takes to finish a mix as well as the sound of your final mix.
Now me and Ed normally take one session to finish a mix, normally our first pass and put it out there as that's what you'd do with a client. You need to learn to put out your representation of what you think is best and essentially just raw dog it and see what your client thinks.
If you sit and worry about every automation move and every slight tweak that you think the mix needs, you'll never finish mixes in a good time frame and you'll start ending up stressing out when in reality all you have to think about is what your gut tells you.
Let your instinct be your final mix and let the artist tell you where the small details are.
Once me and Ed learned that, we have been able to do day mixes and end the day happy. That's massive for us. No more 3-4 day mixes which have been completely over analysed and baked to death.
Its a journey, and we are nowhere near the stage of the guys at the top who can churn out 2-3 industry mixes a day, but we don't even think about that because we understand that to have that constant conveyor belt of top mixes you require a well oiled machine for that to happen. Good recordings that are well produced, which are then mix prepped and organised by assistants who then feed the engineer a session that allows them to give the client their initial representation of what the track needs in a timely manner.
We are thankful that we don't have those timescales because i can only imagine how stressful it is for those mix engineers at the very top. Having to be on your game 24/7, 7 days a week with a constant schedule of work that has to be out ASAP.
A lot of these guys tell me "Paul, do you REALLY want this life? Bro its all consuming, you are either fully in or you are out. There's no grey, in the industry it's either you can get it out today or somebody else will. Thankless a lot of times, industry doesn't give a shit if you are struggling. You need to constantly ensure that your brand stays popular because it's not just your family that relies on your work, it's your assistants, your receptionist, your mastering engineer. When you are at this level, it's not a passion, it's a job and you have to deliver.. Again and again and again.. And it never stops until you quit"
So yeah... If you are sitting there wanting to do this as a career but you are worried about sharing your work incase somebody critiques your snare sound.. Then just give up now, cause you'll never get there with that mindset.
Just starting puting it out there, get a few plasters out and start building confidence in yourself cause trust me.. If you rely on the Internet to build your confidence.. Sorry, but just pack up and go home cause the Internet will chew you up and spit you out.
Its you against the world. Just embrace it and learn from the battle scars and you'll end up a much better engineer.
Make your own decisions, be happy with who you are and never stop growing on the journey. Be willing to put in the time and the work and it'll pay off eventually.
Then you won't need to watch youtube at all 😜
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Anybody know how to fix this when trying to setup Room EQ Wizard? No matter which interface I use it keeps giving me this error message. So many people have told me to use this for quickly measuring my room but this isn't a good start. Dunno.. In 2024 I've gotten to the point where if stuff doesn't work for me off the bat I pretty much bin it and move onto something else, where 10 years ago id sit at stuff for ages till I got it to work. In today's world my patience has definitely run thin.
Tried changing the sample rate on both interface and REW. Can't explain and can't be arsed scrolling through forums to find workarounds that end up not working, I just don't have enough time, especially these days.
If any audio geeks have had this on windows and know the fix I would appreciate it 🤜🤛
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My name is Paul Third and I am a Scottish mix engineer / audio geek with an honours degree in audio production.
I mostly cover audio engineering related content ranging from audio plugin shootouts / plugin comparisons to actual analog vs digital / gear vs plugins plugin tests via access analog and mix analog. I even include ddmf plugindoctor tutorials in my plugin reviews so you can be your very own plugin tester and experiment and understand whats actually going on under the hood. I also discuss digital music distribution from time to time and like to give my viewpoint on online music distributors such as onerpm and distrokid.
All of my audio blind tests involving music production software are conducted in presonus studio one which is my main daw and I also use HOFA blind test 4U as my blind test software. In terms of my audio interface I record and monitor through an universal audio apollo x6 and a topping dx7 pro+ dac/amp and use an SE dynacaster for all of my voice overs.