Just get good at music

 

When someone tells you less is more, believe them.

 

Not sure it's a trick per se but for YEARS I would write a song all night, then bounce the 2mix to tape. No saves, no revising; just move on to the next one. Have def seen people just paralyzed by not being able to say, "thats great, time for bed {it is noon after all}'

 

you stole that from bob katz & no idea why people think it is funny - it is damned true.

 

Watching to Greg Scott videos is a great way to relax your mind and focus on sound. Kinda therapeutical watching one time to time.

 

Im not sure what OP is on about, making the kick translate better, but this is a valid technique to keep the kick from being too overbearing or swamping everything out. A 2db boost in the mids when the kick hits can really add nice body and punch to a mix. Make it more on the sides than the mids, and it can open things up beautifully. Im talking subtle here, 2, maybe 5 db. And thats IF the song needs it. If the kick level is good, you cannot replace the kick, a static boost to the mids is too much etc etc etc.

Ive practiced this for a while, and recently have seen it brought up in tutorials, forums etc. Im pretty sure Luca does something like this. Really depends on genre, song etc, but i do it often enough.

 

One can argue like this for every single instrument in every single production.
"If you need it, you do it."
"If you do it subtle it doesn't do any harm."

 

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Take your midi drum track, and drop that onto your other midi instruments of choice. you may need to adjust the bass and melody parts note lengths to sound good but everything will be on beat and synced up. While it doesnt work across the board with every drum/instrumentation sometimes the drum midi track on other instruments can produce some really awesome results.

another one kind of similar concept but more focused and widely useable is to use Celemony Melodyne and capture the main vocal melody then save it as a midi track. Drop that onto your bass instrument of choice and drop it down an octave or two, and instantly you have bassline that follows the melody seamlessly

 

Stop listening to youtube influencers. They know little and regurgitate the same... stuff.
White Sea Studio recommended for years you should mix at -14 LUFS, he even had T-shirts.
Bob Horn says Pro Tools meters sound different.
Jack Joseph Puig thinks 48k sounds the worst and 44.1k is superior to all sample rates.

Gain Staging
It's the most important skill you can learn.
it requires NO plugins.
It means balancing the mix elements to each other, and also to your genreal speaker volume.
Leave some headroom. Digital sounds the same at all levels.


Myths:

VU Meters in digital are the equivalent of swimming in the desert, sunshine in the middle of the night, driving with your eyes closed etc.
Don't mix in mono.
Don't mix at low levels. Volume = ear resolution. Of course, don't blow your head off.
Don't high pass everything.
Don't compress everything.
-14 LUFS

 

Don't get me wrong, I agree with most of this. But gain staging is not balancing/leveling, it's keeping the signal level suitable in between processes.

 

Turn off the internet for 2 days, leave your smartphone at home, go into the forest and relax.
I bet the first day will be full of withdrawal symptoms, but on the second day you will have the ideas of your life.

 

I´ve heard JJP and i kinda agree on 44.1 thing, but it is not a smart thing for me to say i actually built speakers since before highschool and stuff like that, so i should not claim i have the "ear".
Metro Boomin says FL11 sound better than FL2x

In fact, when people started claiming every DAW sums the same and everything will "null" there are a few trackers that i tried and recorded their outputs and they do not null with anything else outhere, this was the idea when we hear mastering engineers saying they use different DAW´s for playback sometimes.

Nobody would argue the lady who mastered Aphex Twins´s music right? She uses different DAW´s for playback, if the project was rendered in Logic she uses Logic and so on.

PS Audio ceo said they had some "voodoo" stuff going on after updating firmwares on highend gear, and they had to sit down and instead of 2-3 firmware compiles actually do 20 and narrow onto one of them coz the Xilinx was adding jitter.

Simple people want it simple.

Sry for the OT, i just got triggered whn i realised someone remembered all those statements, which is cool, even pro´s like JJP just says stuff outloud :D.

 

And/or one could take part in the Friendly Non-Contest we've been doing...it's a thing based on a photo or artwork that is used as a starting point for a song. The 16th iteration is ending soon!

https://audiosex.pro/threads/friendly-non-contest-16.82720/