if you're a bedroom/small time producer, should you

forow wrote:I think that depends on your mixing skills, your equipment and the market. You could be a bedroom producer owning a good pair of monitors and proper sound treatment in your room.If not,i think you should try and deliver the best sound depending on what you are capable to do.The best your demo sounds, the better the impression you give to the record company/ or your client.

No amount of sound treatment will fix a bad room. Like you mentioned later though, get it sounding as good as you can and move on. Let the guys with expensive studios/mixing rooms do the hard part.

You're mixing skills need to be better than your mpc skills, always strive for quality. Acceptable sound is unacceptable.

Remember, your MPC (and every other component) is signal chained to the console. You should treat the console as the heart of any production.

Also, live by the maxim that nothing can be fixed in a mix, get the sound you want going in. Rely on post production as little as possible.

come on now have we all learned nothing from Dave Grohl's grammy speech..........?

/sarc

Have you seen pensados place on youtube? Those vids has helped me improve my mix vastly.

really dope topic !! i see myself in a lot of these post.. i been mixing my stuff for a while now and it really does slow down my production trying to get things to sound they way i envisioned them.. i always get to a point where it sounds great in the monitors but sounds like mudd in the whip ... or theres just a low freq ratteling the sub in an abnormal way that other professional tracks dont do. when i finally get it sounding pretty decent in both its still just kinda small sounding comparatively to the great i grew up listing to...

after countless hours of mixing one track and takin trips to the car to check it i start to get burnt out on the track.... booooo!

well i finally broke down and made an appointment at a pro studio this Monday to mix a track i been workin on... runnin me 70 bux an hr!!!!!! will see if theres a significant improvement! i made sure the engineer was seasoned in my style of music b4 i made n e commitments ... when i get back ill post my experience and how it sounds ... i can even do an A/B test if people are intrested with my mix and the "pro mix"

billynojokes wrote:i can even do an A/B test if people are intrested with my mix and the "pro mix"

That would be great.

billynojokes wrote:well i finally broke down and made an appointment at a pro studio this Monday to mix a track i been workin on... runnin me 70 bux an hr!!!!!!

damn man, make sure some work gets done then

@SuperKonquer , thanks for the heads up. that show is amazing, so glad you shared it. i actually took down quite a few notes from just the 3-4 videos i watched. great interviews too,

i guess the best thing i can think of is just get the mix as close as desired, without letting it hamper your creativity for finishing the rest of the track. and then just make a seperate DRY copy of the arrangement, and save for a professional to work on that copy.

lol dudes like "I wanna master my beats, how do I master my tracks?" everyone's like "nah f*** it, you really doesn't, smoke some weed and be merry".

Fact is mastering (or whatever) costs money. At your level I doubt you wanna ship out your beats to be done professionally. Call me a cynic but the master-god will probably open up Adobe Audition, do some minor tweaks and send you a cheque for £400.

Best thing; read, research and PRACTICE!! Ignore it now and you'd never progress. A good mix will highlight your creativity A WHOLE LOT MORE. Its like photography, your composition/picture will be enjoyed loads more if the quality is good. Regardless of the original artistic message.