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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Payne" data-source="post: 99049" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>Re: Mixing Resources</p><p></p><p>Adam,</p><p> You have gotten some good advice here. Bottom lime is that to learn it you just have to do it. Many of us learned the ropes mixing in bars and frat house basements, where the patrons were drunk enough that they didn't really recognize that we were making a lot of mistakes figuring out what we were doing! I believe that the best way to learn the right way is to try every wrong way possible. Fortunately, as a live sound engineer, when you screw up, nobody dies. I believe that the main skill necessary to being a good mix engineer is to be a critical listener. You must know where you are going. It is very much like being a sculpture. You look at the raw piece of stone and visualize the perfect form within, then you get rid of all the extra crap that is in the way to reveal it. Have fun!!!</p><p>p.s. - It occurs to me that perhaps the key to being a good sound engineer is confidence. You must have confidence that the song you hear in your mind is the perfect song. Then you do whatever is necessary to create/reveal it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Payne, post: 99049, member: 231"] Re: Mixing Resources Adam, You have gotten some good advice here. Bottom lime is that to learn it you just have to do it. Many of us learned the ropes mixing in bars and frat house basements, where the patrons were drunk enough that they didn't really recognize that we were making a lot of mistakes figuring out what we were doing! I believe that the best way to learn the right way is to try every wrong way possible. Fortunately, as a live sound engineer, when you screw up, nobody dies. I believe that the main skill necessary to being a good mix engineer is to be a critical listener. You must know where you are going. It is very much like being a sculpture. You look at the raw piece of stone and visualize the perfect form within, then you get rid of all the extra crap that is in the way to reveal it. Have fun!!! p.s. - It occurs to me that perhaps the key to being a good sound engineer is confidence. You must have confidence that the song you hear in your mind is the perfect song. Then you do whatever is necessary to create/reveal it. [/QUOTE]
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