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Working on technique off the gig?
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<blockquote data-quote="John Chiara" data-source="post: 202107" data-attributes="member: 53"><p>Absolutely essential IMO. If you want to get better you have to practice. I have been doing studio and live for 30 years, and my observation is that most live sound mixers have severely limited skills because they don't practice MIXING. When the band is playing, you become a MIXER, the guy who drove to the gig, setup all the gear, made it all work...etc...needs to let the mixer take over. I went to a festival a few weeks ago with national acts and without a doubt could have had better mixes than any of the BE's....walking in cold!</p><p>Its like cooking, or fixing cars, or playing an instrument. The more you do it the better you get. How good would musicians be if they only played their instruments on stage? It's a no brainier. You can get well recorded multi tracks on line. Get them and practice. Mixing is mixing. Frequency layering needs to be practiced so you can learn how instruments interact with each other AND with different kinds of processing...especially main buss processing. Master level mixes are possible but it's not magic and it doesn't just happen. The environment might change but being able to quickly rifle through the channels and 'fix' the stuff that ALWAYS needs fixing puts you way ahead. Scoville mixes in the studio. You should too!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Chiara, post: 202107, member: 53"] Absolutely essential IMO. If you want to get better you have to practice. I have been doing studio and live for 30 years, and my observation is that most live sound mixers have severely limited skills because they don't practice MIXING. When the band is playing, you become a MIXER, the guy who drove to the gig, setup all the gear, made it all work...etc...needs to let the mixer take over. I went to a festival a few weeks ago with national acts and without a doubt could have had better mixes than any of the BE's....walking in cold! Its like cooking, or fixing cars, or playing an instrument. The more you do it the better you get. How good would musicians be if they only played their instruments on stage? It's a no brainier. You can get well recorded multi tracks on line. Get them and practice. Mixing is mixing. Frequency layering needs to be practiced so you can learn how instruments interact with each other AND with different kinds of processing...especially main buss processing. Master level mixes are possible but it's not magic and it doesn't just happen. The environment might change but being able to quickly rifle through the channels and 'fix' the stuff that ALWAYS needs fixing puts you way ahead. Scoville mixes in the studio. You should too! [/QUOTE]
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