iCombs wrote on Thu, 28 September 2006 17:17 |
and I'm pretty sure my monitors aren't too bright. I know my room ain't all that great, but there's nothing I can do about it.
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if it's a known choice, and known issue then cool. i had to assume the mix sounded nice a bright in your room.
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..do you have any sort of cue you rely on to tell you that the vocal is in the right place in the mix?
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everything i do it by ear. i have a bad habit of watching my gain reduction meters too much, but i'm getting better at that one.
all my levels and balances are by ear.
the lead vox is right when my ear no longer has to try to focus on it. then i spend time making sure it's perfectly where i want it.
the lead vocal gets tweaked on the entire time i'm mixing. seriously, i bring it up very early in a mix, it rarely gets muted and i just tweak on it bit by bit. the very last thing i do to a mix is the final lead vocal placement.
i almost always touch the lead vox right before i print a mix.
i also try to set my mix up to be static, but if something isn't happening, i do not hesitate for one nano second. you have to stop thinking about things. if something bothers you, change it.....DO NOT HESITATE!
if you trust your room and monitors, your ears HAVE to be the boss. this is one of the hardest things to learn.
in DAW world, there is simply no reason to slack off on automation, editing, whatever.