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I do some mixing for live events on occasion, and I had a guy tell me once that no mix is ever done, but every mix is eventually abandoned. Honestly, it's true
by beckler 7y ago
I do some mixing for live events on occasion, and I had a guy tell me once that no mix is ever done, but every mix is eventually abandoned.
Honestly, it's true. You can sink an incredible amount of time into mixing and still not be happy with it.
- redis_mlc 7y agoPro mixers generally finish in a day or maybe two, which is why producers choose them.
- beckler 7y agoPro mixers also have lots of presets and tool chains already setup that they always go-to. It's not that they could just finish a mix in a day, it's that they have a lot of their tooling already roughly setup, and they just have to dial it in. It still takes time to create and setup those chains/presets.
- lostgame 7y agoYes but the law of diminishing returns is especially prevalent, here. For a serious, scientific, by-the-numbers mixing technician, the amount of quality increase versus the amount of time spent more often than not hits a massive bell curve fairly early on - particularly if it is not that technician’s original material.
- xinsight 7y agoI've heard the same rule with film editing. The editing is never done, you just run out of time.