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Subject: graphic eq on final mix?
Original Message Date: 20-May-02 @ 12:00 PM - graphic eq on final mix?
anyway would i ruin anything by running it through a graphic eq (soundforge)? just to sort of nudge it to where i want, nothing drastic...
please dont say "mix it again"
Message 31/40 21-May-02 @ 03:07 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
i just figured that since my initial instinct was to just tweak it slightly with the stereo's graphic eq that that was the way to go...i notice though that my mixes generally sound like that, must be my lack of good monitors. the music that was playing before i popped my cd in was this indian/electronic hybrid thing with violins, flutes and a dominant pulse wave bass
i must say that parametric eqs i dont really have a handle on; i do use it on individual tracks but for the whole mix...
ok off to try parametric, in sound forge cause thats all i have...if it doesnt work out ill just mix again...thanks boys!
Message 32/40 21-May-02 @ 03:13 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
I dont like that very much. nope.
Message 33/40 21-May-02 @ 09:54 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
chroma, you really do have to try it out on different speakers. lots of them. don't go tweaking just on what you hear on one set. i think the ladies' reaction says it all. most people don't give a shit what it sounds like. they like a good tune and/or a good beat.
there. now i told him to, too.
oh, and the midrange is always the hardest to get right. we're all very experienced at listening to mid range, so any fuck ups are easily larry heard.
Message 34/40 21-May-02 @ 11:51 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
some people use speakers that are too big for their setup and they are always mixing at low volume where the speaker isnt being driven hard enuff.
I guess idealy you eant a dat and a 1/3 octave 31 band graphic... go to the venue, play the dat, tweak it with the graphic, checkout what you had to tweak.
but that's in an ideal world
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Message 35/40 21-May-02 @ 03:15 PM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
Message 36/40 22-May-02 @ 06:04 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
just easy to think the problem is with my mix
since i'm monitoring on a consumer-level sony
system. i have tried it out on a few other systems
though, generally the mix sounds good when its
playing off a system as crap as mine
ok now i use my ears...
Message 37/40 23-May-02 @ 12:17 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
Ape
Message 38/40 23-May-02 @ 04:17 PM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
FIRST GET YOUR MIXES SOUNDING RIGHT FROM THE PACKET, NO MASTERING OR ANYTHING - in fact a good excercise is to do mixes with no effects at all, just eq & levels... learn your trade.
You FIRST learn eq & level mixing, adding fx will only HIDE problems... adding mastering makes it 100 times worse and you'll never identify the problem once youve hidden it in layers of fx and mastering processors.
start with the basic's... work on that.
Message 39/40 23-May-02 @ 10:08 PM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
also boosting can add unwanted phase shifts and distorion. The new waves eq is supposed to prevent phase shifiting. When I master somthing it sounds good, louder and leveled, but it looses a lot of the clarity and imiging. Using these plugs does degrade the sound quite a bit, and on a mix done with all softsynths , you can't afford to lose and thing. So for demo's I do it but would never actually try and pass my own mastering off as pro. I get a kick out of Craig Anderton doing mastering for big Labels' smaller artists. He uses Wavlab and Waves stuff. I bet he gets it nice, but I bet there is no way those masters could hold their own with anything done with higher end systems like wiess digital eq's and compressors, or the analog stuff we alreay discussed. The plug-ins add so much noise into the song and after a few processed it becomes grainy sounding like mp3. The finalizer is no diferant.
Message 40/40 24-May-02 @ 06:31 AM - RE: graphic eq on final mix?
Ape
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