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I think you’ll be surprised how much this helps. Really try to quiet your mind, listen to your tracks, and decide what needs to happen to bring the mix together. So the next time you sit down to mix, either close your eyes or turn off your monitor for a while.

The better you can get your mix to sound with just your ears, the better your mix will be in real life. Recommended retail price is 99 in shops but only 78 AUD here. Get your own book Order your book here from the author’s website and support the author. The goal is to listen like your audience will listen, with no visual cue whatsoever. The official response to the researchers (participants) wil. Can you hear the kick drum and the bass? Is the guitar pocketing well with the lead vocal? When you’re working on EQ, close your eyes after some adjustments and listen back.Start to adjust volumes and panning and then close your eyes to listen back.Throw the faders up to begin with and listen.Now obviously we need to look at the computer to make things happen, but I think mixing needs to involve many chunks of time of closing our eyes and listening… Your Voices is a community-focused section of The Mix where you can share stories about your experiences on a specific issue. We’re trying to listen and get the mix just right, but we’re actually cutting off our most useful tool, our ears. Welcome to The Mix, the online guide to life for young people in the UK.

Mixing with your mind full#

When we lean a bit on one sense (sight) we don’t use our other sense (hearing) to it’s full potential.

They had this great song back in 1991 off of their album Badmotortfinger called “Searching With My Good Eye Closed.” That’s what I think we do when we mix by looking at our screens. In case you’re not a big Soundgarden fan, let me explain. I propose a new solution, mixing with your eyes closed! With My Good Eye Closed You expect things to sound a certain way because that’s how you see them. It actually tricks your brain into hearing things a certain way.

Oh, here comes that awesome drum loop, I can see the audio region just up ahead!īut “seeing” things in your DAW is a problem.

Do the wave forms look nice and pretty in the edit window?.

How do the compressors “look”? Is the gain reduction looking right.

Where are the meters peaking? Near the yellow? In the yellow?.

The problem comes when we know what to “look” for in a mix… Even when I worked in a big budget, $5 million dollar studio with an SSL board front and center, just above the console were two giant monitor screens for you to look at.

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So it is a complete norm to me to mix by looking at the meters in Pro Tools. I grew up with digital recording and computer based DAWs. Via Oda Lanizi Flickr The Meters Look Good We can “see” if the mix is good, but not “hear” what’s really going on. But honestly, what I think is an even bigger problem with recording on a computer is the darn screen! We tend to mix with our eyes and not our ears.

Lack of warmth or analog color that was so special on a console or recording to tape. One that is focused on a lot perhaps is the mix bus. With all the benefits to recording in a computer based DAW so plain to see, you rarely here many of the negatives.