I’m Sorry But…

I’m not going to make any youtube video tut. about mixing, eq-ing, compressing.
Why so?
Well, despite what you might think it ain’t because I don’t want to show you my tricks or something like that.
When it comes to teach something in my opinion you have to be able to teach conventional method before you teach your own one, it’s like driving lessons, where you always have to keep both hands on the steering wheel and stuff like that, and as soon as you have your driving license you just start drive the way it’s more comfortable with you (just give me the chance and advice to drive as safe as you can ALWAYS) well anyway mixing eq-ing and compressing to me its something like that, if you do a search on the internet you will find half a billion tutorials, books, videos and whatever else comes to mind about that subject, but then anyone change the rules to fit them better to he’s needs, and I can’t teach you that, none ever should!.
So why do I make tutorials it the first place you may ask.
My tutorials on YouTube are usually about some kind of “unbreakable” ways of doing things, let me be a little more clear.
Lately i spent a few time showing how to speed up your workflow, but what I showed was mainly a series of keycommands or short cuts that lead us to a faster result on certain operations.
When it comes to this, the ways to achieve this result are a finished number, 3 or 4 sometimes even just one.
When it comes to mixing, eq or compression though, the variables are almost never ending, just think about the fact that DIFFERENT eq, compressors, mixers and DAW having the SAME setting and processing the same thing will more likely never sound the same, Logic sounds different than Cubase that sounds different than live etc, at the same time waves R-Eq sounds different than the Sonalksis one, and so on, so we have tons of unmatching results and we haven’t even started tweaking the knobs!
Thats about gear’s internal circuitry even worse it’s when it comes to the actual sound to process, even here the variables are infinite, level of the sound, quality of the recording / loop / Sample, speakers and sound card you r playing your mix from, number of tracks you are mixing etc.
That said you might understand my point of not wanting to get into this kind of tutorial adventure that would most certainly turn into a nightmare, someone would take what I said as hidden gold and find out with huge disappointment my method doesn’t even barely work for his own purpose, someone might just say I’m a total noob cause my way is different compared to someone else’s way, I have a lot of stuff to deal with in my life already (as you all do) and I really can’t be bothered dealing with this.
Now on the bright side, I will tell you something that you might not want to read but that may help you way more than a YouTube video.
Ah, I should have actually started this whole blog saying that I don’t think my tracks sound as good as someone says, that’s another reason I would rather not teaching you how to do this kind of stuff, cause I may do more damage than good.
Anyway, my suggestion is…
Turn off the Internet! No I’m serious!
The Internet has become some kind of an infinite source of information and tutorials which gives us the illusion that we are actually able to do something by just reading or watching a few videos, but as beautiful and useful this thing is, it will never replace our own experience.
When I started making music I was this total 12 years old newbie who didn’t even know what a synth was, lucky coincidences in life allowed me to discover and own a few audio tools, but when I was that age I didn’t have Internet so the only way to understand how those things worked was to explore them, I might be wrong but as I said, seems all this having tuts at the tip of our fingers took away the beauty of exploring and discover things, and made us lazy.
Keep in mind I’m not talking about YOU, I’m making a general talking.
Well back to little David, as I was saying, all I could do with all those fascinating tools I wasn’t able to use, was find a way to learn them, so I started to browse synth patches I liked and tried to take them to the classic Init sound, some kind of backward process, the way I could understand the concept and the process behind, same with grooves, I used to take track with a grove I loved, stretch it to very slow and then analyze what elements were in it, with Mix etc, same story, and this is an advice you will read EVERYWHERE, I used to get (and still do this actually) a track that sounds good and sounds close to the style I’m producing and all I do, is get as close as possible to its sound, but once again it needs time and patience and lots of failures sometimes.
So, the advice I really want to give you is, don’t be afraid to explore and to experiment, if you don’t know how to do something don’t sit there hoping someone someday will post a video showing you how to do it, try be THE guy who will post it!
I promise I will keep doing tuts, showing stuff on YouTube but,and not because I’m lazy or I’m trying to hide something, I will not cover everything in music production, i will eventually talk about some very basic eq or comp or mix, but do not expect big things or something you don’t know or heard about already.
I really enjoy helping you guys, but believe me, there is no such joy as discover things yourself :)
This post has already taken away lot of time you could have spent on your new track so get off this page and get hardcore with your DAW!
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