We always talk about producers, but did you know top mixing engineers charge $4,000-$5000+ per mix?

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scuba said:
respectable thread... mixing is probably too super technical... i mean i know exactly how they do it in theory, in reality its super technical and takes a long time to learn how to do it well...
cant really provide good audio samples... its something you have to experience, recorded someone rapping on your computer and then compare it to a real song and its a big audio difference
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Yall can't provide an example of amixed song and a non-mixed version but want us to understand why top engineers command 5k????

I'm going need some examples and not all this fufu talk :ufdup:
 
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newworldafro said:
Yall can't provide an example of amixed song and a non-mixed version but want us to understand why top engineers command 5k????

I'm going need some examples and not all this fufu talk :ufdup:
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I stand by my statement that there's no such thing as "unmixed" records . . even if no mixing work was done

If you hear a vocal over a beat . . those are two sources of audio mixed together

I stand by my statement that POORLY MIXED records are instead what is being referred to
 
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KushSkywalker said:
Its some sort of loop machine with what looks like a touch screen filter synced with what looks like fruity loops open so they can do stutter/glitch/filter effects on the beat as it plays. Not sure the ins and outs of it though, looks fun.

Reminds me of Izotope Stutter which is a cool plug in.
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They actually have it on ipad now and it is dope how you can customize and create any kind of midi controller with it
 
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Wally Russell said:
These kids are coming out of Full Sail where they learn to mix "in the box" on ProTools. Full Sail teaches these kids that ProTools is all they need to know

You can't take one of these kids and put them in world-class studio and expect them to know what to do. These top flight engineers I'm speaking of came up with internships, under the wing of someone who showed them the ropes and trade secrets
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world class studios :mjlol:breh, this is 2015, nobody needs world class studios anymore. especially not if you're doing hiphop. even snoop admitted to recording sexual seduction in a closet. and unless you want to rival the sound of a new dre record, you don't need 5000 dollar engineers either. you need a guy who knows what hiphop is supposed to sound like and understands where you want to go with the sound of your record. the problem with a lot of engineers is that they are dogmatic in how they want to mix your record. the end result is often too clean and sterile sounding. even dre went overboard with this at some point, just listen to the records he did for jay. but that goes for both, pros and newcomers. basically, you need a guy who knows what he is doing and is flexible enough to adapt his approach to what you want your record to sound like.
 
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karim said:
world class studios :mjlol:breh, this is 2015, nobody needs world class studios anymore. especially not if you're doing hiphop. even snoop admitted to recording sexual seduction in a closet. and unless you want to rival the sound of a new dre record, you don't need 5000 dollar engineers either. you need a guy who knows what hiphop is supposed to sound like and understands where you want to go with the sound of your record. the problem with a lot of engineers is that they are dogmatic in how they want to mix your record. the end result is often too clean and sterile sounding. even dre went overboard with this at some point, just listen to the records he did for jay. but that goes for both, pros and newcomers. basically, you need a guy who knows what he is doing and is flexible enough to adapt his approach to what you want your record to sound like.
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yeah . timbo n basically 90s hip hop engineers did good with making the record sound good but still gritty.

hip hop is gritty imo....pop rap is clean.....thats just me though.
 
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