As i've finally completed a music project from start to end, I wanna learn mixing now rather than alter. (I got a generic idea of what it is but I like a technical breakdown)
I'm reading a book on it, and it's talking about the prep part before the mixdown. Bouncing all your tracks to an audio file, to avoid issues with inconsistencies of synths on every play through and also allowing you to slice audio files into different tracks if you want to add different EQ's to the same instruments but in different parts of the track.
All good and well, seems fairly logical from that standpoint, but how much does this apply for fully EDM production?
I mean most of this sounds catered towards mixing recordings, such as a live band. Which to me makes sense because you want your live intrusments as raw as possible to mess with all the effects in a mixdown.
However specific track timeline EQing is easily done on the DAW with the raw midi and is often imo an integral part of the production itself even pre-mixing (which becomes mixing on the go kind of in itself), and because it shapes your sound more than just throwing a reverb on a guitar. And while synth inconsistencies happen it's never that bad I find that it would cause an issue during mixdown (thought I could be wrong)
I'm just wondering how you guys go about it and what's your school of thought on the topic, as i'm a methodological person, and like to find an optimal niche way of working. I don't wanna start doing this tedious bouncing method and going to those great lengths if it doesn't actually benefit me since i'm doing EDM product/mixing rather than live band mixing.
Thoughts?
Submitted September 01, 2016 at 11:10AM by PlatformKing https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/50ncnq/opinions_on_bouncing_tracks_for_mixing_when/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, September 1, 2016