March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
10h 55m
English
When I first started mixing, the results varied wildly. Especially when a band or producer wanted that bone-dry in-your-face sound, I’d often be less than pleased with how it turned out. I thought you created this sound by using no reverb at all and making every sound clear and compact. But comparing other mixes to my own, I found that they were in-your-face without sounding as dull and flat as mine. They sounded three-dimensional, but without the sound being very spacious or reverberant. I then discovered that even electronic music, which often has no acoustics, needs ‘cement’ to keep the music together in the right spatial relations. This allows things to not only be close or far away, but ...