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Mixing with Impact
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Mixing with Impact

by Wessel Oltheten
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
364 pages
10h 55m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 16 The Outside World

Sound Engineering Means Working for Others

 

As a mixer, you have to be careful not to alienate yourself from the world. I’m not talking about the long days you spend in a hermetically sealed room, but about the risk of losing perspective on what you’re doing by spending large amounts of attention on the tiniest details. It’s easy to think that the world revolves around the quality of your mix. After all, that’s what you’re being paid for. But if the quality you provide isn’t recognized, it will be of no use to you. Your clients and their audience determine whether or not you have done a good job, a judgment that often has less to do with audio-technical perfection (if such a thing even exists) than you might ...

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ISBN: 9781351624237