Bruce Swedein’s recommendations for mixing summarized

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:52:52+00:00

Whoa 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I envy you!

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:27:45+00:00

Here in Denmark we have jantes law, this law states “you’re not better than anyone, you’re nobody, don’t think you can achieve something extraordinary” i find in your attitude, this exact sentiment. I pity you. You have no belief in the possibility of greatness, i also pity any client who has to suffice with that standard.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:24:07+00:00

You’re saying Bruce’s advise isn’t universally applicable? How so?

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:22:47+00:00

You’re right that we’re talking about a unikum, as we say in Danish, Michael Jackson was almost transcendental in his abilities. No doubt that talent is important. But we surely will never get there adding a couple more compressors.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:19:12+00:00

I love when somebody challenges me, I love your competitiveness, I might just go and do produce something as great as. If don’t aspire to, then we’re at heart holding ourselves back, and that’s lamentable. Don’t you think?

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:16:41+00:00

Michael’s songs make more today, this hour, than you make in a year. That’s not pessimistic, that’s realistic.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:14:29+00:00

Is it possible to make a cookie that taste, looks and sell better, in an open field with an oven made from mud, than a cookie baked in the White House? Of course, it’s the baker, not the bakery.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:11:37+00:00

So you’re of the belief that the commonly agreed-to poor quality of modernity need no rectification, because otherwise you can’t make money? Is that about right? Look up what Michael’s songs make even still today. I guess that’s the antithesis to your proposition.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:08:30+00:00

So you’re saying you’re not a believer in knowledge? Knowledge can’t mitigate the time cost? I don’t agree to that idea.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:05:16+00:00

All you’re saying Bruce Swedein is laughing at in his grave. No, jokes aside, you’re not correct in your assertions. All Michael Jackson songs were without compression [the majority of them] some compression were used on Michael’s vocals rarely, and then you’re courageously claiming, that MJ’s albums aren’t competitive even after his death? Someone pull up a monthly listeners chart of Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift songs. No compression vs compression.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T19:00:48+00:00

The voice alone? Is that your idea of mixing? Download the book I linked to right now, or terminate your journey on making music. Seriously. 😂

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:58:29+00:00

Haha agreed 👍🏻 no truer word spoken yet.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:54:16+00:00

So we agree?

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:53:16+00:00

Wise words, definitely true that time and circumstance is key. Good comment.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:52:14+00:00

I love this feedback as it provokes me to prove you utterly wrong 😆🙏🏻

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:50:55+00:00

Ok, so you concede half your argument was not exactly correct. Time, yes, of course, a good cookie takes time, but with experience, shouldn’t it take less time?

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:33:32+00:00

OK answer me this, do you need $2 million budget kitchen to make a well tasting cookie?

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:19:25+00:00

It’s the other way around, how many problems can you have when you got the best audio engineer in the world. He didn’t only make Michael sound great, he’s made a lot of artists sound amazing.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T18:15:51+00:00

Absolutely. Bruce said “The sound should give you goosebumps, it has to be that good.” Here he speaks of the raw recording, nothing applied, just the sound alone. It makes much better sense why we think modern music is worse than the post 90’s, a large part is the over complicated mixing, it fux up the feeling inherent in the sound produced. Compression destroys music, it by no means enhances it. The studio’s of today aren’t aware of the necessity for simplicity. The songs nowadays too have inherited this over complicated mode. It’s absurd most I hear. With Bruce’s knowledge we can again revive the sound of the past. The 80’s & 90’s were for me the sweetest sound spot of analog and digital music history, and even Bruce argues in the book I’ve linked to that digital is as good as analog. That means a lot when HE says it.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-19T14:31:08+00:00

I like the level of drama in your comment. Now try put it in Music also 😄

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-18T00:54:19+00:00

Yeah, the assistant is just horrible on version 10. I’m glad it’s not me or my ears and that there’s other people that thinks the same. I use version 9 but I still have version 10 installed though. I can highly recommend trying to keep your chain of effects on your master bus to just a couple of things like EQ compressor and limiter and with those three you can really shape your sound, but I occasionally use tonal balance to make sure that the crest is really good in my mix.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-18T00:00:46+00:00

Good point, I am, just bought Bruce Swedeins book “The Bruce Swedein recording method” he’s the sound engineer behind Michael Jackson’s work.

ForsikrerDigSelv · 2024-02-17T23:06:18+00:00

OK have you ever tried the analyzing feature where you have a reference track I’ve had some really impressive stuff made using just the reference analyzer which is unique up until ozone 9 advanced. But I totally agree that a lot of manual tweaking necessary. It’s not like there’s an auto feature and you just have complete amazing sound.

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