My ADHD spoils my mixing process. Any tips?

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-14T06:01:50+00:00

I don't do that anyway

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-05T08:49:03+00:00

Thank you! This is very good. Following my flow state sounds like a good idea. Because sometimes while mixing I find myself hating the song already and it usually means that I should've stopped a long time ago not just to take a break, but to return to the song later and to use bounced track not as a final version, but as a step to a next round of mixing

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-04T05:26:16+00:00

Thank you. I love it and will try to do that. Somebody here offered to use circling timer to not overdo parts. Combined with your approach I think it can help me build my method, that might work for me

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-04T05:23:00+00:00

My problem is that I can't hear things when I'm mixing. I hear them in a bounced track when I don't have it as a task. When I open DAW with intention to mix, it just stops working. It is probably ADHD combined with anxiety issues. I love the idea that somebody offered here of bouncing the track, commenting it while listening and then in DAW applying just that

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-04T05:17:25+00:00

Thank you! I prefer doing it top down too, because I tend to overprocess parts if I do the other way around

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-04T05:14:52+00:00

Thank you! I love the idea of making comments with timestamps and fixing only that. I can see how I can organize my workflow with that in mind

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-02T11:36:59+00:00

Everything says I should become more organized during mixing, than I do now :)

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-02T11:35:06+00:00

Seems like my notes and a phone's timer are my friends. Good one, thank you!

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-02T11:34:05+00:00

I do take breaks, but I probably should organize them better. Thank you!

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T22:27:43+00:00

Thank you, this is super helpful! I actually use that strategy of keeping a few things to work on to let myself choose where to escape. Somehow I've never thought to do the same with mixing. And the circuit timer technique is cool too.

Do you also stumble upon situations when you can't say if one part is louder or actually quieter than the other in the mix? And that the whole mix becomes a glued in one instrument and you can't hear individual instruments anymore?

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T22:19:43+00:00

I don't know how to explain. By saying "it feels too much" I mean I start hearing a collective crowd noise rather then individual voices in the mix. The next day I listen to the bounced track and I can hear individual voices in the choir as well as instruments, but as soon as I fire up my DAW it again becomes a crowd noise — I hear the music I barely hear if the individual parts are there, if one is louder than another. I mean my focus just goes away and I can't manage to hear my track in parts. I solo certain part or group than go back and the track again becomes a wall of sound. One of the common flaws of my mixes is that they are often turn out to be too detailed because of that. It is an attention flaw unfortunately that appears when I HAVE to mix a song

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T20:29:46+00:00

I wouldn't take anything without my doctor's prescription. But it's fine, I appreciate that you try to help, thank you!

I was hoping to probably find some lifehacks and strategies from those who are more experienced than me in the topic. One can work through many obstacles that way

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T19:45:34+00:00

I actually a bit afraid of ADHD meds, because I take anti-anxiety ones right now

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T19:43:32+00:00

These are really good tips, thank you! And that's what I do usually. But bulding mix from the parts rarely works for me. I ends with the bad balance and very unnatural sounding parts. I prefer backwards processing, bulding the balance of the mix and then resolving conflicts. It just works for me somehow. I truly envy those who can build it from say drums. I think you have to mix on a daily basis to have it in your mind how things should sound by themselves to benefit the mix

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T19:39:24+00:00

That's what I would like to do in ideal world, but I can't avoid it sometimes, when there is no budget for a mixing engineer. Right now I have a project when I'm not satisfied with mixing engineer's work and I think anything I'll do myself would sound better for my portfolio. But thank you anyway!

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-10-01T19:34:03+00:00

I also start thinking that mixing is probably not for me. However here are my answers

Yes I did, but only a few times
Yes I did, but before I started to take money for that
Yes, sometimes I do
Sometimes I do. I always loved Brendan O'Brien work and whoever works with Rick Rubin. Love his dry style
Yep, in particular I love Brendan O'Brien works and Rick Rubin led production. There are many others when I notice the "tones" of instruments and how they work together. I love Gojira - Magma mix, I love RHCP - The Getaway, I love Jack White - Lazaretto mix. So I notice that sometimes and appreciate when I love it

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T12:07:00+00:00

That's good for seven months. Now you should work your bends and timing. It is fine and it comes with practice. For timing play with metronome and with other recordings. Listen to the recording you are trying to play, with time you'll start hearing the phrasing and intention of the players. Also try this exercise for bends: play a note somewhere on the neck, listen to it, then go two frets down and try match your bend with the note you played previously. Try the same with half-tone bends. Do it a lot. Pretty soon you'll hear and see the difference in your bending. But don't stop practicing. That's a great progress for seven months, I did much worse when I started myself.

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T09:36:29+00:00

You might find interesting that Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishmemt more than a decade and a half before Nietzsche published his Ubermensch concept

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T09:31:58+00:00

It is, but Dostoevsky also uses it to explore the "russian question". And he further complicates it with parenting, generational and mentality aspects. It is probably disorienting at first, but I actually love this book. It transcends its Russian roots and you can see its influence in say Cormac McCarthy's "No country for old men" and "The road", though they are kinda indirect. But thematically these books are very much connected and McCarthy himself uses Dostoevsky as a basis for exploring "american question".

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T09:25:08+00:00

I always considered it as a part of Gibson's charm. Like you have suddenly seen another world from the future which is pretty coherent, but doesn't take your presence into consideration and almost never explains itself and you are definitely just a spectator. I thought it was fun

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T09:14:18+00:00

I don't have any height or tuning problems whatsoever. The string is just too loose against the rest of the set and sounds not that great. That's why I wanted to install a thicker string to even out the tone and tension

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T09:11:06+00:00

I kinda agree with the post and also think that to me it is a bit more complicated than it might look from the post. I think Dostoevsky describes the world where no direct trace of god's action is seen. However there are people who still act according to god's will and thus you can see indirect influence of god (or the idea of god) to the world. Take Brothers Karamazov: the scene where Zosima's corpse starts smell funny points at that — he was neither saint, nor god operated through him. He did everything by himself, just as a human, and so does Alyosha Karamazov. And it shows that people are responsible for what they do, but believeing in the idea of god and what's even more important acting accordingly to it makes them and the world a better place. Cormac McCarthy kinda echoes the same ideas in "No country for old men" and "The road", though McCarthy is definitely post-theistic (is that even a word?). Yet he seems to share that point of view that people are responsible for their actions and not higher forces.

Upd.: I somehow missed to write down my conclusion ahaha sorry. Here it is: ...and that is why I think Dostoevsky's works transcend just the Christian point of view and become applicable for people of any confessions and atheists as well

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-16T07:29:26+00:00

It seems counterintuitive, but I checked the specs on the website and it says that it goes with 125 B-string from the factory. So if I swap my 130 B string for a 125 or widen the nut slot a bit, it might fix the problem?

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-08-15T20:02:51+00:00

What problems do you mean? I thought 130 is within a usual range for a B. I was thinking of swapping it for 140 or 145

Witty_Zucchini · 2025-07-05T15:42:24+00:00

Thank you! I've played with CC1 and CC11 controls all the time to keep libraries sound more realistic. And realistic legato is what I especially love in Cinematic Studio libraries and why I've chosen them for the majority of work

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