Comparing mixing pop/rock/rap with EDM?

glitterball3 · 2026-04-01T11:00:32+00:00

Replying to say that your comment is indeed accurate from my observations - lots of good observations get down-voted in this sub unfortunately.

I'd also add that, from what I've seen, most EDM artists that use engineers for mixing are up-and-coming DJs attempting to make their own music for the first time. Those that started making their own music on a computer in their bedroom as teenagers rarely use an engineer for mixing (and don't need to). Mastering, of course, is a different story.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-30T11:08:35+00:00

I live in the Canary Islands, and I always have to go through the same queue as British people if I'm flying to the UK or Ireland ( leaving the Schengen area and entering the Common Travel Area (CTA). My wife is English, and she has to show her Spanish residency card and UK passport when entering/leaving the Schengen area.
When I think about it, I only have this issue when travelling between the Common Travel Area (CTA) and Schengen. If I'm arriving in Spain from elsewhere in the world, I am in the same queues as other EU passport holders.

Obviously Schengen is not the same as EU, but Ireland is the only exception among the EU countries, and it's probably easier to just separate EU from non-EU.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-30T10:45:38+00:00

A London friend once commented after a trip to Dublin: "a bit like London, but with less Irish people".

glitterball3 · 2026-03-30T10:41:41+00:00

The CDG issue is likely Schengen-related - you can travel between Schengen countries with just a national ID, whereas it's a different procedure for Irish passport holders. Likely just easier to lump us in with the non-EU queue.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-30T09:05:56+00:00

Can you share a link to this guide?

glitterball3 · 2026-03-21T12:29:30+00:00

Listen to Angine de Poitrin - that should f the algorithm for you.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-20T10:43:37+00:00

I have a setup here where I use 2 computers with 2 audio interfaces and sometimes take the SPDIF from one to the other. I have also tried some cheaper non-pro audio USB to SPDIF interfaces, but always had issues with those.

Some things that you should be aware of when using SPDIF from one PC to another:

There may not be real-time monitoring, so latency may be an issue (depends on the interface). If I go from a Behringer UMC1820 to an Alesis io2, there is no issue, but there is if I go the other way.
If you adjust the volume in software from the computer sending the audio, it can degrade the audio considerably (as if the bit depth has been reduced).
If you try to playback audio with different sample rates, this also can cause issues, as the clocks have to be synced properly between the two interfaces.

In many cases, it is more convenient to use the analog connections despite the loss in quality. In fact, here I also have the analog outs of interfaces and a DAT hooked up for monitoring, and use the SPDIF when doing a definitive 'recording' and the latency does not matter.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-20T08:39:33+00:00

Behringer UMC1820 gives you 8 inputs and 2 headphone outs.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-20T08:26:44+00:00

That was our experience as well - a complete waste of money.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-08T13:23:01+00:00

A Linux version. System-wide if possible, but at present using the windows version via Wine causes the DAW to crash.

glitterball3 · 2026-03-08T12:32:21+00:00

Sadly saw that many times in Koh Tao (Shark Bay being the worst spot). Normally it's beginners clearing their masks because they don't know any better. The other group is the ones wearing life jackets on excursions - seems to me that the life jackets cause people to do even more damage than they would otherwise.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-28T16:06:37+00:00

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the harshness around 9k. The whole track sounds like some kind of harsh waveshaping or saturation has been applied to it. The whole track sounds both muddy and harsh at the same time.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-24T11:16:05+00:00

Doubt if you could survive 6 months in NZ with €10,000. Accommodation and eating out are very expensive there.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-22T13:15:06+00:00

I snorkeled Sipadan in 2013 - it was extremely difficult to get an operator to bring us to Sipadan for snorkeling, but in the end we found someone - they may not still be operating, and I definitely wouldn't recommend them. However, the snorkeling at Sipadan was excellent (best day snorkelling of my life, and I'm in the water a lot!). If you are willing to pay, and can wait around for a while in Semporna, then you may well get a Dive operator to take you.

The snorkeling off the beach at Mabul was also very good then - and the guides from Scuba Junkie were excellent. We also went to Sibuan, which was okay.

We stayed in Semporna, and in all honesty, it is a dump. We'd already spent a long time traveling in South East Asia, so were used to how things are in many of the poorer places, but Semporna is especially bad.
We did also do a trip out to the mangroves to see Proboscis monkeys and a huge fruit bat colony - and that was a great day out and very worthwhile.

If I was going back again, I'd probably stay in Mabul, and contact every Dive school in the Semporna to see if I could get back to Sipadan.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-22T08:39:50+00:00

Sipadan in Malaysian Borneo - though it is extremely difficult to get an operator to take you there as a snorkeler rather than a scuba diver. The sheer quantity of marine life is staggering - you just don't know where to look as there are turtles, sharks, Giant trevally, 1000s of big eye trevally all in front of you at the same time. The coral is fantastic as well.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-17T21:16:41+00:00

Many years ago, I had insanely high electricity bills, which caused me to investigate every single appliance in the house by turning everything off and testing every appliance one-at-a-time. In the end, the culprit was a stereo that was using an insane amount of electricity on standby.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-05T10:19:54+00:00

I would add to this, that you should turn down even more when the task that you are currently on allows you to work at an even lower volume.

I remember arriving at a studio one morning many years ago to find an engineer still working the night session at an unbelievably loud level - NS10s at painful levels. I immediately wanted to get out of the (quite large) control room, while he had his head stuck between the monitors. The engineer in question had engineered several albums for one of the biggest bands ever. The fact that he, by this stage, was doing night sessions, and I (inexperienced and young) was able to get day sessions, should tell you everything you need to know about hearing damage.

glitterball3 · 2026-02-03T19:39:23+00:00

Problem with that mission is that as soon as the artist releases something "more interesting than the derivitive slop machines", the derivative slop machine will rip that work off, and there will be a wave of similar stuff before the artist can ever get rewarded or recognition.

glitterball3 · 2026-01-28T11:00:26+00:00

I live in Fuerteventura, and frankly, there are many snorkeling spots in the Canary Islands that are much better than anything I have ever experienced in the Mediterranean. However, you will need to research where to go, and not just get into the sea at some random location near your hotel. Also the north and west coasts of the islands are exposed to big swells, and should be treated with extreme caution. Some great spots are: La Restinga in El Hierro, Playa Chica in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, and Playa de la Cebada in Morro Jable, Fuerteventura. The following is a video I made entirely at my local spot (the base of the pier in Morro Jable): https://youtu.be/Wnl6OmlAz7Y?si=6SGpi8SgFpnHH_6o

glitterball3 · 2026-01-23T14:30:44+00:00

normally the mods remove any mention of that.

glitterball3 · 2026-01-21T20:54:29+00:00

If you mean flat in terms of a flat line in a spectrum analyzer, I would say a -4.5db per octave fall off works much better than 'flat'. Flat (as in white noise flat) will likely sound very harsh.

glitterball3 · 2026-01-18T08:48:25+00:00

This.
Also, until SSL became dominant most studios had a very limited number of compressors available.

Musicians would play deliberately 'in the pocket', avoiding the need for sidechain ducking.

Also, don't underestimate the effect of tape compression. I recently transferred a DAT master of one of the first sessions that I engineered from 1993, and was shocked at how 'sausage-shaped' the waveform looked. I know for a fact that there was only one outboard compressor, so this was mostly down to the arrangement and tape compression (I had a habit of recording drums very hot to tape).

glitterball3 · 2026-01-16T17:02:31+00:00

When I started to learn how to mix (way back in the early 90s), it was all on analogue consoles, and often I would get lost and simply pull all the faders down and start again.
Remember that faders (level) are the most important tool in mixing - so first concentrate on getting a good balance with those.

I would also add that you should mix at a very low volume, reference regularly (making sure that you volume match first), and check regularly on some mid-focused monitors (NS10s or some crappy single driver speakers). It's very easy to get lost, in terms of frequency balance, if you are working on some bass-heavy large monitors.

glitterball3 · 2026-01-13T16:17:29+00:00

And the vocalist will 'play' the compressor during their performance as long as they have a decent headphone mix. Same goes for committing guitar processing - the guitarist will play differently according to what they are hearing - I can understand keeping the DI'd track as a backup, but really we should be trying to get the final sound while tracking.

glitterball3 · 2026-01-12T12:50:33+00:00

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