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Interesting email arrived this morning. Steven Slate sent out a notice that he'd completed a new mix course, and is giving it away to anybody that's currently an Everything Bundle subscriber. The truly interesting part of it is, it's a recording done in a living room that he needs to get sounding pro.

This is what a bunch of us were hoping for with the first mix course. Rather than almost complete tracks from a super polished studio, this is the type of shit we're able to record at home, and then Steven goes step-by-step through what he has to do to take those so-so recordings and make them sound huge.

I've gone through the drums, bass, and guitar mix tutorials so far, and poked around a bit at the session in Reaper. Lots of interesting shit happening. Like with the Chris Lord Algae course, I'm reminded that it doesn't matter what "common wisdom" tells you, if it sounds good, it sounds good. Tons of the "known rules" are broken, especially with EQ having MASSIVE boosts here and there. Loads of fun going through the session and clicking things on and off to see what's actually happening too.

So check your email if you're an everything bundle subscriber. This is pretty damn cool, even if the song isn't exactly my taste.

Man, I should get the everything bundle. I have the drums and even the bass pack is great. I'm tempted by the half price Lord Alge expansion this weekend

Edit: scratch that...it's actually the Bendeth pack I want

I just got the everything bundle from mom for early x-mas. I'm excited as fuck about it. He had a deal for returning customers where you get the bundle and a free plugin for permanent ownership and I needed the FG-X mastering processor so it was perfect time. Plus mom is cool, especially ever since I gave her the boot. we get along better.

Finished this course over the last few days, and am still playing with the full session mix to get a feel for some of the things he did. And due to some of his advice for us poor fools that can't afford to have our rooms perfectly tuned and treated, and add subs and satellites, I did a thing.

Steven Slate is a bad man, and he should feel bad.

Incoming new headphones. That cost more than some of my guitars.

Probably something I should have done years ago, but it still has me a bit jittery. At least until I get the damn things and listen to some old favorites on them. Hopefully I'll have the moment and forget about how much my wallet hates me.

More than your guitars? What the fuck did you buy?

Steinmetzify wrote:More than your guitars? What the fuck did you buy?

ATH-R70x

More than some of my guitars.

I thought real seriously about some that were . . . let's just say much more, but decided to bring things a little closer towards reality in the end.

I hate my senny HD 280's or whatever the fuck they are. If o mix completely on those it's sure fire way to not represent on any other speaker system. Bugs. But for late evening basic functions they're ok. But to actually mix on them, no.

M.Mike LX-R wrote:I hate my senny HD 280's or whatever the fuck they are. If o mix completely on those it's sure fire way to not represent on any other speaker system. Bugs. But for late evening basic functions they're ok. But to actually mix on them, no.

I have a set of 280s roaming around somewhere in the house too. They were HORRIBLE to try and mix on. Which is what I kept trying to do before I got my monitors. I ended up handing them off to the wife to use with her iPod. They were good for having a closed back for tracking, but not really much else for my purposes.

These I have coming are supposed to be completely flat on the EQ curve, and cover from 5hz to 40khz. Hopefully after a break-in period and some serious listening time on them they'll be a little better suited to mixing tasks. I'll still switch back and forth to the monitors, but Steve made a good case for using quality phones to get your bass, mid, treble gauged in a non-tuned, non-sub'ed mixing room. Guess I'll find out soon.

You got some cheap guitars :O




(ok - I have a couple beater basses like that too)

mamberg wrote:You got some cheap guitars :O

(ok - I have a couple beater basses like that too)

Basses? I spent way less than half what these cost on one of my basses.