Mixing

[obiwan177]

Originally Posted by themadarchitect

So don't stop till you have something beautiful that is a true representation of what you are hearing in your head. Anything short of that is giving up.

I agree. Another question to ask yourself then is can you live with knowing you could've made it better? Knowing there was a problem but ignoring it because the majority of listeners wouldn't hear it? I personally couldn't live with that.

[dave911]

Unless you are in a room designed as a studio you are going to have a bumpy room response with trouble at the low end and you'll probably be monitoring on a single pair of "almost pro" monitors.
Lots of great advice here.
I would just add that listening to great pro. mixes in you mix position and then in all the other places you normally listem to music will help you calibrate your ears so your mixes sound good on anything from ipod earbuds to top end systems. It's got to sound good on a stock car system.

[1ace1]

Originally Posted by obiwan177

I agree. Another question to ask yourself then is can you live with knowing you could've made it better? Knowing there was a problem but ignoring it because the majority of listeners wouldn't hear it? I personally couldn't live with that.

I used to procrastinate teribly over my mixes and compositions spending hours moving a snare a tiny amount one way then back the other way.

As time has progressed I have become less fussy. The snare is where the snare is!

A:)