Quick Mixdown

[Soundtrack2life]

Other that bouncing to disk in real time is there anyway to do a quick audio file render for reference mixes (non realtime)?
Joe

[Slim Shady]

No.

[Soundtrack2life]

Thanks,
Joe

[Scott Goldberg]

Originally Posted by Soundtrack2life

Other that bouncing to disk in real time is there anyway to do a quick audio file render for reference mixes (non realtime)?
Joe

Bounce after and not during process always. You don't want your computer doing to math calculations at the same time. Also, why not do a partial bounce, to give a reference to someone without them being able to pirate it away from you? I everyone's our pal in there, until they owe you 13,000 dollars like what happened to me and now NO ONE gets red book copies of my mixes until I am pain. Sorry, a little venting space.

[nob turner]

scott... no doubt it is worse now with cd's... but back in the day, i had clients stiff me by taking off with rough mixes on cassette without having paid me. they shopped them as they were, and when they didn't get a record deal, the band broke up. i never got paid then either.

[Scott Goldberg]

Originally Posted by nob turner

scott... no doubt it is worse now with cd's... but back in the day, i had clients stiff me by taking off with rough mixes on cassette without having paid me. they shopped them as they were, and when they didn't get a record deal, the band broke up. i never got paid then either.

I hear ya mate...where are you in the city? Gonna go to AES AGAIN. MAybe meet?
-S

[BrianJArmstrong]

I'm not sure if this would help or not, but the last time I was working on an album, I had a stereo track set up in each session that I ran everything into. I bussed all my tracks and stems into a stereo aux track (essentially treating that as the master) and then bussed that out to my stereo track. I would just record everything into the stereo track and then exported that as the mix.

It made it so much easier to give to clients and then if they said, "You know, the sax could be a little louder in the first chorus." I would just go into the session, bring up the sax, and re-record just that part into the stereo track. Listen to the ins and outs (a lot of times there'd be a tiny drop out at the start of the new recording), re-consolidate and re-export. Super easy work-flow, especially for their longer songs.

Of course, once everything was final, I would bounce to disk in real time, but until everything was final, it was a great work around.

Brian

[Scott Goldberg]

Originally Posted by Scott Goldberg

I hear ya mate...where are you in the city? Gonna go to AES AGAIN. MAybe meet?
-S

You're welcome! If you need any free passes, just let me know or call Michael Groh at Cutting Edge and tell him to help you. Basically, just go to the AES link via google and you can have free passes waiting at will call. Send me an e-mail! www.goldrecordings.com
Cheers,
Scott