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ghostwhistler · Post by **ghostwhistler** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:55 pm

You thought you'd finished arranging the song!

Perhaps (like me) you find that once you start EQing you realise there's just too many things happening at once at 3 minutes and 5 seconds, for example?

melomood · Post by **melomood** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:10 pm

Little tweaks n edits. Maybe remove a chunk that drags

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Mon Sep 27, 2021 11:31 am

Its good to take pauses between these processes anyway, and a pause listening to that track to forget it. When you get back to it with clear mind and ears, you'll notice things needed to be done much easier and have a better "visio" of it because you took time to step back and let it rest. At least this is how things go usually for me.

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Mon Sep 27, 2021 11:36 am

All the time. I don't make any artificial distinction between writing and mixing - all gets done bit by bit as I go along. Trick is, as previous, to then leave things a week or so when it's done then go back and listen again with fresh ears to tweak stuff.

Bulbizarre · Post by **Bulbizarre** » Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:36 pm

Until the end of the project I am tinkering details here and there, a lot of it is automation, volume and fx. I'm more on the edm side so lot's of the mixing is actually arrangment and vice versa.

Ploki · Post by **Ploki** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:16 pm

Yes and it’s usually not for the better.
Thinking of bouncing down pre-mix so i dont start f**king with things out of boredom

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:30 pm

Ploki wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:16 pm Thinking of bouncing down pre-mix so i dont start f**king with things out of boredom

Yeah. I usually make mixes as I'm writing so I don't "over-develop" and lose the original idea. Sometimes the early mixes turn out to the best ones.

melomood · Post by **melomood** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:39 pm

Ploki wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:16 pm Yes and it’s usually not for the better.
Thinking of bouncing down pre-mix so i dont start f**king with things out of boredom

I get to a point and make group stems. Partly to spare cpu, partly because it's gotten to adding whatever extra bits & not looking back

Memsterrr · Post by **Memsterrr** » Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:37 am

Absolutely. My method is total and utter madness. But when it all comes together, the results are very satisfying, which isn't often (see my newly created thread about my mixing/gain-staging woes lol).

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:12 am

I don't make distinctions between any of these processes. As I said recently in another thread, mixing starts the moment I add a second channel to a project but I'll add arranging to that as well. So both mixing and arranging start at that point but neither of them finish until the whole thing is ready to have a line ruled under it. Even then, we'll often re-organise them to play live - shorter intros, different endings. We also put a lot of effort into shortening them so we can play more songs in our allotted time. We aim for 4 minutes per song, even though they average around 6 minutes on an album.

Because lyrics are very often the last thing to get done, I almost always have to re-jig the arrangement to fit the vocals in, so while I am working on it, it will normally be with a generic arrangement. Even when you start mastering, we sometimes have to go back and turn something down a bit or up a bit so it's really not finished until we send it off to the label for manufacture/distribution.

Kinh · Post by **Kinh** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:06 am

whada-you sayin'?

DiBase · Post by **DiBase** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:29 am

Njein = No & yes

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:12 pm

Through the use of an ancient Akuntsu ayahuasca ritual, I invoke a state of shamanic trance in which I can taste the proto-musical quanta in both their mixed and de-mixed states. As the multiverse becomes unburdened by the construct of time, the trappings of equalization and compression and modulation, nay, of sound itself, become irrelevant as frequency ceases to exist. As the collective ur-mind of biological life evaporates into æther, the golden Truth illuminates all, that everything is nothing, and nothing is this plugin, which I put it on the 2-bus when working.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:36 pm

Sometimes I re-arrange while mixing, but more often I find myself mixing while writing/arranging, especially if I hit a speed bump where I'm not quite sure what to to next with the composition. It's not necessarily intentional, but as I try to get an incomplete arrangement to sound somewhat "complete", I sometimes start to hear what's missing, new ideas, etc.

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:40 pm

cryophonik wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:36 pm Sometimes I re-arrange while mixing, but more often I find myself mixing while writing/arranging, especially if I hit a speed bump where I'm not quite sure what to to next with the composition. It's not necessarily intentional, but as I try to get an incomplete arrangement to sound somewhat "complete", I sometimes start to hear what's missing, new ideas, etc.

Any excuse to re-engage the harem.

Do you find yourself re arranging your track as you mix?