If I could have told myself one thing back then...

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If you could have a chat with yourself back when you were finding your way

I'd have saved myself some serious time if I had of left mastering suites off the master when I was finding my way at the start.

I'd have cracks and pops and distortion when shit was playin and I couldnt figure out how to fix it. Not an accurate picture at all.. just louder.

Take it off unless you know what you are doing.

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Excellent advice.

Jonny Miller at PBO always told us to keep everything EQ and compressor free until we were ready to start mixing. That way, one can really hear what the sounds are doing.

If I were to go back a couple years to when I started doing this, I'd tell myself to concentrate on one or two sound-designing plugs instead of the plethora of plugs I have now. Hah!

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If you could have a chat with yourself back when you were finding your way
Not to take as many damn drugs..... ;))

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nervejammer wrote:
If you could have a chat with yourself back when you were finding your way
Not to take as many damn drugs..... ;))
That just means you're not taking enough! Haha

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id tell myself to work harder and for longer on all aspects :)

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I should have concentrated on nailing one aspect at a time rather than being sick of the failings of one loop and then going on to do pretty much the same thing again on the next. Should have trained my ears a bit better & listened to individual elements in other tracks that I wanted to sound similar.

But y'know - you'll get advice sometimes & take it on board, but its not til further down the road that it actually makes sense.

So I suppose it happens when it happens. You need to make mistakes. Haha - I would have told myself to be patient - lol

Actually - I would have said: Listen more & Tweak more. Tweak while you A/B
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I would have told myself to take care of my ears. I listened to so much music loud that I can tell I'm already losing my ability to hear. I'm 22. That's not what supposed to happen at this age.

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mix at a reasonably low level.
That seems like the best advice to me.

I think my right ear got damaged back in the day.
I always get the impression that the left monitor is more dominant when listening.
that's not good ..

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Fk about with each one of the effects. Try and focus on one @ a time and understand what each dial / button does. Not always essential of course - but helps a lot :)

I've only really got on top of this in the last year.
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I wish I had learnt to play an instrument when I was at school and I should of gone to college and done music production or sound engineering or something. I just didn't consider it back the and I was to busy getting stoned.
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Mslwte wrote:I wish I had learnt to play an instrument when I was at school and I should of gone to college and done music production or sound engineering or something. I just didn't consider it back the and I was to busy getting stoned.
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I wanted to do sound engineering also after school.. but was talked out of it cos I was told there was no money in it - lol

Big regret that I didnt do it at night when I had the time & working. Music Production is the first & last last thing that I think about every day. Could have done something easily, but got caught up in the daily routine.

Its never too late. Plenty of short courses that you can do. I really want to do the Quantize one & hopefully will have the $$$ by the end of the year. If those vids Keith has up on YT are anything to go by, its well worth it. Everyone I speak to about it says its class.
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Mslwte wrote:I wish I had learnt to play an instrument when I was at school and I should of gone to college and done music production or sound engineering or something. I just didn't consider it back the and I was to busy getting stoned.
Amen to that, also spending 6 years plastering for fk all before quitting to study sound engineering. What a waste of time, I'm skint now but happy as a pig in shit :)

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Moving to Wales with my ex - lol

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NomadSpectrum wrote:Moving to Wales with my ex - lol
+1 lol

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Snivitz wrote:
NomadSpectrum wrote:Moving to Wales with my ex - lol
+1 lol
You met my ex then :P

Moved to Wales started a normal life then had enough and came back to near London - got a few things sorted then started producing again - 15 years of my life

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get some great monitors. they help, trust me.

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ICN wrote:Fk about with each one of the effects. Try and focus on one @ a time and understand what each dial / button does. Not always essential of course - but helps a lot :)

I've only really got on top of this in the last year.

Good advice that, I have a shed load of plug ins and have only scratched the surface of each instead of exploring them one at a time in depth,

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nervejammer wrote:
If you could have a chat with yourself back when you were finding your way
Not to take as many damn drugs..... ;))
Or to take even more :shock:

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Just blow on the damn fluite, you can play the drums later.
I was kicked to music school when i was young just didn't enjoy playing the fluite so i stopped going. Big regrets now
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