Here is my attempt at a 16 BAR idea made out of samples and loops. Let me know what you think. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNLnirifqdEdA85PvQQZP_3-aLvB5ExG/view?usp=sharing

Hey everyone, I've been deep diving into stereo imaging after being humbled on my first pop/rock mix, and I've been through countless threads and articles to understand some feedback I received about panning guitars specifically lol. If anyone else wants to learn and improve on this concept, Mastering the Mix wrote an article on it that seems simple enough here https://www.masteringthemix.com/blogs/learn/guide-to-panning-and-stereo-width?srsltid=AfmBOopDMELahxJnH4PPdhcNhCeL2bIjUqrhqpmf72GIL4X1IcMYGYlV They'll sell you on their plugins in the middle but if you have a basic understanding of width, depth, and height, you can sculpt accordingly with what you already have. I remember someone awhile back made a poll about if you should mix a genre you don't produce and I still stick by my answer, which essentially was hell yea, why not. However, mixing what you produce obviously provides a better understanding of the elements at play versus being an avid listener. The most humbling, slap to the forehead experience for me lately was when my rock buddy told me about panning the layers of guitars L/R along with production stuff beyond my control. And my first reaction was like dude, what the fuck...they're panned L/R.....hahaha. Turns out....nah lol, total misunderstanding and I didn't create separation between layers. Anyway, I learned long ago, about panning according to sound stage which was so revolutionary to me at the time, it really helped me visualize and supported how I panned drums, and this became my approach in general which is probably why I made the mistake with the guitar layers. I hope everyone is learning, growing and choosing to persevere on their journey to better mixes!

Im so excited I just got the Silver Ears Award form SoundGym.

Hi everyone! What are you working on this week?

Whats up everyone? I'm like 95% done with the mixing intensive that occurred maybe a month ago. I took my time with it and used the same Pop/rock song for the entire intensive as I wanted to focus on a genre that I don't always have an opportunity to mix. I must've misunderstood from the beginning but I waa under the impression that we'd be mixing with a limiter on...I've never done this in the past and I found it helpful until I turned the limiter off. I was around -20dbfs but I liked the way the mix turned out (or to say the least, I was sick of it and ready to move on) since I did the mastering intensive awhile back as well, I decided to practice mastering too....with more than enough headroom. I was just wondering, is it normal to have a final mix at -20dbfs? It didnt bother me as I just brought the gain up when I brought it into the mastering stage. Overall, as a first time mixing a live band/rock, I'm happy with the way it turned out, there's certain things to tweak, and I had mixed reviews for what I could focus on next time while mixing a similar song, I would 100% bring the bass down a little bit too but it was great to learn with, I just don't know if its normal to have such a low final mix