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How Best to Deal with These Situations
I'm currently doing the Working With Busses exercise in MP101. I've come across an issue, which triggered a thought: What would be the best approach if a client sends you a project to mix and you realise that one of the tracks has intermittent (but regular) clicks for the duration of the song? Would you a) send it back to the client for correction (or ask for a corrected version) or b) work with it and try to mask it in the mix? I would have added another option – c) try to remove the clicks and charge for it – except this is meant to be the mixing stage. I would love to hear your thoughts.
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D: Call the client. Ask if they are aware. If they say no, get them to listen. Once they acknowledge, let them decide. They may ask if you can fix. They may say hold on, that was a MIDI track and get you a clean one. They may say oh shit the musician is half way around the world now. They may say no that's your problem can't you handle it, that's what you said you do? They may say if you can fix it, we will pay more. It's a business decision on your part. You win some and you lose some. You could end up being a pushover or hero.
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@Forever Simon I forgot to preface.... make damn sure it's not on your end first before you call anyone, unless you know them really well. I would go so far as to put the track on another new project with only that track or even another pc just to be sure up front.
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Volume Balance without effects question...
Hello! I find it difficult to do a volume balance when the effects are disabled. I mix only my own instrumentals so I always put some effects etc. during the production stage because I don't like the dry sound because it's uninspiring to me during writing. Then I disable the effects, convert MIDI to Audio, and keep the effects disabled for the volume balance, because I see everyone doing volume balances before adding affects. I would prefer to do the volume balance with the effects on though, as it sounds better. Is there a reason I should not do this?
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@Lindy Botha As convoluted as it was. I think you are doing right. It seems you have it in your mind the before and after. All of the do this do that are general guidelines. You pretty much are pre-balancing. Lots of people do that. Hell, the best of the best do that.
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@Tom Hiester "Sometimes, FX is part of the “ instrument” and sometimes part of placing the sound on the soundstage." Exactly!! I can't imagine getting a guitar sound or a synth sound that was full of FX and then trying to remove all that after tracking. That was the sound. The DI track is for "hey, we should have tried this" just re-amp. But after both scenarios they can be further processed to fit whatever else is going on.
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Question
Hi, I want to compare 2 isntances of the same eq, how can I set up a macro that turns one off and the other on with the press of 1 button? I find it hard to hear small changes when im turning one off then quickly having to turn the other on. IM using Pro-Q 3.
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You might want to make your titles more informative. What DAW do you use? Do you not see the A/B switch at top center of Pro Q3? That's how you A/B one instance of PQ3 (and many other plugs). Or are you trying to do something different?
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For those of you that liked this, here is a little background on "cookie". https://digico.biz/long-nights-impossible-odds-digico-is-the-blue-collar-desk-for-styxs-us-tour/ Also here is a YT vid of the Monitor Mixer showing what does for same band. This is more prep, than live action but I'm sure there are vids out there showing other aspects of a show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01c2XyHtcHc&t=1s
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@William Yung LOL "input" .. When I first saw this video aside from the title, I thought Flea was giving some "input" to his monitor mixer. Turns out he was just being a dumb ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ontM5IWNV0
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question about membership
Hello - not sure if this should be public but i recall when signing up, that there was an option to upload a track and then get tips on it. was this a mentoring session? or was it a different feature? thanks!
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The pro opinions are membership paid features. You can get opinions, tips, that's great, OMG what was that, right here. I think you have to get to level 2 or something to post a file. I'll give you a like and you are on your way.
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