When to Mixdown

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Vorlis
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When to Mixdown

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Getting a track to the mixdown stage is my main problem atm, with a band it's pretty straight forward, but with techno the process messes me up.
Because I use dynamic effects and efx to shape the sounds in the composition stage getting to the mixdown stage becomes blured.

Composition to arrange to mixdown, in my mind, should be 3 separate processes but always comes together in one big mess and I end up not doing anything productive at all.

I was just wondering how you guys go about this?

Cheers, Con

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I tend to mix as i go Con. I would not judge anything that i have done as being to a pro standard, but I dont tend to have seperate hats that I wear at different points. I like to have everything balanced as much as possible before I sketch out the loop.

If it dont all sound good together and i can get a sense for how its goin to go then I cant procede. Maybe thats my process then, if it doesnt sound right, bin the bastard :evil:

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When I'm happy the structure is 90% there, then it's mix down time for me.

I've only started doing it like recently this because It's taken a long time to get to a stage where I've got anything resembling a structured track.

Before that I was very much part of the process and the overall sound was determined at creation time.

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usually i mix as i go, i then lay out my arrangement and then i put on FX and adjust the levels of the FX according to my arrangement

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Do it as you go but save new copies so you can A/B them.

Sometimes I'll go back to an earlier save!
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i do the same like walsh , build up track add fx , automate ass i listen :P

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Cheers for the input lads, i think i gotta find some sorta structure of working :?


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