Enhance Recording and Mixing Skills (1)

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Enhance your Recording and Mixing
SkillsbyGrayspark Audio Academyhttps//acade
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Introduction

• To get better at recording and mixing skills
  Practice is the only key. Yes, we all have
  heard it, but yet find it hard to get down to
  actually practicing your recording and mixing
  skills.
• Here are some ways that we can analyze and
  correct our mistakes through practice and become
  an efficient recording and mixing engineers.

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Record an Instrument on a pre-recorded session

• Try and get your hands on a few Multi-Track
  sessions, you can take this from already recorded
  track.
• Choose any instrument from this recording and
  re-record it.
• Understand the thought process of the recording
  engineer that went into designing specific sound.

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• Try visualizing different sounds for these
  instruments and record them, this will help you
  with getting faster at recording.
• This tip will help you build your skill
  recording and visualizing a relevant sound for a
  song.

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Emulate or Reverse Recordings

• Lets take example of the drum sound on Boom
  Like That a song by Mark Knopfler to understand
  this.
• Try different micing techniques, drum Tunings,
  preamps and microphone combinations and different
  room positions until you reach a point where the
  drum sound is comparable to the one from the
  song.

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• In this process, you will learn a few more ways
  that could use studio equipment to get closer to
  different sounds.
• Reverse engineering is easy, analyze and break
  down the sound into simple forms, define every
  element of the sound. 

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Analyze Mix Sessions from your Engineers

• Try to get your hands on some of the sessions
  that have been mixed and try to put yourself in
  the mix engineers chair.
• Take a part the mix and listen to all the
  elements without the processing on it, listen to
  it with the plug-ins bypassed and then effects
  and processing dialed it.

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Practice Multi-Track Mixing

• Take any Multi-Track session and start by getting
  the balance in place and repeat it until you
  reach a point that youre happy with.
• Once you arrive at a good balance, try to shape
  the tone and dynamics of the instruments and get
  them in line with what your vision for the song. 

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• Thank You.