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The musical importance of mixing
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
On the one hand there are people who say that they are annoyed by the highly-compressed, "push every element to the max" mixing style of a lot of today's dance tracks. I've often been part of this group. I find that tracks mixed in this way can really irritate me because of the relative loudness of the high end and the "noisiness" of the production generally, even if I actually like some of the music itself (melodies, timbres, or rhythms).
But on the other hand I've seen plenty of people say that they could never get into older dance music, or that they enjoy it far less than they otherwise might, or that they could never play it in a DJ set, because the mixing of the track sounds "dated" or "amateurish" to them. And maybe if the producers of those older tracks had possessed today's digital tools for compression and frequency analysis, they too would have pushed everything to the max. I'm kind of glad they didn't, personally...
Anyway, how much of a factor is the style of mixing in your enjoyment of a track? For me it's not something that I always notice immediately, but something I come to appreciate -- or dislike, depending on the style -- over time. And I think my preferences may be part of the reason I often find myself dispirited about a lot of today's dance music. |
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| saluyamo |
Better mixing often helps me 'get into' the track quicker.
Song such as http://au.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DLCWZIGd7IAg&source
Does sound dated and not as clean as newer tracks and to me, while quite a good track could possibly of been better if it was cleaner...Although that raises the question. Would X sound better if it sounded clean?
Edit: Typo's... |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by saluyamo
Better mixing often helps me 'get into' the track quicker. |
What do you mean by "better," though? I don't have audio on this computer, so I can't listen to the vid.
Interestingly, I sometimes find tracks mixed in a contemporary style to be very attractive at first because of how all the little perc elements and delayed sounds "tickle my ears," so to speak. But this attraction is very superficial, as often I eventually find the flatness of the mix to be irritating and get tired of the track. |
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| saluyamo |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
What do you mean by "better," though? I don't have audio on this computer, so I can't listen to the vid. |
Clearer/clean etc.
I'm quite tired and your intellectual talk is confusing me :( |
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| elFreak |
| From someone that mixes in this style a bit i have to say it is fun. If you are solely going to be a dj you better try and have a unique style of your own. Many people play a lot of the same tracks, and it is possible to make them sound different. |
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