This is the honest truth about mixing and mastering your own music as an independent artist. ► Website: www.mixwithjerry.com ► Instagram: / mixwithjerry #mixing #mastering
"You can't let being a mixer get in the way of you being an artist when you're a musician who has to wear a lot of different hats." I truly needed this reminder. Thank you for this truth! Big fan of your content!
I FEEL THAT EVERYDAY JERRY AND IT HAS TO DO WITH BEING ATTACHED TO YOUR OWN MUSIC. LEARNING TO LET GO MORE HAS BEEN KEY. YOUR OWN VOICE WILL 4EVER SOUND WEIRD TO SELF IN WAY AND PUTTING IN THE WORK WILL MAKE YOU MAKE BETTER. THE YING AND YANG OF MIXING YOUR OWN MUSIC IS THAT YOU'LL LEARN WHAT YOU LIKE AND WHAT YOU DON'T. WE ARE ALL IN OUR HEADS MOST OF THE TIME JUST DO YOUR BEST EVERYTIME AND THE GOOD THING IS THAT YOU GET TO START ALLOVER. THE MIND OF THE CREATIVE IS ALWAYS IN PAIN BECAUSE OF GROWING PAINS... PEOPLE DONT CARE AS MUCH AS YOU MENTIONED SO I'VE LEARNED TO BE PRESENT FOR EACH HAT. FIND THE FUN PART IN WHATEVER IS CHALLENGING YOU THAN YOU'LL SEE PROGRESS GO JERRY GO. JERRY I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT YOUR OWN VIEW ON MASTERING 1. DO YOU DO YOUR MASTERING? 2. REGARDLESS OF YES OR NO KINDLY DO A VIDEO ON THAT SUBJECT.
I’ve gotten down on myself plenty of times in the past about the mix. My mixes really took a jump when I started trusting my skills as a mixer and just doing what I feel and not second-guessing my decisions.
Great advice my man. I have this problem. I keep tweaking my songs & it takes me forever to finish them. The truth is even some of the biggest most famous songs ever aren't perfect & have flaws. I've come to the stage now if I can get my songs over 90% I'm happy with that & to move onto the next.
@@gabrielthesingingpilotYou have to. There comes a point where it's just you hearing the flaws. Nobody else will. They might not even be flaws. Your brain plays all sorts of tricks on you 😖
Thank you for this man, excellent point. Sometimes I feel like it's easy to get caught up in the technical side of things and forget that mixing is apart of the art. That is should be something that is enjoyed instead of stressed.
I started out looking to just write and sing the songs and have someone else produce and mix and master. but in my country, never really got anyone who could give me the kind of production I want so I set up my own studio and learned production. My very first song I produced has the so called pros wide-eyed and when I tell them that I produced it when I did not even know all the basics of Cubase 5 they don't believe me. Now I have done the production and the rough mix impresses everybody. Didn't want to mix because I know how switching to your technical mind shuts down the creative mind, but I cannot help it. every third party mix engineer I have tried has turned out mixes that sound worst than the rough cut that I have. so again, I am back to learning another aspect of the music production work chain - mixing. I will make it and still be productive. I've given myself six months to grasp the basics and once i do, the rest is ears. I'm not afraid of losing creative time because I have thousands of compositions and even as I am learning mixing I am composing
I gotta give a huge thank you! Been working on my own album for the first time and I realized quick that trying to understand and mix so many songs is tough. This video and many of your others have been INCREDIBLY helpful. Your explanations are clear and concise... very much appreciated! You've helped me understand more about how the sounds flow through the program and it makes so much more sense. Again.... THANK YOU!!
I needed to hear this! haha. I use to produce, record, mix, master a song a month a few years back when I was doing working on another project. It was a good challenge to keep the creative flow going and the learning curve increasing, but now I have more knowledge i've feel victim to being way harsher on my self and my mixes resulting in me not finishing anything and sitting on lot of projects. Time to change this, so thank you for the reminder .
You said actually the truth/clarity. And it took me some time to realise everything you just said. What does actually matter is a good quality mix which sounds complete and that’s pretty is all That’s for these videos it helps alot man !
Realest shyt I heard today. I spent to much time on my last two projects chasing perfection. I also know i’m not paying $200 plus a mix either so its time to get out my own way. You got a sub outta me
Thanks for this!! I spend 4 minutes recording a vocal take then spend hours and hours trying to mix it to a pre masterd track. I need to stop trying to get it to sound like the Pro's and just get content out and enjoy singing and recording. Mixing, although im learning every day just takes too much time that the small number of viewers i get wouldn't even care if my reverb was automated or ducked or if i automated my Eesses rather than used a Deesser. Frankly, ive done shit all because of trying to be professional mixing engineer without anything but hip hop and rap youtube tutorials to learn from. Not that there's anytjing wrong with those but my genre is slow BPM stuff where there is little to no videos on. Still, i do get a lot of enjoyment when i finally reach a sound im happy with and i still hope to keep learning and master the craft of mixing one day
I literally cannot win with others and mixing. I've tried to make my art sound the clearest as possible while keeping my style attached and all I get back is "your vocals are too low etc" it's no winning I've released extremely sharp ass vocals out of spite🤷🏿♂️I'm just releasing whatever tf I want now I'm so tired of worrying about some imaginary indefinable level of perfection. I like grungier music anyway
Underrated video! Ur videos great quality I woulda thought u had 10x the subs (not saying u don’t have a lot) but this is a great video i wish everyone can watch!! Ppl get so lost on the mixing side of things that they forget the whole purpose is to hear yourself and be proud of the way your voice sounds. I think perfectionism can be a negative thing when you’re creating art
Real talk I got a few songs sounding good but mono ing the low end killed the umph of the 808 I'm thinking yea it stills sounds good then again I got so much more beats I've been working on so going back and forth is a huge hold up
I have a hard time moving on to other projects of my own without finishing up the one I’m working on. I want to challenge myself to just start the recording process of my next songs if I’m having any trouble with the mix. I think coming back with a fresh set of ears will make you hear it with a new perspective.
i have a thing, I‘m doing this for s while now, already built a kinda professional studio with big genelec speakers and so on. and still, even with years of experience I just do not get this nice clean glued together driving sub-bass/low-pass >80 Hz as clean as the pros and the area around 100-300 Hz to be like one fat clean unit together. I often ask myself if I just am not good enough yet, or if there is, as you mentioned, a stage in this procedere of producing a track, where you must put it away to a pro-mixer who has all the right gear, knowledge and experience. i havent sent any pro-mixer something yet, but I‘m actually really really curious if that is the point why I still hear a difference to pro-songs and gives me not that much of a confidence to play it in a club.. what do you think how the pros are making this
