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Hello,
Sincere Apologies if this is in the wrong place, i dont think it is but just in case. First of all im a aca4u virgin this being my second post. Anyway I wanted to ask you fellow dj’s and producers If there is a way to train your ears to be able to hear the difference between the highs mids and lows, i can obviously hear major differences, but not very small ones.
Im sure this is something that will come with time but i thought i would ask just in case anyone had an idea apart from pracitce obviously.cheers
AdSense 336x280Hello,
Sincere Apologies if this is in the wrong place, i dont think it is but just in case. First of all im a aca4u virgin this being my second post. Anyway I wanted to ask you fellow dj’s and producers If there is a way to train your ears to be able to hear the difference between the highs mids and lows, i can obviously hear major differences, but not very small ones.
Im sure this is something that will come with time but i thought i would ask just in case anyone had an idea apart from pracitce obviously.cheers
AdSense 336x280You answered the question yourself 😉 ..
Practice, Practice, Practice my friend
..AdSense 336x280Really, it’s a thing of expirience, it comes along.
Try getting yourself a proper analyzer, one that fits you, and a whole new horizont will be at your mind!
Greetz
AdSense 336x280Practice and Practice, don’t always rely on a spectrum anaylser.
Monitors will help alot aswell, enable you to listen more into the mix
Tim.
AdSense 336x280thanks alot for your swift replys, apologies for not replying myself sooner, but i have been seriously busy.
The idea of an analyzer i was considering already, but i decided against it as dont wish to be relying on anything except my ears for mixing and i feel that even learning with one would be cheating even if it takes longer to learn without.
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i practiced by listening to a 4-bar-loop (short so that there isn’t so much various infos in it) taking place in the whole khz-spectrum (dunno the right eng expression..) of a industry-hiphop or whatever song, opened a 31-band-eq then raised and dropped every band after another, getting back too +-0 for tryin to hear the difference every single one makes.
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[/quote:2gtqksoz]I like this idea i tried it with full songs, but they are 2 varied. so i think this will work perfect, i’ll hopefully do it for about 10 minutes each day.
Thanks again guys.
AdSense 336x280Perhaps the biggest production flaw that I hear in alot of mainstream music is a poor equalization between kick drums and basslines. It’s always good to program a bassline that complements the drums; however, alot of times a producer will pick a bassline that is *too* close (frequency-wise) to the principle frequency of the bass drum. What ends up happening is that the drum and bassline will end up "fighting" each other for prominence in the track’s mix. For instance, if your drum has a principle frequency of 80 Hz, it is a good idea to maybe "dip out" or "roll off" your bassline at around 80 Hz, and give the bassline more prevelance around 40-50 Hz.
The same principles can be applied to mixing records, but on a wider scale. Proper use of a mixer’s EQ’s is essential when trying to mix a "brighter" track with a darker one, or one with not as much sparkle in the high EQ ranges.
I’m done rambling now
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