How do you feel about others mixing your music?

I wouldn't have a problem - I would be interested to hear someone else's take on it

Ha I got nothing I feel proud enough to show. And that's kinda where I was going. 

Mooch4056

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How do feel about others mixing your music?

I also think my mixes are fantastic just how I mix them. Then I give it to someone else to have a shot and I learn my lesson. Lesson being ....I have more to learn. 


An example would be a song I just had bapu produce and than my mixmix MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES. His mix was waaaaay better than mine. 


And if bapu is mixing better than me..... Then you know how bad I need to learn that says it right there   Jk...(sorta)

You ain't gonna have to worry about music ever again after August Mooch. You'll see!

I had someone mix my stuff and I wasn't happy at all with what they did.  Their technical skills were there alright, but they just couldn't grasp what I was trying to do creatively.

Even if someone else is only as good at mixing as you are, the end result could still end up being better than if you'd mixed it yourself. 

We tend to fixate on the cool parts, the hard parts we struggled to get right, or some neat effects. Somebody else just sees a collection of components waiting to be assembled and they will invariably find different cool parts than you thought you had.

Anyone learning to mix (that's all of us) would do well to buddy-up with someone else who's at a comparable skill level and trade projects with them. 

Or if you don't know anyone, hire a pro (or just a more experienced mixer) to mix your project. When you're paying somebody you're the boss and you can reasonably expect them to explain in detail why they did what they did and what plugins they used, and to hear the mix on their (presumably better) speakers in their (presumably better) room. Any local pro or semi-pro studio would be amenable to such an arrangement. Even Charles Dye, of Mix it Like a Record fame, rents himself out for consultation.

Yeah!  This is the hardware I'm currently using.  Not sure if it's the correct one though... What do you think?  Should I get a different color?  I hear that's important...

I bought the software so I could mix my music.

I wouldn't mind hearing what someone else might do with
it but I'd still go with my mix. Good or bad, it's mine and down
the road I want to hear what I did- not what somebody else did with it.

I think it's interesting to hear someone elses take on it. I've had one of mine mixed by another forum member and it turned out great, absolutely loved it. It wasn't radically different overall, but certainly had a certain something that I didn't even know was missing until I heard the re-mix.

The added benefit was that as it was also done in Sonar, I also now have the .cwb file so I can see what was done and use that as a learning tool.

There's definitley a limit to what I would pay, mostly because there are always things that I would be better off spending my hard-earned on than my half-baked song ideas, but if ever someone just wanted to have a go at one, then there's nothing to lose really. It's not like you even have to accept their version as "the" version if it isn't quite how you envisioned it.

Not sure about SMB's stuff..I might be a bit too 'precious' about that. I do the occasional 'rocker' on me lonesome though, and I'd love to hear what someone else would do with those.

Some might mix 'em with drugs and alcohol, ya?

I'd like to hear what others would make of my stuff...