Why is that?

 
Yesterday I played some drums and did a rough mix to a friends piano song.
 
This morning I listened with fresh ears and realized the drummer liked it when he was really hot in the mix?
 
I also played the bass part yesterday.
 
This morning the bass player decided to turn down the drums and turn up the bass and piano.
 
Why is that?
 
 
;-)

It means a good mix engineer has to be very impartial and not be influenced by what any band member says or if they have played any of the parts themselves either. It takes a lot of experience to just put all that aside and get the correct balance. You just don't have enough of that experience yet Mike.

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Because the world turns around the individual.

Won't that make them dizzy?

mike_mccue ...
You know, I have really grown to enjoy your contributions here at the forum... your posts are thoughtful and thought provoking. I really enjoy how you focus on the universal aspects of art making and the creative process.
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Thx Mike. From my days of directing and working with actors, the "focus" is the hardest part to teach, but the easiest to do ... when you click on it, you're done ... the rest is easier and you don't second guess or doubt what you do anymore ... and on that day, you know you can do it, and not fret over it, unless it is another song.
 
Musicians are a wonderful bunch, but unlike actors, they are too self-conscious, to be able to get any better and generally, that is the spot that differentiates the ones that "make it" from the rest. On stage and film, for an actor, this is the difference between the audience hanging on your words (or playing the instrument!), or falling asleep to it, because it has no "life" of its own ... it's just notes there.
 
Usually, in MY WRITING, you can tell the moments that I wrote over it ... the singularity of that "instance" is not "alive" any more, and in fact it is quite confused! If any musician gets a sync of this, they will either stop playing music, or, on that day ...they now know what they want to do with that instrument, and it is not just playing notes ... it kinda becomes the "faust" school of sound and color (German Krautrock -- see the BBC special! It is trully excellent)  ... or if you want a more famous example ... Pink Floyd played around with sound effects so much in between their synthesizer and sound effects setup in the early days, that one day, they created a bomb called DSOTM ... and then later an even bigger bomb called TW. It's not likely these would have developed otherwise, but it gives you an idea how exposure to odd/weird things, can help you create ... the movies and the visuals, were the extension of the sounds before! Of course, nowadays Roger trashes that ... as does Dave to a degree, but it was a process that teaches you something inside ... that is irreplaceable, and is very strong in terms of helping you define your own music!
 
Sorry about the yakking ... and Bapu won't read it anyway, so I don't feel guilty I wasted his time having fun!