Heres my 2 cents:
Lately theres been a strong myth living here that if someone is offering mixing/mastering services for free (or almost free) it will kinda re-value things and do bad things to biz as common. I dont think so, especially in this forum which is full of guys who are into DIY mixing - there is mainly no need for free services at the start.
Otoh, in these rare cases where the band or musician is looking for services for cheap price, why throw shit against them immediately? If Ive got it right this free to post public forum, not any kind of front office for commercial production houses where first things asked is budget. If the band or musician is broke why not just let forumites themselves to decide if they wanna help those people out with low price.
Besides this could be a true real world exercise, quick DIY practise with unorganized files and so on. I mean, what the heck, let it be folks. Also that dude with 400$ mixing competition
we have guitar tone competitions with less valuable prices, so how it could be anybodys business if someone wants to mix it all for that cash? People need practicing files for mixing and were trying to prevent people from learning and already talking about banning these posters, I dont agree its the right thing to do.
Now, heres something fun, strongly related:
There was an interview of a very mediocre painter in radio
the man said that he unfortunately isnt good enough to get called from a gallery to make an exhibition, but he said hell get one immediately IF he gets a change to talk to gallerist just half an hour! He said sometimes only 10 min coffee is enough to get one. This is a bit like company job offers sometimes on newspapers we are seeking a
right kind of (!) type for the job. It actually doesnt matter how good the dude is but he must be a right kind of dude.
(Btw, the overall schooling, shorter and shorter university studies etc., of the people is going all the time to this direction where no one is anymore irreplaceable in his job). Many sociological studies is reporting this in a context that in our days the TALK is important, not as much the content itself. (
oh geeeez, my stocks are going deep n down every post made as everyone sees Im not a right kind dude, no shit!
PS. If its just semantics, then OP should rename the topic A song for learning to mix.
, although it feels more like
