why must everything be midi and DI tracks..
"audio engineers" have no balls these days, playing it safe with doing midi and recording dry tracks.
picking presets and samples and doing a bit of eq is not mixing!
if you cats want real practice, do a mix with recorded guitars bass drums ect and make it sound like a golden hit.
this is not me being an ass hole, this is to try to motivate all of you to challenge yourself and get creative!
im gunna post a real mix in the next couple days. all recorded, no samples - real mixing. no presets or any bullshit.
It's not that we're playing it safe, in a lot of these practice mixes, it's so that each guy can get the sound he wants. You know how boring it is to post a song of yours, and hearing mixes that all sound really similar? It's quite boring. That's why a lot of dudes post up DI's and MIDI, so each mixer can go through and make his own sounds, show off how he would do it were he the engineer.
And explain to me, what exactly is the increased ease between being given the guitar and drum sounds and mixing them, and having to create those sounds yourself, then mix it? If anything, it takes more work and creativity to do that, as I have to go through, find the right amp sim, the right impulse, the proper samples, and then I'm ready to go, and I'm sure a lot of dudes use proper amps and cabs to reamp instead of sims. It took me far less work to get a mix up and running when I was just given the guitar and drum sounds.
I don't know what you mean by presets, being totally honest, I've stopped using presets at all, outside of the Steven Slate presets, and even then things tend to be sample replaced and processed with things such as tape sims and compressors. I know some dudes use presets a lot, but they would do the same thing even if they were given real amp and drum recordings.
I understand where you're coming from here, it can get old to mix DI and MIDI tracks, and I love processing real drums, but in cases of this, it allows each guy to easily get their own drum sound. I know if I were to do a proper recordings, it'd be real amps and drums (probably some sampling there).
