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My Mixing Workflow (How to structure creativity)
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- title
- My Mixing Workflow (How to structure creativity)
- description
- It's a give and take between creativity/chaos and order. Here's how I approach workflow, to up my pace but still keep it chaotic. Questions? Wanna hear my work? Visit
- status
- complete
- date
- 2022-08-31
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- solo
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- listenUrl
- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/My-Mixing-Workflow-How-to-structure-creativity-e1n7br7
- appleUrl
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-mixing-workflow-how-to-structure-creativity/id1567355195?i=1000577946878&uo=4
- spotifyUrl
- https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R5GeTJ6El0nlPsV9UNLKt
- topicsDiscussed
- Creativity
- Mixing
- Music production
- Spatial audio
- Creative Structure
- Organizational Techniques
- Best Practices
- Creative Flow
- Dolby Atmos
- Color Coding
- Sound Design
- hostNote
- Creativity thrives in mess; mixing requires order, the trick is applying the order only where it helps. My workflow starts with cleaning: organizing tracks, naming them, removing cognitive noise before the creative phase starts. Then I go instinctive. The key frame is **maid first, musician second**: handle the housekeeping so that by the time I'm making a sonic decision, I'm not also thinking about track routing. I also get into how Dolby Atmos sessions add a new layer of this problem, and why the whole point is to stop reading the owner's manual.
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- Introduction to Workflow
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- 1
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- Introducing the topic of workflow in music mixing and how to balance creativity with a structured approach.
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- Mixing Process Explained
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- 137
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- Elaborating on what mixing entails, likening it to baking a cake with different ingredients.
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- Chaos and Order in Mixing
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- 315
- note
- Discussing the necessary chaos in production and how it transitions into the structured approach needed for mixing.
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- Organizing Tracks
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- 272
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- The importance of organizing tracks in a mixing session to create better sound cohesion.
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- The Role of Instruments
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- 405
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- How different instruments contribute to the overall mix and the concept of 'glue' in mixing.
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- Adapting to New Technologies
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- 721
- note
- Challenges and opportunities presented by new mixing technologies like Dolby Atmos.
- excerptQuotes
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- What is workflow? How do you get faster? How do you get better at mixing? How do you streamline things?
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- 87
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- true
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- There's something that we can take from that corporate kind of thing and bring it into music. But there is a line. There's a place where it goes too far and then things start getting sterile or repetitive.
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- 90
- reviewed
- true
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- So I take the foundational elements. I organize them first, and I clean everything. I go through it and I am the maid.
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- 273
- reviewed
- true
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- I think when you produce too sterile, it doesn't work for me. It makes the whole thing too procedural.
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- 313
- reviewed
- true
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- Mixing without the bass changes the way that everything else sounds, mixing without the drums changes the way everything else sounds.
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- 266
- reviewed
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- The goal is then I have to think about them anymore so you can actually make some damn music instead of like thinking like I'm reading an owner's manual.
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- 766
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- true
- faq
- question
- What is my mixing workflow?
- answer
- I describe a balanced mixing workflow that combines creativity and structure, focusing on organization, cleaning, and track relationships.
- question
- How do I approach creativity in music mixing?
- answer
- I emphasize the importance of maintaining chaos and fun in the creative process while also applying structured techniques during the mixing phase.
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