Not bad. Agreed with Munro Island, vocals need to get a bit louder. Also all the guitars might use a bit more 2k grit. Boost there a little. Also those breakdowns might use more spacey effects. Delays, reverb atc... But so far so good. The track itself is actually cool.

I believe it's a vocoder, fed with some polyphonic (possibly even a bit noisy) carrier + the vocal, and mixed with the dry vocal signal at the end.

I am an idiot.

I literally just found one
http://www.goldpt.com/sw2x.html

You are not and thanks for the find. Might come handy in the future.

Agreeing with Hymoki. Live mixing isn't about "fine" adjustments, but about getting everything to be audible and understandable. It also depends on what live mixing you have in mind. Mixing sound for a venue means making sure the band sounds good, effectively defeating hall's acoustics. Mixing for TV or radio means making everyone's speech clear and opening and triggering playout machines according to schedules.

You are limited by equipment of your console and even those most expansive ones don't have anything fancy. EQ, filters, dynamics section (usually compressor, gate/expander and limiter), panning, all per channel. Sometimes you can get SW plugins ro HW equipment (preffered for reliability) for stuff like delays or reverbs ... but in boradcast those are used just really rarely. Can't speak for venue mixing too much.

You usually also have to rig your stuff, mic everyone, make sure no wireless equipment is classhing in the air and that everyone has full batteries. Also in broadcast it's quite common that audio guys take care of communication equipment for production people. That means configuring intercom matrixes, setting up communication panels and beltpacks wherever it's required and so on...

Quote from: Lydian on April 08, 2016, 02:46:25 pm

M shaped skill?

http://blogs.forrester.com/f/b/users/AMULLEN/updated_skills_image.png :O

This one I like! At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, I was pretty impressed to learn that Madeon also does his own graphic design

I refuse to refer this dude as a human. He can't be from this damn planet. Crazy skilled. He really does not need to solve this question, yeah.

If you do crazy stuff on eqs and it's still not helping, I guess your problem is somewhere else. Probably wrong overall balance. Automation helps a lot with this.

Also over-compression might be a problem. When that sound has a transient and fall-off, your ear can track it down even when another sound "shot" it's transient over it. When you make them all steady-leveled, they are ironocally easier to clash. Applying compressor in order to make something "stand out" works only when other stuff stays fairly dynamic.

Yeah, I also talk too nerdy as well.

...that's the funny part. I'm thinking about changing otherwise quite interesting job for some less time demanding one. I wouldn't like to stop my income completely. I don't think I'm even  capable to make a single dollar by music. I'm actually not sure about the other things I'd loose. Position, colleagues, access to kinda cool tech etc...

Something got me thinking lately.

I do have this really time demanding kinda stressful job. It pays somehow ok and it's really interesting one (ob-truck technician), but it does eat really a lot of time. ...to the extend I can't help myself from blaming it for few missed cool chances in music production.

I'm thinking about giving it up for music. Finding something else with more free time, but I've learn some cool stuff there, made some good friends and financial stability is pleasing thing to have.

...would you do it? Have you made some big sacrifices for music? Which ones?