Part V: It almost bought music gear in LA...

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Wowsers. A lot of gear talk. Because software has stolen the throne from the mighty king, hardware, there were only a few things discussed. Plug-ins. Monitors. Headphones. I fell asleep during the plug-in, monitor, headphones portion. Sorry.

But...

Two very cool ideas were also brought up.

1)when mixing your work (band, orchestral, whatever) keep a few copies of similar music close by to use as a mixing test.

ex. I am mixing a record for Berliner's, a AAA rock-pop band. I've got a good ear, and I know what I'm looking for mix-wise, but why make this journey alone? So I call up my buddies My Chemical Romance and Franz Ferdinand in iTunes and listen to similar tracks on the same monitors that I'm mixing the album on.

Hmm. My kick drum sounds like crap. Their's sounds awesome. Let me see if I can emulate that sweet kick drum goodness.

2) Consider mixing with a subwoofer. Love it. I know this probably makes more sense for the John Williams composer-type folks, but it's never a bad idea to audition your tracks on multiple setups.

That's all for my five part series in LA. Tomorrow will be back to normal. For realsies.