Producers

[The CHEF]

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[SUPER RUTHLESS]

Quick question:
Does everyone here mix and master there own tracks and who actually goes to professional studios and lets the engineers do it for them?

[Dpleezy]

Quick question:
Does everyone here mix and master there own tracks and who actually goes to professional studios and lets the engineers do it for them?

I mix and master my own stuff.

I'd really like to be able to take my final mixes to a professional hardware mastering place - it just gets a bit expensive for a whole album though.

[The CHEF]

Quick question:
Does everyone here mix and master there own tracks and who actually goes to professional studios and lets the engineers do it for them?

I mix and master my own stuff.

I'd really like to be able to take my final mixes to a professional hardware mastering place - it just gets a bit expensive for a whole album though.

co-sign!

[Omero's Daddy]

Co_Sign with Dplanet.

I do it my damn self too. I would be more comfortable sending them to professionals but it does get expensive like Dplanet pointed out. Plus the engineers in SA dont really do great jobs for hip hop. I dont really trust that many engineers locally to do it right. To the point where i'd rather send it to a producer to do it. I would definitley send stuff to Dplanet or Hipe for mixing. I trust their ears.

[rob_one]

Quick question:
Does everyone here mix and master there own tracks and who actually goes to professional studios and lets the engineers do it for them?

I simply don't have the funds for professional mastering - and frankly, it's something I should be able to do myself, if not professionally, then at least competently.

So I do it myself. I'm the first to say I'm a shit sound engineer with a lot to learn, but I am learning - even if I don't always get the results I want.

[Bobby Banks]

i think mixing is the most frustrating thing after tooth ache. i hate it. i usualy never mix or master my stuff, cos no matter how hard i try, it sounds crap on other mediums

[Omero's Daddy]

I simply don't have the funds for professional mastering - and frankly, it's something I should be able to do myself, if not professionally, then at least competently.

Quote of the year. My new signature

[SUPER RUTHLESS]

I mix and master my own stuff.

I'd really like to be able to take my final mixes to a professional hardware mastering place - it just gets a bit expensive for a whole album though.

But some people just aint doing it rite....
I was listening to the track High school girls on the hype disc (which is also played on some radio stations) and it sounds terrible, the sample used sounds louder then the vocals and the whole song sounds like it was done in one take.

[Dpleezy]

I would definitley send stuff to Dplanet or Hipe for mixing. I trust their ears.

That's funny cause I just sent stuff to Nyambz and Hipe for mixing for the same reason!

[rob_one]

Lol at Nyambz.

I trust my ears, I just think I lack the skills and the subtleties.

I'm investing though; start a ProTools/studio practice tertiary course next month for ten weeks, mastering cla** next year.

[Bobby Banks]

tippy toes was poorly mixed. the vocals are really low. does anyone else notice this or is it how the radio version is? or maybe my car speakers?

[Omero's Daddy]

I'm investing though; start a ProTools/studio practice tertiary course next month for ten weeks, mastering cla** next year.

Then we all send our stuff to Rob for mixing and mastering at a discounted rate... Will a subscription of You/Huisgenoot magazine and some biltong be adequate payment for a homesick dude?

[rob_one]

I'm investing though; start a ProTools/studio practice tertiary course next month for ten weeks, mastering cla** next year.

Then we all send our stuff to Rob for mixing and mastering at a discounted rate... Will a subscription of You/Huisgenoot magazine and some biltong be adequate payment for a homesick dude?

Hardy har har.

I'm back in the country next week for a few days actually, so I'll be buying up every issue of You in my local CNA. Obviously

[SUPER RUTHLESS]

tippy toes was poorly mixed. the vocals are really low. does anyone else notice this or is it how the radio version is? or maybe my car speakers?

You play it in your car?   lol
yeah the vocals do sound very low, but i guess its coz they knew that its the beat that counts in such songs