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This is what I’m talking about, seeing you back again for another one of my daily newsletter for [Breeze – Straight].
Yesterday was “(Breeze – Straight) Single Series Day 9 out of 31: Production” in which I talked about the concept and thinking process that I use for producing a song.
Today’s topic is about helping you understand the mixing process behind [Breeze – Straight] or to simplify that, make it sound the way it sounds.
The mixing process is a art form in itself and is the most important aspect of the song.
I am going to be explaining the mixing process not as a mixing engineer but more so as a painter painting a picture so that you can get a better understanding of how [Breeze – Straight] has been mixed.
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What is mixing?
Mixing is an art and science of making a song sound good.
It is taking individual sounds and making changes to each track to sound good on their own to then blend them into group sounds as if everything belongs.
It is making sure that everything is balanced, moving, entertaining, and prepared for the next step in the process which is mastering that you will learn about tomorrow.
The Canvas
Mixing can be thought about in parts.
If your an artist reading this, this will be a little bit uneasy to realize but as an artist who actually mixes his own music, you will understand how of little importance you are when it comes to making a song as in the product called a song.
If you are a fan of music, this will be a little bit of a shock to you as you will discover who your really a fan of.
To simplify this, I want you to understand how a painting is painted.
Painting artist make masterpieces with each creation of their art piece.
Recording artist who record and perform the song really do not create masterpieces.
While publicly the artist gets the most praise for performance of the song and provides the entertainment that draws people towards them, without a good mixing engineers who paints the masterpiece, the song itself has no value.
To better explain this is to use concepts of painting artist to illustrate the way this all works.
Painting artist do not invent the colors on a palette but yet they get the credit for the painting without mentioning where they get the paint from.
Painting artist also do not gather the materials such as wood or grind paper into trees to invent the canvas, the tools used to paint, and put it in the stores to be purchased to create a painting but yet the painter get the solo credit for painting the artwork.
What I am saying is, the vocals of the artist is nothing more than another instrument in the song but the real artist of the song is the mixing engineer.
The artist is nothing more than a part of the creative process behind the song and the entertainment moneymaking process of what makes the audio engineer artwork successful to be monetized but thinking accurately is a big part of being successful.
To help further this understanding, lets break apart each individual aspect of a song in a way that matches how a picture is painted.
Main Synth = The Color Blue
Main Melody = The Color White
Atmosphere Sounds = The Color Green
Hi Hat = The Color Orange
Snare = The Color Purple
Percussive Instrument including follie sounds(horns, cars, sirens)= The Color Red
Bass = The Color Yellow
Lead Vocals = The Color Brown
Back Up Vocals Including Adlibs = The Color Black
The colors to the individual elements of a song are not really important nor correct because each color for each song would be different depending on the song itself and how it makes you feel.
The point is to show that each element in itself without the painter taking each color and creating a painting has no value in its individual characteristics.
If you have ever heard a really bad sounding song or a song that is a demo before released to the public of a really popular artist and think, “wow this doesn’t sound as good as all their other songs” then it is untouched by the mixing engineer.
If you hard vocals before a mixing engineer touches it and then after a mixing engineer touches it, then you’d understand in most case that the artist doesn’t actually sound as good as or are not as talented as they sound on the song but the mixing engineer is the one who actually makes them sound good.
When live performances doesn’t sound as good as the recording, the fans are usually disappointed and even to the point of making memes about how awful artist sound live.
This occurs because the mixing engineer is really who your a fan of in most cases.
There however, some artists who are talented enough that they just sound good in the studio and outside the studio but that is much more rare and unrealistic.
The decision of the art style to paint
There are different styles when it comes towards painting a painting.
In the same similar aspect, there are many different ways to mix different genres of music.
If we take a little detour and go into marketing, there are different types of framework that goes into creating a marketing frontend system.
The art and science of mixing different treating depending on the genre.
A rock engineer will not use the same mixing techniques when mixing a rap song.
Each type of genre requires its own unique set of rules and procedures that are designed to make the audience feel like it’s an authentic experience unique to the genre.
There are my style of painting such as Surrealist(Salvador Dali), Post Impressionist(Van Gogh), Renaissance(Leonardo Da Vinci), and much more.
By learning many different styles of genres and their sub genres, I created systems in place with my genre template of this song that allows me to be able to systematically create mixing decisions and techniques required for the genre.
You can think of my creation of genre template as a premade canvas that has its own set of rules that I created before hand to ensure that the audience will be able to categorize the art style correctly if they wanted to add it as genre specific playlist as an example.
Creating balance for the song
The first step of mixing a song is to ensure that all the volume of the sounds are at a decent desired level.
If all sounds are at the same volume or has the same feel of volume, then the song will sound like a mess.
Sounds that sound to loud will clip or sound extremely distorted and not in a good way to distract you from liking the song and much more.
Sounds at a low volume will feel like it has distance or drown itself in the combination of all the elements.
With all mixes, you have focused elements for each of the 5 groups that make up a mix.
The main groups are a melody, vocal, drum, bass, and ear candy group.
The focused element of each group will be the loudest part of each group and usually the most attractive or alluring elements that the audience will like.
For the melody group, the focused element may be the synth rather than the horns.
For the vocal group, the focused element is always the lead vocal rather than adlibs.
For the drum group, the focused element may be the snare rather than Hit Hat’s.
For the bass group, the focused element may be the kick rather than the 808.
For the Ear candy group, the focused element may be the an animal sound rather than a orchestra hit.
To balance a mix, you start from all sounds at zero volume from each group and increase each sound faster to a level that is visible to the ear.
The focused elements from each group will be of a higher volume than any of the other elements in the group to stand out in the song.
Making colors not of the original color
This part of mixing can be thought about as mixing white paint with black paint to create grey and many colors that represent similar hues to be created.
This is where you begin to add different effects to the individual elements that, what we would call as a audio engineer, give color to the mix.
This is in the use of an equalizer, distortion, reverb, delay, phasing, flanger, compression, panner, pitcher, and timing effects to create depth alongside many other factors that make a song sound the way it does.
Each effect has its own strength and weaknesses and is extremely difficult to explain but I can give a simply explain to each effect.
You can think of these effects as the tools that a painter would use such as a pencil, different paint brushes, textures and techniques that give the painting the illusion or impression of distance in a painting
Equalizer = Pencil for plenty of uses
Distortion = Making the bass(808) sound heavy
Reverb = Making things sound far
Delay = Making things repeat
Phasing = Making things sound separate
Flanger = Sound like something is being cut through a sound
Compression = squashing a sound to make steady
Panner = Making a sound feel 3D
Pitcher = Autotune
Each of these effects is what gives the song different colors characteristics that makes the audience fall in love with the song.
Mixing engineers tend to mix and blend different effects together to create new ways to hear a sound that will be unique to their techniques or sound.
Think of blends of effects as a invention of a tool in a toolkit rather than a use of a technique.
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A mixing engineer’s instrument
A painter paints a picture with strokes and paint that can make a painting look as if it’s alive even though it is a still picture.
A mixing engineer does the same thing when mixing a song except they make the song become alive through a process called automation.
There are plenty of things that are occurring in a song that goes unnoticed by the general public when hearing a song from a major artist.
There are are effects that occur in the chorus of the song that doesn’t occur in the verse.
There is volume automation occurring in the pre-chorus that isn’t occurring no where else in the song.
There is several different types of distortion happening on the vocals that doesn’t occur throughout the song.
The different between an amateur song and a professional song is the factor that the whole song is in fact alive verse the dead song that most independent artists tend to have.
This factor of a song not sounding alive the the major difference and also a factor of how much it would cost to higher a mixing engineer to paint a song.
The more expensive the mixing engineer cost which is between $60,000 and up with royalties to paint a song the more professional the song will sound for the global stage.
The less price mixing engineers may be using stagnant effects at cheaper prices using low prices tools and little to no automation to paint the picture of the song for $3,000 to $10,000.
Mixing prices also depends on the genre so there are many factors to getting professional mixings services.
Everything in a song can be automated.
The timing, volume, distortion amount, reverb, panning, and all other effects that exist that can help create the best experience for the listener.
Automation to an engineer is what an instrument is to a musician.
Breeze – Straight Single Series Day 10 out of 31: Mixing Completed
As you can tell, mixing is the most important part of a song.
It is the action that takes colors of a painting and paints a picture making the mixing engineer who fans are really a fan of due to their outcome of the song.
While this doesn’t take away from the contribution that the artist makes to ensure the song is successful, clearly the mixing engineer is the artist of the “Master” recording.
I hope this has been completely useful in understanding my creation process behind [Breeze – Straight].
Tomorrow, we’ll continue our journey with “(Breeze – Straight) Single Series Day 11 out of 31: Mastering”.
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It simply means that you can be of value through other means of efforts to improve or further the efforts of someone who worked very hard to ensure that you can attain something that you would enjoy.
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– Let people know that you like what I do.
I always remembered wanting to know how it would be if I could talk to an artist directly that I was a fan of or if not a fan, at least loved a song that they made.
Just imagine of being able to ask an artist directly what was the story behind that song or what they were going through and getting a chance to directly ask them that question and being able to get the answer.
Understanding that feeling and never being able to do that, I want to make it be that I can give access to people who want to have a direct contact with me.
I would want to be informed when a new song is being released or other types of activities that are occurring in the life of my artist that I can be informed of directly through a text.
Play the song at parties, at work in a speaker, or play it everyday.
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– Do a combination of multiple things listed.
Free can still be a healthy contribution especially when you do a combination of the method mentioned.
This is very much appreciated.
– Create A Cover Song.
As an independent artist, creating a cover song may be one of the most important things that you can do in order to help create revenue not only for me but for yourself.
This can be one of the most important ways you can show homage for the songwriter and recording artist.
One of the most popular covers songs that has ever been created and generated tons of income is Whitney Houston – I will always love you which was originally written and performed by Dolly Parton.
I grew up only knowing the Whitney Houston Version being too young to knew the Dolly Parton chart climbing original.
You can perform your cover song of [Breeze – Straight] on a stage show without having to purchase a license because the responsibility falls upon the venture to make sure to get a license from the performance rights organization.
Now if you want to create a cover for the song that you can licensed to be sold, you would have to go to the Harry Fox Agency to get a mechanical license to do so.
Understand I’m cool and don’t really mind if some one does a cover of my song which doesn’t get recognized for the original work owner if it builds an artist career who can make another version better or of equal value of my work but understand that any copyright owner such as myself can block the release of the song.
For me, I don’t really mind because I get paid but for some artist the recognition means more than life itself rather than the advancement of the artist with compensation for the original creator.
I have made it extremely easy to be able to create a cover song by entering your information into and I will send you a the instrumental for [Breeze – Straight], the lyrics, and the only complete guide that you will ever need to make money from making a cover of this song.
– Create A Parody Cover
Fair use laws sometimes determines that anyone can create a parody of a song and can be sold without the consent or permission from the copyright owner.
There are cases where the copyright owner loses and the copyright owner loses.
Who is to really determine whether or not who can win or lose.
I feel that it’s just better to be on the safe side and simply do a deal of 50/50 royalties split on the ownership of a parody of [Breeze – Straight] because when found not capable of using the song without payment involved, you could end up not earning any royalties from the song.
50% of the revenue generated is substantial exchange for the making of a parody for the simple reason that 100% of the song was done without the involvement of the parody owner.
While this may be my take on it because I’m more generous than most, other would find it more appropriate to want a 80/20 or 90/10 royalties split with the focus being the copyright owner attains the higher payout which is still completely fair with a payment advance for use.
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