What "balance" should you do in the mixing?

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Hey,guys.
What "balance" should you do in the mixing?

I have to readed the BOB KATZ's book,he say: if you mixing was very
balance, you did not to do mastering.

So,my question is: What is the "balance"?


BTW,did you use automation in the mixing? I am infrequency to doing in
the mixing.

My English is bad,Forgive mel,please.

[Peter Larsen]

wrote:

> Hey,guys.

> What "balance" should you do in the mixing?

Musical

> I have to readed the BOB KATZ's book, he say: if you mixing was very
> balance, you did not to do mastering.

Probably out of context as mastering is the process that gets the audio
into whatever shape and form that fits the release medium.

> So, my question is: What is the "balance"?

Exactly the same as the directions a conducter gives the musicians about
relative and total loudness.

> BTW, did you use automation in the mixing?

This depends on the context and the genre.

> I am infrequency to doing in the mixing.

Automatition is relevant if you have a problem to solve, just as is any
other tool. One of the artistic aspects of recording is to know when not
to use some tool .... O;-) ... my example mixes on
http://www.raw-tracks.com worked out just fine as static mixes.

> My English is bad,

It is fine.

> Forgive me, please.

Nothing to forgive, don't worry, be happy, just post, your question came
along just fine.


Kind Regards

Peter Larsen

[Laurence Payne]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:14:53 +0200, Peter Larsen
> wrote:

>> So, my question is: What is the "balance"?
>
>Exactly the same as the directions a conducter gives the musicians about
>relative and total loudness.

But remember, the conductor doesn't, all that much. The score has
dynamic indications, the players interpret them in context ("p" for a
solo instrument can be quite different to "p" within an ensemble.)
Balance is primarily in the orchestration and the performance, with
players listening to each other. The conductor doesn't have to
perform many rescue operations, and when recording neither should the
mixer.

[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
Laurence Payne <lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:14:53 +0200, Peter Larsen
> wrote:
>
>>> So, my question is: What is the "balance"?
>>
>>Exactly the same as the directions a conducter gives the musicians about
>>relative and total loudness.
>
>But remember, the conductor doesn't, all that much. The score has
>dynamic indications, the players interpret them in context ("p" for a
>solo instrument can be quite different to "p" within an ensemble.)
>Balance is primarily in the orchestration and the performance, with
>players listening to each other. The conductor doesn't have to
>perform many rescue operations, and when recording neither should the
>mixer.

Ormandy: "Percussion, a little louder."
Percussionist: "We don't have anything."
Ormandy: "That's right, play it louder."

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Ty Ford]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:00:58 -0400, Laurence Payne wrote
(in article >):

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:14:53 +0200, Peter Larsen
> > wrote:
>
>>> So, my question is: What is the "balance"?
>>
>> Exactly the same as the directions a conducter gives the musicians about
>> relative and total loudness.
>
> But remember, the conductor doesn't, all that much. The score has
> dynamic indications, the players interpret them in context ("p" for a
> solo instrument can be quite different to "p" within an ensemble.)
> Balance is primarily in the orchestration and the performance, with
> players listening to each other. The conductor doesn't have to
> perform many rescue operations, and when recording neither should the
> mixer.

well if you discount the idea of adjusting record levels during tracking then
yes, but I have been forced to ride gain while recording some tracks.

Regards,

Ty Ford



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Thanks for your reply. Thank you ,guys.

IMO,the Balance maybe was "Volume balance" and "frq balacne". But I
think the most Balance in mixing , the Sound maybe less alive.