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Originally Posted by Lunganar
Recently I was watching a video on how they recorded and mixed music in the 50's. It was amazing to see how they achieved a great sound with a limited amount of tools. Maybe it's nice to have some limitations for the contests too. Like one month you use only 10 plugin instances. Another month you're not allowed to put something on the mastertrack, or use just one compressor, ... This should result in being more creative with your tools/routing/....
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That's how I learned to mix... 8 tracks, 1 compressor, 1 reverb, 1 delay. Too many options can make mixing hard because when you commit (due to lack of options), everything else builds on every previous committal. If you can always go back and undo that committal, you are constantly redoing things to compensate. Vision, it's all about vision - IOW, one really shouldn't have 'no idea' where they are going or what is going to sound like what 1/2 way into the mix.