Alex Emrich

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An unknown band called The Killers play their new song "Mr. Brightside" in 2002

Get ready #LdnOnt for the 14th annual Share the Land concert. Celebrate London’s music scene while giving back to the community. Proceeds go to HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre. Join us Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., @londonmusichall. Buy your tickets now: @miafanshawe

Rest in Peace, Quincy Jones. A true legend.

One cool thing about getting good at mixing is re-listening to songs I used to listen to years ago (pre-mixing ability), and being able to appreciate the mix and hear them in a new way. So oddly satisfying.

Music production YouTubers (myself one of them) trying to pronounce plugin names we don’t know how to say is one of the funniest things to me 😂

"How do you get a better snare sound? Write a better song." - The idea here is that *obviously we want great snare sounds* BUT the snare shouldn't be where you spend your energy before getting the song right.

@StewartTuttle Couldn’t agree more. I can’t understand why some engineers complain about clients on their social media, or even post memes at their expense. Clients are the lifeblood of our business and should be appreciated and respected 💯

Being a great mixer is treating your artists with respect and placing value on their opinions.

An artist's job is to create something that wasn't there yesterday

Controversial take on fade-outs: For me personally, looping the last chorus while it fades out feels like a lazy way to end a song these days. Agree? Disagree?

"Rush may not be your favorite band, but they are probably your favorite band's favorite band."

When you demand everything be perfect the first time you do it you rob yourself of actually learning. Ex: You learn more by practicing a sport than you do planning and studying it. In the time you spend procrastinating due to your perfectionist mentality, you could have just taken action and learned through real time feedback. Doing > Contemplating

Making mix decisions in a poor monitoring environment is like shooting a basketball in the dark. You might get lucky and occasionally get it in, but most of the time your mix will miss. You can improve your technique more by practicing in the light too.

What they don’t understand is they all have different rooms and are even not hearing them properly - what they’re really hearing (most of the time) are problems in their room!

For every person that loves a speaker there will be 3 other people on forums saying it’s a piece of junk... No matter what speaker someone says is a piece of junk, you’ll have 3 other people saying it’s great...

@TayeOlusola So true, a quote I love is “record like there’s no mix, mix like there’s no master”.

Most of your favourite songs of all time were not rescued by mixing and mastering engineers before they sounded good. The producers, recording artists, and the rest of the team got the production right before hiring mixing and mastering engineers. Master your craft, guys.

If at any point ever when the vocal is playing and something else in the instrumentation comes and distracts you from the vocal, you’ve lost.

If a frequency is ringing out it doesn’t mean you HAVE to cut it. Sometimes it actually makes your mix too sterile. Sometimes the imperfection/imbalance gives a mix character. Listen to your fave songs - is the frequency spectrum cleaned out? Or is it full of life and movement?

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Mixing boils down to making things sound good and then picking the best version of what sounds good.