How do you mix lots of instruments? Do you balance them all out so you can hear every single one that’s playing? Then this one is probably for you!
In this video, Gregory goes into why you should prioritize a couple of melodic instruments in a mix and also how to think about mixing with the listener in mind.
Personally, it’s been very helpful for me to formalize what I was already feeling. Sometimes I make a track with a focus on a couple of instruments and sometimes I try to balance everything out. Whenever I balance I feel like the track becomes too overwhelming to listen to and I was tearing my head apart as to why it happens on certain tracks and not the others. Now I know why, and I hope this video helps you on your journey too!
I think I’ve got my head around the whole instances thing now - although I’ve accidentally posted elsewhere on a different user account to this one without realising it. I’ve accidentally set up three or four accounts, all with the same name, on different instances. Oops 😬. Going to try to stick to using this one now I’ve noticed!
Anyway, the other bit of advice was basically just “playing live should be fun or why would anyone want to do it? Keep it simple.or you’ll just get stressed out and it’ll be obvious”. This was after he watched me jump around a set with about 90 channels for half an hour. What really clicked for me was when I worked out how to take his method of dub performance (effectively using a reel-to-reel as an instrument) and translate it to a Launchpad performance, but keep the flexibility of having each of the 90-odd channels independently tweakable without the whole thing being overwhelming.
I’ll try to work out how to make a post on what I’ve done when I get time - hopefully it’s interesting enough to warrant one!