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hi this is justin colletti of sonic

scoop thanks for joining me for this

week's episode of the sonic scoop

podcast and today i'm going to give you

my three key takeaways from yet another

mixcon presentation this time a workshop

with a guy named tatro taitra just did a

full length presentation where he walked

us through the finishing touches on a

mix using nothing but a totally free

software program and a whole set of free

plugins i want to get right into these

takeaways this is going to be a super

brief episode of the sonic screw podcast

so we'll make the sponsor section super

brief too and the first big thanks is to

bandlab who sponsored this one that is

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right let's get right into it the first

key takeaway from tedro's presentation

is something that comes up again and

again in little bits and pieces from so

many of the great mixers who've done

mixed gone presentations or have been

interviewed on the sonic screen podcast

and that is that you often do your best

mixing when you're not mixing and in

this actual workshop he did tatra didn't

take us through the whole mix start to

finish instead he took us through his

final revision process that really

emerges from a set of notes that comes

from listening to this material when he

is away from the mix this idea of

getting away from the mix so that you

can really hear it when you're not

fiddling with a mix but you're really in

listening note-taking mode that's where

some of the most important mixed

decisions come from and you can

dramatically cut down your mixing time

by stepping away from the mix more often

that's something that came up in cohen

helden's master class just this year

it's something that bob power brought up

in his super popular mixcon master class

as well all right on to key takeaway

number two and that is that it doesn't

have to be perfect

taitro is working in kind of lo-fi

hip-hop genre

and in particular things don't need to

be perfect there right things are

supposed to sound a little bit low-fi

that's part of the whole idea but he

went as far as doing things like

creating samples for his sample library

just using the built-in mic on his

smartphone and getting professional

sounding quality results just by

creating

finger snaps into his cell phone

recording things with his cell phone

kind of as a field recorder and

integrating those into a larger

production and really the biggest thing

is

vibe whether things sound cool whether

they feel good not whether they record

in the perfect way and not whether

everything is technically correct

and that idea of not over refining

things and not getting too precious

about your audio or too obsessed with

doing everything correctly as long as

you're moving in the right direction for

feel is a big one and something that

when people really get into production

and engineering lose sight of and let go

of and sometimes you have to go back and

listen to some of your earliest stuff

where it's like man there was some vibe

there even though i was doing things

wrong how did i lose that and tatro is

trying to find ways to keep that kind of

freshness and spontaneity in his work

which sometimes is more important than

being technically correct

all right number three is that the

biggest thing that's going to

enhance your mix in the end brought this

up before it comes up a lot in mixcon is

automation it is the secret step that so

many people who are beginning or

intermediate leave off or underutilized

and in his final revisions of his mix

here tatro does mostly automation and

he's automating not only level hey in

this section this item will come down or

come up this instrument doesn't have to

be as loud or can be pushed more in

addition to that he's also automating eq

automating reverb sends particularly the

tales of sounds and the tales of loops

that feel a little cut off when they

drop out of the track and just making

them kind of hover over into the next

section a little bit so automating but

automating not only level but also

eq

reverb things like that in addition to

level really thinking about automating

all of your effects and that really

being possibly the most essential part

of the finalization that you're going to

do to any mix

well i want to keep this one super brief

for you i hope these were three useful

takeaways check out tatro's presentation

in its entirety right here on the

sonic's cube youtube channel and check

tatro out on his own youtube channel as

well some great stuff there big thanks

to bandlab for sponsoring that

presentation thanks to soundtoys for

sponsoring this podcast from the

beginning try out anything they make for

free for 30 days over at soundtoys.com

making some of my favorite creative

effects in the known universe and also

focusrite making some of the best

interfaces out there from the entry

level all the way up to the high end

really great bang for the buck stuff and

if you're at the entry level that

scarlett series is one of the

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have some full length workshops like the

five habits of every great mixer where

we tied together the common threads that

you're going to find in pretty much all

from mixcon presentations check that out

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sonicgroup.com mix habits or if you

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thanks for hanging out with me for this

super brief episode of the sonic scoop

podcast

see you next time