I've never had a perfect play up to 101 points, there's always a UFO missed, or aliens landing. It would help so much to have all the extra lifes when trying to get to those crazy high scores.
Just curious if there are any of you dealing with tinnitus (im sure there are as many of us musicians who have this) and how it affects your ability to hear panning in the PanGirl game. Sometimes I'll select a dominant side and turns out.. The sound will be +/-30% panned to the opposite side LMAO
Has this happened to any of you? Also if you've been able to overcome tinnitus and the panning field how did you do so?
I don't have tinnitus thankfully (at least not permanently, on occasions It'll ring for half hour or so, but that's more sinus related). I do have mild hearing damage in my right ear though, from years of having DJ headphones hanging off my right ear, as well as ridiculously loud speakers blasting me at the same time.
I do on occasion have to second guess myself and turn my head all the way to the right to make sure I'm hearing something correctly when it sounds much louder on one side than the other by moving my left ear in front of both speakers (Because on occasions my damaged ear gets a bit blocked and muffled, so I have to make sure that hasn't happened), but thankfully it's almost always the recording that's messed up, and It's not so bad that I actually pan things too far or misjudge where things are placed 99.99% of the time, but I always feel like I have to check!
It might be an idea to double check your panning on headphones. Although mixing on headphones is not the same as mixing in stereo as you do not get the cross ear bleed, if you are having issues with cross ear bleed disorientating you when it comes to where a sound is placed, having a pair of headphones at hand that you can quickly pop on and off might be wise (and you can also switch the L+R of them by putting them on backwards so you can hear each side with each ear and get a much more true representation of exactly how things are panned).
It's a bit of a pain to do, but then I'm sure having tinnitus is also a huge pain, and at least this would alleviate some of the handicap having tinnitus is causing when it comes to locating sounds within a stereo field, and that could be worth much more to you than the few seconds it takes to do (every time you pan something).
If I think of anything else I'll come back and add on, but this is the first thing that comes to mind that might help, as it's also what I do if ever I'm really unsure .😉
Compression took me years to get to grips with. I understood the principle pretty fast, but actually hearing it took way longer. I would always way over cook things because that was the only way I could hear it, but more often than not compression is more of a feel thing than a hear thing (although the more time you spend with it, the more you can actually hear it). It's kind of a tricky one, cos unless your compressor is adding a lot of harmonics, you're more listening to what isn't there, or to the shape of the sound, rather than the sound it's self if that makes sense?
What I ended up doing was sticking a hardware optical compressor on my main PC output (can be a plug in and any type of compressor really - just optical is the slowest, so one of the harder ones to hear, and it's just what I happened to have as I got into DIY audio gear and built a bunch of compressors for myself). Although optical is great for vocals, so not a bad choice in this scenario.
I then spent months with it and every time I played a new YouTube vid or a new song, I would re-adjust it to taste ... and eventually I got super proficient at telling what exactly the compressor was doing as I was constantly living with it and constantly using it and dialling it in over and over again. I tried to incorporate practise into my leisure time without it getting in the way ofc. and it worked really well. I since did it with a bunch of different types of compressors, and that's how I got to know them all well. :)
I tried the same thing with EQ and saturation, but that doesn't seamlessly go well with leisure, as often any EQ you do makes the sound worse (if it's already well balanced) and saturation doesn't always compliment things. Sometimes EQ would help, but I find you get a lot less practise this way compared to compression, where 75% of YouTube vids are direct recordings from a nice sounding mic just with 0 compression and only about 24% have a sub par mic/recording environment that really badly needs EQ (this is more talking about bigger creators, and ofc if you always watch much smaller creators you would need to EQ more often). EQ and saturation is best to play about with over music that actually needs it in my experience, but the compressor over YouTube vids is a really neat way to learn and actually makes the sound better in most cases.
Hello everyone, I was wondering if i could do something to really start learning audio engineering, I'm planning to join the SAE once I graduate but at the same time I would like to know if I can start doing something already! at the moment I make HipHop related Beats and I do the daily workouts on here but i feel that this isn't enough for me!! Do you guy have any recommendations? :)))
I'll echo The Reverse Engineer program - it's incredible. I've only been in it for 3 weeks, and it's one of the best investments in myself that I've made.
Yep Reverse Enganeer. They don't teach how to spell but you get a great return for the money. So long as you don't want to get a paper cert from a 6 year masters of a very expensive college and wait in line against the fiercest of competition to get a job running coffee for an engineer that will show you stuff after 2 years if you stay that long because you need to pay off a loan.
What I did a while back when getting back into mixing after nearly a ten year hiatus was making an account on fiver and offering (relatively) cheap mixing with the express clause that I'm going to be sharpening my knifes (metaphorically) on the people's mixes who agree to work with me.
I would only take like 1 mix per month/fortnight depending on how much work it needed (rather than trying to pump out tons like if I was doing it for cash). This way I could experiment and practise at the pace I wanted, and because the person is getting cheap mixing, and you've already explained that you are offering it cheap for this very reason, most clients are fine with a bit of a wait if they are told upfront. This isn't a good thing to do once you've got the ball rolling, but to start out, or get back into the swing of it, it's a great way to wet your toes...
....Well, actually this is somewhat more akin to jumping in the deep end of a swimming pool to learn to swim, because you will get sent some really rough projects, but if you wanna get to grips with all the possible problems you can run into in a mix, this is by far the fastest way to come across them all! ;P It also gets you used to talking to and dealing with clients, which is a whole other skillset in it's own right!
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