Direction Mixer, Thanks for the tip both Jay and Sub
That's a big question with a lot of different answers. What kind of music are you mixing? What gear are you using to mix? And could you give more detail about what you mean by 'planes 1 through 4?'
In class the other day my lecturer was refereing to planes, he was mentioning how the kick, vox and bass might be on 1, other drums on 2 (maybe) etc etc. I was under the impression it was a convention but seeing you asked maybe it was something he made up to explain it to us in a way that we understood him, I'm not sure?
What kind of music are you mixing? What gear are you using to mix?
Im only using plugins on logic to mix, and interms of gear just a keyboard/stage piano, drum machine, digi 003, Monitors and some SRH840.
I probably do a different track everytime so i can't give an exact genre but i can say that i do like music where sounds do occupy there own space, and instruments aren't fighting each other.
So i gues if i use dance music as a reference (i don't make dance music though) when i listen to a dance track the kick is in it's own space the bass is nicely in front of the kick or behind, and all the other instruments are in there own space.
Thanks for the Steps on the Bass "Subblank" highly appreciated.
Direction Mixer
I read that article, it's quite interesting, i did not know that.
I listned to some of JayAsher's tracks and that is what im talking about, the space.
I do get a bit of space in my tracks but not as much, there is something that is not quite the the same, Tightness and clarity in the space with out sounding over Effected/proccesed?