It’s either hourly or by length. I guess that's why I never do mixing contests, lol. As he is sending me stems a week later, he tells me something strange. [–]xor_nor 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (1 child). [–]mrspecialMixing 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago (2 children). r/audioengineering discord is doing a mix contest! It’s a change of parameters and end goal framing to challenge your own mixing biases and also to explore new plug-ins and musical ideas that you can apply to your genre of choice. This place is a calm and relaxing way to hangout and share your sound! So if you’re advanced intermediate and only spend 12 hours to mix but are in the Intermediate 60 hour category, your 12 hour mix should be better than someone who is “just intermediate” but spent the whole 60 hours. Like gigantic rock sessions. Afternoon all, I was just wondering if perhaps there was a discord server for this community at all? I often have good luck with the stock preset "Unfair Child", but not always. This was due to some changes in Chrome's audio infrastructure, and our team is working quickly to accommodate Google's updates to make sure screenshare works as expected! I'm still listening and digesting and trying to figure out what I have to work with. So I have kind of a hybrid approach now depending on what the music is for. Discord is now routing its audio through the virtual audio cable, we now need to use the audio cable in Streamlabs OBS. Thanks, i've been hesitant to join anything containing "EDM" but i'll take your advice and join there. It would be nice to see good talks about mixing, frequencies, plugins, maybe even arranging and such. (self.audioengineering), submitted 5 months ago by mrmaygeAssistant. This inevitably brought back some good memories from the Summer nights we spent playing games and chatting away on TeamSpeak. But if you'd like to come to the server, there's a discussion channel about rule changes for future contests. This was due to some changes in Chrome's audio infrastructure, and our team is working quickly to accommodate Google's updates to make sure screenshare works as expected! Just my guess, anyway. I will join thanks, [–]chrisjdgrady 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (0 children). We will certainly run something cleaner in future competitions. A Discord.js v12 module to simplify your music commands and play songs with audio filters on Discord without any API key. Buffer Size = 192 samples. If a good client wants to work out a way to work evenings after their day job, I will try to find a way to make that work. Maybe on another session but you could listen to every second of audio on every track individually in under 10 minutes in this case. Rate-setting is a complex and wooly topic, but in the interests of trying to bring more transparency, I tend to work on semi-project rates that are really sort of "day rates, but this is how many days I expect it to take". Over on the official Discord server for this sub, we're going to be doing a monthly mix contest where beginners and experts alike can share their work and techniques and be lauded with sweet, sweet internet points. Also, it’s non linear, with very wide ranges, which I think is the point (for comparison sake). Usually I can find one that does something I like. Science and Math Geeks is a multiplatform community with over 3 million followers on all our social media platforms. Hands-On Training • Technical Presentations Yah, the 2 hours is strict as fuck. If you know. But props to anyone who is mixing radio-ready rock records in two hours. Yeah I agree. Edit: It looks like you got undownvoted lol. [–]bottomfishbananas 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (0 children), Yeah like the guy I work with says "If in every mix I have to make 100 key moves and I do 95 of them really well it'll sound good. The iphone mic is a miracle of modern engineering. Like, I don't think CLA or Dave Pensado or Manny or MixedByAli are cranking out mixes every two hours. It's like speed mixing. And you can get Garageband for free, which is legit awesome music-making software. ... As you might know, Discord is a sound-based application and it relies on the audio drivers installed on your computer. To start things off, we will be mixing a DIY recording of a highschool grindcore band. [–]Commander_Q 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago (1 child). [–]Commander_Q 14 points15 points16 points 5 months ago* (0 children). © 2020 reddit inc. All rights reserved. you wanna use the search function in the discord though because i’ve seen about every discussion and argument there multiple times. If you're experiencing any problems in a VoIP app then please try … A professional development exercise, if you will. Hiring an audio engineer can be expensive, and many creators don't have the budget or time to invest in the audio side of their projects. ... And a judge this week blocked a new release of Prince tunes by a sound engineer after the estate objected. I'm not really into working with people who are hell-bent on knowing how many dollars per hour I will charge to make their record sound awesome. In general, if there’s a lot of distortion or noisy shit or phase issues, I think someone in Pro category can win this. Science and Math Geeks is a discord server for anyone and everyone that is interested in Science and/or Mathematics to collaborate and get together! Science and Math Geeks is a multiplatform community with over 3 million followers on all our social media platforms. So the band leader tells me that he is going to pay both me and engineer B to mix the song, and then pick one. Oh man.... a high school grindcore band. Career Development • Expert Presenters. If I do 90 well it'll sound like shit". [–]bottomfishbananas 3 points4 points5 points 5 months ago (2 children). Thanks for the suggestion, His youtube channel is also worth a visit, Hey so when I click on this (from mobile) it basically opens up the App Store even tho I already have discord downloaded. I usually Load Stillwell Bombardier and flip through several presets to see if any of them sound good (some stock, some my own). Why don't they just tell me how many dollars per hour they will charge to make my song a hit record like this other client they worked with?". From our research, we ended up writing a simple python client that does just this: https://github.com/tenable/DiscordClient. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Lots of good forums around. What are the benefits of placing your monitors Sideways? I’m no longer paying the overhead for a room to work out of, I’m not in LA anymore (though that’s where all my work is from right now), and I’m almost exclusively dealing with a handful of people I’ve got great relationships with, so I’m coming from a different angle price wise than many. As of August 12th, 2019, our engineering team isolated an issue that's causing audio capture from Google Chrome during screenshare to fail for some users. The idea being- there are tons of competitions out there that give people all the time in the world to give a mix their full treatment. edit: just to clarify, there are a lot of times when I might do a lot more than the above, and a lot of times where I might do nothing at all, or nothing other than maybe a half-dB eq shelf. This sounds so awesome! A lot of people are like, "why are studios and engineers so cagey about rates? And even though Discord is pretty great, there's one TeamSpeak feature missing to complete the nostalgia trip: the obnoxious voice notifications. If I am going to do a real mix, of an artist's real personal statement to history and to the world, and treat it as though it is the most important thing that will happen in their music career, maybe in their whole life, then I can't do that in two hours. and join one of thousands of communities. [–]Commander_Q 100 points101 points102 points 5 months ago (22 children). that really really limits what is possible. If the client wants to record their musical ideas "just for fun", or "just to see where it goes", then I want to get paid full card rate for every minute I spend on it, because it's time that I could be spending on making better records for artists who are actually serious about trying to make something that will change people's lives. Ozone almost always makes everything sound louder, in a good way. I think it’s enough to beat out a Beginner mix, but beating the upper end of Intermediate having 2.5 days is tough. Advertise your work, receive feedback and offer your services. But if I only have time to set and ride the faders on mediocre tracking, and if a good home studio guy (or gal) has a couple days to clean up and tweak and beautify the tracks, then I'll put my money on their mix, and won't even bother trying to beat them. But otherwise, two hours compared to two and a half days depending on where exactly your career is? There's also a Logic Pro X specific Discord if you use that. Usually, the answer is mixed. But I feel you. Like an advanced amateur level with 8-12 hours or something? We have a custom bot designed to be easily used by all members. Equalizer APO is a great asset to my PC, allowing me to get the best out of not only CD/DVD's but also YouTube and other source videos. If everything is clean and perfect and tight, then someone in Intermediate will probably win this. Even minimal treatment takes a certain amount of time though. But fuck, two hours.... I’d barely have the time to listen to each track. Experts will receive the file link directly at a time of their choice within the first two days of the contest. [–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 5 months ago (0 children). why such a short time span? 8 tracks, DIY meaning dirty recordings. This is a community for everyone no matter your skill level or experience. [–]dylanking613Professional 2 points3 points4 points 5 months ago (0 children), [–]MrUnicornhorn 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (2 children). It is quite common that a Discord Voice server suffers a DDoS attack (which we observe from the rapid increase of incoming IP packets). Support YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Facebook, and … We perform the same procedure as for Discord Voice server failure: remove the impacted Discord Voice server from the service discovery system, select a new Discord Voice server for the guild, push all the voice state objects to the newly selected Discord … I work with some top tier metal bands doing mixing and I just spent 14 days on 2 tracks for release doing recalls etc. Most of the logic we investigated was in “discord_voice.node“; a native module that’s loaded in Discord t… I feel like I, personally, at least, would fall somewhere in there. Who really decides? Hell, the triggering alone would take me 2 hours to make sure it’s all phase accurate. Why you don't get top results buying all these fancy plugins. Note: Audio interfaces include any USB sound device which accepts input from XLR audio devices, including microphones, guitars, keyboards, and other professional audio equipment. [–]Commander_Q 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (3 children). However I’m not including mix prep there. This is a community for everyone no matter your skill level or experience. More than 40 years of expert restorations and service for classic audio owners. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. If I’m doing something really important, or I’ve been tasked with turning lackluster to blockbuster or something it can definitely take 10-12 hours. it’s not like the r/edmproduction subreddit. His band had been recording at the most expensive studio in town, and the engineer (“engineer B”) said that he REALLY wanted to mix it. April 20; 924 replies The Switchening -- Turning off EVERY electric light in game. And I kind of get that, but I'm also like, those are not the people I want to work with. It takes 30min minimum to start getting familiar and understand the arrangement and start creating a game-plan. Honestly, I can't produce results that I am proud of in two hours. The link from the sidebar is expired. What happened? Our engineers became aware of the aforementioned issue in February 2020. We have a custom bot designed to be easily used by all members. [–]mrspecialMixing 61 points62 points63 points 5 months ago (24 children). [–]geetar_man 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago (2 children). T here’s been a lot of security issues popping up on the internet lately such as password leaks from Linkedin and Myspace.. Like, I would make shittier records and less money if just sold hours of my life as a straight commodity. I’ve been mixing over 20 years and am confident and work fast and have a “can take on any mix challenge” mentality, but some dude doing it for 15 years and putting themselves in Intermediate— really good chance my mix will get its ass kicked. No matter what stage- it’s tough for everyone! The Audio & Video engineering team at Discord owns the technology and end to end-user experience of our audio/video features across desktop and mobile. Been doing this for like 12 years but not as a career so I definitely feel higher than intermediate but not quite pro, [–]peepeelandComposer 5 points6 points7 points 5 months ago (0 children). Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. This was absolutely my experience of doing hourly work, before I switched over to just mixing. The point of the discord is to really focus on the production side of music while also sharing interests and such. I haven't even sent the client the quote in two hours, lol. Products, practices, and stories about the profession or hobby of recording, editing, and producing audio. Future contests will run the gamut of genre, complexity and track quality. Music Production Discord Getting a discord started to grow a community of like minded individuals. I haven’t had this method fuck me yet, if you are seeing something I’m not I am all ears though. If you want to work with me, you're typically paying me $X per day, where a day is loosely defined as 9 hours of work, with two hour-long breaks, and after 12 hours total time in-studio, I reserve the right to start charging punitive hourly rates. There is no way to serve both of those markets perfectly, and a lot depends on the artist and who they are making music for. The two plugins that I mentioned are ones that I often like and find useful, but they are also kind of like salt and pepper... they are right on some things, and wrong on others... [–]ripeartMixing 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago (0 children). My approach to the 2-buss is basically to get as much as I can out of it for the people listening on stock Toyota car speakers, without compromising the listening experience for people who actually have good systems and who actually want to experience big, dynamic sound. I'm not dealing with the guy who wants to know how much it costs for one french fry. For the record I do know at least one or two established mix engineers who do hourly rates, but I think that’s not for the public at large or for music meant to be released commercially. Next, same as with Bombardier, I will level-match and see if I still like Ozone's changes better when I turn it down to the same apparent loudness as the source track. I’ve never mixed before in my life!!!1! [–]Commander_Q 8 points9 points10 points 5 months ago* (3 children). Yeah, I feel you, and I think that most working pros are kind of similar. I suppose what could level the playing field, is the content. Engineering manager in the Native engineering team, and product owner for audio/video technologies at Discord. Honest talk about Audio Production Tools. First, it's always different. Just one question: are you going to select the timeframe for which the expert challenge happens? I’m in a different niche of the business now, and was joking about the hourly thing. Similarly, office pics are generally considered low-effort fluff, image posts should have some point other than karma and promote discussion, AES@NAMM Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio 2019, January 24-27 • Anaheim Hilton Hotel Yo, since we are just basically chatting here, care to share what’s making your 2-buss magic? I generally won't work with them. r/audioengineering: Products, practices, and stories about the profession or hobby of recording, editing, and producing audio. You have a vocalist whose producer paid for a three-hour session that started at 6pm, and it's 8:58, and she's just on the cusp of nailing it... do you walk out and say, hey I need an extra $80 to let you do another take? But that’s pretty much exactly what my teachers described when I learned how to mix. Hrm. Come on down to Uncle Joe's backyard, Cool, that sounds nice. If people want to haggle and try to math out things like "well, what if I only want 2 hours?" Ie, how many mics, where, basics of the room, live off the floor or separate takes? Even if you prefer Android, you can buy a used iphone for like $100 on ebay and it's a way better recording platform than what we had in the days of cassette 4-tracks. Maybe the most-impressive microphone in the history of humanity. And sometimes, it's something completely different, like strapping a saturator or distortion effect across the 2-buss, or splitting it out into multiple bands and putting a chorus or a reverb on a specific bandwidth, or who knows what. I want to work with people who have an artistic vision, and who want to talk about how to make it real, and who are prepared to talk about budgets that might affect what kind of car they drive, and not just whether they hit the club this weekend. … Our engineers became aware of the aforementioned issue in February 2020. High school grindcore band or whatever— depends on how badly it was recorded. DISCORD™ ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING is an online community for those interested in engaging in imaginative and intelligent discussion of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and … For this, we reverse engineered the appropriate components to understand the voice call protocol in order to mock audio/video calls ourselves. A Discord.js v12 module to simplify your music commands and play songs with audio filters on Discord without any API key. It's really, really hard to make a metal record sound the way that metal is supposed to sound, and my hat is off to anyone who does it on the reg. It’s not that uncommon for me to do a mix in one to two hours, provided I’m working with pros and everything was tracked decently. If everything is tracked brilliantly and edited down perfectly and sounds beautiful and perfect, and if all I have to do is set/ride the faders and work my 2-buss magic, then I am pretty confident in my ability to beat most people who have not already mixed hundreds of commercial records. The contest is … Just a quick thought, you don't think there should maybe be a stage in between intermediate/professional? Unheard of ONE YEAR full unit warranty when we are done. Aftwards, all mixes will be anonymized and participants will be asked to vote for their favourites/honorable mentions. Planning and time management is a tough challenge for the Intermediate time limit. Through google etc i find large EDM-ish discords, discussing everything from how to draw midi in fruityloops to best trance loops to why is logic pro's audio engine better than whatever.. All these kinds of discussions on 1 page. Do not post pictures of text here, they will be removed. I might have to join in. Join our journey to create the best cross-platform application for messaging and real-time interactions! Beginner category is tough in general, because doing a lot of music stuff is tough at this stage- so every move may be met with doubt and having to learn to trust oneself. Join today and be apart of our growing community! Honestly, I basically won't work on stuff that is not intended for commercial release, unless the client is willing to pay full card rate per day. If it’s a uncomplicated session, and since I have my own specific way of organizing stuff, it’s almost like.... mix prep is half the mixing. Yeah but its not about giving a mix your full treatment, its about doing the most/best work you can knowing you can't do everything. But I feel like that’s happening less and less; I don’t work with bands a lot anymore, and I don’t really miss it. Discord is looking for a highly technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Engineering Manager to help us refine and broaden the delight and influence of our audio and video technology. 2 hours, 2(.5) days, and 2 weeks- I suppose works well for cleanliness of numbers. I think It was about 3 hours, but I don’t charge an hourly like smarter engineers do so I’m not sure. How do compressors with fast attacks like the 1176 make sounds "punchy"? Underbelly's "you suck at producing" discord is poppin, with good feedback threads and mixing/mastering discussions. Like, per minute of audio, or per-track, or how many days do I think this will take, etc... You need a way to communicate expectations to the client, but a straight hourly rate is... it's just not realistic or possible, on so many levels. This is a good point. It will challenge everyone. It could be quite interesting I would think.. But this first runs gonna be pretty rough yeah, [–]monoXstereo 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (3 children). A lot of times, the low end will get different processing than the rest of the mix. But I typically still call that "days", and I tend to call it two 3-hour sessions instead of three, if you want to break them out as "half days". If the mixes sound better than mine, you're definitely beating me on price... [–]mrspecialMixing 4 points5 points6 points 5 months ago* (6 children). There are like 500 million ways to make a metal band sound tinny and fizzy and silly and thwappy and wimpy, and there's like exactly one specific combination of 1,000 knobs set to the right place, that makes it sound brutal and muscular and powerful and punishing. Making art by the hour is, to me, not the right way to get the best results. I used the word Discord because that seems to be what more people are using these days but it is beyond horr But a lot of the time, I'm not doing this stuff, and I'm also often doing totally different stuff, just based on my sense-memory of different plugins and outboard processors. But there’s no way I could turn a DIY high school grindcore recording into something I’d put in my reel in 2 hours. Yeah there's been some heated discussion about that in the server. Is there a Discord for mixing engineering, that is more focused? Following that is, of course, iZotope Ozone. Audio engineering and games. So I have a day rate for three 3-hour sessions with breaks in-between, and that's typically what I charge to work on a project. Concurrent with The 2019 NAMM Show Welcome to Spirit Works, a new and upcoming design and video editing discord community. If you're experiencing any problems in a VoIP app then please try following these steps: - … A half-day basically means a 3-hour session that either ends before dinner, or that starts after dinner. [–]Xoaimango 6 points7 points8 points 5 months ago (1 child), isn't that the point though? It's really just about listening to what is happening, and doing what sounds good. Any post with the intent to self-promote, sell products or services, or are appeals for money / funding will most likely be removed. Through google etc i find large EDM-ish discords, discussing everything from how to draw midi in fruityloops to best trance loops to why is logic pro's audio engine better than whatever.. All these kinds of discussions on 1 page. Do you have any experience with the Neve 33609? Even Manny, Serban, CLA, etc spend 4-6 hours mixing, but that’s AFTER their assistants have edited, prepped and pre-mixed it for them. I tend to associate hourly rates with hobbyist/demo studios. After that, the link will be publicly posted along with deadlines for the Intermediate and Beginners. Specific numbers get a bit complicated, because I generally charge more for tracking and attended sessions than for work I can do on my own with a laptop and headphones, and/or farm out to interns and assistants, etc, but let's say for the sake of round numbers that I charge $600 per day, and that I am pretty generous with the definition of a "day". In order to address this issue, Discord has released several patches and the engineering team of Discord is continuously working on the screenshare code. I would like join the context, but the invitation link doesn't work (and I'm already logged in to Discord). I must say that giving any level/degree of mix engineer a 2 hour time frame is quite unrealistic. Haha, this might be a disappointing answer. Hey it’s me, a beginner. Rendered by PID 11351 on r2-app-0e48f087ba9dd1815 at 2020-12-10 20:13:40.825211+00:00 running 8b8c059 country code: FR. In two hours, I could probably load the project into my "Rock" template, do a bit of balancing, slap Ozone across the 2-buss, run "Master Assistant" and tweak it a bit, but that is definitely not "pro" mixing, imo. Professionals who participate will be tasked with creating the best mix that they can in two hours. I don't know what kind of projects you're typically working on, but if there are, say 80-120 tracks on a 3-minute song, then it takes multiple hours just to listen to each track, much less tweak it and refine it and then blend it back in with the others. [–]Jakbo_Performer 4 points5 points6 points 5 months ago (4 children), [–]mrmaygeAssistant[S] 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (3 children). But I will keep trying for a bit, because a lot of times I can get an extra something-something out of that plugin. 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