![]() ![]() #CRITICAL LISTENING FULL#It’s important to train your ears, and like an athlete would stretch before they compete, an engineer should spend time in a quiet environment before a full day of mixing or mastering. Human hearing is adaptive, if you spend time in a noisy environment your ears adapt to focus in on closer sounds, and in turn your ability to visualize a full stereo image becomes difficult and you lose dynamic sensitivity. This refers to both the levels and placement of the instruments in the arrangement as well as the overall frequency response of the material. The increase in loudness is drastically reducing headroom across the board BalanceĪnother critical tool for the listening and analysis process, is taking into account the overall balance of the track. A pop song with a heavy electronic/techno based backtrack, will obviously benefit profoundly when compared and referenced against a techno track. In the contemporary music sphere, a huge portion of popular music has a melting pot of influences from electronic to acoustic backgrounds. It is also very useful to get a reference of the difference characteristics that your reference material has both in headphones and through your speakers. ![]() Get a feel for the amount of energy in the different frequency bands, and how those frequencies react to your studio space. #CRITICAL LISTENING ARCHIVE#It is a good idea to build up an archive of tracks in various genres that you feel are representations of audio engineering at its best, take notes as to how they achieved certain elements, where certain sounds were placed in the stereo field, and then apply them to your mixes. You will be able to make much more accurate judgements over the frequency response, levels and overall balance of a track – if you have something to compare it to. Often working on a project for lengthy periods of time gives you a subjective outlook, and having reference material is a great way to “reset your ears”. How do we know what characteristics to look out for when listening? And more importantly how do we apply those changes? Reference MaterialĪrguably one of the most important yet overlooked tools for the mixdown process is reference material. #CRITICAL LISTENING HOW TO#How to critically listen to and analyse audio – what aspects of a mix do I look out for?īeing able to objectively listen to and analyse your audio is a very important milestone for audio engineers. ![]()
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