keys

i've yet to delve into the mathematics side of signal processing--mostly just been doing what sounds best in a mix while messing around with parameters,, it's a scuffed method but it has been helping with developing my ear for mixing. i should definitely look into it more as i know there's a lot of complicated mathematics behind it!

and the book was incredible! i just finished it last week, i really enjoyed seeing how the musicians they interviewed for the book's music-making processes paralleled my own. one of my favorite themes of that book was the inherent intimacy that comes from self-recording and being the most open to vulnerability in music when you're in a space that you're comfortable in and handling the process of recording on your own. i've been trying to be more mindful of recording being a gentle process rather than a grueling one of which i rip out a part of myself, and i think reading about how much people love recording really helped remind me to go easier on myself when i do it

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i certainly wouldn't try to mathematically work on a song's mix haha. working by ear is probably the only consistently valid way, so you're good. signal analysis as in radio transmission signals or power signals or digital signals is what i meant. i can't deny those mathematics are hard as well, though haha


very cool. i generally find it a relaxing process. getting whatever i am feeling out into sound is madly cathartic and the semi-eternality of a recording cements that. and then, of course, listening to it over and over again like any other song is almost like a validation of the subject having happened. i generally record/make music when nothing i can find scratches a particular itch, so being able to just do it myself is one of my favourite things. sometimes i wish i had more people to record with (one could even say a band!) since being the sole mind and body kind of makes it hard to have spontaneous moments and truly new ideas.... but then i remember that i just wouldn't work well in a band setting anyway haha. part of that is because of the comfort in doing something on your own, the intimacy you can put into the music when you don't have someone else there with you as you do it. my father has often offered to mix my songs for me, especially in my first few attempts at recording, but i just did not feel comfortable having someone else listen to something so intimate before it was done. once whatever is complete, mix and all, then anyone may listen all they want, but until then, the thought is unfinished, so i do not let others hear it.

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thank u!!

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sorry this is late! i really like math and solving equations and it really clicks well in my brain ^_^

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noted

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