Quotes About Mixing

A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

Temperature is the key to making a smooth custard butter cream. Some add the butter when the mixture's still hot but it tends to split and you end up with a grainy result. Wait for it to cool.

Pour two parts mix and you throw in one part tequila, some Don Julio, which is my favorite, shake it up a couple times. There's a perfect margarita.

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.

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Most sessions come in on Pro Tools, which I transfer to the Sony 3348HR and then I mix them down to Nuendo at 88.2 kHz. I

Nuendo also interfaces directly to my Apogee converters, which I feel are the best on the market. I'm also mixing to surround

Bob Clearmountain's Mix This! Studio Equipment List Dynamic processing: UREI 1178 Stereo Compressor—Fantastic, but old and cranky; difficult to recall. Focusrite Red 3 Stereo Compressor—Sounds and looks good but noisy and hard to recall; could use control markings. UREI LA-3A Compressor—Classic and transparent on vocals; modified for low noise. Empirical Labs

Bob Clearmountain.

Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.

Because he plainly perceives that his piquette* stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine. *A watered liquor, made from the second pressing of the grape.

Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.

I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other.

I've always been into music. I used to DJ. I used to mix reggae and that. I used to be into reggae hard. Well first it was rap, then reggae, then rap again, then rap and reggae. But I was always DJing out my window for the whole estate. Everyone used to sit outside and all and listen. And I used to be running rhythms in that.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

Still, your food just gets all mixed together in your stomach anyway.

The school didn't want us mixing with the rest of the senior class. Which was ridiculous. We had ESP, not Ebola. A curriculum had been tailored just for us, to help us prepare for what lay ahead. Not that anyone knew what lay ahead. It's not like there had ever been an entire class of telepaths before. Yup.

A considerable percentage of these respondents [to a question about their ability to mix cocktails] are in the "somewhat" category on ability to mix cocktails.… Evidently, they do not have much confidence in their cocktail-mixing

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

So pleasure was this: breaking, mixing, no longer knowing what was mine and what was his.