leedsquietman wrote:I rarely find CM's tutorials that helpful. It's a magazine you buy for the occasional special (if it features your DAW of choice), or to get some samples and free plugins. I find the reviews usually mediocre at best (and they rate everything 8 or 9 out of 10 anyway, regardless of how good or bad it is).
Sound On Sound does a better job in the Mix Rescue section, which actually has audio clips of the before and after each tweak if you do the eSUB. I also trust their advice more (Paul White, Hugh Robjohns and Mike Senior have serious knowledge and experience and it's not written in big SICK DUDEZ type language used in CM like we're all 15 yr old ghetto speakers.
CM's love of glossy pictures and language aimed at 14 year old noobs might appeal to some, depending on your experience.
I haven't seen this issue so can't comment on the usefulness of these tips, hopefully they will portray this stuff objectively and not done to a 'preset' type thing, which they have done sometimes in the past. For example, 'super wide mixes' is something which may be a hindrance rather than helpful. Fat compressed beats, making it loud and boosting the energy - is something with a lot of potential for destroying a good mix in careless hands. Hopefully they will make these points clear.
+1
this to me is clear marketing to sell many copies towards the 15yr old bedroom bedlam and getting good advertising deals for the publisher out of it...
i am confident to say that reading mixing with your mind, or bob katz's book will get you further.
even i have not read this issue, but used to read CM when i still lived in england... SOS as a magazine is generally way more serious (just simply not so much wrong and false information is spread), CM often reminds me on this 'mastering joke video" that is floating around here... those guys like the one dude pictured there seem to work and write for CM. same level, really.
i am actually really curios, and will try to get a copy in an international newspaper shop here...
GAFM ***
