calling all artists / engineers checking if someone's seen this ..
(this is not self promo, just trying to talk to fellow musicians about something cool i found)
i have.. so i sent it to an artist friend.. read below:
ok so i was scrolling insta today and i saw something for "mixwell", not sure if you guys have seen this website before, but it essentially checks a mix's phasing, panning and transient statues in one plugin. like it checks everything in a mix, and acts like a bff to tell you what you could change, tweak or make better. apparently for artists - if you dont know what to tell an engineer to fix for your song, this would like, tell you what to tell them so it makes life easier and gets a mix done faster.
so, i did the only normal thing - i sent it to a homie of mine who's a singer / rapper to try with his engineer. he copped it, put an mp3 of a demo he's working on, and it pretty much gave a full report in like 20 seconds from the audio for the mix, it like scanned it entirely, gave the report and then..the assistant popped up..
he showed it to me.. this thing looks like a musical claude that knows everything in the music industry / songs / mixes / ideas / whats popping / whats not..and it explains things for you if you dont know what terms mean, or if you need clarification on something from the report. My homie asked it to compare his track (more underground hyper pop) to something in the mainstream pop scene, and it told him what he would need to do if he wants to make the mix similar to that basing it off a song thats out ....
im just starting with my music so when he showed me this, it was so easy for me to know what my song should sound like (he gave me a few whirls with it) and to explain to my engineer who i was, up to seeing this, tryna vocalise ideas for or send vn's thoroughly explaining the result i wanted for the mix..to me it's something that is soo user friendly, unpretentious and is the same as from any ceo having a personal assistant, just with music..my engineer literally told me he doesnt need to decode my vn's and understood what the results need to be. he also started using it today with his clients to help refine first drafts and see where he can make adjustments to speed up workflow and add more artists to his roster. He sees it like an assistive tool for him. I was in two minds about it bc i have an engineer, but this isnt meant to take him away, its meant to help him and help me. Him and i work the same, but now it seems we might have a way to finalise a song faster, communicate better and in case i run out of money to pay him on a regular basis, i would be happy enough to have the plugin to give me advice on how to fix demos i record for when he needs to do work on em again. like one plugin can be between $20-199, and this is on the lower end of the scale anyway so its worth it to me, esp for lifetime access.
idk if y'all have seen it, looks new-ish, but the ad popped up on insta for me so maybe some of y'all have seen it.. thoughts?? if anyone has seen or tried it, lmk your thoughts in this ever changing world of music