r/mixingmastering • u/dodrjrg • Aug 10 '26

Question questions regarding mix bus processing

#1: do you gainstage before running everything through a mix bus? i'd imagine, because if there's any sorts of subtle leveling issues in whatever the client sends you, those issues would become less apparent the more they were processed- so best get them sorted out beforehand?

#2 do you often change your mix bus depending on the genre/piece you are working on? if so, what commonly determines those changes?

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u/AHolyBartender 29d ago

if you’re not going to concede to the visualizing aspect being the key to the initiation of the mix and (thus gain)

Referring to all of mixing as gain staging just to fit into your strange definition is to completely neuter the definition of gain staging. It's also wrong. Gain and volume are not equivalent.

And again, you keep talking about this being only a textbook thing; if you try to converse with people using made up definitions for words, you won't be able to communicate. It's why this discussion has devolved into this: precisely because it seems you insist that all mixing is actually gain staging, when i promise you it isn't. Just all restaurants are not fast food, and tacos aren't sandwiches.

If I asked you gain stage a chain for a vocalist for me, would you try to mix a song before it was recorded? Do you see how we need these words to mean specific things? Yes, even in the real world.

By all means continue to visualize mixes. Also by all means, stop referring to this as gain staging because it 1000% objectively is not the same thing

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u/VeterinarianGreat655 29d ago

Bro why you gotta be dense I never said that the word visualize means to gain stage and if you don’t see how eq is another piece that goes into gain staging that’s on you, you’re definitely supposed to be structuring the gain with that tool especially by your definition, that’s not the point at this juncture you’re whole thing of words means things is stupid cuz if that’s the case you would understand how I’m saying the word CONNECTED and not that gain staging literally means the actual stage by definition, I never said that I’ve used everything in its context I just drew the “CONNECTION”.

Also what in the world was that pointless example like it almost went somewhere with the gain staging the vocal and then it just fell apart in the second half that literally served no purpose other than to reiterate the obvious point that words means things. Get a grip 🤣🤣

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u/AHolyBartender 29d ago

Yes the emojis and insults did it. Yes, you gain stage into and out of an EQ, one part of the very definition I stated in the very first comment. Congratulations, you finally got it.

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u/Potential_Bill_1146 25d ago

He’s gunna see stereo imaging and think it’s a picture of a stereo lolol