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Kat Wright - By My Side - mikej - 03-03-2020 Hi, Thought I should give it a go.... Cheers! Update: Added v1.0 (Lowered horns volume against vocal). Update: Added v1.1 (Taken some edge off the horn section. Might be a bit too subtle, but works for me I think..) RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - Mixinthecloud - 03-03-2020 Very nice. Solid thorughout. Good job with her vocal. Maybe some automation on the horns around her vocal? I need to do that in mine. RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - mikej - 04-03-2020 Hi, Thanks for the listen. To clarify - do you mean sorting the horn bleed in the vocal mic, or generally automating the horns, or bit of both? I did balance the bleed in the vocal mic in the intro before the vocal starts, but then forgot about it after that... I'll have a go at automating the horn bleed in the vocal mic, between the vocals and see what happens. I can hear the bleed in the vocal mic is pullung the horns towards the middle a bit (when I have them panned to the left), and is also picking up the vocal processing too. Nice catch. Cheers! RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - mikej - 04-03-2020 Hi, Hmm, just gave it a quick go, but I don't think it improved anything too much. Likely I haven't quite grasped what you mean... I'll await clarification and review tomorrow. My ears are probably quite done for today anyway! Thanks! RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - Mixinthecloud - 05-03-2020 (04-03-2020, 12:39 AM)mikej Wrote: Hi, Just volume automation of the horn phrases against her vocals. RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - mikej - 06-03-2020 Hi, Thanks! Nothing like overthinking things huh? To be honest I was quite suprised at the level of horn bleed in the vocal mike when I checked. I did the mix with all faders up, and only soloed to track things down that were bothering me, so I only really noticed the horn bleed during the intro, which I balanced out, didn't seem to worry me much after that. Anyway, seems I did automate the horns, but yeah too conservatively I think. I've added another version with a bit more of a volume drop for the horns mics when they are playing at the same time as the vocals. Perhaps a subtle change, but likely makes the difference. Cheers! RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - Shul - 08-03-2020 You managed the bleed on the vocals well.. I'm just missing a bit more bass.. but it's totally ok as i don't really have a good reference for bass.. I'm mixing with headphones and not great at reproducing super low end. keep it up. sounds well balanced. You might want to create a lil more crunchiness with some fx. RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - mikej - 08-03-2020 Hi! Thanks for listening and for the comments. I think the bass level is ok? I wanted it kind of 'just there' really. Oh - saw your comment on MiTC post re: dealing with the vocal bleed. Don't know if it helps: My approach was to embrace all the bleed. I used the vocal mic in the same way as you would the overheads when mixing drums, and blended everything else to it. All I have on the vocal mic is a little high pass and high shelf eq, and a bit of reverb. No compression, just volume automation to level out the vocal. The high shelf eq also adds a bit of top end to the snare, etc, so I was listening for that kind of thing too. I basically tried to do as little processing as possible to not upset the bleed too much. I didn't do any processing in solo, as much as possible, to hear the overall effect of eq moves in context. Cheers! RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - eggshell - 28-03-2020 Hi mike, Whoa this real real nice. Very natural, very good representation of what the band is doing. Overall balance is great! The Bari gets a bit "hard" at some places, but I'm just nitpicking. Great job on "embrace all the bleed" RE: Kat Wright - By My Side - mikej - 31-03-2020 Hi! Thanks for listening and for the comments. I like to listen to a lot of the old RVG Blue Note Jazz recordings so I do like a bit of a more raw sound I guess. Saying that I'm sure I have a Boney James album around somewhere too. Listening back I feel I could maybe soften up the horns just a touch though. I am going to bring the session back and see if I can tweak it a bit, without going too far the other way. Cheers! |