16-04-2015, 04:37 AM (This post was last modified: 16-04-2015, 04:39 AM by tjmtruth.)
Well, I figure....I like most styles of music loud and in your face. So, since it is said there are no rules in music, whether writing it, recording it, or mixing it, here is my in-your-face interpretation of this Jazz tune. I wanted to be so close to the band that here I am right in the middle of all of them. Dat's-uh-duh-way-I-Like-it. :-)
(08-05-2015, 05:58 AM)quietchris Wrote: This is impressive! You totally succeeded. Sounds like poking your head over the drummers shoulder.
I think the piano might be a little confusing panned hard left and right, but maybe thats because I'm listening on headphones.
Quietchris, thanks for the props....I really appreciate it. Yeah, I agree about the piano. In headphones the spread is way too evident. On speakers, though, it's as if you are standing right in front of the piano....it's almost mesmerizing to me. I actually should go back in there and tame down the piano spread a bit though in any case. Thanks again.
(31-05-2015, 04:54 PM)dcocharro Wrote: Personally I dislike the drum kick approach a bit, but everything else is amazing!
How did pull out this mix?
Congrats!
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Thanks for the overall props....much appreciated. The way I mix the kick drum in many of my mixes has been critiqued in that I tend to mix it in a bit loud, dry, and with the sound of the beater really prominent. I suppose it's because I really like Jazz Fusion, which is much more in your face and the drum mixes in those fusion songs are mixed just like rock drums, at least to my ears. So, if you don't like the kick I can totally understand. For traditional Jazz styles, like this song, it's probably a bit too prominent in the mix. But my goal, again, was to create a mix where it was if I were standing in the middle of all the players and could hear everything up close and in your face. In fact, my face was right inside that piano. LOL!
I guess in order to achieve that you had to use lots of compression and Eq, but in a nice way.
I think you did a nice job, specially with the timbric properties of each instrument.
The recording sounds fresh because of the new timbric color each instrument got.
It's difficult to achieve that, specially with spill from the microphones.