I actually turned the trumpets down during a lot of this so I could bring them in at their usual dominant volume during a couple phrases nearer to the end. I feel like the trumpets down, bones up, bari up, and high reeds to feel gives it a softer sound. I didn't want to go for the huge brassy big band "in your face," thing, so a lot of the trumpet stabs which aren't melody lines are turned down. Getting the trombone harmony notes out of the bone mics (which seemed to actually be poorly places trumpet mics at times, but then again all of the mics were a little that way,) took some eq automation.
The rhythm section as a whole is louder than what is probably normal in big band stuff but I used to play drums so its me, ha. Basically the lead trumpet is coming more through the 3 room mics that I used and all of the other mics combined than it is through it's own mic until when he's actually blasting lead lines, after the sax soli is over and the trumpets take over.
the rhythm section is actually CLR'd, with high EQ piano on the same side as low EQ guitar, and high EQ guitar on the other side with low EQ piano. I thought of the idea because of the 2 piano mics. Bass and kick down the center, drum overs hard panned. Quite a few things past 60 degrees of panning and the others at 30-40. In the center to the slight left is lead horn blower, (if I remember correctly,) and somewhere in about the same spot are the high reeds.
I actually like the mastered version a lot better. I pushed some more 1.8-2K and some 16K+ through a rear bus and squashed it. It helps keep the quieter sax solis and the reed intro sounding louder compared to the full ensemble levels later on.
Cheers.
Edit: v2.0 with more low mids cut from the guitar and 1.0 dB of "everything less than 1200 Hz" shelved out. Also cut 4.2 hit-hat slosh out of the main bus but left it in the rear bus.
The rhythm section as a whole is louder than what is probably normal in big band stuff but I used to play drums so its me, ha. Basically the lead trumpet is coming more through the 3 room mics that I used and all of the other mics combined than it is through it's own mic until when he's actually blasting lead lines, after the sax soli is over and the trumpets take over.
the rhythm section is actually CLR'd, with high EQ piano on the same side as low EQ guitar, and high EQ guitar on the other side with low EQ piano. I thought of the idea because of the 2 piano mics. Bass and kick down the center, drum overs hard panned. Quite a few things past 60 degrees of panning and the others at 30-40. In the center to the slight left is lead horn blower, (if I remember correctly,) and somewhere in about the same spot are the high reeds.
I actually like the mastered version a lot better. I pushed some more 1.8-2K and some 16K+ through a rear bus and squashed it. It helps keep the quieter sax solis and the reed intro sounding louder compared to the full ensemble levels later on.
Cheers.
Edit: v2.0 with more low mids cut from the guitar and 1.0 dB of "everything less than 1200 Hz" shelved out. Also cut 4.2 hit-hat slosh out of the main bus but left it in the rear bus.