15-03-2019, 10:24 AM
Hi Louis,
Thanks for your reply and critique.
I will start by agreeing with you on the boomy side of things after listening again after two
weeks. Yes, your right about the boomy this is in the low mids region about the 180-300Hz. It does need to be scaled back about 2-3 Db.
Now your other points are 2-fold
1.Vox
The Female vocalist is Chantel Upshaw (chantelupshaw.com),
I deliberately put her in front for her vocal section as you rightly observed she does step up to the microphone and takes the lead for about 6 bars. I wanted her to shine. before slipping back into Bv mode. By the way I only used one mic out of the four for Andrew and one only for Chantel.
2. Drums
The reverb you are hearing is a Room reverb at about 1 sec tail followed up with UAD Ocean Waves Reverb on a send and return from the overhead only.
Now to your first question concerning the brushes. (I really believe the drums were not tracked well)
I mix in Pro Tools 12.82 has clip gain as do other DAW's and I adjust the clip gain if things get to out of control. The benefit here is minimising compression which can bring the noise floor up including that nasty ring that I notice everyone else is having trouble with.
I found the ring to be around 240Hz as well as around 500Hz. I used Parallel compression and dynamic Eq and Comp. I mostly used the OH mic (only one mic) as the main and then blended the two. If you listen hard enough the ring is still there slightly.
The tempo Elastic Audio to even out the tempo changes.
Finally, slight automation on the Vox. That’s it
Louis, There is a few more things I did but I’m trying to keep this post short.
I hope this helps.Untill Next Time
Thanks for your reply and critique.
I will start by agreeing with you on the boomy side of things after listening again after two
weeks. Yes, your right about the boomy this is in the low mids region about the 180-300Hz. It does need to be scaled back about 2-3 Db.
Now your other points are 2-fold
1.Vox
The Female vocalist is Chantel Upshaw (chantelupshaw.com),
I deliberately put her in front for her vocal section as you rightly observed she does step up to the microphone and takes the lead for about 6 bars. I wanted her to shine. before slipping back into Bv mode. By the way I only used one mic out of the four for Andrew and one only for Chantel.
2. Drums
The reverb you are hearing is a Room reverb at about 1 sec tail followed up with UAD Ocean Waves Reverb on a send and return from the overhead only.
Now to your first question concerning the brushes. (I really believe the drums were not tracked well)
I mix in Pro Tools 12.82 has clip gain as do other DAW's and I adjust the clip gain if things get to out of control. The benefit here is minimising compression which can bring the noise floor up including that nasty ring that I notice everyone else is having trouble with.
I found the ring to be around 240Hz as well as around 500Hz. I used Parallel compression and dynamic Eq and Comp. I mostly used the OH mic (only one mic) as the main and then blended the two. If you listen hard enough the ring is still there slightly.
The tempo Elastic Audio to even out the tempo changes.
Finally, slight automation on the Vox. That’s it
Louis, There is a few more things I did but I’m trying to keep this post short.
I hope this helps.Untill Next Time