28-01-2014, 04:53 PM
wow.. that's a lot of tracks! and judging by all the apparent edits, there were quite a few more before they summed the double tracks and bounced them!
thankfully, all the necessary edits were done prior to the mix so I didn't fiddle with anything at all
. instead of riding the well performed vocals, I used a very small amount of parallel compression to keep any of the quietest notes from dipping out.
for the guitars, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm hearing some wrong/ugly notes in the chords, so I nixed them by notching the principal frequency and the following 2 harmonics, which I never would have thought to do had I not seen Mr. Senior use it elsewhere. I spread the acoustics and electrics out a bit and left any tracks recorded in stereo in the center where it was possible, and put a bit of transient processing on the acoustics to help make them punchier and funkier.
to get the kick and the bass jiving I did the normal eq work, high passing, cutting the kick at 125ish, yadda yadda, but I also felt like the kick and bass were ringing too long, so I put a gate before the compressors to trim them to an appropriate length for more punch. more punch = more funk for me
so I was going for something like lady gaga and annie lennox recording with daft punk, and used tracks by those folks as references. thoughts?
thankfully, all the necessary edits were done prior to the mix so I didn't fiddle with anything at all
. instead of riding the well performed vocals, I used a very small amount of parallel compression to keep any of the quietest notes from dipping out.for the guitars, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm hearing some wrong/ugly notes in the chords, so I nixed them by notching the principal frequency and the following 2 harmonics, which I never would have thought to do had I not seen Mr. Senior use it elsewhere. I spread the acoustics and electrics out a bit and left any tracks recorded in stereo in the center where it was possible, and put a bit of transient processing on the acoustics to help make them punchier and funkier.
to get the kick and the bass jiving I did the normal eq work, high passing, cutting the kick at 125ish, yadda yadda, but I also felt like the kick and bass were ringing too long, so I put a gate before the compressors to trim them to an appropriate length for more punch. more punch = more funk for me
so I was going for something like lady gaga and annie lennox recording with daft punk, and used tracks by those folks as references. thoughts?
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!