26-11-2019, 12:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-11-2019, 12:45 PM by AxisSounds.)
Hey folks.
I really enjoyed this song and heard some amazing mixes but always felt the vocals and piano were relegated behind some other sounds, or came across a little too thin and distant.
I tried my hand at a stripped back mix with a focus on keeping it dynamic and organic. Obviously, the producer/writer envisaged a lot more from this song but folk are always telling me to strip back my own compositions so I tried that with this one. I used a lot of analogue summing and harmonic saturation on the way in, i.e. colouring the sounds before I started mixing. I wouldn't normally do this so heavily but as I was only using a couple of tracks I felt the need (or just plainly wanted) to glue them all together.
Any thoughts?
Processes:
Mid-Side EQ on the piano to clear the way for vocals.
EQ on the vocals to bring out some body (quite a lot boosting around 185Hz). Parallel processed with a gently distorted duplicate with roll-off around 5K. All blended in.
Reverbs were the EMT140 from Avid's Space, and Abbey Road chamber blended in to give the vocals and piano some low-mid, early reflection character.
SSL bus compressor used on the master bus with Waves C4 gently mixed in to catch some of those big transient stabs.
Scheps OmniChannel
SSL Channel (E-series)
Roto-Speaker
Avid Space (EMT140B long)
Abbey Road Chambers
Abbey Roads TG Mastering Console
SSL Compressor
Waves NLS (set to SSL console - so much warmth)
Waves C4
- B
I really enjoyed this song and heard some amazing mixes but always felt the vocals and piano were relegated behind some other sounds, or came across a little too thin and distant.
I tried my hand at a stripped back mix with a focus on keeping it dynamic and organic. Obviously, the producer/writer envisaged a lot more from this song but folk are always telling me to strip back my own compositions so I tried that with this one. I used a lot of analogue summing and harmonic saturation on the way in, i.e. colouring the sounds before I started mixing. I wouldn't normally do this so heavily but as I was only using a couple of tracks I felt the need (or just plainly wanted) to glue them all together.
Any thoughts?
Processes:
Mid-Side EQ on the piano to clear the way for vocals.
EQ on the vocals to bring out some body (quite a lot boosting around 185Hz). Parallel processed with a gently distorted duplicate with roll-off around 5K. All blended in.
Reverbs were the EMT140 from Avid's Space, and Abbey Road chamber blended in to give the vocals and piano some low-mid, early reflection character.
SSL bus compressor used on the master bus with Waves C4 gently mixed in to catch some of those big transient stabs.
Scheps OmniChannel
SSL Channel (E-series)
Roto-Speaker
Avid Space (EMT140B long)
Abbey Road Chambers
Abbey Roads TG Mastering Console
SSL Compressor
Waves NLS (set to SSL console - so much warmth)
Waves C4
- B