I discovered this website/forum a few months ago but only registered today. So first things first, many thanks to Mike Senior and all the musicians for such wonderful training resources !
For my first contribution here, I chose to mix this nice song, which I found sounding great already at the static mix stage. So my processing has been quite straightforward :
- Gain staged all the tracks to about -12dB
- Fixed the slight rythmic problem in the intro
- EQ on the Kick Out to tame a resonance @60Hz
- HP to attenuate the low-end on the overheads and room
- 1-2 dB of compression on the drum bus to tighten it up gently
- Slight HP/EQ and compression on bass, guitar and violin
- Volume automation on the violin track
- Deessing > EQ > Compression on the vocal track
- Room reverb added as a send fx to every track except kicks, bass and... room !
- Hall reverb added as a send fx to guitar, violin and vocal tracks
- 1-2 dB of compression on the mix bus for glue
As I mix with a comfortable headroom (peaks < -12dB), I added a limiter on the main bus to raise the loudness to around -14 LKFS, while trying to maintain a good dynamic range.
Mixed entirely ITB, in Studio One, all stock plugins except for an electro-optical compressor by P&M for the vocal and acoustic guitar, and the reverbs also by P&M.
Please tell me what you think about my mix and particularly how it translates to other listening environments.
Hope you guys like it.
All the best,
Erick
For my first contribution here, I chose to mix this nice song, which I found sounding great already at the static mix stage. So my processing has been quite straightforward :
- Gain staged all the tracks to about -12dB
- Fixed the slight rythmic problem in the intro
- EQ on the Kick Out to tame a resonance @60Hz
- HP to attenuate the low-end on the overheads and room
- 1-2 dB of compression on the drum bus to tighten it up gently
- Slight HP/EQ and compression on bass, guitar and violin
- Volume automation on the violin track
- Deessing > EQ > Compression on the vocal track
- Room reverb added as a send fx to every track except kicks, bass and... room !
- Hall reverb added as a send fx to guitar, violin and vocal tracks
- 1-2 dB of compression on the mix bus for glue
As I mix with a comfortable headroom (peaks < -12dB), I added a limiter on the main bus to raise the loudness to around -14 LKFS, while trying to maintain a good dynamic range.
Mixed entirely ITB, in Studio One, all stock plugins except for an electro-optical compressor by P&M for the vocal and acoustic guitar, and the reverbs also by P&M.
Please tell me what you think about my mix and particularly how it translates to other listening environments.
Hope you guys like it.
All the best,
Erick
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