Hello Everyone,
I have posted my mix of "Summertime" and attached mix process notes below. Let me know what you think.
I have posted my mix of "Summertime" and attached mix process notes below. Let me know what you think.
- Listen to each track in solo to see what I have to work with. After listening, set my goal of the mix I want to create. I did not use the distance mics for my mix.
- Align the tracks I chose to use. This step also includes volume and pan matching the Mics.
- Clean the tracks. I reduced resonances, hi passed and low passed the Mics for the most focused tone. I did not spectral clean because there were no serious issues, "mic stand kicks or environmental noise".
- Compress DI mic and Sax mic 2 to match their relative Mics. Comp Sax 2 to match Sax 1 and Comp DI to match Close Gtr. I short, Comp the louder of the mic pair.
- EQ to enhance the tracks. Bring out presence and detail. This process is always limited by what has been captured.
- Compress again. Compress the combined Mics to control the combined dynamics. Anytime I combine Mics it imparts unwanted dynamic gains, "things jumping out too much".
- Audition Reverbs. I send the entire mix bus to the reverb when I audition so I can hear what it will do to everything. I pick the one that sounds the best for everything. My send level for this is usually -12db.
- Adjust individual reverb send levels, predelay and reverb EQ for the combined tracks. As I do this, I am tweaking all of the prior processing at the track level.
- Once I get to this point, I continue to tweak until the Song has the feel I want and then I'm done. Or I'm done because I start to get LAZY. Fortunately, I did not get lazy on this song.