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Smooth - Non Lo Diro Col Labbro - Professor Smooth - 11-01-2014
My musical background is in classical performance and composition, however the only time I've ever mixed classical music before was an experimental method of mixing for recording a live concert straight to tape - we had around 60 mics set up around the hall, combinations of close mics and overheads, and there were actually six of us mixing simultaneously - one for each section of the orchestra, and then a final person submixing, as we followed the score to anticipate and clarify the individual instruments as we saw fit. A great exercise to try, but a hell of a lot of phase issues!
Anyway, life story over, here's my take on the Handel. I feel the way to go about this is as simple and natural as possible. I just made use of the 480L for a little more space, I wanted to give this the sound of a traditional concert chamber, rather than a large, dry space. Compression-wise, it's very, VERY slight (as one would want for baroque performance) with just a gentle levelling compressor on the vocals, and the SSL Buss Compressor on a nice slow, subtle setting for the master, peaking at about 3dB reduction at the loudest parts.
So let me know what you think.
RE: Smooth - Non Lo Diro Col Labbro - bmullen - 11-01-2014
Sounds great to me
RE: Smooth - Non Lo Diro Col Labbro - Mixinthecloud - 14-01-2016
Your classical recording experience is showing. I may tackle this at some point myself.
I love the dynamics.