06-03-2016, 09:53 PM
It's a pleasure to mix a song you like
After listening to a few mixes here to get the vibe, I decided this song called for lots of large spaces, a touch of grit in the vocals, dense crescendos and dramatic changes on the decrescendos, and some movement in the keys. I had trouble getting the vocals to sit right in the chorus sections. How'd I do?
Another trouble spot was getting the kick and snare to sit right in the denser choruses -- they kept disappearing. Five mixdowns later (one sidechained compressor, some subtractive EQ here, some added there, a bit of distortion, opening up the attack on the snare's compressor, etc, etc) and now the snare might be a touch hot. Too successful?
And that drum room track? The kick sounded awful, so I sidechained a multi-band compressor against the kick track and decimated a narrow band around 175hz. That helped, just not enough, and everything else I tried sounded worse. Compromise
Tons of automation here: track levels, muting reverb sends, a long delay right *here* but not there.
Oh, and "atrophide"? Is that a British thing?
After listening to a few mixes here to get the vibe, I decided this song called for lots of large spaces, a touch of grit in the vocals, dense crescendos and dramatic changes on the decrescendos, and some movement in the keys. I had trouble getting the vocals to sit right in the chorus sections. How'd I do?
Another trouble spot was getting the kick and snare to sit right in the denser choruses -- they kept disappearing. Five mixdowns later (one sidechained compressor, some subtractive EQ here, some added there, a bit of distortion, opening up the attack on the snare's compressor, etc, etc) and now the snare might be a touch hot. Too successful?
And that drum room track? The kick sounded awful, so I sidechained a multi-band compressor against the kick track and decimated a narrow band around 175hz. That helped, just not enough, and everything else I tried sounded worse. Compromise
Tons of automation here: track levels, muting reverb sends, a long delay right *here* but not there.
Oh, and "atrophide"? Is that a British thing?