Had a lot of fun doing this, my first ever mix!
I picked this track because I knew it would be a challenge and I liked the song
I'm running Sabayon Linux, using Ardour 3 and various LV2 plugins. The only tools I'm currently missing on Linux are a way to make the trigger track play a sample and an autotune.
So I faked the Tom 1 by dropping the trigger track an octave, heavy EQ and lots of echo and reverb. It sounds more like a plank of wood being hit but mostly seems to work ok in the mix. There's a couple of points it doesn't though, so I will have to manually create a Tom 1 track if I can't find a way to use trigger tracks on Linux
I didn't have a plan when I started. After a quick balance and listen I decided to do the overheads first. I was focused on the dynamics of the track rather than the sound and used a transient shaper to boost the attack and cut back the sustain. I did some heavy eq and compression until I got something I liked. I added a parabolic reverse echo to soften it a bit as I wanted gritty not pebbled!
I didn't do anything else weird - touches of compression, eq and reverb / echo. I'd two reverbs, one small & tight the other more medium hall size. Most tracks went to one or the other reverb and echo for effect on some BG vocals. Somewhere along I started going for a live recording feel, think unamplified drummer being slightly drowned out by large amplification of the guitars, with lead vocals having to shout over all that and that's the sound I went for.
I know it's not perfect, but as a first mix of anything I'm really happy with how it came out. I'd welcome any tips on improving it and hopefully I can fix the tom and come up with a r2 sometime!
Edit: Arrgh! Exporting it has introduced some distortion that spoils it. I'm trying to figure out the issue and should have a fixed version soon!
Edit 2: replaced distorted mix with less distorted r2 below (still a work in progress)
Edit 3: changed to r3 which has distortion under control..
Edit: v2_r1 now available here: http://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/showt...2#pid15922
I picked this track because I knew it would be a challenge and I liked the song
I'm running Sabayon Linux, using Ardour 3 and various LV2 plugins. The only tools I'm currently missing on Linux are a way to make the trigger track play a sample and an autotune.
So I faked the Tom 1 by dropping the trigger track an octave, heavy EQ and lots of echo and reverb. It sounds more like a plank of wood being hit but mostly seems to work ok in the mix. There's a couple of points it doesn't though, so I will have to manually create a Tom 1 track if I can't find a way to use trigger tracks on Linux
I didn't have a plan when I started. After a quick balance and listen I decided to do the overheads first. I was focused on the dynamics of the track rather than the sound and used a transient shaper to boost the attack and cut back the sustain. I did some heavy eq and compression until I got something I liked. I added a parabolic reverse echo to soften it a bit as I wanted gritty not pebbled!
I didn't do anything else weird - touches of compression, eq and reverb / echo. I'd two reverbs, one small & tight the other more medium hall size. Most tracks went to one or the other reverb and echo for effect on some BG vocals. Somewhere along I started going for a live recording feel, think unamplified drummer being slightly drowned out by large amplification of the guitars, with lead vocals having to shout over all that and that's the sound I went for.
I know it's not perfect, but as a first mix of anything I'm really happy with how it came out. I'd welcome any tips on improving it and hopefully I can fix the tom and come up with a r2 sometime!
Edit: Arrgh! Exporting it has introduced some distortion that spoils it. I'm trying to figure out the issue and should have a fixed version soon!
Edit 2: replaced distorted mix with less distorted r2 below (still a work in progress)
Edit 3: changed to r3 which has distortion under control..
Edit: v2_r1 now available here: http://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/showt...2#pid15922