22-12-2013, 01:16 AM
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This is my mix for The Brew, What I Want. I did this in about one week using Sonar X1 for my DAW. I used only plug-ins that came with Sonar.
The intro I did a reverse reverb type thing on the guitar riff. I think this really makes the rest of the band come in with a bigger punch by contrast. I also compressed it a bit and put a high and low pass filter to give it a telephone speaker effect.
The rest of the guitar tracks I used, blended them together into two groups and panned them hard right and left. I didn't do any E.Q. to them, their tone sounded alright to my ears. I did do some compression at the buss level.
The bass I used all three tracks. I blended in just a small amount of the D.I. track and used predominantly the amps. I merely used a small amount of E.Q. and compression at the bus level.
For the drums, I used pretty much what was given. I did replace the kick drum with the samples in Sonar X1, session drummer 2. I found this to add much more punch to them. I also created a kick send track to boost the 3-4k range. I did a pretty decent amount of compression to the drums at the buss level to hopefully make it one cohesive sound. I also grouped the snare tracks together and sent them to a separate buss before going to the drum buss, then to the master buss. I did this to E.Q. and compress the snare by itself to blend the top and bottom mics, then send it with the rest of the kit.
I compressed the keys at the buss level, no real E.Q. but I'm honestly not sure what I would do to E.Q. them. I've never really messed with key tracks before. Panned them 60% left and right.
As for the vocals I removed the group vocals completely. I found them to be just downright annoying. I cut the main vocal into two separate tracks, a verse and chorus track. The chorus I limited and compressed really hard, did some e.q. The verse not so much, but the same idea. Some reverb, it actually might be too much now that I listen to it again.
That's about it, let me know what you think. Thanks![/font]
This is my mix for The Brew, What I Want. I did this in about one week using Sonar X1 for my DAW. I used only plug-ins that came with Sonar.
The intro I did a reverse reverb type thing on the guitar riff. I think this really makes the rest of the band come in with a bigger punch by contrast. I also compressed it a bit and put a high and low pass filter to give it a telephone speaker effect.
The rest of the guitar tracks I used, blended them together into two groups and panned them hard right and left. I didn't do any E.Q. to them, their tone sounded alright to my ears. I did do some compression at the buss level.
The bass I used all three tracks. I blended in just a small amount of the D.I. track and used predominantly the amps. I merely used a small amount of E.Q. and compression at the bus level.
For the drums, I used pretty much what was given. I did replace the kick drum with the samples in Sonar X1, session drummer 2. I found this to add much more punch to them. I also created a kick send track to boost the 3-4k range. I did a pretty decent amount of compression to the drums at the buss level to hopefully make it one cohesive sound. I also grouped the snare tracks together and sent them to a separate buss before going to the drum buss, then to the master buss. I did this to E.Q. and compress the snare by itself to blend the top and bottom mics, then send it with the rest of the kit.
I compressed the keys at the buss level, no real E.Q. but I'm honestly not sure what I would do to E.Q. them. I've never really messed with key tracks before. Panned them 60% left and right.
As for the vocals I removed the group vocals completely. I found them to be just downright annoying. I cut the main vocal into two separate tracks, a verse and chorus track. The chorus I limited and compressed really hard, did some e.q. The verse not so much, but the same idea. Some reverb, it actually might be too much now that I listen to it again.
That's about it, let me know what you think. Thanks![/font]