28-01-2013, 12:48 PM
(23-01-2013, 03:38 PM)Artbass Wrote: Great mix. I like it and I don't know if I would change anything. Now would you just kindly explain how you got there?
Well, thanks
I can give some general description.There fairly little compression on the drums itself overall, only kick and snare bottom have gotten "a lot of" compression (6 dBs and beyond), but the OHs and snare top less than 2 dBs. Things have been gated pretty tight everywhere to avoid spilling from cymbals, this becomes a serious problem if one boosts quite a lot of high end from every single close mic (like I did
). Oh, and Pro Tools Lo-Fi plugin is quite a nice for saturating drum transients (using just a little bit), that's where the main character for snare top comes from. I like to use an 1176 thing with a fastest release and fairly slow attack on lots of things. OHs, bass, lead vocal and solo guitar all have that.
Lots of automation everywhere. During the intro the volume of all tracks go up while their echo sends go down gradually drying it down to prepare for the first verse. Some ping-pong delay for LV during the choruses, none of it for the verses.
Bass and kick are brighter than you'd believe and have been de-essed to keep the high end consistent.
Toms are the only thing that are not full LCR-panned, everything else is, even that hihat's dead center, all guitars panned to sides.
Only hihat and one of the guitar tracks (can't remember which one) has a hipass filter. Nothing else does have. Some of the darker guitars have over 10 dBs of high shelf boost around 8 kHz.
Almost nonexistent group/parallel processing; there's a small parallel comp on drum bus and both lead vocals go to a same (last) compressor. Everything else is "standalone" and routed to master output.