16-07-2014, 03:40 PM
(15-07-2014, 06:39 PM)pauli Wrote: My first temptation was to mix around the piano too, and I wound up start over when I tried to fit the vocal... It's a natural temptation to mix around the one instrument that's present for the entire song, and usually a good idea IMHO, but there's just so much spectral content in a piano track..How about making first a rough mix with no plugins or just hi-pass filters or so, and after that start tweaking each instruments in relation to overall sound. And start tweaking with those most evident small things that'll you should fix no matter what. That way you'll be listening if the sound works in the context and you'll be all the time thinking through the arrangement. And minute by minute the rough mix is coming better and better.
I don't try to say that one shouldn't use solo buttons etc, but I feel that the overall context is very important in most of the adjustments.
For example: should acoustic guitar be darker or brighter. I don't know. There is no such a thing as ultimate acoustic guitar sound as such. There could be two perfect "grammy winning " mixes of the same material, and in another the acoustic guitar is dark as a dungeon, and in another mix it's audible only in hi-hat areas. But in both of those mixes it could be just perfect for the role that the mixer has given to it.