Thread Rating:
  • 1 Vote(s) - 5 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Amber- Howlin Mix
#4
Try some sort of analog saturation simulator before your balance EQ insert on the vocals... that will generally give you enough harmonic content to work with if you're struggling to cut the frequencies you don't like without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Tube distortion is often helpful as well, but I don't like it on a female vocal so much personally.

A plate reverb is also a good idea when the vocal feels muffled. Often you can get a nice tonal coloration without any of the nasty time smearing/phase uglies you might with eq boosts.

To emphasize the snare tail, you might try a compressor with a slow attack and slow release. That'll also give you a nice, fat sound. I'd recommend doing that prior to any low mid cuts, personally.

IMO the farting quality of synth basses is useless and annoying.... UNLESS you treat it the same way you'd treat saturation/distortion. There's a hell of a lot of harmonic content there, so you could if you chose to be really aggressive with the EQ and I really doubt you could lose anything important if you stayed outside the bass range. With bass tracks like that, I like to low pass around 500 and get the bass right with the kick first. Then as I add other instruments I'll experiment with which harmonics I can allow in the bass for maximum punch and attitude without masking anything. That's the fun part of mixing electronic music... bend it, twist it, break it, take a steaming crap on it and roll it in glitter... as long as it sounds good, nobody's gonna care, because a synth can sound like anything you want it to. It's not natural to begin with, so why bother with the gentle processing you'd apply to an acoustic instrument? Chew it up and spit it out until it suits you... anything's better than a toad farting Tongue

Hopefully that helps in some way... these are just my methods tailored to my tastes.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Amber- Howlin Mix - by jerze - 06-08-2014, 01:46 AM
RE: Amber- Howlin Mix - by Olli H - 06-08-2014, 01:29 PM
RE: Amber- Howlin Mix - by jerze - 11-08-2014, 03:35 AM
RE: Amber- Howlin Mix - by pauli - 11-08-2014, 05:35 AM
RE: Amber- Howlin Mix - by jerze - 13-08-2014, 03:09 AM
RE: Amber- Howlin Mix - by pauli - 13-08-2014, 06:21 AM