Motherload

[pauli]

Thanks for your input Dave, this is indeed a tricky one, for me at least. I'm not 100% sure why I'm having this issue, but placing the instruments on the virtual stage is giving me all sorts of trouble, mainly because a few of the instruments seem to meander a bit from left to right, and different (important) parts of each instrument's tone seem to be more represented on one side than the other... and the bass literally swallows everything. The bass being off to the side took some time to figure out, but when I did hear it, I wound up cutting from 125 down on the decca buss's sides channel to hopefully allow me to center the bass a bit more. Didn't work I s'pose. It doesn't help either that the spacial relationships established by the decca don't make sense when you compare them to the bleed... the accordion and banjo are bleeding very heavily into mics that the decca tree suggests are opposite one another on the soundstage, which makes panning things widely pretty hazardous.

Having said all this, the Telefunken mix sounds very nice, so they clearly had a plan when setting up the mics, and probably did a bit of premixing to make sure it'd work before they started tracking, but knowing nothing of their plan vonfirms your Sherlocke Holmes allusion -- this is detective work. Excellent practice, but frustrating.

I still can't understand the decision to include the decca from a technical perspective... but maybe that strategy was the best way to accommodate MerryGold's on-stage setup. A comfortable tracking session can make a big difference in the quality of the output.