Lindy Hip Big Band ' The Opener '

[thedon]

Hi Don,

Yes... no problems, thanks for the nice comment. Happy to share what little i know about Mic placement. I have some photos taken at the session, gives some idea of how it was done. Your mix sounds great, have had a further listen, you plan to do more work on the mix?

ciao Bill

Hi Bill
would love to see some pics if you have time ,needs more work, I think i went a little overboard trying to make it sound big using harmonic exciters to bring out the brass and would like to spend more time keeping the dynamic range and manually taming some heavy peeks on individual brass tracks which are hitting the master bus in the brass swells ,a tedious job without affecting the whole track with compression which i need to lean more about and would love some advice on an easier way .

Thanks
Don

Hi Don,
Yes I'll send some pics of the session by PM, don't want to post on the site.
From a musical sense, a big band has very wide dynamics, similar to what a symphony orchestra does. In my mix, I used no compression (only on the Bass track) to try and emulate what you would hear listening to a big band. On the master used just a touch of harmonic exciters to brighten up a bit. But..... my mix sounds lacking in punch and not so crisp and clean as the other mix's I have listened to so far.
Not sure what way to go with this! what did they do in the old days when mastering for disk cutting machines!

Ciao Bill

Hi bill ,
I will Pm you my email if you have time to share a pic or two
choosing which way to go with the sound is a personal choice sometimes i use something like Herb Alpert to Vince Jones & grace night for some inspiration,I really like the natural sound of your reference mix !

Don