22-03-2016, 08:48 PM
(22-03-2016, 03:41 AM)Shul Wrote: P.s. Everything above is Just a starting point on balancing. Some mixes will require something being a bit louder .. or sometimes way too quiet, a Pad synth for example, an organ or piano perhaps.. or FX of some kind. This will come to you eventually, as you get a better grasp of balancing you will make these type of decisions but for this particular song, what I described will work charms.Shul,
I really appreciate all of your, as well and everyones, help.
A little background. I am a semi retired live sound engineer--i still help with some of the local bands for free. So my life has been trying to get the guys to control the backline volume and dealing with Left Center Right mixing. The gear ranged from nice Yamaha digital to not so nice analog stuff. so everything has been about compromise and very quick choices as sound check is pretty much a joke mainly for levels and feedback supression.
Your posts have made me change the way I think about mixing and I am very grateful for your time. It is real nice to have so much control over everything. I even changed my studio--an extra bedroom--a tad to let me hear the separation better.
Enough blabber. I did exactly what you said and things just seemed to fall into place much easier at least for me. I divide things up into a mix buss and render this and then go to my master buss where the widening and such happens. Don't know if this is good or not but it seems to work for me. A little more work but things seem to come out better.
I really like this song. Great job by the band and whoever tracked the stems. Makes things much easier for sure to work with great talent and a great job of tracking. I only wish that I could say the same for what I usually deal with but its mostly local bands and tis for free.
Anyhow take a listen and let me know whats next
Mike