Jackie Greene: Dont Let The Devil

[sgwork]

Hi sgwork,

Yes, as said, matter of taste and what you intended. I think you managed to retain the 'live' feeling of the song. For me it was a big unknown how to keep the 'live' feeling but nevertheless 'upgrade' the song a bit. Some of the other guys went into direction of 'first polish then mix' (gating, etc) but I rather kept the tracks pretty much as they were. How much did you 'clean' the tracks?

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Hi ujerovsek
For me the live recording aspect was part of the challenge. I've learned that crosstalk is your friend and if not then make it so.
Cleaning of tracks I perform very sparingly, whenever necessary but only then! With the lead vocals in this mix one will harvest more negative side effects as opposed to gaining positive results. Sometimes I like to parallel process the lead vocal, but in this case, with the most horrific xtalk I've ever witnessed even in a live recording, this really became for me the challenge of this mix. The xtalk influenced everything, that's why, during the mix, I was soloing the individual tracks seldom to keep the monitoring for my perception constant. Anyway it was a nice experience and I'm glad I got a reasonable result after all.
Could you btw ever find the proper acoustic guitar tracks belonging to this mix?

Hey! I think the drums are a bit quiet, snare is too quiet for my taste at times. Maybe it's just me..

Hi ujerovsek,
Thanks for commenting on my mix. I like the dynamic build up of your mix, great toms too. But I think my drums fit my mix as was intended. Anyhow, a matter of taste of course!
But your mix is really well balanced and sounds good. In my mix I wanted to retain the live intensity and also give it a rather wide sound stage and the latter giving you maybe the impression of some dynamics inconsistencies in the overall mix balance.