(22-05-2018, 10:41 AM)thedon Wrote: Hi Dan ,
Both versions sound great to me Listening on headphones version 01 sounds more open version 2 the centre bass sounds tighter.
Listening on Ns10 with the mono sub I like version 01 .
The vocals have a nice vintage vibe maybe a touch nasal sounding around 700-1k area probably my monitors and personal taste.
Cheers
So I bumped the guitar up 1.0 for the vocal part and gave it some more wet, and then I automated the volume a little for some louder words and some sibilance, and then I tossed the vocal into the room mics stereo bus, (which I put reverb on directly, in Song of India I was manipulating the dry /wet on that reverb with automation in this song I just left it wet the entire time, cut a second off the beginning of each room mic track and moved them into perfect phase with the trombones, then re-verbed them digitally,) and then I was like..... huh.
If I'm done mixing an LV in less than an hour something isn't right, like there's no way I edit drums for 8 hours just to make a song sound normal and I don't at least try to do something to this.
So I got a little experimental, and I have an EQ that boosts like 550 Hz in the voice when he sings higher notes in his register, and it boosts either 1200 or 1700 when he hits lower notes. Decently wide Q.
Other than that since I cut 2.4-3K from so many horn mics I just gave him that straight away, kind of felt like "there's no way this will be wrong," and then went from there.
I'm addicted at this point in need more bigband tracks. Haven't even started experimenting with like, parallel compression on room mics, cutting some frequencies or boosting them in rooms, squashing that and feeding both back in. If you squashed a low pass room and left a high pass room dry you could maybe mix around the rooms in a different way, I don't know. You could try so many things with this kind of stuff just to change the tonal flavor of it all, its endlessly exciting. Now that I popped my big band cherry I probably won't care quite as much about any other kind of music tbh.
