20-08-2019, 10:46 AM
Hello mate,
Ok yeah I am liking your mix. It has a really nice tonal foundation, which is in my opinion the most important thing you need in a mix besides the lead vocal's clarity, which you also have.
Sax:
I didn't do much to the sax on mine apart from mono sum the 2 channels and automate it in and out as necessary. Processing wise, I rolled off the HPF at about 400hz and a LPF at about 7-8K (I'm going off memory because I'm not in the studio) and then some tonal eq. I used Logic's inbuilt linear EQ to boost a nice fat 3-6db of 500hz and the same again at around 3K-4K. Then I compressed it, and also parallel compressed it with an 1176 black face (UAD plugin) with all the buttons pushed in. Doing this adds lots of lovely harmonics that weren't normally there. I usually parallel comp my lead vocals/instruments if they are crucial to the song so they pop in front of the mix easier without having to do any wild EQs.
Gtrs:
Guitars are a different story. But again nothing unusual. I gated them at a low threshold, panned them hard left and right as you know, and then started cutting and boosting eq until they both were doing what I wanted them to do. The funny thing about cutting and boosting eqs, I've heard people say that you should never boost on an eq. Those same people do some of the worst mixes I've ever heard. I boost all day long! I think on my gtr left (gtr 1) I boosted 2K around 20db. That's what I'm talking about, just do what you gotta do to get it sounding the way you need it to for your mix. And then I compressed it and added a limiter to stop them from taking over. No more than a couple db of gain reduction on the limiter.
Hope that helps!
Ok yeah I am liking your mix. It has a really nice tonal foundation, which is in my opinion the most important thing you need in a mix besides the lead vocal's clarity, which you also have.
Sax:
I didn't do much to the sax on mine apart from mono sum the 2 channels and automate it in and out as necessary. Processing wise, I rolled off the HPF at about 400hz and a LPF at about 7-8K (I'm going off memory because I'm not in the studio) and then some tonal eq. I used Logic's inbuilt linear EQ to boost a nice fat 3-6db of 500hz and the same again at around 3K-4K. Then I compressed it, and also parallel compressed it with an 1176 black face (UAD plugin) with all the buttons pushed in. Doing this adds lots of lovely harmonics that weren't normally there. I usually parallel comp my lead vocals/instruments if they are crucial to the song so they pop in front of the mix easier without having to do any wild EQs.
Gtrs:
Guitars are a different story. But again nothing unusual. I gated them at a low threshold, panned them hard left and right as you know, and then started cutting and boosting eq until they both were doing what I wanted them to do. The funny thing about cutting and boosting eqs, I've heard people say that you should never boost on an eq. Those same people do some of the worst mixes I've ever heard. I boost all day long! I think on my gtr left (gtr 1) I boosted 2K around 20db. That's what I'm talking about, just do what you gotta do to get it sounding the way you need it to for your mix. And then I compressed it and added a limiter to stop them from taking over. No more than a couple db of gain reduction on the limiter.
Hope that helps!
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