11-11-2020, 04:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2020, 04:42 AM by kiddiescripterkiller.)
It's been a while since I mixed this, but I think where your problem lies is, you have the overheads too hot so the cymbals are ringing too long in the mix.
What I do is, get the drums they way I want them to sound first, for the whole song.
Then add the bass for the whole song
(that is what drives and holds the song together)
Then add guitars, keyboards, whatever for the whole song
(That makes the cake... Sonically... Then the icing on the cake is...)
Vocals
Then background vocals
Then solos
The trick for the icing is... to fit the vocals, background vocals and solos into the mix, and still be able to hear everything else, and still be able to pick and hear each part throughout the song.
Can you pick out the kick, the bass, ride cymbal, guitar, each background vocalist, whatever?
Or is is buried in the mix?
I spent a few weeks getting the icing on it... Eqs, compressors and limiters.
Getting the vocals right coming out of the first solo without automation was hard...
And the first solo was hard getting all the low runs to fit without ripping your head off when he went for the higher notes.
And if I remember correctly, I buried one part of the drums which had a weird hit.
Here was my stab at it...
https://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/show...?tid=30767
What I do is, get the drums they way I want them to sound first, for the whole song.
Then add the bass for the whole song
(that is what drives and holds the song together)
Then add guitars, keyboards, whatever for the whole song
(That makes the cake... Sonically... Then the icing on the cake is...)
Vocals
Then background vocals
Then solos
The trick for the icing is... to fit the vocals, background vocals and solos into the mix, and still be able to hear everything else, and still be able to pick and hear each part throughout the song.
Can you pick out the kick, the bass, ride cymbal, guitar, each background vocalist, whatever?
Or is is buried in the mix?
I spent a few weeks getting the icing on it... Eqs, compressors and limiters.
Getting the vocals right coming out of the first solo without automation was hard...
And the first solo was hard getting all the low runs to fit without ripping your head off when he went for the higher notes.
And if I remember correctly, I buried one part of the drums which had a weird hit.
Here was my stab at it...
https://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/show...?tid=30767