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About This Multitrack
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You can find the multitrack files for this project in the 'Mixing Secrets' Free Multitrack Download Library.

Before posting a mix, please read The Three Commandments!
Please post your mix as a new thread, rather than as a reply to this sticky.

Here's some more project info you might find useful:
  • About The Raw Multitracks: A nicely ordered project this, so you don't really need to think to hard about things from an arrangement perspective and you can just get on and mix.
    • The drum tracks comprise stereo overheads, and single close mics for the snare and two toms. Instead of a kick-drum close mic, you get a trigger signal which you can use to insert your own choice of sample. In addition to the live parts, there is a tambourine loop track.
    • The bass part is DI'd.
    • There are three electric guitar parts, each with accompanying double-track.
    • There's a single stereo grand-piano part.
    • The lead vocal is provided across two tracks to allow for overlaps, and there's a double-track of it for the choruses. The backing vocals comprise one double-tracked female line, and four male lines, all but one also double-tracked.
  • Challenges You're Likely To Face:
    • The snare and tom close mics aren't particularly natural-sounding, and the snare presentation in the overheads is a bit muffled, so you'll have work to do to get that sound to compete with the cymbals. The overheads image is also very widespread, and therefore may suffer significant balance changes in mono.
    • The guitar arrangement is fairly static, so it may be difficult to pull off real pop-style dynamic contrasts without doing some multing and/or layering of additional parts.
    • Although the lead and backing vocal performances are all very committed, they've been quite heavily processed with real-time pitch-correction, and it's tricky to avoid the artefacts of this from showing through if you bring the vocals as far up front as a pop track tends to demand.
  • Some Mixing Tips:
    • Start with the vocal. Seriously -- she puts in a star turn performance-wise, so make the most of it! Smile
    • I'd probably trigger not only a kick-drum sample, but also a snare, and maybe toms too.
    • A bit of subtle (or not so subtle!) distortion on the bass will help it cut through the mix.
    • Multing is your friend here, not just in terms of varying the guitar arrangement, but also for making the most of the vocal sound in different parts of the song.
    • I'd personally reimport some of the lead vocals into something like Melodyne and try to iron out the printed-in pitch-correction misfires.
      There's lots of discussion available about this multitrack over on Mixoff.org, where it served as the basis of a mix-off competition presided over by engineer Arthur Walwin. The winning mix can be found here, but there are plenty of other versions on that thread too. (And you're welcome to post mixes for feedback here as well, of course!)

If you have any other general questions about this multitrack, just reply to this post and I'll see what I can do.
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About This Multitrack - by Mike Senior - 20-09-2012, 04:42 PM
RE: About This Multitrack - by c3kkos - 01-10-2012, 08:53 PM
RE: About This Multitrack - by FXOjafar - 14-07-2013, 11:41 PM
RE: About This Multitrack - by takka360 - 15-07-2013, 05:43 AM
RE: About This Multitrack - by Mike Senior - 15-07-2013, 09:58 AM
RE: About This Multitrack - by Dags - 15-07-2013, 11:05 AM
RE: About This Multitrack - by Mike Senior - 16-07-2013, 07:15 AM
RE: About This Multitrack - by Jamolir - 16-07-2013, 08:49 AM
RE: About This Multitrack - by Cassandra - 12-12-2015, 10:50 PM
RE: About This Multitrack - by imageofrage - 30-11-2016, 03:36 PM
RE: About This Multitrack - by Mike Senior - 30-11-2016, 08:09 PM