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Is You Is - Olli H
Olli H Offline
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#1
29-08-2015, 03:58 PM
I was after a modern retro sound. My main reference was Al Schmitts mix of Paul McCartney’s recent jazz record ”Kisses on the boottom”.


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29-08-2015, 11:59 PM
I love it lovely mix
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11-09-2015, 01:55 AM
I like this mix. I think cool jazz agrees with you Olli Cool. Sometimes I wish the vox had a gentle verb air - mainly during the bridge, but the intimate vibe you have is great and if it matches your reference of the great Al Schmitt then I'm not going to objectBig Grin
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11-09-2015, 12:16 PM
I actually agree with you about air with vox, and I was thinking about it when mixing.

But in those rare cases when I found respectable and suitable reference to practice with, I tend to follow it to those details I'm still capable of hearing. Just to learn some new perspectives and just to refresh my mind from my own stubborn thinking patterns - and there's plenty of them. But I'm quite sure that if Al Schmitt heard my mix, he wouldn't find it so similar to his mixes. Smile

With next song I may find a reverby but venerable reference, and then I'll be testing the opposite with vox...
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25-10-2015, 03:50 PM
Very nice mix. I find the vocal is sitting very nice in the mix.
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13-12-2015, 11:55 AM
Had a listen this morning, beautiful mix! As Stefanos has stated, the vocals are sitting really nice. Very enjoyable. Well Done.
Dave Cool
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13-12-2015, 12:34 PM
thanks.
(@ Dangerous, I tried to find your mix, but I couldn't)
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13-12-2015, 01:20 PM
Still working on it. Will get it out there soon.
Dave.
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15-08-2017, 02:40 AM
Nice work.
I should add some delay to the voice.
The piano solo is awesome ! I couldn't get that tone.
Congrats ! Good job !
Marce Morales
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15-08-2017, 09:08 AM
For some reason I don't get anymore email notifications if someone comments my mixes. I happened to see your comment just by accident.

Thanks for comments. Actually the "secrect" of the piano sound is that I did almost nothing to it.
- I panned the left mic to center and right mic to full right. So I reduced the width, so that piano is more naturally somewhere
- 315 hz small cut
- 1.6 k very small boost
- 8.2 k bigger boost but only to sides, so I guess only to left mic as the right mic was in center.
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