08-10-2019, 10:40 PM (This post was last modified: 12-10-2019, 10:15 AM by Davie.T.)
Had sooo much fun with this as a big band guitarist.I know this genre requires more organic sound and little to no processing but in this case I treated it a bit like commercial record(Lots of compressions,automation) Hope It doesn't sound too squashed and remains natural.
Cheers!!
Opener#2
Few adjustments-More reverb and cleaned a bit some of this washy/edgy 2 kHz area.I also tried some bus drum fattening cause drums sounded really weak compared to the horn ensemble to me.
Being a BB musician you're going to know a lot more about this genre than myself so take the following comments with a grain of salt.
I really like the balance across the floor. The dynamics and compression seem to be tastefully executed for my taste also. I found a little build up of upper mid frequencies around the 2.5khz that made things a little hash. Also I found the space around the performance a little undefined overall.
I hope you don't mine, I included a version of your mix with a gentle cut centred at 2.4khz and adding some slight ambience overall. This seemed to help settle the mix nicely within a space and bring it more into line with some material I referenced. Once again, I hope you don't mind. I have got into trouble for doing this thing before.
09-10-2019, 03:45 PM (This post was last modified: 09-10-2019, 03:46 PM by Davie.T.)
Man of course not I'm happy you did it and you proved your point-It was just too dry.I was really careful with reverb cause I wanted to achieve more upfront close sound(At least I convinced myself It sounds that way)But when I referenced that toady It really sounded like recorded in practice room.Thanks for your help Dave till next mix
