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The volume on my interface is all the way up. Mahloo13 : Sat 17th Dec 2011 : 10 years - Well my chain goes roughly like this:Īll tracks -> Submix Bus -> Mix Buss -> Audio Track (where I print the mixdown)Īll my faders are down except the Submix and Mix which are left at 0dB. But, coming from a rock background, I do have a tendency to push things like the guitar and bass up in the mix and this 'clean' sound is not always my main goal. I could immediately hear a huge difference. Phyruis sent me some advice last week which was the first time I began to seriously consider frequency as maybe the most important aspect in mixing. I find many of the posts on this almost indecipherable with the tech language, though when I take it step by step it is often good advice. You gotta remember, most of us have neither been in a real studio nor studied mixing, and all of this is hit and miss and a hard learning curve, with a lot of new things to pay attention to and experiment with. It's a bloody hard balance to get right though. you'd hardly notice til you pay attention. Even in his dance stuff, the drums are way back in the mix, and are fine there.
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I've always been impressed by George Michael's production team. Unknown User : Sat 17th Dec 2011 : 10 years Being new to this and not ever having worked with hardware, what do you mean by vol up and faders down? Not sure I understand.? Pretty sad actually.but I guess I should stop with my rant. Nowadays I receive so many PT Sessions with the faders pushed all the way to heaven and limited the crap out of them. You can't imagine how much headroom you achieve by doing this. You know when we where working in the old studio our mix session started by turning the volume all the way up with all the faders being all the way down. "these cats are more swayed by volume than any frequency considerations" You've pretty much said it all there. I'd like it if people would listen twice to their work before uploading it somewhere.
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I do believe you do have a good point regarding the drums or bass and quite often I've found myself in a position of reviewing people and telling them to adjust that, there is just to much freedom nowadays regarding music production. Most people really, as you've said, don't understand how important those vocals are, I mean after all it's the lead part, but I might be picky as I'm coming from a rock background and there was always a lead part in a track be it vocals or guitar/bass/drums (think of solo here). Very good points! I also like somehow the older songs but being a mix engineer I gotta go with the wave. Mahloo13 : Sat 17th Dec 2011 : 10 years ago