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mixing techniques
I have been recording and mixing with a decent setup for a year or so, and have worked on several projects getting great feedback from most who hear the product. I just have problems here and there i would like to tweek to make everything gravy.
I am having a problem with the vocals sounding great on soft backing parts but not as present when the heavy guitars kick in. Not really sure of what to do other than volume automation to bring em out. Is this what others are doing? I am also having a problem with the drums. although I do get a great sound by itself, they are always sounding weak when I get the rest of the mix sounding as loud as I want through the monitors. I usually use the new york compression trick on em to get that punch, but somehow they end up sounding a little weak when everything else kicks in heavy. Am I using my compression wrong? Just would like any feedback I can get, hopefully some good. |
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Re: mixing techniques
Here are some links that may help you out. Lots of info here.
HDL column on Mixing Mixing Links Multi-buss compression and Parallel processing Vocal links More info Hope that helps. Shane
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Re: mixing techniques
No answer to your question...but what IS the NY compression trick?
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Re: mixing techniques
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Shane
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Pro Tools Power User Editing Give your plug-ins a facelift...and skin 'em! __________________ "Music should be performed by the musician, not by the engineer." Michael Wagener 25th July 2005, 02:59 PM __________________ Pro Tools|HD Native 9.0.1 | Pro Tools|HDX 10.2 | Studio One | REAPER 4.22 | HD OMNI | HoboMac Pro 2.26Ghz Quad-Core | W7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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Re: mixing techniques
thanks, I will check out those links.
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Re: mixing techniques
thanks, I will check out those links.
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Re: mixing techniques
basically you bus the drums and maybe even the bass to a separate track, compress the crap out of it, add some high end and low end and tuck it back under the original drums. it really fattens up those drums without squashing the original signal.
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Re: mixing techniques
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I believe most of the pros are using Soundreplacer or something like it in order to blend a sampled kick and/or snare and/or toms with the original drum tracks.
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Re: mixing techniques
Ive tried just the kick and snare as well, and varied amounts of compression. The problem is that the drums sound great on their own, but get lost when everything else comes in. I am using a compresson on the master fader.
yeah, I think that they are using samples mostly as well. there is just too much hihat/cymbol bleed on my snare to compress as hard as I would like to. I probably need to play around a little more with eq to get it to stick out more. I also have alot of spill on the toms. I recorded them with mics on top, but was wondering if the micing from the bottom would help control (for my next project of course). |
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