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I've just gotten back into composing/arranging after an 8 year ... diversion, I guess. Now I'm getting back into it, I'm trying my hand at mixing too.
A friend's band has asked me to have a shot at mixing some of their songs. So as to not completely embarrass myself, I thought I'd run my progress past some of you guys.
There's a bit of a story behind why this mix sounds so horrible haha I was given ONE drum overhead track and the kick and snare were totally buried/underwater. So I went pretty overboard on compression. I will back off A LOT once they supply the close mic tracks.
So this is mostly about general tone at this stage.
In terms of harmony, I've got one stereo guitar track and one stereo synth track (with stereo effects rendered into their tracks). My approach (after listening to where the majority of the sweet energy was for each) was to high/low pass the guitar at around 600 - 8k and use the Snyth to add some body back. The guitar's sweet spot was around 2k, so I notched the synth there and added a high shelf to get a bit more sparkle. They still feel like they're fighting each other a bit.
What techniques would you trial to get more separation between them?
I haven't really battled with the vocals at all yet. I will do some manual (auto)tune to sharpen the worst flat parts, get a bit of a slap-back delay sending to a wet reverb. I've just pinned a preset on it for now (and I know it sounds pretty bad).
There's a heavy section that comes in later in the track that I haven't worked on yet.
Anyway, I'll have about 12 songs total to do, but no real time frame. I'll check back in as I make more changes.
Cheers!
I've just gotten back into composing/arranging after an 8 year ... diversion, I guess. Now I'm getting back into it, I'm trying my hand at mixing too.
A friend's band has asked me to have a shot at mixing some of their songs. So as to not completely embarrass myself, I thought I'd run my progress past some of you guys.
There's a bit of a story behind why this mix sounds so horrible haha I was given ONE drum overhead track and the kick and snare were totally buried/underwater. So I went pretty overboard on compression. I will back off A LOT once they supply the close mic tracks.
So this is mostly about general tone at this stage.
In terms of harmony, I've got one stereo guitar track and one stereo synth track (with stereo effects rendered into their tracks). My approach (after listening to where the majority of the sweet energy was for each) was to high/low pass the guitar at around 600 - 8k and use the Snyth to add some body back. The guitar's sweet spot was around 2k, so I notched the synth there and added a high shelf to get a bit more sparkle. They still feel like they're fighting each other a bit.
What techniques would you trial to get more separation between them?
I haven't really battled with the vocals at all yet. I will do some manual (auto)tune to sharpen the worst flat parts, get a bit of a slap-back delay sending to a wet reverb. I've just pinned a preset on it for now (and I know it sounds pretty bad).
There's a heavy section that comes in later in the track that I haven't worked on yet.
Anyway, I'll have about 12 songs total to do, but no real time frame. I'll check back in as I make more changes.
Cheers!