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Edited away to avoid dickery.

Question for Mixing Engineers I have had a couple of unsolicited but frustrating comments on a mix, and I'd like to get the opinion of a real engineer about what could be done to improve it. I'll share the mix publicly because it's on the band's website, but I'd rather share the comments...

I find this both cool and very interesting. Why not do both?

I'm late to the party but I'm pretty much with RAMI on this one. Two overheads and a spot mic on the kick or snare if necessary is a great balance between minimalism and functionality. Use what you've got in terms of mics, and make the best mic choices you can. If all you have are a few...

Geez, seems like someone is cruisin' for a bruisin'. Here's my latest project: recorded and mixed at home, mastered by our own John Scrip: On Location - MUSIC Only samples are up, but the EP is for sale on Sunday.

And Greg, is that the trusty Supraphonic? Mine sounded great all over our CD. It's nice not to have to EQ something all to hell to make it sound good.

Another happy Kunaki customer here. They are dark but I've found you can just bump the brightness 10% or so and fudge it if you want. We opted to leave it dark because it makes you look harder at the cover image (which is a good thing in our case). I looked into all kinds of services and...

A sample is necessary, but one thing I'm learning is that not everything can be huge. You have to decide what's going to be the focus. Huge guitars, huge snare, huge kick, huge vocals. Something's got to give some contrast or instead of huge you're gonna have a bunch of mush. I've had what...

That's a really cool photo, CoolCat. When mastering for vinyl, does the mastering job end up on tape and then get transferred to the master disc cutter, or does (did) the disc get cut right there and then?

Werd. Get the snare in the middle of those OHs and let the rest fall where it may.

So it is said (argued, with data) that a change of +3 decibels means a sound is physically twice as loud as before the change. +10 decibels is 10 times as loud (but is perceived as "twice" as loud). Many cite 3dB as the smallest increment that the average person can perceive. My question is...

This is a home recording and DIY board, for sure. But there is really a lot of value to having a second set of (better) ears listening and tweaking in a better room with better equipment. There's something to be said for sending your work out. Do you agree?

There's wisdom in both of these posts. Maybe try panning those overheads in a little bit instead of expecting them to be so wide. This will put less emphasis on the time delay between mics, it'll move the timekeeping instruments (hat and ride) more toward the center of the spectrum, and it...

I just want to pipe up and say that a GFCI is a ground fault circuit interrupter, not an isolator. It senses fluctuations in the electricity flow between hot and neutral and trips its own internal breaker if it detects any. This is to protect people from shock and to protect faulty devices...

Princeton Reverb Reissue.

Maybe Phil and Rick made the sexy time.

Rod, Do you mean Rick Rubin? I hadn't heard of Phil and I looked the name up. The best-known Phil Rubin I can find is a cognitive scientist. Of course, there's probably a genre for that!

It's not just the chat for me, though - if I am going to have another set of ears, why not someone who clearly knows how to craft a tune? EDIT: This question I think actually gets at the heat of the argument in this thread. There are guys who think producers are a joke and there are guys on...

Thanks, Jay. I'm not convinced there's a problem. Not even a hint at this point that there is - I'm just curious if others do it to avoid a problem that I'm not foreseeing. Your advice is good on its face, and has another point: if it ain't broke...