Sporkmyband
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Okay, I have a pretty good idea how to record instruments. I have a decent grasp on what mics to use when and where to point them.
I am mixing (and tracking and everything else) On Mackie 624s. I am using a Motu 896HD interface...I love it..yadda yadda
I am in a fairly large room. It is probably 18' by 20' something like that...maybe 25 feet by 20. I can't remember. It has bass traps in the corners behind my monitors. There is a rectangle of auralex over where I mix and behind the monitors. The windows are not directly behind each monitor, but they are covered in heavy fabric. The room has fairly large rugs covering most of the wooden floor. The room is fairly dead. When you clap your hands there isn't a noticable echo. I use reference cds all of the time. They sound good as expected. But my bass energy in my mixes is ALL WRONG!
I simply can't get it right. It makes me want to cry...I am an emotional mixer...lol. I am not caking on sub processors and exciters. When I listen to my mixes on the stereo in my girlfriends factory sound system in her Ford Explorer my stuff seems to be overdriving the speaker. It seems like there is possibly too much bass information...more than the speakers can handle. It distorts when I turn it up more quickly than professionally recorded cds. That is the only real difference. Tonally, it is similar, or at least there is not a half of a million dollar difference in mine and some of my favorite cds. What do you guys (the professionals like Chessrock for example) do to make it fit in a normal stereo. Should I mix the songs and then do a high pass cut at about 60 or 80. Would that do the trick? I know it is about creating an illusion that everything is loud. It seems that professional sounding cds almost have weak bass. If this is the case, why use things like subharmonics enhancers on basses and kicks. Do I have to have a sub, or is there a clean cut that would be good to do everytime?
Please let me know. This is in my MYSTERY series of questions I will be asking you guys about.
I am mixing (and tracking and everything else) On Mackie 624s. I am using a Motu 896HD interface...I love it..yadda yadda
I am in a fairly large room. It is probably 18' by 20' something like that...maybe 25 feet by 20. I can't remember. It has bass traps in the corners behind my monitors. There is a rectangle of auralex over where I mix and behind the monitors. The windows are not directly behind each monitor, but they are covered in heavy fabric. The room has fairly large rugs covering most of the wooden floor. The room is fairly dead. When you clap your hands there isn't a noticable echo. I use reference cds all of the time. They sound good as expected. But my bass energy in my mixes is ALL WRONG!
I simply can't get it right. It makes me want to cry...I am an emotional mixer...lol. I am not caking on sub processors and exciters. When I listen to my mixes on the stereo in my girlfriends factory sound system in her Ford Explorer my stuff seems to be overdriving the speaker. It seems like there is possibly too much bass information...more than the speakers can handle. It distorts when I turn it up more quickly than professionally recorded cds. That is the only real difference. Tonally, it is similar, or at least there is not a half of a million dollar difference in mine and some of my favorite cds. What do you guys (the professionals like Chessrock for example) do to make it fit in a normal stereo. Should I mix the songs and then do a high pass cut at about 60 or 80. Would that do the trick? I know it is about creating an illusion that everything is loud. It seems that professional sounding cds almost have weak bass. If this is the case, why use things like subharmonics enhancers on basses and kicks. Do I have to have a sub, or is there a clean cut that would be good to do everytime?
Please let me know. This is in my MYSTERY series of questions I will be asking you guys about.
