
Roel
That SMART guy.
Just had a phonecall from the guitarist of the band for which I (partly) mixed the CD yesterday. After a 12 hours in a row mixing marathon, they listened to the mix at home, and complain about it being too flat and not consistant. What's to blaim for this?
The studio-engineer set up a basic mix, eq'ed drums where needed, compression where needed, and left me to set up the mix together with the band, then came back, setup the automation and recorded it to dat.
I could have said that I was not experienced enough to do this and rather had him doing it, but I don't know if it would've been better. (He always approved the mix when he came back in...) I also didn't know his monitors, but listened to alot of discs on them, while mixing, and it sounded way better, more power, less over-compressed,... Also, I didn't have to do all that much, mainly just cut out the annoying hum-kinda frequency on the bass and/or guitars where needed, play a little with panning during the song.
After the mixdown to dat, he transferred all of it to protools (digitally), and did some edits and some -primitive- mastering, just using a 3-band compressor, I think.
Anyway, I feel really bad, almost as if I screwed up my friends CD.(they'll probably go back to remix it, but it's gonna cost them another day at the studio extra.)
So, who's fault is this really? What do I do if they go back? Damn I'm screwed up. You really don't need this after such a long day...
The studio-engineer set up a basic mix, eq'ed drums where needed, compression where needed, and left me to set up the mix together with the band, then came back, setup the automation and recorded it to dat.
I could have said that I was not experienced enough to do this and rather had him doing it, but I don't know if it would've been better. (He always approved the mix when he came back in...) I also didn't know his monitors, but listened to alot of discs on them, while mixing, and it sounded way better, more power, less over-compressed,... Also, I didn't have to do all that much, mainly just cut out the annoying hum-kinda frequency on the bass and/or guitars where needed, play a little with panning during the song.
After the mixdown to dat, he transferred all of it to protools (digitally), and did some edits and some -primitive- mastering, just using a 3-band compressor, I think.
Anyway, I feel really bad, almost as if I screwed up my friends CD.(they'll probably go back to remix it, but it's gonna cost them another day at the studio extra.)
So, who's fault is this really? What do I do if they go back? Damn I'm screwed up. You really don't need this after such a long day...
