sonusman
Banned
Well, for those who have been around for a while, you might remember a band called Porterhouse that I mixed some stuff for.
Anyway, the band got a singer and changed the name to Silky.
They tracked this 3 song demo in 2 days and we mixed all three songs in 6 hours. This is not mastered, nor even cleaned up (listen for the click track cowbell at the end!).
I didn't track this, just mixed it. It was tracked on an Alesis HD 24 using mostly an ART Dual MP as preamp (a couple of drum tracks used a Mackie pre but I couldn't really say which was, but I can guess....).
Anyway, the little studio only had a Mackie 1604 to mix on, and the demo used up all 24 tracks. So, I brought alone a Mackie 1202 and ran it's stereo outputs to a stereo Aux Return on the 1604 so that was could mix all 24 tracks. I only had 1 channel of compression available (a ART Levelar), and we used an Lexicon Alex and an Alesis Quadreverb 2 for effects. The Alex was on the 1604 and the Q2 was used for any tracks on the 1202 (which was usually the vocals and keyboards). Went into a MOTU 1204 soundcard (a piece of shit by the way! I am glad I never bought a MOTU product...plus the G3 it was running on crashed A LOT!!!)
Anyway, this is just a "get some gigs" demo for the band. Nothing serious. This is the singers first real band. The rest of the players are some serious shit around Portland.
My first R&B mix, such as it is. The gear limitations and lack of time meant a lot of good ideas for the mix couldn't be accomplished. Oh well. I look forward to the band doing a real CD soon.
Oh, did I mention that these guys have only played together as a band for 3 weeks? The sax player (who isn't on this tune...a little overdub mistake took care of that...
) and keyboard player have played together for a long time. But the bass player, drummer, and singer are all new in this.
Ed
Anyway, the band got a singer and changed the name to Silky.
They tracked this 3 song demo in 2 days and we mixed all three songs in 6 hours. This is not mastered, nor even cleaned up (listen for the click track cowbell at the end!).
I didn't track this, just mixed it. It was tracked on an Alesis HD 24 using mostly an ART Dual MP as preamp (a couple of drum tracks used a Mackie pre but I couldn't really say which was, but I can guess....).
Anyway, the little studio only had a Mackie 1604 to mix on, and the demo used up all 24 tracks. So, I brought alone a Mackie 1202 and ran it's stereo outputs to a stereo Aux Return on the 1604 so that was could mix all 24 tracks. I only had 1 channel of compression available (a ART Levelar), and we used an Lexicon Alex and an Alesis Quadreverb 2 for effects. The Alex was on the 1604 and the Q2 was used for any tracks on the 1202 (which was usually the vocals and keyboards). Went into a MOTU 1204 soundcard (a piece of shit by the way! I am glad I never bought a MOTU product...plus the G3 it was running on crashed A LOT!!!)
Anyway, this is just a "get some gigs" demo for the band. Nothing serious. This is the singers first real band. The rest of the players are some serious shit around Portland.
My first R&B mix, such as it is. The gear limitations and lack of time meant a lot of good ideas for the mix couldn't be accomplished. Oh well. I look forward to the band doing a real CD soon.
Oh, did I mention that these guys have only played together as a band for 3 weeks? The sax player (who isn't on this tune...a little overdub mistake took care of that...
) and keyboard player have played together for a long time. But the bass player, drummer, and singer are all new in this.Ed
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