dobro's mixing tips: #1

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Always make sure that everything in your mix is louder than everything else.
 
Also, if you're a guitar player, make sure you crank the volume on your wicked shreading solos all the way up.
 
And make sure your guitar is EVERYWHERE--panned around the clock, eq'd high and low, volume front and back, clean, distorted, compressed, flanged, chorused, delayed and six kinds of reverb.

That'll do 'er.
 
You strap a comp across the main inserts at 20:1 with a threshold of -40db............

"Headroom or dynamics???? We don'need no stinkin' headroom or dynamics!"

Bruce
 
I pick up more gud tips here. Bruce, that is a 3630 across the two buss, right?:cool:
 
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Track Rat said:
I pick up more gud tips here. Bruce, that is a 3630 across the two buss, right?:cool:
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Actually - 2 of 'em.... chained! :D :D :D :D

yikes! :p
 
I find it most effective to have the "SOLO" button on the lead guitar tracks when the actual SOLO comes, thats much easier than properly lowering the volume on all that other stuff,
just trying to help
Shreadzilla
 
Wait a minute........that's what the solo button is for, right?????:confused:
 
Cuzzin' Brucie, will a BBE Maximizer make my mixes louder!!??:D
 
Bruce... FYI that compressor-trick is not mixing, it's mastering!!!!
 
I've found that using a heavy plate reverb set to 100% wet can help overcome bad vocals. Sometimes a delay on top of that will help even more. In general, if you can still understand the words, you probably aren't using enough. :p
 
These are all very good tips, but the most important thing in mixing (and mastering as well) is to have as many blinking lights on as possible.
Make sure all your gear is turned on and the flashing lights shall not only turn your studio into a disco, they will also make your mix sound a lot better!





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Oh, that's oh so true dB51. In addition to being an overall rule of thumb indicator of how involved you are in your mix, a large number of variously-colored LEDs lend a festive air to any session and - for me at least - inspire.
 
On digital it's easier, you can clearly hear when it distorts and you got rid of that nasty headroom. So you just turn it up untill you hear the clicks. You can play with it a little, we mostly turn it up a little more because the clicks have become a part of our sound, but that really is up to you...
 
This one is my favourite.

First make sure you mute the studiomonitors,and turn the amplifier all the way up.

Now connect a digital recorder to a track on your console with the fader down, and send this channel thru an aux to the same recorder in such a way you get a loop. Now slowly push your fader up until your meterbridge is about to explode.

Depress the mute button of your monitors.

This will work better if you have a multiple monitorsetup since the effect can only be done like two seconds per monitorpair.
 
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