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Personally I chose to ignore the diaphragm of the mic bottoming out on her louder passages. It's not a great sound but it's certainly not the worst thing I've ever heard in a track. I go back and forth between loving the mixes with the smoothed out guitars and vocals, you know the really glossy, soaking wet ones and the more natural ones. One thing I have noticed is that a lot of people heard the word "live" associated with this mix and somehow turned it into to "stadium." I'm not expert but I would avoid trying to make your mix sound "more live" by creating a huge sea of reverb around it. For my mix I was thinking more of an intimate live setting with decent acoustics and a relatively clean feed from the FOH board to be taken to a studio for mixing instead of trying to replicate the way the performance actually sounded in the auditorium. For my mix I went with a fairly dry sound. That doesn't mean there isn't processing. My UAD quad card is at 65% and my outboard looks like a christmas tree of meters! At any rate here's my mix, most of you have probably heard it because I've been making sure to keep it at the top of the SC group. This is a lottery, might as well at least get noticed! Good luck to all of you and leave me some feedback if you feel like it!
 
soupiraille said:
Good point: if it's already tangent, just exaggerate the problem instead of trying masking it. As for me, to deal with the saturation problem, I added a dose of *digital* saturation, which is not that ugly I think and makes the vocal sound both analog And digital. That's a new concept!
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What is digital saturation? Clipping?

The vocals sounds actually quite cool to me. Resonances can also be caused by the singers head or scull. Especially when it gets from soft to very loud, overtones or resonances can become obvious.
 
Hello everyone! i've been lurking and checking the mixes so far, wow!

here is mine, i would love to have some feedback :) there is detailed info in the soundcloud description :)

 
Personally I chose to ignore the diaphragm of the mic bottoming out on her louder passages. It's not a great sound but it's certainly not the worst thing I've ever heard in a track.
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Yeah, that was more or less my approach too.

What is digital saturation? Clipping?
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I'm curious about this too - bit crushing maybe? I know that can sound pretty cool in certain situations...
 
My mix of "Oh baby" by the liza Colby Sound



Here's my mix. I'm still having some phasing issues on the overheads. any tips on this would be welcome.
 
Maybe it was not a good decision to make a clear and transparent mix. The treble is pretty nasty. What do you think is my mix too nasty? :confused:
 
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Here's my mix. I'm still having some phasing issues on the overheads. any tips on this would be welcome.
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Try delaying the right channel of the OH about 27ms - that should provide a more balanced stereo image of the drum set.
 
AlexB said:
Hello everyone! i've been lurking and checking the mixes so far, wow!

here is mine, i would love to have some feedback :) there is detailed info in the soundcloud description :)

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I think your mix rocks :thumbs up:
 
@ AlexB

like the drums. better OH than most. verse gtr & vox seem over-wet to me. Vox overall is great. I found I had to pan OH to the right a good bit to get a good stereo maybe just me... good mix. wanting more gtr in chorus. lead gtr part is nice. feel free to leave me coments. Might have considered Hat & gtr always panned away from each other to fill more space... but that's my brain. snare feels heavy at times. I hear aolt of OH splash during some tom fills & toms don't feel in the mix at times. I still like the mix. My comments are minor.
 
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Hey everybody,

this is my mix. Tried to put you in front of the band. Such a great energy in the song. Listening to other submissions, i find there is so
much harshness in a lot of mixes, I wanted to have mine sounding a little more fat in the low mids. Check it out and let´s see how you like it. You can find the mix details in the soundcloud description.

Good luck!!

soundcloud.com/oliver-haertel/oliver
 
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Don't know if this will help. To resolve phasing issues try resorting to a mono mix. If you listen to the OH in mono and pan left/right you should/might hear a spot that they seem louder and crisper, maybe even a bit more meat. The loudest spot is likely where they are in phase. I'd recommend always checking your mix in mono, and specifically phase. I'd even recommend a single small (4"?)full range speaker to monitor this task if possible. If something in your mix disappears, or diminishes a lot in mono, it's out of phase. Guess you could use some sort of 'scope' to visualize phase. But our ears were good enough to align & calibrate tape heads back in the day, so they should be the right tool for this job imo.

As a flipped example, I chose to reverse 180 phase on a background gtr I used on the chorus in my mix. A technique used more often than you might think. Opens a lot of space in a mix, just have to be careful where they are panned, you don't want them to cancel each other out in mono. On my mix, near the end of the track, you can clearly hear the effect as various chords played on gtr have a varying degree of stereo separation as phase varies according to dominate freq & such.

Phase can be your best friend - and more than ever, easy to take advantage of...

Try it & get better mixes. my 2 cents
 
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@marcowongso

Don't know if this will help. To resolve phasing issues try resorting to a mono mix. If you listen to the OH in mono and pan left/right you should/might hear a spot that they seem louder and crisper, maybe even a bit more meat. The loudest spot is likely where they are in phase. I'd recommend always checking your mix in mono, and specifically phase. I'd even recommend a single small (4"?)full range speaker to monitor this task if possible. If something in your mix disappears, or diminishes a lot in mono, it's out of phase. Guess you could use some sort of 'scope' to visualize phase. But our ears were good enough to align & calibrate tape heads back in the day, so they should be the right tool for this job imo.

As a flipped example, I chose to reverse 180 phase on a background gtr I used on the chorus in my mix. A technique used more often than you might think. Opens a lot of space in a mix, just have to be careful where they are panned, you don't want them to cancel each other out in mono. On my mix, near the end of the track, you can clearly hear the effect as various chords played on gtr have a varying degree of stereo separation as phase varies according to dominate freq & such.

Phase can be your best friend - and more than ever, easy to take advantage of...

Try it & get better mixes. my 2 cents
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@sonicsculptor
Thanx For your tips! I' ll definitely try it
 
m.w.a.p. said:
Maybe it was not a good decision to make a clear and transparent mix. The treble is pretty nasty. What do you think is my mix too nasty? :confused:
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Yes , That' s what I thought also after computing it to other mixes . Thanx for the suggestion
 
m.w.a.p. said:
Maybe it was not a good decision to make a clear and transparent mix. The treble is pretty nasty. What do you think is my mix too nasty? :confused:
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Ps your mix sounds Well ballanced , Not too nasty in the treble to me
 
Hey guys, here is my version. Cheers!
h*tps://soundcloud.com/fakas-1/bruno_domingues_liza_colby_oh
 
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