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eclips1
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For the sake of this thread lets pretend my analysis is your analysis and please tell me what ya'll might do in this situation. I have only been mixing for a few months, so please bare with me.
I finished a 6 hour mix session last night. The overall mix was better than I've done to this point. Inperfections noticed where
1: Seemed like the bass and kick where muddying up the over all mix just a litttle and it seemed to me that the vocals where fighting with the kick and bass(frequency wise, the volume seemed okay), esspecially on the 1st bars going into say the chorus, bridge, or verses. Its not that the low end sounded rediculiously loud, but kind of all over the place.
2: I thought the mix could be brighter so I gave it a high pass 2.5db eq boost starting at 1200hz. This did brighten up the mix, but it made the highhat and shaker come out in the mix too much. To me the mix sounded like a smiley face eq band at this point
My questions are, would you leave it up to the mastering engineer( when the entire album goes out for mastering) or tweak your overall mix to get it how you want it? If you where to tweak it what would you use and for what result(multi band compression, eq??) I didn't know if I should work with the over all mix, or go back into the mix track by track to get it right from jump?
To finish the story, I went in today and started by cutting the drums and bass mix 2dbs at 150 hz. (I had already mixed the drums and bass together-running too many tracks and fxs boggs my system down) Then the vocals seemed to be sitting out front too much so I proceeded to ajust the volume on the lead and thus started my snowball rolling down the hill to hell. 5 hours later after I have ajusted just abought EVERYTHING, the mix sounds worse than last nights!
Anyways, sorry for the long post...Any suggestions? comments??
I finished a 6 hour mix session last night. The overall mix was better than I've done to this point. Inperfections noticed where
1: Seemed like the bass and kick where muddying up the over all mix just a litttle and it seemed to me that the vocals where fighting with the kick and bass(frequency wise, the volume seemed okay), esspecially on the 1st bars going into say the chorus, bridge, or verses. Its not that the low end sounded rediculiously loud, but kind of all over the place.
2: I thought the mix could be brighter so I gave it a high pass 2.5db eq boost starting at 1200hz. This did brighten up the mix, but it made the highhat and shaker come out in the mix too much. To me the mix sounded like a smiley face eq band at this point
My questions are, would you leave it up to the mastering engineer( when the entire album goes out for mastering) or tweak your overall mix to get it how you want it? If you where to tweak it what would you use and for what result(multi band compression, eq??) I didn't know if I should work with the over all mix, or go back into the mix track by track to get it right from jump?
To finish the story, I went in today and started by cutting the drums and bass mix 2dbs at 150 hz. (I had already mixed the drums and bass together-running too many tracks and fxs boggs my system down) Then the vocals seemed to be sitting out front too much so I proceeded to ajust the volume on the lead and thus started my snowball rolling down the hill to hell. 5 hours later after I have ajusted just abought EVERYTHING, the mix sounds worse than last nights!
Anyways, sorry for the long post...Any suggestions? comments??
