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Vurt
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I hear and tell myself that all the time, but realized a few weeks ago that I don't follow it. I've more or less conformed to a standard routine in terms of recording approach, mic placement, signal processing, mixing, etc... and the result, although good most of the time, is beginning to bore me.
Friday night I cracked a bottle of Crown Royal and decided to excise everything I've learned about "overprocessing" with a particular song I had been looking forward to mixing.
I misused everything. I ran a guitar track through obnoxious reverb levels, a limiter, a gate, two compressors, and back. I blasted another guitar track through a plywood box built around a car stereo speaker and mic'd it out of phase. I normalized tracks. I compressed before preamps. I EQ'd tracks that sounded fine. I abandoned mono and panned shit everywhere like a madman, and then I went to bed.
Nursing a slight headache, I listened to it Saturday morning and realized I hadn't been as drunk as I thought. It actually sounds good. Very good, in fact. The levels and panning need a lot of help, but the tracks themselves are some of the best I've done in a long time.
Just wanted to encourage anyone in a rut to let the shit fly and see what happens...
Friday night I cracked a bottle of Crown Royal and decided to excise everything I've learned about "overprocessing" with a particular song I had been looking forward to mixing.
I misused everything. I ran a guitar track through obnoxious reverb levels, a limiter, a gate, two compressors, and back. I blasted another guitar track through a plywood box built around a car stereo speaker and mic'd it out of phase. I normalized tracks. I compressed before preamps. I EQ'd tracks that sounded fine. I abandoned mono and panned shit everywhere like a madman, and then I went to bed.
Nursing a slight headache, I listened to it Saturday morning and realized I hadn't been as drunk as I thought. It actually sounds good. Very good, in fact. The levels and panning need a lot of help, but the tracks themselves are some of the best I've done in a long time.
Just wanted to encourage anyone in a rut to let the shit fly and see what happens...