Any nifty recording or mixdown tricks?

jrdmcdnld · Post by **jrdmcdnld** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:56 pm

I'd like to have some new stuff to try on my mixes. I'm sure their are tons of experienced mixers here who could help out. You could talk about delays, verbs, compression, frequency ranges....

Thanks!

oldguitars · Post by **oldguitars** » Tue May 15, 2007 6:44 pm

parallel compression... always good! it involves splitting (multing) a track (or group of tracks) to 2 places and crushing the buhjesus out of 1 of the splits and blending them...

try on a drumset mix

jrdmcdnld · Post by **jrdmcdnld** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:59 pm

Thanks for replying.

yep, I've been messing with that one a lot lately. you can even eq the squished signal to accentuate certain frequency ranges.

OldTimey · Post by **OldTimey** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:59 pm

-Until you really know how your room and monitoring system respond to sound, drag stereo reference mix into your DP project, of a commercial song that has that one elemental "sound" you are after. It could be a kick drum, or a bass guitar, as in: "i want my kick to sound like the kick on this song, or that song" Match the gain levels, and then A/B your mix element with the references. tweak till you are happy...repeat for each element if you desire. once you have a few records, projects, scores, jingles, whatever under your belt try mixing with no reference and see how it goes...

that's one i use all the time

jrdmcdnld · Post by **jrdmcdnld** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:59 am

Good tip. Thanks, OldTimey.