Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC050 December 2018 - Submissions until 21-12-2018 11:59pm GMT+1/CET
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 19:07 CET
Hello,
At first, I did not want to mix this song, cause of the bad recording, especially the drums. I dont think mixing is a repair job. Serve good recordings and we get a good result, cause you cannot polish shit. But the vocals and the A guitar and trem guitar changed my mind.
First of all, I sliced all the drum tracks and put the pieces where they should be. Then I supported the kick and snare with just one sample of a kick and snare sound. With EQ, Compressor, Gate and Transient enhancer I came to a good result. The room track was bad and so muted it the whole song. Just a bit of reverb for the drum kit, a plate reverb for the snare. The overheads were set at a lower volume.
Further no special treatments, just a normal equing, compressing, gating. I did no surgical equing. The guitars are highpassed, the bass is splitted in two tracks, one the lows, one the highs. The lead vocal is doubled with a second track, which is soundwise the same as the first one. Ons goes into an ambience reverb, the second is left dry. The backing vocals as a whole go to the same ambience as the main vocal, but more wet. All in all I used just a little reverb. The gain guitar is very low in volume, cause it is so awful.
Here are the results:
wav: Shades of red
mp3: Shades of red
At first, I did not want to mix this song, cause of the bad recording, especially the drums. I dont think mixing is a repair job. Serve good recordings and we get a good result, cause you cannot polish shit. But the vocals and the A guitar and trem guitar changed my mind.
First of all, I sliced all the drum tracks and put the pieces where they should be. Then I supported the kick and snare with just one sample of a kick and snare sound. With EQ, Compressor, Gate and Transient enhancer I came to a good result. The room track was bad and so muted it the whole song. Just a bit of reverb for the drum kit, a plate reverb for the snare. The overheads were set at a lower volume.
Further no special treatments, just a normal equing, compressing, gating. I did no surgical equing. The guitars are highpassed, the bass is splitted in two tracks, one the lows, one the highs. The lead vocal is doubled with a second track, which is soundwise the same as the first one. Ons goes into an ambience reverb, the second is left dry. The backing vocals as a whole go to the same ambience as the main vocal, but more wet. All in all I used just a little reverb. The gain guitar is very low in volume, cause it is so awful.
Here are the results:
wav: Shades of red
mp3: Shades of red