garybrun Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 (edited) What is the latest mixing or mastering tip you have recently learnt? Sing your main vocal... then do it again but whisper it.. then blend in. Edited February 14, 2022 by garybrun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Disclaimer: I mostly mix "metal/hard rock". So... Make everything louder than everything else. Then go back and try it again, only louder. ? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esteban Villanova Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Use bitcrusher on EVERYTHING. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bradley Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 There was a video from Kush where he showed how he sends a drum bus to 4 different parallel compressors doing different things ("tight", "punch", "smooth", "crush"). Interesting and useful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 But only use if you want to make Gold Records! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 37 minutes ago, Bapu said: Disclaimer: I mostly mix "metal/hard rock". So... Make everything louder than everything else. Then go back and try it again, only louder. ? Me thinks you have to do that old man because you can't hear ? but also isn't louder better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 1 hour ago, garybrun said: What is the latest mixing or mastering tip you have recently learnt? Sing your main vocal... the do it again but whisper it.. then blend in. Sounds like that new Apple commercial with the mom going down the basement stairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Baay Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Sing your main vocal... then do it again but whisper it.. then delete both tracks and load up a synth to carry the melody. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 17 hours ago, garybrun said: What is the latest mixing or mastering tip you have recently learnt? Sing your main vocal... then do it again but whisper it.. then blend in. I do that, sometimes a lower octave version too or even a somehow heavily mangled copy of the track. Basically anything to make it not sound so much like me. The main thing I've learnt about mixing is........I should have paid more attention years ago when I thought that our mixing guy was just a nerd with no actual musical ideas that just sat twiddling knobs for no apparent reason. I always figured that we mostly just kept him because he had a van and didn't mind being the driver. If I'd given his craft more credit, I might have been halfway good at it by now. Then again, he did seem to spend an awful lot of time twiddling knobs that made no apparent difference to anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Ive recently been trying with pinknoise... it works ok to get you in the ball park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWS Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 More cowbell! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 2 hours ago, garybrun said: Ive recently been trying with pinknoise... it works ok to get you in the ball park. One of my John Cage 4'33" covers is done purely using black noise... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 The concept that helped me the most for mixing was to think about everything in 3D (no, not using hallucinogens though those did help! ?). From the perspective of looking at the "players" directly in front of you; you have panning left to right, frequency up and down, and volume front to back. Making sure that you keep things in their own areas with a good balance kept the mix clean and interesting. I was right in the middle of getting oscilloscope software calibrated to my gear and learning how to take a mono input source (like a guitar) and make multiple copies for panning when I lost my studio. I really wanted to make that "wall of guitar" sound! Oh well... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 20 hours ago, garybrun said: Sing your main vocal... then do it again but whisper it.. then blend in. The Stones do that in Angie. There's actually two very different vocal tracks going at the same time in that song. With your headphones turned way up you can hear the different vocal tracks throughout the song. It almost sounds like bleed through on the acoustic track on the left then they redid the vocals and couldn't fix the bleed? I don't know. But there's clearly 2 vocal tracks going through the entire song and whispering during some of it after the 3:40 mark. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 The whispering just catches the listeners attention and draws them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 50% of your snare sound should come from overheads and room mics. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Add saturation to background vocals... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Mic upright pianos from behind... Al Smidt tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybrun Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Adding 800hz to the bass gets it in the pocket. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Don't do everything they tell us to do and we might learn something new. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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