I posted this in another thread but figured some more of you may want to see it. Its nothing too special, just a quick tour around the mixer of a recent mix.
Some background on the mix:
Drums:
Drummer injured his arm before tracking so he couldn't hit as hard as he had in other times that I'd recorded him. Kit was a birch starclassic, all cymbals bar one crash were AAX's. Snare skin was quite new, tom skins were old, so used more samples than I would have liked. Snare was a maple black beauty, 14x6.5 i think. Kick is about 45% sample, snare is 65% or so (you can see in the video). Drums were recorded one section at a time and comped together as we went on. Was a good way to track as we could concentrate on each fill and make sure everything was how we wanted it. drum editing all done before this vid obviously - all hits pocketed to behind the beat.
Bass:
some cheap jackson bass with newish strings. sounded OK, but far from the best I have recorded. you can see in the video that all bass notes have been pocketed to the drums.
Guitars:
gibson SG -> 6505 -> mesa cab v30's -> sm57 at an angle. wanted quite a vintagey tone so angled the mic away from the center of the cone for a warmer kind of sound. EQ'd slightly more than normal on this one (as you can see in the video).
Vocals:
AT4040. doubled up whatever lines we felt necessary to keep it interesting, same goes for harmonies etc.
the drums were actually from another session, but same kit/mics etc.
dropbox link (better quality): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/303799/Remember%20Mix.mov
any questions, feel free to ask.
Some background on the mix:
Drums:
Drummer injured his arm before tracking so he couldn't hit as hard as he had in other times that I'd recorded him. Kit was a birch starclassic, all cymbals bar one crash were AAX's. Snare skin was quite new, tom skins were old, so used more samples than I would have liked. Snare was a maple black beauty, 14x6.5 i think. Kick is about 45% sample, snare is 65% or so (you can see in the video). Drums were recorded one section at a time and comped together as we went on. Was a good way to track as we could concentrate on each fill and make sure everything was how we wanted it. drum editing all done before this vid obviously - all hits pocketed to behind the beat.
Bass:
some cheap jackson bass with newish strings. sounded OK, but far from the best I have recorded. you can see in the video that all bass notes have been pocketed to the drums.
Guitars:
gibson SG -> 6505 -> mesa cab v30's -> sm57 at an angle. wanted quite a vintagey tone so angled the mic away from the center of the cone for a warmer kind of sound. EQ'd slightly more than normal on this one (as you can see in the video).
Vocals:
AT4040. doubled up whatever lines we felt necessary to keep it interesting, same goes for harmonies etc.
the drums were actually from another session, but same kit/mics etc.
dropbox link (better quality): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/303799/Remember%20Mix.mov
any questions, feel free to ask.
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