Mix #4

I went back a few weeks to get the stems for this awesome Laufey cover the guys did in class and there were actually a few changes I could tell needed to happen in the mix right up front.

I started by moving some of the tracks around in the surround sound mix and lowering the dB on some of them , particularly the keyboard I felt was spiking quite a bit in some parts.

I realized the guitar needed some boosting and I was happy to deliver because it sound really very pretty it just needed a little help in the low mid section.

I threw a bit of a cutoff filter on the acoustic because I also felt it was coming through a bit heavy in some sections. I also had turned the gain down just a bit on this one earlier and after the edits I was very happy with the sound it delivered at the level it delivered.

comprehensive image of all the changes I made for this recording. you can see here the filters I used and even the compressor I threw over the vocals. I was really quite proud of the changes and how audible they were. really feels like practice has made a change in the way I listen to these songs.

This is the track sheet I filled out for the jazz band “Lead Female Vocalist which came with the following setup:
Lead Female Vocals

1. Gibson 335 electric guitar into a Fender Princeton Amp

2. Epiphone Jack Casady Artist series electric bass into a Markbass Mini CMD 121P 1x12 Bass Combo Amp

3. 5-piece Gretsch Catalina Drum Kit with Zildjian K Crash Cymbals

4. Saxophone

5. Trombone

I wanted to make Sure the cymbals, sax, trombone, and Vocals were all running with nice condenser mics.

We gave 57s to most of the other instruments minus the bass which was also getting plugged into a DI box that was feeding into our console via XLR.

Our kick drum got a Beta 52a and we made sure to give everyone a few EQ changes to accentuate them in the mix properly. This was a very fun exercise that I feel really got me thinking about recording setups and requirements for healthy sounding instruments.