AA2 Week 8 Mixing

YOU CAN SKIP THE FIRST PARAGRAPH IF YOU WANT, JUST BLABBERING!!

Mixing at first is very tedious, organising your files, setting up buses after buses, blah blah blah. But after all this leg work it becomes quite enjoyable, adding effects and plugins. Hearing the difference between raw and modified. After this is done it again becomes quite tedious, tweaking the plugins, outboard etc. Tweaking is so frustrating, hearing the same bit over and over again, finding the perfect levels only to find out that the volumes and effects you've added don't work with the rest of the song. But ultimately the final product is very rewarding.

The 3 examples are a clear example of why you should use reference songs, and test it on multiple speaker systems. THE BASS IS WAY TOO LOUD!!! But if you look past this you can see that Ive done a few things to the signals. Compression on the bass, EQ on all instruments, used multiple guitar recordings panning left and right and reverb on the snare and guitars. I'm fairly happy with my result, apart from the bass, but this is a simple volume issue. Ive even done some manual compression on a soft note from a guitar riff.

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References:

Grice, David. "Mixing (1)." Lecture. Adelaide University. 6/5/08

White, Paul. "Mixing Essentials." Sound on Sound Magazine. October 2006

McKercher, Paul. "Mixing Psychology." ???? Mus Tech Reading IIA 2008

Starvrou, Michael. " More Salvage Mix Techniques." ???? Mus Tech Reading IIA 2008