Mix 1:

Compressor on lead vocal – gain to 3dB, thresh to -29dB, attack at 140, release at 80. Goal here was to set a low-ish threshold (which would limit much of the louder, harsher singing) and bump everything a bit to not sacrifice overall volume.

EQ on bass guitar – modest peak at 125hz [...]

dynamics0 On the first mix I only applied compression to the guitars and voices to reinforce the foregroung. I removed the automation that I had done on the vocals to try to solve the variation of volume through compression. On this one I didn’t use the presets and just tweaked the settings till I found [...]

musc317dynamics1

This first mix I used my full band session with the distortion on the lead guitar. I put a compressor on the lead guitar, put the threshold to -25.8 db, the attack to 300 ms, and upped the gain to 2 db. This took a little of the edge and power off [...]

dynamics1

For this I tried to limit the compression that I used, putting only on the vocals, lead guitar, bass, kick, and snare.  Each mainly used the presets with a little bit of tweaking as necessary.  This basically was just giving the song a few tweaks here and there to make it shine as [...]

Die-name-iks 1

With this take, I wanted to work on everything other than the drums and vocals.  Although I did put a many types of plug ins on my kick.  I noticed that the kick had a lot of bleed with cymbals and snare so I used a kill eq and silenced all the other [...]

Dynamics 1 For the first one, I added compressors to various parts of the piece, as I saw fit. It was interesting to be able to play around with it and see what worked and what didn’t. I ended up settling on adding a compressing factor to both vocal tracks, the bass guitar, and the [...]

With Dynamics Test 1 I only used compressors on the kick, snare, hat and bass. I did this because I wanted a punchy rhythm section. For the bass guitar I wanted to go for a rounder sound that would complement the kick nicely. For the kick I wanted it to be a very tightly compressed [...]

Dynamics 1

For this mix, I decided to explore the world of presets.  Each instrument in this recording which had a corresponding preset compressor I applied to the appropriate track.  I felt this would give me a sense of the basics before any adjustments are made.  This resulted in a pretty decent mix from [...]

I’ve really wanted to slap a compressor on that vocalist for a while.  ”…so don’t CLOSE YOOOOOOUR EYEEEEESE!”   Finally, I can level that out…

Dynamic 1

This one is pretty basic.  I added two compressors to each of the vocal tracks, one that shoved the loudest sounds down at the highest ratio [...]