Better late then never I suppose. Being sick sucks.

Protools practice final mix

The first mix I used alot of maxim and eq1 on a couple of different instruments. I changed around the sound of the snare and bass drum with a couple of different effects to give it a little more power [...]

Mastering

This mix, I equalized and balanced everything as I have done in past assignments.  This time though, I worked with the percussion and the other instruments with vocals separately.  Whenever I hear a piano in a song, I feel that it is supposed to be the clarity, whether through a clear strike of [...]

MIXFINAL1

This is the final time I will have to listen to this song, so naturally I kissed the ground when I finished leveling it out and mixing it.  Yay!

For this mix, I leveled out all of the audio and equalized it, letting me have a base to work with.  I [...]

Don’t Close Your Eyes Final 1

I went through a process very similar to the one used in class to create my mix. I added, part by part into the piece until all parts were present. I started with the voice, where i eq boosted his higher range. Then i got the snare drum [...]

finality1

I basically equed almost everything, trying to bring out warmth while still making sure everything still had its own place in the mix and punchyness.  I also compressed quite a few of the instruments for mainly dynamic control.  Some gates were used for the various kit instruments trying to get more isolation. [...]

final_noeffects For the final mix I practically changed everything that I did on the previous mixes, the levels, eq, panning, compression to get a better separation of the instruments and to make some things sound better. I drew some crazy curves on the eq and maybe compressed some things a little too much, but I [...]

Final(ish)

Lead vocal: compressor at -27dB with fast attack, fast release, and +3dB gain. I did this to make the lead vocal stronger and more vibrant while eliminating the doubling track to avoid out-of-syncness.

Backup vocals: set the volume 2dB below the lead vocal and added a compressor with no gain and long release.

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e la fine

- to put finishing touches on my piece I cleared up the drums by adding a better eq and compressor.  also I decided to buss the vocal similar to what we completed in class.  As I listened to it there were a few places that seemed to be problematic but after [...]

After the class we had on gating, I couldn’t contain myself, I had to go back and use the gating techniques you taught us for the drums. I don’t think anything could have cleaned up my sound better than that. The drums sound so crisp now. I tweaked the EQ on them here and there, [...]

Effects 1

For this mix, I wanted to see how I could apply some of the concepts we learned in class this past week to what I had already prepared.  I found that the amount of attention and detail paid to the snare sparked my interest so I went back and took another look [...]