Show Us Yer Mixing Skills.... 8) "Fool Me Once"

I am adding the bits between the asterix's to help with some confusion


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You load it, set the mixer up as I suggested and play through it... think of it as the clients rough mix to you.

You then decide, artistically and sonically what it needs.

You find the couple of tracking errors in the project and fix them, if you think it needs fixing.

You do your "mix thing" be it parallel compression, summing, special effects what ever you think

Maybe Dr Bill can run the mix through his silver bullet.. that sort of thing


My idea is, we all have the same starting point. But we will end up with a bunch of diffent mixes, and in some cases arrangement changes.

That way, if there is some treatment someone does to something that you like, you can ask them about it... and see sonically what it did.

Also, the artist has asked that the resultant mix for the Mastering Engineer be no louder than this rough mix.. it can have reduced crest factor but not an overall increase of loudness....

Artists feh ! 8)

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I thought this might be interesting.  Maybe it won't be?  8)

www.dropbox.com/s/8c1epjtw7l8cll4/Fool%20Me%20Once.zip?dl=0


Here is a song I just wrote and tracked.

"Fool Me Once" 112Bpm 96khz 24bit Wave Files

I thought it might be interesting if people wanted to have a mix.. we often hear about things like parallel compression on drums, and this and that, this plug in, Ocean Way this, Briscasti that... 8)

So these tracks are all me recorded here in my studio.

I tracked these things, then they have been re amped through my outboard, things like WA76, WA - TEC, Drip STA, Drip LA2A, LA500s etc

This is normal for me to do this... as a one man show, with limited outboard, it sort of simulates what I would do, if I had more gear at the tracking stage..


This should also function as a unity fader mix for you...  with the exception of the back harmonies, which need to be pulled 6dB.

I would pan like this.

Kick Snare Bass Vocal Solos Center

Ride and Hat half left and right (audience perspective)

 Nashville Acoustic  Hard Left (ride side)

Les Paul Tremelo Rythm Hard Right (hat side)

so its a LCR mix, with the exception of Overheads (Ride and Hat) which are just around half way left and right (Pan law vagaries aside)


The kick drum is an edited pattern, I had played it with the kick on 1 and 3 and wanted a few hits in there....

There are a couple of things, that need fixing "hint" a tom hit perhaps... but I want to see what people miss... evil snigger... 8)

So load in the tracks, set the pans and those backing vocals faders as I said and you should hear what I hear, pan law aside.

Lets hear what people come up with

So we can have apples with apples.. .You are not allowed to make it louder.

No louder...  be good for you to have some headroom in there... you can limit, compress all you want.. but do not raise the RMS level.

I also don't mind if you edit the arrangement or add or remove things.. just not louder... 8)


cheers

Wiz