[LAU] [OT] Help with mixing and mastering?

[david]

James Stone wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:12:54AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> James,
>>    Welcome and best of luck with what you're doing. IMO his is
>> completely the right place to ask questions like this.
>>
> 
> Thanks Mark!
> 
> 
>> 2) Learn to use busses and in general limit yourself to a single
>> reverb. Try to leave a LOT of headroom in your indivdual track
>> recordings as it will reduce the number of limiter and compressors you
>> find yourself using overall. Using multiple reverbs will eventually
>> lead to a muddy sound as every instrument starts acting like it's in a
>> different room. Busses are easy in Ardour, albiet FAR more capable
>> than they really should be. That said, you need them and once you
>> learn to use them for things like reverb you'll probably be better
>> off.
>>
> 
> I had a quick mess around with a bus with TAP reverb, and only 1
> reverb.. It gave the track a more "live" sound to my ears - more
> real maybe, but lacking some of the dynamics of a studio
> recording.. any idea where I am going wrong?
> 
> How about compression? Is it OK to run 2 compressors in parallel
> like the C* and Satan Maximizer, or is it just a waste of
> resources?
> 
>> way you want your mix to sound. You don't say much about music style,
>> which is cool, but I suggest that one answer doesn't fit Animal
>> Collective, Particle, McCoy Tyner and John Mayall, all being bands
>> I've listened to in depth this week. Maybe you're doing something
>> non-pop/rock and some sort of strange reverb setup makes it work. If
>> that's the case then by all means do WHATEVER works!
> 
> Well, our first studio track, which was recorded by a student
> engineer in a semi-proper studio on protools, then mixed and
> mastered by a professional engineer is here:
> 
> http://www.last.fm/music/kitten+cake
> 
> mp3 here:
> 
> http://drop.io/dont_call_her_baby (password: kc09)

That's a very nice sound. Good recording quality - very clean, nice 
separation between instruments. Duly added to the playlist!

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David
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