[LAU] New blues and soul-esque tracks, need recording, mixing and mastering hints!

Jostein Chr. Andersen jostein at vait.se
Wed Aug 11 15:10:41 UTC 2010


onsdag 11 augusti 2010 14.56.39 skrev  Loki Davison:
> Any hints? How does it sound? Are the drums recorded ok? What would
> you do with compression, reverb, EQ, anything else to these tracks?

The tracks have a great live feeling, nice!

Questions like this is always hard to answer because personal preferences are 
so different for different people, bur I try a subjective answer here:


IMHO, you have to make a new raw mix - balance everything again before 
thinking compression, reverb and EQing. Right now, it's too load guitars, to 
little bass, the drums are too dynamic and so is the voice too. When yo have a 
better raw mix, it will be easier to decide what to do. You will probably want 
to compress the drums and the voice, and possible also flatten out the bass 
and tame the guitar. But first: New raw mix.

Make the drums sound as good as possible first, then the bass, then the guitar 
and then the voice - no processing except hp filters.

Jostein


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