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

[Loki Davison]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein at vait.se> wrote:
> måndag 16 augusti 2010 15.22.04 skrev  Loki Davison:
>> Thanks for your advice, now up for every ones hopeful listening
>> pleasure: my new attempt at a mix.
>> http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~loki/moons_of_saturn-three_weeks_in_albania.
>> mp3
>>
>> I've tried to balance things a bit, and even attempted a bit of
>> compression and effects! :)
>>
>> Any hints? What do you think of the track? I found
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/ fantastically helpful for
>> this so thanks to everyone involved in that. I also tried using some
>> convolution using jconv so thanks to Fons.
>
> Great improvement, everything is loooot better! :-)
>
> I don't really wanna come with hints, you will improve a lot just by
> continuing what you do, just as you've showed compared with the first mix.
> Well.. you can do some automation on the vocal, her voice (words) disapears in
> one or two places and maybe you can turn the guitar just a little bit up
> again.
>
> Rember to allways use the hipass filter on every track, that alone make the
> mix sound clearer. Try > 50 on drums, 40-50 on bass, 80 on guitar possibly 130
> on voice, try and test. Remember that hints, meanings on the 'Net and what
> others are saying are (often subjective) directions, you are the boss! :-)
>
> I like the track, just keep on the good working :-)
>
> Jostein
>

Thanks guys, I'll attempt to put some compression on the drums now
that i've got a better idea of how it works.

All the hints on here as well as the tools available have been great.
I'll play more with the high pass filtering etc. Band is getting
together this evening so hopefully the EP will be ready soon :)

At the moment there is no reverb, etc, not sure if there should be.

Loki