[LAU] New music

Gerald Mwangi gerald.mwangi at gmx.de
Thu Jan 26 08:54:23 UTC 2012


That songs nice. What's the effect you used on the voice in the bridge?
Gerald

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 13:33 -0500, Al Thompson wrote:

> On 01/25/2012 01:20 PM, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> >
> >> That's what I've heard elsewhere. This is the first time I mixed drums,
> >> and I sat there for days and fiddling around.
> >> Our drummers opinion was that the snare shouldn't ring to much, since 
> > he
> >> likes it tight. I think a bit of ring is good so I'll try out your tip.
> > One important mixing rule is: Forget about personal preferences when it 
> > comes 
> > to how a single instrument sounds. It's the whole that matters and the 
> > snare 
> > should probably be heard thanks to the sound, not the volume.
> 
> I've got to second this.  Once you get a mix near the final stages, you
> might find that if you solo individual instruments, they end up sounding
> nothing like what you would normally prefer. 
> 
> It's also almost always a really bad idea to listen to the drummer's
> opinion of what his drums should sound like or where they should sit in
> a mix.  For one thing, he's the ONLY person who has no idea what his
> drums sound like, since he's the only one who sits behind them.  There
> is no possible way for him to know what HIS drums sound like while HE is
> playing them.  He has a very distorted view of what they really sound like.
> 
> 
> 
> (Here's another of my tracks.  This one is with my band:
> 
> http://soundcloud.com/althompson-indy/4-walls )
> 
> 


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