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put some headphones on and have a listen to the raw drum track here:
Although some drums are slightly left or slightly right of middle, that is more to do with the positioning of the overhead mics when we recorded.
Now have a listen to the "basic mixed" track
In this case each track has been panned so it has its own "space" on the stereo spectrum, Even just this basic panning improves the sound. Some tracks have also has an EQ plugin added just to remove "boomyness" or add "highs" etc but its mainly the panning that has achieved this clarity to the recording. If you look at the screen grab of the mixer window you can see how they have been panned:
So the aim is to have ALL tracks sitting in their own spot on the stereo spectrum, this way nothing is competing to be heard or masking out other tracks.
Once you get the basic "stereo" mix right you then can start EQ'ing the various tracks so that certain frequencies dont cross over and sound lifeless and lack punch/definition.
Have a look at the below pic, will give you a rough idea where instruments sit over the frequency range.
Once you get this idea into your head you will start to notice it in every commercially produced song you listen to
Panning drums into their own space means having some of the cymbals/toms slightly l left or right, like you would see on a real drum kit. It makes use of stereo to make the sound more natural feeling and helps them stay separate from each other in the mix
I'm sure a lot of what I need to learn is covered in other threads so I won't chuck loads of questions in here. But if there are particular threads about basic producing, let me know.
Currently, all I'm doing is recording by micing up amps to a Zoom H5n, then sticking them into Garageband, where I randomly mess with volume levels before giving up...
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Say you have tracks recorded and the bass player has boosted his high mids, and the guitarist has scooped his mids out leaving just the low and high end, there will be certain frequencies that the bass and guitar are both prominently sitting on... it’ll sound muddy/flat... so you cut some of the basses high mids, cut some low from the guitar and boost the mids...
itll probably mean that in isolation the bass sound horrible as does the guitar... but together it works and sounds good!...
of course I may be talking nonsense, but it works well for me with the very little I do!.
See if you can get hold of an sm57 and a decent mic pre, will make the world of difference.
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I noticed some backing vox in the chorus, thinking air adding some to the mix myself tomorrow. Was also considering adding another guitar and doing a left right pan for the rhythm parts.
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started with drums, edited out an noisy bits, gated the kick and snare, EQ on all drum parts, Abbey Rd plates on snare, also stuck a very small bit of Waves Lo Air on kick.
Ampire on main guitars, can’t recall the setting.
Abbey Rd plates and delay on Wah and lead guitars, both panned.
Bass , EQ, compression.
vocal, tricky.....I kept a main vocal central , then decided to Copy the track 4 times.
Panned 2 tracks L/R, I delayed Left -25ms and advanced Right 25ms, added reverb and delay and EQ.
The next 2 tracks, edited down to just the choruses, them the magic Melodyne to create the harmony pitch, it was a bit tricky actually, panned L/R again, very low in the mix.
All Vocla have quite a bit of FX, EQ, Comp. Rev, delay.
Main bus - slight EQ and Limiter .
Nice challenge !
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As a reminder below is the raw recording with levels roughly balanced, no eq etc:
Sounds duff right?
But the basics are there (vocals are a struggle)
next up is the mix as done by @spark240
Really good mix, lots of air and punch details of what was done are listed in a previous post in this thread.
The next mix was done in garageband using just the plugins that come with it... for a free bit of software its bloody good! just basic panning and EQ, harmonies pitch shifted with the built in pitch shifter...
If anyone else wants to have a crack DM me and ill point you in the direction of the raw tracks.
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Seems I didnt actually Gate the Kick and snare in the end, so really just showing you what Plug I used.
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