MixWOLPH 3- Draft Submission- Chicosatis

[ChicoSatis]

Hey all,

Well, here is my first draft. Like many of you, I know very little about this genre (especially in terms of mixing), so my goal for the first mix was to just get everything to "sound good." That is, create a landscape. Make sure everything fit. Balance frequencies. I'm interested to see what people do in terms of automation. (Filter sweeps, cool panning tricks, etc.) I decided to save that much for my final submission and just steal the best ideas you guys put up.

So far so good though. I really like the song. Very catchy. Thanks again to Lagerfeldt for letting us use it.

HAve a good one.

Click here to listen to the mp3

[iStudio72]

Bah, i don't have the Space DSN Insert as i am using Logic Express, still sounds good though.

I notice a lot of your channel strips are way up in the red on the dB meter and your stereo out strip is faded down to compensate...is this usual? I try to keep each strip in the negative dB and i keep the stereo out at 0dB - am i being a numpty and missing something here?

[camillo jr]

Yeah, I notice the Output fader was down too. But I just pushed it up to zero dB and it now peaks at about -2.

I've gotten to like this song too! As with everything I work with, it often happens that the next morning the last thing I mixed will be going through my brain. Sometimes this is irritating! But I'm liking this tune a lot. It was fun to mix and try out things I don't usually get to do with my mostly acoustic clientele.

ChicoSatis, I'm looking forward to hearing your final mix 'cause I really liked what you did in MixWOLPH 2. This track so far feels a bit over reverby to me in places and I'd like to hear the voice more up front somehow, especially compared to some of the mallet synth stuff. OTOH, I really like where you put that busy guitar lead in the first chorus. I'm gonna have to revisit that bit in my own mix.

[iStudio72]

Well the flood gates are now open, come on lets see some more mixes uploaded

Well done ChicoSatis for being the first brave soul!! I must say yours is very different to mine, probably because i have no idea what i am doing hehe

[ChicoSatis]

Hey all,

Thanks for giving it a listen. It's funny you mentioned the vocals needing to be up a bit more camillo because as I was uploading the file I was thinking "People are gonna want the vocals to be up a bit more." I did try raising them but for some reason they felt out of place. Like they were sitting on top of the music instead of meshing with it. I chalk that up to my musical tastes. (Early punk) where the vocals were often times buried beneath the music. Guess I'll never be a mixer of pop music.

I agree with the reverb too. I did go over the top in some places. Probably gonna pull back a bit after I listen to some other posts and get some ideas.

And as for the output, what happened was I got so busy mixing I wasn't paying attention to my overall volume and when I finally did, and I realized it was too high, I just did the lazy thing and pulled it down.

Thanks for listening and commenting. Look forward to hearing you guys too.

HAve a good one.

[Eriksimon]

Hey all,

And as for the output, what happened was I got so busy mixing I wasn't paying attention to my overall volume and when I finally did, and I realized it was too high, I just did the lazy thing and pulled it down.

...which is, in case anyone's wondering, completely 'legit' when working with 24 bit audio files in a 32 bit floating point mixer (as Logics' mixer is). Except for the Stereo Output, you can put +1,500 dB (!) on a Channel Strip without distortion - as long as the main output doesn't clip, AND the +1,500 doesn't hit any 24 bit FIXED point plugins. I believe (almost?) all of Logics' plugs are 32 bit floating point, so as long as the output is at or under 0 dBfs, everything should be hunkydory...

[Rev. Juda$ Sleaze]

I second Camillo's points.

[ruari]

Hey Chico Satis

I've had a quick listen to your draft submission & the thing which I noticed more than anything was the amount of reverb on the mix. I haven't put anywhere near that amount of reverb on my version.

The only other mix I've listened to so far is ErikSimons, once I've had a chance to digest them all I'll give some proper feedback, good effort.