Master a poor mix
I have been giiven a 16-bit mix of a live 5 piece rock cover band; Johny B Goode, Like Rain, Suzzie Que etc. My job is master it into a demo. The mixer put the instruments dominant to the left channel and the vocals dominant to the right. Vocals are too loud, rythm guitar is too loud and lead is too soft. I am not real experienced, but have UAD-1, oxone and waves plugins. What I'm thinking is to 1) make it a mono file first, to put the vocals, bass and drums in the middle 2) multiband compress to bring the vocals in line with the instruments, hopefully bring up the lead guitar and make the bass and kick more dominant 3) Use a stereo imager to separate and give some dimenstion to the mono mix 4) maximize.
Pleas offer any advice suggestions etc.
Larry Williams
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