Mixing tips

Check this out  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enhcve9Lblc

Those youtube videos are great! His blog is just as awesome and i suggest anyone that liked tese to subscribe to it as well!

+1 Rain

TBH, IMHO, his LCR panning thing is pretty outlandish, even for crowded mixes; so is his gain staging (for 24-bit Sonar), buss comps, digital tape-saturation,

... and his protools signal-generator sine-wave send for the kick (when you could more easily have boosted the kick track-EQ at 50-60Hz ... LOL).  To each his own I guess.

I tried his LCR thing and there was suddenly a lot of dreadful unnatural open space around the bass-line and vox ... though my bass and kicks had more monophonic room and clarity.  His mix was quite spurious, cacaphonic, and crowded though, and begged room down the center room for harmony vocs, let alone the bass-guitar and kick.

But the LCR logic may make sense for our hip-hop skating-dancing mixes where the kick/bass-synth dominates/rules.  I'll let Danzi and/or you-all decide if I ruined a valid mix for the LCR thing. 

Certainly our late JimmyMan utterly despises LCR logic ... he hated stereo mayham tricks and preferred to check mixes in mono ... despite the fact that all radios are stereo ... ha ha!

The author used a crowded Christian mix, with 'untempered' un-melodyned vocs.  Ouch!
 
While Christian-groans spark me up, off-pitch studio vocs I hate.  Even his touted telephone-vox technique couldn't redeem the hideous pitch issues of one 'spiritual' singer. 

Then there's that heated hypocritical spiritual battle warring in my members ... while listening

"Should I do telephone vox instead of melodyne to redeem the vocs"?  Hahaha!

Personally, I'd have rushed to the melodyne 1st and foremost in this vox-dominant Christian mix ... above all the other (32) 5 minute tricks.  But that is just my personal and stupid opinion.  Just cause I'm a Christian doesn't give me a right to sing like Bob Dylan ... hahaha!  (IMHO, JMO)

But his videos do validate things you/I already struggle with, like bass-distortion, telephone-vox techniques, 40msec LT-RT delays, Haas delays, doubletracking, HPFs, complimentary EQing, vox enveloping, octave doubling for guitars, cutting and pasting (guitar) tracks for LT RT delays, mono-fying in crowded mixes, etc. 

Its truly stimulating to see videos validating my workflow and my mixing struggles.

He could probably have summanrized all 32 of his 5-minute videos into one or two, perhaps with a little deft cut and pasting, as I found myself repeatedly fastforwarding.

OTOH, his teaching is patient, painstaking, and motivating, and best of all ... he doesn't behave like a commercial, IMHO.

Oh yes,those vids are just what I needed. Thanks Steve