| Mix Rescue: Improving Your Arrangements eSub |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
September 2010 |
Singer-songwriter Joe Murphy Singer-songwriter Joe Murphy has been crafting tunes for a few years, but had hit a wall when it came to fine-tuning the arrangement and mix of ‘Casting Shadows’. This month, we embellish some repetitive drums by adding percussion, and get busy with the send effects.
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| Mix Rescue: Improving Your Arrangements | Audio Files |
Technique : Mixing |
September 2010 |
| Singer-songwriter Joe Murphy These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue workshop in SOS September 2010 and provide a useful audio guide to how the original track, and the improvements made in component musicial parts.
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| Mix Rescue: Phre The Eon eSub |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
August 2010 |
| Practical Mixing Advice Sometimes, simply taking the time to identify and address a couple of main obstacles before you get busy with the effects can be enough to unleash a mix’s potential...
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| Mix Rescue: Phre The Eon| Audio |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
August 2010 |
| Hear For Yourself Get more from SOS August 2010's Mix Rescue by listening to the accompanying audio file examples.
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| Mix Rescue: Obscuresounds eSub |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
July 2010 |
| Chasing The Demo This month, we were tasked with overhauling the sonics of a mix while still retaining the magical ‘vibe’ of the original. But ‘chasing the demo’ can be a risky tactic!
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| Mix Rescue: Obscuresounds | Audio Files |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
July 2010 |
| Hear For Yourself Get more from July 2010's Mix Rescue by listening to the accompanying audio file examples.
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| Mix Rescue: Dave Gerard eSub |
Technique : Mixing |
June 2010 |
| Mixing Tips & Techniques This month, we breathe life into a track by restructuring it to avoid unnecessary repetition, adding subtle new parts, employing various mix tricks and finally applying a little DIY ‘mastering’ polish...
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| Mix Rescue: Dave Gerard | Audio |
Technique : Mixing |
June 2010 |
| Hear For Yourself For convenience, this page is unlocked and visible to non-subscribers and newsstand buyers of the magazine
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| Mix Rescue: Turn Back To Spring eSub |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
May 2010 |
| Practical Mixing & Remixing Advice We mix a track twice in the search for the right feel, apply EQ techniques for clarity and sheen, and complete the picture with stereo width enhancement.
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| Mix Rescue: Turn Back To Spring | Audio |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
May 2010 |
Audio Examples From Mix Rescue May 2010
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| Mix Rescue: Phase Relationships |
Technique : Mixing |
April 2010 |
| Black Bloc This month, we show how manipulating the phase relationships of some tracks in your mix, plus a little disciplined pruning, can revitalise a flat-sounding track.
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| Mix Rescue: Phase Relationships | Audio |
Technique : Mixing |
April 2010 |
| Hear For Yourself Audio Examples From Mix Rescue April 2010
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| Mix Rescue: Zeno |
Technique : Mixing |
March 2010 |
Just where do you look for that final 20 percent that puts your mix on a par with commercial tracks? Find out, as we apply a little polish to Zeno’s track ‘Signs’.
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| Mix Rescue: Zeno | Audio |
Technique : Mixing |
March 2010 |
| Audio Examples From Mix Rescue March 2010 Access the audio files that accompany March 2010's mix workshop.
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| Mix Rescue: Preslin Davis |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
February 2010 |
| Achieving a Dr Dre style sound We go hip-hop this month, as we aim for a Dr Dre-style sound with Preslin Davis’ track ‘Side Effects’, and highlight the importance of artist-engineer dialogue.
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| Mix Rescue: Preslin Davis | Audio |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
February 2010 |
Audio Examples From Mix Rescue February 2010
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| Mix Rescue: Jay Menon |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
January 2010 |
| Manipulating Transients & Send Effects This month we look at ways to manipulate transients and make use of those all-important send effects, as we take on Jay Menon’s ballad, ‘Through My Eyes’.
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| Mix Rescue: Jay Menon | Audio |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
January 2010 |
Audio Examples From Mix Rescue January 2010
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| Mix Rescue: Ollie Wright |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
December 2009 |
| Getting fit for the mix Getting your recordings fit for the mix is crucially important, but it is something that nearly all Mix Rescue candidates seem to overlook to a greater or lesser extent.
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| Mix Rescue: Ollie Wright | Audio |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
December 2009 |
| Audio Examples From Mix Rescue December 2009 Hear for yourself the before and after mix elements.
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| Mix Rescue Audio |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
November 2009 |
Audio Examples From Mix Rescue November 2009
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| Mix Rescue: Bobby Nobody |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
November 2009 |
| Going beyong the mix Being a mix engineer isn’t only about mixing, as we show when revamping Bobby Nobody’s track, ‘Stitch Up’.
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| Mix Rescue: Alex Giddens |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
October 2009 |
| Adding clarity to ‘grime’ Even ‘grime’ mixes need clarity! This month we get our hands dirty cleaning up the mud in Alex Giddens’ track.
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| Mix Rescue: Alex Giddens | Audio Files |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
October 2009 |
| Audio Examples From Mix Rescue October 2009 Links to the accompanying audio files.
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| Mix Rescue |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
September 2009 |
| Arrangement advice This month’s mission proves that to get the best from a song you need to pay as much attention to arrangement as to mix technique.
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| Mix Rescue 0909 | Audio Files |
Technique |
September 2009 |
| Audio Examples From Mix Rescue September 2009 Links to the before and after mixes.
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| Mix Rescue Audio: Al James |
Technique |
August 2009 |
Audio Examples From Mix Rescue August 2009
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| Mix Rescue: Al James |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
August 2009 |
| Ways to improve your mix Why is Al James’ poppy and well-arranged track not reaching its potential in the mix, despite extensive EQ treatment and other processing? We dissect his original Cubase project to find out.
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| Mix Rescue: Punkdisco |
Technique : Recording / Mixing |
July 2009 |
| Sparse Arrangements We didn’t have to fight through competing walls of sound in this month’s Mix Rescue, but a sparse arrangement offers challenges of its own...
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| Mix Rescue: Punkdisco | Audio Files |
Technique : Mixing |
July 2009 |
| Hear For Yourself This page provides links to MP3 and WAV files that accompany July 2009's Mix Rescue article.
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