SOUND ON SOUND
Steve gave me his time that day, he was good-humoured and made it fun. He showed me how synthesizers work and how to create sounds... it was magical.
Solutions to mixing problems can sometimes be found in your arrangement...
I picked up a couple of (large-diaphragm) AKG C214s, and they sound much more natural. Though that solved my problem, I'm still curious: is there such a thing as a 'soft'-sounding small-diaphragm condenser?
These audio files accompany my Mix Rescue article in SOS March 2020, featuring the song 'Muddy Water' by Dorothea Wessel.
I double-tracked lead vocals by combining two different vocal takes from the same singer, each recorded on a different mic (a Shure SM7b and an Audio-Technica AT4033a)...
To help you brush up on your listening skills, we examine the production of some recent hits by Dua Lipa, Tones And I, Caroline Shaw/Attacca Quartet, Arizona Zerva and a Destiny's Child classic mix.
To help you brush up on your listening skills, we examine the production of recent hits by Selena Gomez, Travis Scott, Maroon 5 plus a classic mix from Roxette.
Our engineer visits a reader's home studio to help improve his mixes, and shows that you can get great results from even the modest of monitors.
Do you advise panning stereo guitar solos close to the centre to enhance definition, or would you ever pan them wider apart?
Do your virtual acoustic drum parts never seem to work in the context of a mix? Here's how to fashion more natural and compelling results...