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We look at editing vocals for tighter timing, strategies for faking double-tracked electric guitar, and much, much more...
We get to grips with a mix in which big, up-front vocals are crucial to the impact of the song, and dispense plenty of tips along the way...
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We show you that if you put enough effort into the musical arrangement and get the editing out of the way at the start, the mix itself isn't that difficult!
A track from Dutch band Awash gets the benefit of fixes for tightening up backing vocals, creating a bigger drum presence and making a DI'd guitar sound more natural.
For our newsstand magazine buyers who do not have access to the subscribers-only eSub version of Mix Rescue, here are the URLs for the Audio files that accompany September 2008's instalment of MIX RESCUE.
We help a home recordist on a budget to add that elusive polish to his jazz-trio recordings.
This month we explore a mix in which distortion, reverb and modulation effects provide powerful alternatives to EQ.
It's a tall order this month, as we're asked to remix a reader's recording to sound like a big-budget Bond theme!
The rescue mission this month is to bring coherence and polish to the disparate elements of Solivern's interesting instrumental composition...
This month we tame a vocal that varies in dynamic range, and look at ways to create 'bigness' in the mix without overcooking levels.
This month we sort out timing issues for a band called Exhibit-1, replace missing snare beats, as well as improving the rest of the mix.
This month we deal with thorny phase-cancellation problems, overhaul musical arrangements and get creative with effects, as we rise to the Mix Rescue challenge.
We get weeding this month, to thin out a busy mix without sacrificing the big sound.
This month we tackle one reader's first ever attempt at mixing his own music.
We made things a little harder by tackling this month's Mix Rescue before a student audience.
This month, we invited guest mix-rescuer Luke Fletcher to create an authentic '60s feel.
Drum-recording problems and an inappropriate choice of vocal mic threatened to hamper this month's hard rock track by New York rock band Generals & Majors.
How much treble is too much? As this month's Mix Rescue discovers, it's easy to overdo things at the recording stage, but not quite so easy to correct them at the mix.