Mix Rescue: Cats On The Beach | Media
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This month’s band, the Broken Heartbreakers, threw down the gauntlet for our engineer — could he improve what was already a decent mix?
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These files accompany the Mix Rescue article in the December 2014 issue

Sometimes you can’t quite capture an instrument as you’d hoped, but when it comes to the mix there are a few tricks that will help get you out of a hole.

We pull a problematic live recording back from the brink.
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Max Farrar: we take on a well–crafted contemporary pop tune with a massive number of tracks, and create two different mixes....
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This month's mixing challenge was to retain the energy and excitement of a live recording, while adding a healthy dose of vintage character.

Our tame engineer shows that you can craft a great mix even using compression in moderation, and that a little editing up front can make the job of mixing a whole lot easier.

Putting in the effort at the front end of the production process can save countless hours when it comes to mixdown — as this month’s remix demonstrates.