Re: [LAU] New music

From: Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jan 26 2012 - 10:54:23 EET

That songs nice. What's the effect you used on the voice in the bridge?
Gerald

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 13:33 -0500, Al Thompson wrote:

> On 01/25/2012 01:20 PM, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> >
> >> That's what I've heard elsewhere. This is the first time I mixed drums,
> >> and I sat there for days and fiddling around.
> >> Our drummers opinion was that the snare shouldn't ring to much, since
> > he
> >> likes it tight. I think a bit of ring is good so I'll try out your tip.
> > One important mixing rule is: Forget about personal preferences when it
> > comes
> > to how a single instrument sounds. It's the whole that matters and the
> > snare
> > should probably be heard thanks to the sound, not the volume.
>
> I've got to second this. Once you get a mix near the final stages, you
> might find that if you solo individual instruments, they end up sounding
> nothing like what you would normally prefer.
>
> It's also almost always a really bad idea to listen to the drummer's
> opinion of what his drums should sound like or where they should sit in
> a mix. For one thing, he's the ONLY person who has no idea what his
> drums sound like, since he's the only one who sits behind them. There
> is no possible way for him to know what HIS drums sound like while HE is
> playing them. He has a very distorted view of what they really sound like.
>
>
>
> (Here's another of my tracks. This one is with my band:
>
> http://soundcloud.com/althompson-indy/4-walls )
>
>

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