[ddots-l] Re: Anybody wanna critique my mix and help me learn?
- From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:53:25 -0500
as far as eq/compression, you're gonna have to mess around with that. There's
no formula, and everyone's ear is subjective.
Omar Binno
AIM: LOD1116
Skype: obinno1
Website: www.omarbinno.com
----- Original Message -----
From: John Schucker
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:44 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Anybody wanna critique my mix and help me learn?
OK, so a friend and I recorded something, and I'm going to explain what
we did and the problems I know about already.
http://personalpages.tds.net/~gwynn/sweetheart.mp3
OK, all I did to it is: insert sends on rhythm tracks and sent them to
a bus with delay, and changed the volumes on some of the tracks so it
didn't clip on the master bus.
So here are the problems I can see right now, aside from some messed up
rhythms and such, heh. But at this point I'm more interested in the
mechanics of the mix, if that makes sense. This is my sonar learning
project. The flute is too quiet. The shaker is probably too loud.
Vocals need something or other done to them. That's off the top of my
head, I need to listen to it more extensively.
So what I'm looking for is this. Both what you'd do, e.g. raise the
volume of the flute, and how you'd do it, change track volume,
EQ/compression, etc. Please don't just say, make blah louder, I'm a
newbie and I'm just going to go, how do I do that? Oh I'm running sonar
producer 6.2. So I don't have fun things like boost11, unfortunately.
I'm hoping to upgrade soon.
I know a lot of people have way more experience than I do. I'm happy to
read the documentation mind you, I'm not asking for total handholding
here. But for instance, people will say things like, oh do some EQ, and
I can see for instance you could do that to make the shaker less sharp
for instance, but then I'm going, OK, how do I tell what frequencies I
need to be playing around with, do I just slap some EQ on it and play
with it until it sounds good or is there some starting point or such?
Anyway, this is mostly raw right from the microphones, except for the
things I mentioned above that I did to it. Oh the drone thing in the
background is a softsynth, in case that matters. Any kind of help would
be really appreciated. I realize of course that a lot of this will come
down to experimentation, but I also know that if I just start doing
stuff to it at random I'll make it sound more horrible than it probably
already does, heh. Oh and here's my info, in case anybody decides to be
crazy generous and wants to chat about it. I guess in some ways it
might help to be able to hear individual tracks?
msn: alashkhem@xxxxxxxxxxx
yahoo messenger: alashkhem (running under msn so can't send/receive files)
skype: khomus
email: gwynn@xxxxxxx (in case it doesn't show up in the list headers)
PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
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