not to mention some careful equilization to give them a more
focused sound.
At 05:46 PM 11/16/2005, you wrote:
Hayley, have you tried compressing the vocals. and normalize the final project?
Rod
----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:hayley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Hayley To: <mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: [ddots-l] MIXING
Hi everyone,
I have a small problem with mixing and wonded if anyone has any tips, this may be a hard one to help with, but thought it was worth asking.
As i'm new to using Sonar, i have gotten some help with the editing and mixing of my work. The technicion i have helping me has done a good job and we have spent alot of time on my CD, but when i brought it home from his studio i wasn't entirely happy with the mix of music and vocals. in places on certain songs the music seems to be pearcingly loud in comparison with the vocal and is drowning it out. Of course my initial reaction was to just have him turn the vocal up, but as i say, in places it's fine, and i don't want for it to be too loud iether! perhaps i'm just being picky! but it just sounds like the music has a certain sharpness and clarity wich the vocal doesn't have. i did think it may be just the volume, but having listened through a few times, the vocal can be heard, just not as sharp. Could it be some kind of mastering thing that we need to do rather than just turning up the vocal? Probably a bit difficult to answer without having heard it i know, and i'm going back to his studio tomorrow, so i'm sure we'll get it sorted out, but any advice would be useful that i can keep in mind for tomorrow.
I hope i havent been too vague, it's frustrating when you can just hear something and doen't know what it is! i can hear it isn't right, but my lack of experience makes it hard to figure it out!
Hope someone may be able to advise.
Many thanks
Hayley
