Comments on: Enhance your mix: Simplify http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898 Helping You Make It Happen Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3 By: Damon Sink http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-25250 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:22:06 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-25250 Just a “bump” here for a great post with lots of good advice. If you don’t believe me, google “voice of god” and connor comes up pretty close to the top of the list.

:-)

Damon
The Stiudio Files

]]> By: Bailey http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-17449 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:58:26 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-17449 Not to mention it makes you wicked fast at mixing/editing (thus less $) and usually turns out better.

]]> By: Bruce http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-16981 Sat, 22 May 2010 03:48:30 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-16981 Not to mention it makes you wicked fast at mixing/editing (thus less $) and usually turns out better.

]]> By: Larry "Lz" Sentelle http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-16325 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:30:51 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-16325 I’m all for doing this, and not just to increase my skills, but rather to keep the music sounding like real music. The bottom line for me comes when I am tracking. Having the sonic vision to record my sources very close to how they will sound in my mix makes alot of difference in the end. As they say, fortune favors the bold. There is nothing like having a tight, well rehearsed band. Good rehearsal habits=good records. Learn the steps which will make mixing simple. Some of these “tricks” should be performed BEFORE a band walks into a studio. Be brave and follow the “vision” of your ears.

]]> By: ConnorSmith http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12382 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:58:44 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12382 ^^Thanks!

Yeah, if you really know 3-4 of your plug-ins, you’ll be a lot better off than having 600 that you’ve never used.

The Lord-Alge’s of the world can work magic with inexpensive pieces like the DBX 163x – not to say that unit doesn’t sound ok, but the real beauty is in their skills…

]]> By: Joe Gilder http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12374 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:19:15 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12374 GREAT article!!! All too often people keep buying plug-ins to improve their mixed rather than intimately learning their current plug-ins.

Posting to Twitter right now…

]]> By: ConnorSmith http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12286 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:36:46 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12286 Actually, up until 2008, most of them WERE the same guy hah.

His name was Don LaFontaine (aka The Voice of God, aka Thunder Throat), and unfortunately, the world lost a great voiceover artist in 2008.

To get that effect, you need

a) someone with “the voice” :)
b) The right mic if their voice needs a little help (maybe like an RE20 or SM7, could be a condenser too though)
c) Compression! + EQ

Most important of course is the talent.

]]> By: PJ http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12275 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:29:44 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12275 ^^Sounds good

WAAAY off topic but I’d love to see you try to recreate that movie preview voice effect. That has to be some vocal trickery, there’s no way they get the same guy to do all those previews!!

]]> By: ConnorSmith http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12244 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:36:27 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12244 Yep^^

Pretty soon I’d like to do an article on proper gain staging – which unfortunately is often ignored in digital audio land. It makes a HUGE difference.

]]> By: PJ http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12232 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:39:48 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12232 ^^ umm that sunglasses smiley should be an 8!

]]> By: PJ http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12231 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:37:27 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12231 “so I usually ended up putting at least one of each on just about every track”

Me too. One of the best pieces of mixing advice I’ve ever received came from Dr. Damon when he suggested that I send all my vocal tracks to a bus, then insert EQ, compression, etc on that track. Not only does it utilize computer resources better (only 1 instance of a plugin rather than say 8) but it also sounds better.

]]> By: Damon Sink http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12214 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:58:32 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12214 1. EQ – carve out a place for every track, but don’t over-do it. There is a reason that pop music has drums, bass, guitars & vocals: each one fills part of the whole EQ spectrum.

2. Loudness – compression and volume. Make sure that your dynamics processing is not apparent unless you want it to be!

3. Effects – delay & reverb (maybe chorus too? but that’s really just a detuned delay :-)

4. Overall balance of “sweetened” tracks will make the magic happen.

–Great post Connor. If readers follow your advice about recording tracks, then they should be golden when it’s time to mix!!

Damon
The Studio Files

If you nail these four, then you have your mix.

]]> By: ConnorSmith http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12151 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:36:56 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12151 @Blair
Absolutely. Mix quickly and from the heart! (Obviously there are time when tweaks, critical moves, and long listens come into play… but this is a good starting platform)

]]> By: Blair http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898&cpage=1#comment-12147 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:20:24 +0000 http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=898#comment-12147 Not to mention it makes you wicked fast at mixing/editing (thus less $) and usually turns out better.

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