Torched Laughter Studio Diary: Mixing Day 2
Ice on the foot, let’s get to work.
There is some debate in the mixing world whether you apply EQ or Compression first. The usual method would be to apply compression. In the past I would apply EQ first. Reason being is that most of the material recorded didn’t sound good initially and needed attenuating immediately. Nasty bumps, bonks, honks, squawks needed to be removed. I applied this same method last night. But there was one factor that I totally forgot about this time:
I actually recorded everything fairly well. All that time slaving away at the bass was for naught. The bass sounded fine. I was just being an idiot repeating past methods.
The only real fix it needed was to notch out all my serial killer breathing one of the microphones picked up. The compressor was acting a little strange but did the job. I’ll come back to the bass again, this I am sure of.
The percussion was a breeze. This is probably the last time I will say this in this blog.
Light compression, light EQ, they pretty much mixed themselves.
The song I’m working on is `Jaw Filled Wreckage.’ Once I figure out the mix of this song the others should follow suit pretty easily. I’m not going to vary the sound too much since it’s the performance that is doing all the variations.
The Pittsburgh Penguins (my favourite NHL team) lost the Stanley Cup tonight. Perhaps if this was the NHL of the 1980’s I might have cared. I want bench clearing brawls, no helmets, tears, rivalries, smoking and drinking in the penalty box, and great technical passing. All of that is dead in favour of a sterile game played by genetically enhanced livestock instead of prisoners and French Canadians.
Fun fact: Mario Lemieux was a neighborhood acquaintance of the family way back when. My brother used to play football with him. So…local boy did good. When his back decided to work.
Tomorrow night is creating the ideal spatial field environment for the drums and bass. Sounds fancy!
It’s not.
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