We just finished tracking (recording) for our guitar+harmonica duo album (plus some electronic percussion and second guitar sometimes) and now I'm mixing it by myself. And I'm looking for a good reference to compare with. I'm interested mostly in perfect quality, not perfect playing. Interested in modern recordings mostly. Any ideas? I have some, of course, but hope to get something new. ? ? For today I'm not interested in great playing recorded in a home studio. I'm interested in recordings in most expensive studios with soundengineer/soundproducer award winning. Any good ideas? ---------- Excuse my bad English. My videos.
I read a lot articles, watch a lot of videos on mixing. And most of them recommend to use references. I have nice Steve Baker with Chris Jones recordings, Mountain Men recording, Levy + Sprawl etc. But I wish more! ---------- Excuse my bad English. My videos.
I've been thinking about this the last couple days, and I'm not sure what suggestions to make because recording is so much about preferences. I've noticed that I'm fond of harp that basically keeps playing the whole time but gets faded in the mix. The session work Adam posted a few days ago was like that. The big hit (and rip off of Lee Oskar's tune) Kei$ha and Pitbull did did that. That's partially style too, not just recording.
I liked the late Bad News Brown's 'Reign', but that was an instrumental. They seemed to put the harp right down the middle in the recording, but usually in our mixes I go 30% left and pan the guitar 30% right with the vocals down the middle.
I like the French rapper Scarecrow's stuff too.
Harp is straight down the middle on these, with what sounds like a big room effect, but the Kei$ha one fades the harp in and out. The BNB one uses a bigger room effect.
I love the sweeps on this one.
Interesting that all of them seem to be ignoring the 'don't play while they are singing' (although the Scarecrow seems to use it only on the chorus).
I can't find the link to Adam's session work. Hopefully someone else can. I really liked the harp mix in that. If someone finds it, can they link it?
Of course you can't go wrong with Steve Baker and Chris Jones. The first video I pulled up of them was a live performance and they still managed to nail the mix. :)
