[ddots-l] More Mixes for your Monday Morning
- From: Chris Smart <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jsonar@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 04:47:56 -0500
Hi folks.
Here I am with a couple more mixes.
When I'm Gone (folk rock):
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/od93lb
Notes:
* octave down backing vocals move around spookily, or that was the
intended effect anyway.
* Organ way in the background.
* Mandolin delays left/right in time with the song.
I compressed the drums too much, but I like the sounds I got,
especially the pop on harder snare hits!
Pour It(Hip Hop):
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8ld0uw
I ran out of time doing all the vocal edits. The track that just
goes "hey hey hey" is a bit out of time for sure!
Since we aren't dealing with humans playing real drums and other
instruments here, I got more creative.
The song seems to be about wasting perfectly good champagne by
pouring on the floor. So, I filtered the cymbals to add more
"fizziness".
Also, I tried to filter the breathing sounds in the background as
if they were more like fluid being poured in and out of a
container. This one didn't work so well but i left it in.
The 808-Conga popping in the middle was already sounding a couple
notes in the song's key of D major, if rap songs can have a key
that is. So, I added a short delay to make it resonate at 2nd
octave D natural as well.
I hard-panned the hand claps, fattened them up, and added some
quiet quarter note rhythmic delays.
There's also something neat going on with the verse vocals, way way
in the background.
I didn't Autotune anything. the one track with that robotic effect
is how we received it - but it was just a single mono track, so I
added some stereo effects and doubling.
About pitch correction:
I haven't investigated V-Vocal yet. How good is it compared to
Melodyne and Autotune? In the case of Autotune, I see that Phil
has graciously developed HSC sets for Autotune 5. Is it possible to
still buy that version?
and is Melodyne accessible at all?
Chris
P.S. In my mixing class, people are pitch-correcting individual
phrases or even halves of phrases, by hand. That is, they aren't
using automatic mode, but specifying how much they want things
corrected, and how much of the original vibrato to retain. Can we
get as specific as that with any of the plug-ins? The speed people
can do this with the mouse is scary, not to mention moving bits of
phrases or drum beats around in time.
PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
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