yay for mixing!

AWesome first day back in the box with Jeremy. Interesting thing occured...
some point in the evening after I had taken a mid-day nap, I pulled up one of the rough mixes that I had been working on for this project.

When it came up I could/hear/feel/articulate all the things about it that were robbing it of its maximum potential. So I just went to town,

Drums we're erradic and peaking the stereo bus so I had to compress and limit them to just stay put in one very prominent place. There was a lot of build up in the low end so I EQ'd some of the reverb returns to not be as boomy.

quick jiggles here and there and what I got out of it was not only a solid mix, but it was the first time mixing didn't feel like a big scary chore.

I actually WANTED to mix this thing.


I really honestly feel like I'm beggining to disolve the complications of the tools in the studio and also the misinformation around them

Some might say I overcompressed the drums (or at least thats what I thought someone might say to me as I squeezed and limited this beastly track). I for sure know I didn't, I did what I needed to to get the results I heard in my head.

This is great, audio engineering is now feeling more fluid to me. Like photoshop.
If you can comprehend the frequency spectrum your trying to fill and the mood your trying to evoke, its all just a matter of using these tools to tame,manage, scale, effect, stretch, edit, nudge, magnify, color, imagine, and create a moving composition.



its all about voltage