Mixing a live band recording (Dalai Lama)
Mixing in general I started off by listening to the drums first and then I flexed the time on the tracks that are needed to be in time. After that I started placing the tracks into summing stacks because I can place plugins to tighten the sound on the stack itself in the later stage. I then add a gain plugin on all of the tracks with mono on. Gain settings on the instruments are -4.8 on the drums and strings, -8.2 on the guitars and -2.7 on the second lead vocals. After that, I added noise gate on some of the tracks (Except the bass, strings and midi) to get rid of some of the bleeds. The threshold are around -42 to -60 and the hold at around 0 - 30ms. Instrument plugins (Bus 1) Drums - Gain , noise gates, eq , compressor (Bus 1 ) Bass - Gain , Bass amp, channel EQ, compressor (Bus 5) Guitar - Gain, noise gate, eq, compressor , enveloper (Bus 6) Strings - Gain, eq, compressor, pitch correction (Bus 4) vocals - Gain , eq, compre...



Pads are an arrangement component. They are never rhythm. What instruments are playing them? Do you think the instrument in the beginning is a synth? You need to make some decisions as to what you are hearing. Is the "lead synth" rhythm, foundation or Lead? There are effects, but not "white noise" in this. Don't confuse production with composition. We'll come back to production later.
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