Sullee Single - Mix description
I'm printing the final mix of the next Sullee single. My speakers sound like they're exploding right now (in a really good way). The walls are shaking, my teeth are rattling, and my assistant's face just melted off. I think its a good mix. Any time you can get a club track to melt peoples faces off, its a good mix..... til you go to jail.
This SPL Mix Dream is really a great sounding piece of gear. Of course the 16 Apogee outputs really help too, but just the ability this Mix Dream gives me to use all my favorite analog gear really makes a big difference in the mix. For this mix I'm using a bunch of analog stuff in addition to the Apogee outs and the Mix Dream and my obnoxiously powerful Digidesign HD Accel 4 rig running Logic 7 and about every plugin in the known universe.
Analog gear i'm using for this mix includes.........
- GML 2032 EQ across the Lead Vocal
- The main sound is this kind of loop/Bass sound, like a big diving repeating line. Massive. I have a Lang PEQ2 Program Equalizer across it. (kinda like a Pultec, only better in my opinion)
- Roland Dimm D on the main Loop/Bass. The Dimm D is an effect send/return coming back on a different input to the Mix Dream so i have separate control over dry and effect. The Dimm D is great for enhancing bass elements, as well as giving things some stereo width without sounding like chorusing. It just makes things bigger and i use it on most of my mixes.
- Theres a big driving mono analog Rez synth sound that i have a Neumann PEV Mastering EQ across
- Also on the Rez Synth i am sending/returning to a Yamaha SPX 90 set to "Pitch Change C", my favorite SPX setting of all time. The SPX 90 really spreads out the sound and makes it this wide sounding agressive mix element, but the frequency range of the sound is narrow enough that it doesnt swallow up the rest of the mix.
- The big Hook vocals are all grouped and going thru a stereo pair of Neumann PEV Mastering EQ's. I'm adding some 10K and a touch of 5.6 K to these vocals
- the Stereo Buss. First thing of note.... The Mix Dream has this "Stereo Enhance" feature which is REALLY cool (sometimes). With this mix I'm using it on setting 2, which i find is about the widest setting you can use without really destroying the phase coherancy of the mix. I got away with setting 3 once, but it was a dog fight the whole mix to keep it together. On the Mix Dream insert, I have the Manley Variable MU followed by the my Sontec Mastering Equalizer. Usually i find the Manley compressor isnt usable on hip hop mixes, (great for rock mixing though!) but this mix doesnt really have a bottom heavy kick drum pumping the mix real hard, so the Manley is holding this one together nicely, and the Sontec, well, it sounds amazing. I'm printing everything to a Masterlink running at 96K/24bit for mastering.
I'd go into what plugins i'm using on the mix but that would be an epic novel. Plus, i gotta keep some secrets! OK, done printing passes. Time to start the next mix.
-Ken Lewis
indieTunes.com
This SPL Mix Dream is really a great sounding piece of gear. Of course the 16 Apogee outputs really help too, but just the ability this Mix Dream gives me to use all my favorite analog gear really makes a big difference in the mix. For this mix I'm using a bunch of analog stuff in addition to the Apogee outs and the Mix Dream and my obnoxiously powerful Digidesign HD Accel 4 rig running Logic 7 and about every plugin in the known universe.
Analog gear i'm using for this mix includes.........
- GML 2032 EQ across the Lead Vocal
- The main sound is this kind of loop/Bass sound, like a big diving repeating line. Massive. I have a Lang PEQ2 Program Equalizer across it. (kinda like a Pultec, only better in my opinion)
- Roland Dimm D on the main Loop/Bass. The Dimm D is an effect send/return coming back on a different input to the Mix Dream so i have separate control over dry and effect. The Dimm D is great for enhancing bass elements, as well as giving things some stereo width without sounding like chorusing. It just makes things bigger and i use it on most of my mixes.
- Theres a big driving mono analog Rez synth sound that i have a Neumann PEV Mastering EQ across
- Also on the Rez Synth i am sending/returning to a Yamaha SPX 90 set to "Pitch Change C", my favorite SPX setting of all time. The SPX 90 really spreads out the sound and makes it this wide sounding agressive mix element, but the frequency range of the sound is narrow enough that it doesnt swallow up the rest of the mix.
- The big Hook vocals are all grouped and going thru a stereo pair of Neumann PEV Mastering EQ's. I'm adding some 10K and a touch of 5.6 K to these vocals
- the Stereo Buss. First thing of note.... The Mix Dream has this "Stereo Enhance" feature which is REALLY cool (sometimes). With this mix I'm using it on setting 2, which i find is about the widest setting you can use without really destroying the phase coherancy of the mix. I got away with setting 3 once, but it was a dog fight the whole mix to keep it together. On the Mix Dream insert, I have the Manley Variable MU followed by the my Sontec Mastering Equalizer. Usually i find the Manley compressor isnt usable on hip hop mixes, (great for rock mixing though!) but this mix doesnt really have a bottom heavy kick drum pumping the mix real hard, so the Manley is holding this one together nicely, and the Sontec, well, it sounds amazing. I'm printing everything to a Masterlink running at 96K/24bit for mastering.
I'd go into what plugins i'm using on the mix but that would be an epic novel. Plus, i gotta keep some secrets! OK, done printing passes. Time to start the next mix.
-Ken Lewis
indieTunes.com
posted by Protools Mixing at 2:08 AM
1 Comments:
Dude! there is some serious gear in that room.... love it!
Cant wait to hear from 'Sulley' and the Man on Earth material as well.
Rock on Kenzilla!
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