i miss Andrew. He was my weekly therapy that keeps me warm and safe in my miserable little life of making shitty mixes. no emotional blackmail intended lol. we love you Andrew.
I love this band. I just wish Dany's guitar tone (at times) was a little different. Sounds too much like a "bee" to me. But these girls haven't written a song that I don't like.
It helps if you listen at really low volume. I’ve been using them since 1995. I wouldn’t recommend them for mixing, unless you are willing to put in time listening on them.
Ben gave some really valuable feedback, in terms of balance in the mixes. A big “Thank You”, to Ben, PureMix and Universal Audio, for this awesome contest and learning experience 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
On Simulating Driving an Older Console: (such as the old Neves etc.,) I’m Andrew’s same age but got started even earlier. I was driving those old Neves and Tridents and SSL 4000Es and others around Chicago starting in 1985. Then later I owned a couple varieties at my own studios. NOW I get it mostly the way Andrew does but I use other Console Channel Strips just as much as I use his Omni-Channel. The Lindell vintage Neve channel emulation is the one I seem to use the most. It’s really fat. But sometimes it’s one of the API or Helios or SSL channels out there. How do I choose? Get to know them by putting some music that you know really well through them and pushing the various sections of the channel into distortion in order to get an idea of how they will sound when they hit that point. Once I have chosen one of those channel strips from memory, the one I think will fit the sound I’m after with that song the most, I will then put the Omni channel for more precise control, and more choice. Sometimes I will use a bit of both of them, and sometimes I will use only one or the other. But either way I find that this is all I need to get the sound of the old consoles being driven hard. Before you ask, yes, I do still use some additional “outboard“ on a few key channels. Things like a good LA-2A, 1176, or Distressor. Or a Pultec or Massenberg EQ, etc., But just like in the old days, these will only be applied to a few key tracks- like lead vocals, kick drum, snare drum, maybe a bass guitar. But I try to limit that number to the amount you might find in a well equipped all analog studio from back in the all analog days. ~Cheers!
“Opossum’s Head” is my personal favorite song on the Act Rights’ album Sweat Equity. It’s probably the vocal melody that hooks me. I think it showcases the band well.
That awful fake Beatles band kind of ruins it. For these documentaries they should get a band that makes their own contemporary music and see how it comes out using these old techniques The Beatles used.
These two got a little slap-happy by installment #5 here, but #6 and #7 are still worth watching if you are even a little bit of a fan of Andrew Scheps. There is still more to learn in these last 3.
Sure, this will be needed especially if the sound is kinda thin. But what if the sound has both the thickness (bottom) already and to much sibilance? In that case I guess using the de-esser will be the best option.
I do 20-1 5 input 3.5 attack 3.5 release and output around 5 and link the distortion/saturation gives me such a rich sound if anyone has any recommendations please let me know 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
The group format is super interesting. 👍👍 Also: Matt Ross-Spang is a really interesting guy who holds a unique position among American audio engineers, and I think he deserves several hours more interview time on PUREMIX. Make it happen! 👍👍
To be honest, I'm mixing more on my headphones than on the monitors. He's right, once you get used to it, that's what makes you bring the right decisions.
⭐️⭐️ Wow!! That Roy Harper recording that Andrew says to start listening to from about the 10:00 mark, it really is FAR OUT!! It sounds very good, but also it’s an outstanding performance that continues to grip me and impress me for much longer than I would have thought possible! It proves that sometimes the BEST place to look for outstanding “new” music to light your fires and make you feel thrilled to be alive… is to the past! 😃👍👍 ✌️
I do some similar parallel processing of drums with multiband saturation (fabfilter Saturn). Blend some of it in the parallel processing chain of the drums, including parallell compression with crushed drums, and you can use it to enhance dynamics when needed like choruses or transitions.
Manu Chao mixed his "Clandestino" album on a boombox and the mix is amazing, so if he could achieve world success with this kind of equipment...well...
That was the most confusing explanation of PC I've ever seen. Why use a 2 to 1 ratio on a crush bus? Crazy guy. The stereo link thing? What is he talking about lol. If a tom hits on the left, there's nothing else really playing on the right to worry about. This is the weirdest thing I've seen him explain. He should know better that nothing will happen to the drum sound. And why is Daughtry playing at the end? Did you mix that song or are you infringing on copyright? I see that he was mixing that... but then... he's not and it's still playing... we see what you're doing.
Does anyone know if he used crossover hi/lo pass filters on the DI/Amps*, or did he literally just blend them all together. *i.e. low-passing the DI to 200hz and then high-passing the amps to 200hz so that you can have control of everything before 200hz on the DI, and everything above that on the amps separately?
I’m having issues opening Eucontrol. When I first install it, I can open it. I can get my iPad to link, but if I close the program the next time, I double click on the icon nothing the only way I can get to work is to uninstall it and reinstall it each time I wanna open. Eucontrol … any ideas? OS- windows 10- i7 processor 16 ram Running the latest version or all software/app as of today
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