Mixing Illmind - Sound On Sound track - Mixing and Mastering Breakdown 

TIMESTAMPS: 0:18 - Introduction 2:42 - Setup and Initial Drums: 7:33 - Initial Bass: 10:25 - Softube Tape as MixFX 11:09 - Initial Keyboards and Keyboard Bus 12:45 - Narrow the Vocal Bus 14:04 - Treating The Lead Synth 15:40 - Duck the Lead to the Vocal 17:04 - Treating the Low Backing Vocals 18:15 - Treating the High Backing Vocals 20:14 - Taming a Harsh Hi-Hat 21:59 - Adding Rupert Neve Designs Tape Sims 23:51 - Draft Master Bus Effects 26:20 - Snare Tweaks 27:02 - Chorus Falsetto Reverb and M/S Effects 30:21 - Chorus Falsetto Pitch-Up Effect 31:52 - Final Bass Tweaks 33:19 - Final Lead Tweaks 34:12 - Final Drum Tweaks 36:35 - Final Vocal Tweaks 38:22 - Mastering 43:11 - Final Playthrough 45:51 - Outro ᛝ Hardingmål ᛝ on Twitter: twitter.com/hardingmalart ᛝ Hardingmål ᛝ on Instagram: instagram.com/hardingmalart ᛝ Hardingmål ᛝ on Facebook: facebook.com/hardingmalart/ ᛝ Hardingmål ᛝ on Discord: discord.gg/yTeaqXA When covering the AES trade show in New York for Sound On Sound magazine, we shot a feature with Illmind. We tried something different: I wrote and recorded an acapella vocal in just under an hour to a root note and then we handed this to !llmind, who created a track in an hour. I took the stems away with me and now I’m mixing and mastering them, so you watch and hopefully get something out of it. I use Presonus Studio One as well as plenty of plugins and some nice hardware too. FRIEND LINKS Sound On Sound Illmind: !llmind - From raw vocal to killer track in ONE HOUR: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UNS7ijTDTok.html !llmind on RU-vid: ru-vid.com/show-UCyZarbGW5NnuVEMc93aXiwg SOS AES 2019 Coverage: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aj4qi1qQAbM.html Audiothing Type A: www.audiothing.net/blog/the-dolby-a-trick/ Sonarworks: Oeksound: PRODUCT LINKS: Roswell Mini K47: amzn.to/2xTXGoK NOB: www.nobcontrol.com/ Drawmer CMC 2: www.drawmer.com/products/monitor_controller/cmc2_compact_monitor_controller.php AMAZON AFFILIATE PRODUCT LINKS, WHICH I CAN GET A SMALL KICKBACK FROM: SE V7 mic: UK: amzn.to/2x3rOhz US: amzn.to/2UZ1xsw Huion Tablet Amazon Link UK: amzn.to/2JHLIRP US: amzn.to/3aQ5oPm Evoluent Upright Mouse Amazon link UK: amzn.to/3bTgd3y US: amzn.to/3dXnalV iK Multimedia iloud Speakers: UK: amzn.to/2XcgWJ4 US: amzn.to/2UZ20Li Amazon Megacra Soundbar: UK: amzn.to/2V1oz2e US: amzn.to/39L6YRw

Definitely sounds like that 90's magic.

Awesome explainer and great track too. Thanks man

I watched the Ill video and then came here due to the stupid comments about the vocal. Nice session. Nice information. Vocal is cool.fuck the haters. The process is king. Very informative . Appreciate your time.push it in the states with those country crossover people.

Is this song on streaming platforms??? Sounds fantastic and the mix works really well with !llmind's direction.

Great song, nice video, all the best!!

Great work; thanks for putting so much detail into this and sharing it with us all.

I first watched !llmind making the track--which was fascinating--and just when I thought it couldn't get much better... you go and polish it to this. So informative and educational. Beautiful vocal / lyric. So well done. Thanks for sharing.

nice one AH !

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