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| Re: Semi OT: UAD Card [message #56391 is a reply to message #56387] |
Fri, 29 July 2005 12:24   |
Deej [1]
 Messages: 2149 Registered: January 2006
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64;animas.net> wrote in
>>> message news:431fb6b1$1@linux...
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>>>> I've been mixing a project here that was recorded
>>>> for a new client. He just means it to be a demo and
>>>> so in the interest of getting this done
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>> quickly,
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>>>> we didn't isolate the singer. He's got a very dull
>>>> and honky midrange
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>> that
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>>>> is bleeding all over the tracks (*all* of them).
>>>> Normally, on
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> something
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>>>> like this I would do a little cutting at 400Hz to
>>>> carve out the cardboard, then a tiny boost at 3kHz
>>>> for a little clarity while softening up the 5kHz
>>>> range with a little 2.5 octave cut bringing it up
>>>> to a tiny peak at 7kHz
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> tjust
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>>>> to get some definition. If I solo the track, this
>>>> works fine and it
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>>>> out the voice....on the solo track.
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>>>> Problem is, it;'s all over the dobro, mandolin and
>>>> doublebass and
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>> guitar.
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>>>> Carving his voice out of all these instruments
>>>> basically kills the
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>>>> There are also phasing issues because the
>>>> instrument mics are, in
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> every
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>>>> case, at least 10 ft. and in the case of the dobro,
>>>> 20' away from the singer. It's not really a problem
>>>> with instruments being that far separated from each
>>>> other, but with a singer, it's killin me.
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>>>> WTF was I thinking letting them do this? I should
>>>> have shot the
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>> producer,
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