AA 1 week 11

This weeks exercise was to create three different mixes of an Eskimo Joe song. Below is the Pro Tools edit window showing the area which my samples were mixed from.[1]

Edit sample 1

This sample was mixed dry, only using the volume faders to effect the mix.[2] The second acoustic guitar was dropped as the mix was mono and all tracks that weren't used in this section were deleted so as to make the mix window less confusing for this exercise. I aimed in this sample to let all the instruments to be heard without any one instrument dominant.

Dry edit sample

Edit Sample 2

In this mix I kept the two acoustic guitars, which were panned left and right. Two of the three backing vocal tracks were also panned left and right. The volume of the drum overheads was automated to cut out and then slowly fade back in (see edit window for Edit sample 3)

Vol/Pan Sample

Edit Sample 3

The final mix had similar volume and pan as sample 2 but also included EQ on some of the tracks. The drum overheads had a high pass filter plus a little boost in mid to high frequencies to enhance the H/hat. This cut out the spillage from the kick and gave the cymbals a little boost. The snare had a 4 band EQ to try to get a bit more of a snap in it. One of the electric guitar tracks had the mid boosted a little to try to take away what I considered to be a harshish kind of guitar part. The lead vocals had very little EQ added. The final EQ was on one of the backing vocal track named LwdbicHYC (second track from the right below). This vocal in parts mirrored the lead vocals in a lower register, it had a little top end rolled off and the mid to bass boosted.

EQ Sample

[1]Digidesign. "Pro Tools HD version 7.3.1" http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm

[2]Fieldhouse, S. "Audio Arts Lecture week 11" at University of Adelaide , 22/05/2007