AA 1 week 12

This weeks exercise was to mix down three different mixes of Eskimo Joe using Compression, Effects and Stereo Processing (and Automation).[1]

Sample 1

In this mix I compressed the Kick, Snare, Drum Overheads, Electric Guitar and one of the Vocal Tracks. After compressing all of these the mix seemed to loose a bit of its brightness.

MIX 1


Sample 2

In this mix I kept all the compression from the previous mix and added some distortion to the
Electric Guitar as well as to the 'Stu Verse' track. The 'verse git' track was reversed and slightly adjusted to fit in with the rhythm. The final effect used was on the lead vocals which had a delay added to try to fatten them up.

MIX 2


Sample 3

In this sample for a change I picked the beginning of the song to mix. The 'verse git' was bused to two different AUX tracks that were panned left and right and which each had a different delay and different parameters. One of these AUX tracks also had a pitch shift (up an octave) effect on it. This gave an effect similar to U2 and Eno.

MIX 3

Comments

Over all I wouldn't have minded spending more time on sample 3 to see how far away from the original I could have got this without completely "Jacking" it to pieces.

[1]Fieldhouse, S. 2007, "Audio Arts Lecture - Week 12", University of Adelaide, 29/05/2007