In the terminal assemblage I've spent a clean turn of instance doing whatever recordings. In particular, I've been employed on whatever of my own material. Having endowed a super turn of instance and money into pre creation and the actualised recording sessions, what started discover as a diminutive room demo presently escalated into something such more than that (I'm sure you undergo what I mean). It presently became apparent that I was feat to requirement someone with a bit more undergo and 'know how' when it came to post production, and in particular, mixing.After calling in whatever "favours," and reaching as far as I could into the "industry," as such, I was introduced to Mr. author Harding. An exceptionally talented musician, producer, and up and coming mixing engineer. To my delight, I unconcealed that not exclusive is he a pretty pleasant guy, he is also shucks beatific at mixing, and he's a follower pupil of every things Apple too!
Amongst every our post creation endeavors, Steve and I managed to ordered downbound with a cup of tea and whatever rich tea biscuits to speech Macs, set-up , plug-ins, powerboat equipment and the prowess of approaching a intermixture backed by the unchangeability of Mac OS X.
Read on for whatever owlish text on mixing, but be forewarned though, as is decent usual in the Count The Beats series, there is whatever pretty onerous edifice speech ahead. However, it does attain for whatever sexy reading. Don't forget, if you don't understand, meet nod your head and pretend you do same the rest of us! Enjoy.
TUAW: Steve, you've finished a aggregation of mixing. Tell me, how did you intend into mixing, and what is it most mixing that makes you intend up in the morning?
SH: I'm actually evenhandedly new to mixing! I've finished a clean turn of penalization creation over the years, sight a send finished from conception to the intermixture phase, but mixing is something that's become needed more recently. Sometimes I intermixture a send because I same the fictive curb of a send from move to finish, another times its budgetary constraints. Mixing is regarded as an artistic action - I fuck the unbounded variations you crapper intend from the same source material. I fuck the combination of noesis and prowess - a intermixture is sometimes a puzzle, sometimes a painting.
TUAW: Well, uprise and shine! Tell us then, what are the tools of your intricate artistry?
SH: At home, I separate Pro Tools 8 on a dual core 2Ghz G5 Power Mac with 10.5Gbs of RAM (I sequential too such by accident! I don't conceive my operative system crapper attain ingest of it all, but hey, what added am I gonna ingest it for? It can't hurt, crapper it? Seriously, please let me undergo if it does?).
For an programme I ingest the (Digidesign Digi) 003. I do a aggregation of programming, editing, tuning etc at home, but also vocals in an adjacent booth. The 10 digital inputs on the 003 allows a enthusiastic signal path. I mostly hit 2 channels feat finished my ISA 428 pre's, into my Drawmer compressor, into my Apogee Rosetta, for conversion, into Pro Tools. There's no saucer in having Pro Tools HD in such a diminutive ordered up. If I requirement lots of channels and more expanse I'll go to Newbarn or G2 studios. There are a arrange of Macs at the studios, including whatever 'vintage' G4's!
TUAW: Wow, we fuck that your swing those old edifice Power Macs to whatever beatific use. So, what approach do you
take on the whole 'in the box' (software plug-ins) as apposed to 'outboard' equipment (the actual thing)?
SH: It depends where I mix. Sometimes I'm at home, but most of the instance I intermixture a aggregation with a someone (Tom Mills) at Newbarn Studios (which has pleasant powerboat gear). We essay to intend the prizewinning of both worlds. Mostly it's in the box mixing on Pro Tools, but we both rattling same sending clog discover for processing. We ingest the Empirical Labs Distressor loads, the Drawmer 1960 on biaural clog and the Neve 8816 summing mixer (the biaural widener is rattling nice!).
Plug-in wise, the Bombfactory Fairchild plug-in is ofttimes used, particularly on vocals and busses. The Bombfactory 1176 emulation is enthusiastic for guitars. For EQ, the McDSP Filterbank is so versatile and enthusiastic sounding, although the EQ3 plug-ins that come with Pro Tools are rattling disposable for subtractive EQ. The Pultec emulators are rattling enthusiastic for adding crowning end. I also fuck whatever of the smaller spaces on the TL Space Reverb plug-in. Oh, and Echoboy, how could I block him?
TUAW: Indeed, how could you! In cost of DAW's, you've pretty such exclusive mentioned Pro Tools. Here at TUAW we fresh ran a poll most Logic Pro. Do you ever intermixture in Logic Pro, and hit you upgraded to the stylish version? What are your thoughts on mixing in Pro Tools as apposed to Logic, or some another DAW?
SH: Well, only put, I don't intermixture in Logic, I'm a someone of habit. I started mixing on Pro Tools first, and for this reason, it meet makes the most sense to me, so I've stuck with it. However, I do ingest Logic 7, but for planning and when I'm activity springy keyboards. I wouldn't do that on Pro Tools.
To be honest, I conceive Pro Tools crapper be kinda over priced and plentitude of clog annoys me most the way it does things (the real-time road bouncing, limiting code road counts and inputs etc), but it is the industry accepted for a reason. I conceive Pro Tools has the edge on some springy recorded sources, with its simple and powerful redaction features and uncluttered appearance, which rattling matters if you're outlay most of your employed chronicle hunting at a screen, but I haven't patterned discover the stylish Logic though...
TUAW: Lets countenance a lowercase more at the prowess of mixing. Say you've meet got a new bunch of tracks in, ready for you to do your thing. How do you approach the mix, and how does the Mac papers enable you to do this best?
SH: Have a center first! This is something I learned early on when I was doing programming: center to the road first. Where is it going? What does it need? Where should I begin? Don't meet move in, ask intelligent questions. With mixing, lettered what the road is built around is rattling important. Bringing up a communicatory at the modify of a intermixture is a venturous strategy as you may encounter yourself EQ' ing yourself into a corner. The communicatory is rattling ofttimes the abstract grouping are perception for, so intermixture accordingly. What is the periodicity built around? Most likely the drums or percussion, but ofttimes an acoustic guitar. LISTEN!
With affectionateness to Macs, I fuck the design, the code and the noesis of the computers, but the abstract that is most essential to me is stability. Nothing kills the power same having to kibosh every 10 minutes. We've every been there before (AAAHHH)! Learning to go with the line is so essential in penalization - lettered when to ready feat and when to kibosh is vital. Macs assist this by doing their job, which allows me to intend on with mine.
TUAW: Some rattling owlish text there. OK. What do you see in your hunch when, in the studio, a musician does a half-baked verify and the organise says, "nah, they'll mend that in the mix?"
SH: I don't hit a heart, I traded it for a DI box! But seriously, I'm commonly the organise so that doesn't happen, and the engineers I work with don't hit that mentality. On a send with restricted budget, sometimes you hit to crack on when you undergo that if you had a pair more hours it'd be a aggregation better, but that's the challenge of some recording - getting the prizewinning discover of the instance you have, with the players you have, in the expanse you've got.
TUAW: Do you hit some bad intermixture stories that you'd same to share?
SH: Off the record? Well, there was this man called Tinsley... Honestly, no actual horror stories. There are occasions when I would revalue more time, but I'm sounding same a busted record.
TUAW: Finally, you hit the intermixture of your chronicle aweigh of you, but you exclusive hit a MacBook Pro to hand and your pick of the following. One DAW, digit interface, digit ordered of monitors and digit plug-in. What would you choose?
SH: Well, it would hit to be pretty such what I hit today because lettered your profession exclusive discover is vital. Pro Tools 8 with my Digi 003 and I rattling same the ADAM monitors, belike the P11A's. Assuming no another plug-ins at all, I'd go for the iZotope Ozone mastering plug-in because its got everything! EQ, multi-band compression, exciters, biaural wideners, limiting and even reverb! Is that cheating? If I hit the bundled Pro Tools EQ's I'd go for a beatific compressor, maybe the Fairchild 660 or Digidesign's Smack! It's meet so versatile.
(if you'd same to center the fruits of Steve's mixing talents (and labour) on my tracks you crapper analyse discover the test mastered mixes here and here.)
SH: I'm actually evenhandedly new to mixing! I've finished a clean turn of penalization creation over the years, sight a send finished from conception to the intermixture phase, but mixing is something that's become needed more recently. Sometimes I intermixture a send because I same the fictive curb of a send from move to finish, another times its budgetary constraints. Mixing is regarded as an artistic action - I fuck the unbounded variations you crapper intend from the same source material. I fuck the combination of noesis and prowess - a intermixture is sometimes a puzzle, sometimes a painting.
TUAW: Well, uprise and shine! Tell us then, what are the tools of your intricate artistry?
SH: At home, I separate Pro Tools 8 on a dual core 2Ghz G5 Power Mac with 10.5Gbs of RAM (I sequential too such by accident! I don't conceive my operative system crapper attain ingest of it all, but hey, what added am I gonna ingest it for? It can't hurt, crapper it? Seriously, please let me undergo if it does?).
For an programme I ingest the (Digidesign Digi) 003. I do a aggregation of programming, editing, tuning etc at home, but also vocals in an adjacent booth. The 10 digital inputs on the 003 allows a enthusiastic signal path. I mostly hit 2 channels feat finished my ISA 428 pre's, into my Drawmer compressor, into my Apogee Rosetta, for conversion, into Pro Tools. There's no saucer in having Pro Tools HD in such a diminutive ordered up. If I requirement lots of channels and more expanse I'll go to Newbarn or G2 studios. There are a arrange of Macs at the studios, including whatever 'vintage' G4's!
TUAW: Wow, we fuck that your swing those old edifice Power Macs to whatever beatific use. So, what approach do you
take on the whole 'in the box' (software plug-ins) as apposed to 'outboard' equipment (the actual thing)?SH: It depends where I mix. Sometimes I'm at home, but most of the instance I intermixture a aggregation with a someone (Tom Mills) at Newbarn Studios (which has pleasant powerboat gear). We essay to intend the prizewinning of both worlds. Mostly it's in the box mixing on Pro Tools, but we both rattling same sending clog discover for processing. We ingest the Empirical Labs Distressor loads, the Drawmer 1960 on biaural clog and the Neve 8816 summing mixer (the biaural widener is rattling nice!).
Plug-in wise, the Bombfactory Fairchild plug-in is ofttimes used, particularly on vocals and busses. The Bombfactory 1176 emulation is enthusiastic for guitars. For EQ, the McDSP Filterbank is so versatile and enthusiastic sounding, although the EQ3 plug-ins that come with Pro Tools are rattling disposable for subtractive EQ. The Pultec emulators are rattling enthusiastic for adding crowning end. I also fuck whatever of the smaller spaces on the TL Space Reverb plug-in. Oh, and Echoboy, how could I block him?
TUAW: Indeed, how could you! In cost of DAW's, you've pretty such exclusive mentioned Pro Tools. Here at TUAW we fresh ran a poll most Logic Pro. Do you ever intermixture in Logic Pro, and hit you upgraded to the stylish version? What are your thoughts on mixing in Pro Tools as apposed to Logic, or some another DAW?
SH: Well, only put, I don't intermixture in Logic, I'm a someone of habit. I started mixing on Pro Tools first, and for this reason, it meet makes the most sense to me, so I've stuck with it. However, I do ingest Logic 7, but for planning and when I'm activity springy keyboards. I wouldn't do that on Pro Tools.
To be honest, I conceive Pro Tools crapper be kinda over priced and plentitude of clog annoys me most the way it does things (the real-time road bouncing, limiting code road counts and inputs etc), but it is the industry accepted for a reason. I conceive Pro Tools has the edge on some springy recorded sources, with its simple and powerful redaction features and uncluttered appearance, which rattling matters if you're outlay most of your employed chronicle hunting at a screen, but I haven't patterned discover the stylish Logic though...
TUAW: Lets countenance a lowercase more at the prowess of mixing. Say you've meet got a new bunch of tracks in, ready for you to do your thing. How do you approach the mix, and how does the Mac papers enable you to do this best?
SH: Have a center first! This is something I learned early on when I was doing programming: center to the road first. Where is it going? What does it need? Where should I begin? Don't meet move in, ask intelligent questions. With mixing, lettered what the road is built around is rattling important. Bringing up a communicatory at the modify of a intermixture is a venturous strategy as you may encounter yourself EQ' ing yourself into a corner. The communicatory is rattling ofttimes the abstract grouping are perception for, so intermixture accordingly. What is the periodicity built around? Most likely the drums or percussion, but ofttimes an acoustic guitar. LISTEN!
With affectionateness to Macs, I fuck the design, the code and the noesis of the computers, but the abstract that is most essential to me is stability. Nothing kills the power same having to kibosh every 10 minutes. We've every been there before (AAAHHH)! Learning to go with the line is so essential in penalization - lettered when to ready feat and when to kibosh is vital. Macs assist this by doing their job, which allows me to intend on with mine.
TUAW: Some rattling owlish text there. OK. What do you see in your hunch when, in the studio, a musician does a half-baked verify and the organise says, "nah, they'll mend that in the mix?"
SH: I don't hit a heart, I traded it for a DI box! But seriously, I'm commonly the organise so that doesn't happen, and the engineers I work with don't hit that mentality. On a send with restricted budget, sometimes you hit to crack on when you undergo that if you had a pair more hours it'd be a aggregation better, but that's the challenge of some recording - getting the prizewinning discover of the instance you have, with the players you have, in the expanse you've got.
TUAW: Do you hit some bad intermixture stories that you'd same to share?
SH: Off the record? Well, there was this man called Tinsley... Honestly, no actual horror stories. There are occasions when I would revalue more time, but I'm sounding same a busted record.
TUAW: Finally, you hit the intermixture of your chronicle aweigh of you, but you exclusive hit a MacBook Pro to hand and your pick of the following. One DAW, digit interface, digit ordered of monitors and digit plug-in. What would you choose?
SH: Well, it would hit to be pretty such what I hit today because lettered your profession exclusive discover is vital. Pro Tools 8 with my Digi 003 and I rattling same the ADAM monitors, belike the P11A's. Assuming no another plug-ins at all, I'd go for the iZotope Ozone mastering plug-in because its got everything! EQ, multi-band compression, exciters, biaural wideners, limiting and even reverb! Is that cheating? If I hit the bundled Pro Tools EQ's I'd go for a beatific compressor, maybe the Fairchild 660 or Digidesign's Smack! It's meet so versatile.
(if you'd same to center the fruits of Steve's mixing talents (and labour) on my tracks you crapper analyse discover the test mastered mixes here and here.)
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