Mixing a live recording (Summary)

The session was recorded in a medium hall with lots of microphone bleeds.

DRUMS

• SSL 4000 E Channel Strip (UA) on each drum track - utilizing the gate, compressor and 4 band EQ.
• Since the toms weren’t playing at all times, I manually removed regions that didn’t contain any transients instead of using a gate. These method retains ghost notes and leaves toms sounding natural.
• Trigger 2 plugin to add extra layer of samples to fatten and enhance the Kick and Snare drums.
• Abbey Roads TG 12345 send to the drum bus (Parallel compression and saturation)
• Bricasti convolution reverb ambience) and large wood room
  DRUM BUS
• Neve EQ and 1176 compressor (25%) on the drum bus.
• UA Studer A800 Tape Recorder

BASS

• Bass was recorded DI so I reamped with UA Ampeg SVT-VR.
• UA LA2A compressor
• Fabfilter Saturn for saturation
• Waves RBass for harmonics
• RComp

KEYS, SYNTHS & PADS

• Fabfilter pro-Q3 to knock off resonant frequencies on each track.
• LA2A, Pro C2, Fairchild (depending on what character or colour was needed)
• Stereo imager to widen the pads.
• UA Studer A800 Tape Recorder

VOCALS

• multi compression with subtle gain reductions (Pro C2 on tracks, UA 1176 on bus).
• Pro Q3 for highpass and dynamic cuts to suppress resonant frequencies.
• Soothe 2
• Manley Massive Passive EQ
• Pultec EQP-1A
• RVox
• FabFilter Pro-DS
• Fairchild

2 MIX BUS

• SSL Native Bus Compressor 2
• Virtual Tape Machine
• Neve EQ
• UA Fairchild 670
• PSP Vintage Warmer 2 Limiter

MASTERING**
-Hard to explain (honestly), but basically just getting the songs to a competitively commercial position - smooth, eloquent, classy and proud - making them stand out on any playlist. I mixed the songs so they didn’t require any correctional moves.

• Izotope Ozone compressor & Imager
• Slate Digital FG-X
• Oxford Inflator
• Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
• Abbey Road TG Mastering
• UA API 2500 compressor
• Chandler Limited Curve Bender
• Fabfilter Pro-L2

Mixed and Mastered on Logic Pro
Main monitors - Yamaha HS 5
Reference - Panasonic stereo system (consumer perspective)
Sonarworks SoundID Reference room calibration