Love's gonna get you
By Gunda on March 3, 2024 10:00 pm
This submission feels like cheating a little as the finishing mixing and mastering is not done by me, but the educator of a workshop I participated in this weekend.
We each submitted a track for him to demonstrate some mixing and mastering techniques on, and I chose an unfinished track I started on back in autumn, mostly because it had vocals to work with. I rerecorded the lead vocals and did some adjustments to the procution this weekend as well before handing it over, but I definitely had plans to add more elements and strucuture to it.
However, hearing how much better the sketch sounded after he had done some mixing and mastering, realistically I'm not too keen on going back to production as that means working in my own mix again. For now at least it gets to live on Weekly Beats as a finished track with quite minimalist production and arrangement.
To his credit he only had like 25 minutes to work on it, while also having to demonstrate and answer questions. Something happened to the backing vocals which we simply didn't have time to catch in the midst of wrapping up the course. Still, I really think he got the mood of the song just right, and it was massively inspirational to watch the process and see how - on paper - simple adjustments in EQ, compression and reverb on the stems made such a massive difference.
I've never been excited aboout mixing before now, but I'm really looking forward to working more on it now. I promise that all mixing will be done by me here on after, scouts honor!
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