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Originally Posted by Larsis
Hello guys,
So now I have two mics, that is the basic and I want to add piezzo or inside mic from my Anthem system to the mix. My question is: Do you have any tips or ides, how to mix it together? I mean microphones are solved, 2 mics, to L and R, clear stereo, but what about the piezo? Do it L 50 and R50 or? Or do it also L and R, but with lower volume?
And how these guys (or their mixing masters probably) mix songs with so many tracks and sound sources? I'm really curious, how this works.
Thank you so much!
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In my personal view Since the Anthem pickup is a mono signal. I would record it to a mono track and pan it straight up the center
Well as far as mixing multi track recordings and in only a very general sense often the goal is to have a cohesive mix (that sounds and feels like it is all the instruments are playing live in the same room same time) BUT have enough distinction between the individual instruments so that they do not get lost in a muddy mess of similar mid range frequencies and can be heard individually in the mix. This is (again generally speaking ) often done in two ways.
First consider that the sound field is 3 dimensional, not only stereo Left and Right being 2 D, but also front to back thus 3D
#1 limit the number of stereo tracks in general, for example record the rhythm acoustic guitar track in stereo and pan hard left and right, then record additional tracks in mono and spread the panning of those tracks out to specific positions left to right. i.e. lead guitar 45 L and piano 45 R percussion instrument 25 L and tamborine 25 R etc.
# 2 sculpt the sound of the various instruments to allow space for individual frequencies to be more and less predominant , by using subtractive EQ ( cutting by a few db) on slightly different frequencies for each instrument. Also compression can help move specific featured instruments like say vocal and or lead guitar riffs , to the front of the sound field, where supporting instruments can be a bit further back in the sound field .