How to set up a nice mixdown

[pHz]

slainte rob

[rpc9943]

Tea 2

[Lunch Money]

Sure, different approaches to different tracks, but I can't imagine a situation in which lead and backing vocals would be treated the same. That's my only point.

Can't see anyone biting your head off, Ron... though you DID get all snarky on my ass.

I'm having coffee.

[rpc9943]

dude its not being treated the same, its just to set up freaking sets of mixes where you can pop it on to some nice little faders and set a rough little "main" mix of everything together, like you know when youre all done processing everything, you can do busses like this:

Main vocals
Bgv
Guitars
Drums
bass

and you can take those and set a single fader per grouping and mix down from there.

it just was a stupid idea then damn it

RonC

[jens]

what wrong, Ron? Forgot to take your medication again?

[Lunch Money]

Ah, but you see, Ron, what you just wrote IS what I do:

Main Vox
BGV
Drums
Bass

etc.

My only issue was that I wouldn't ever put Main and BGV together, not that I wouldn't bus things together.

[dealwithit]

I just can't help reading Ron's posts in this thread with a Napoleon Dynamite voice: "Whatever I want to do, GOD!"

Sorry Ron, it's my own little world here.

[lharless]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/napoleondynamite.html

[Lunch Money]

I've never seen that movie.

[djsubject]

Sure, different approaches to different tracks, but I can't imagine a situation in which lead and backing vocals would be treated the same. That's my only point.

i get the disticinkt feeling LM is pulling some legs & being a bit of a wind up

nobody said that the lead & backing would go STRAIGHT to the main vox bus,

only that there bus's would be sent to the main vox bus

so thay are not getting treated the same

wind up!!

[Lunch Money]

I'm not winding anybody up. I PERSONALLY get the distinct impression that people aren't reading my posts.

If they're getting treated seperately (as well they should), then what function is bussing them to an 'all vox' track performing??

I just don't think people approach things with the same sense of logic that I do. If something is redundant or doesn't add a useful phase, I simply don't bother with it. I'm not going to have an extra "all vox" track just so that I can play with the levels of all my vox, because I never WOULD play with the levels of all vox at once!

Greg

[multree]

for god's sake.. just let everybody mix the way he wants to..

thread closed

[Todd24]

Sometimes I will buss the main and backing vocals, then compress them. If I want a back vocal, with a long delay, come up in the mix after the main goes away (kinda like ducking delay, but not really the same thing). This will work nicley.

Maybe you want all the vocals in the same "room" Bussing is a good way to quickly acomplish that. Sometimes you have the relationship between the main and back just right but it they both sit too low in the mix (maybe you added more instrumentaion) bussing could fix it without remixing the vocals (sometimes 8 or so tracks in my case).

Maybe you want to fade all the vocals out at the same rate and time, Again bussing is the ansewer.

Never say never.

[Lunch Money]

I would never say never. But if a blueprint is given for a 'general' way to mix, I don't think it should include bussing bgv and main. That's all.

I'm not the one who keeps bumping this danged thread, and I'm not the one calling other people dorks.

[djsubject]

I would never say never. But if a blueprint is given for a 'general' way to mix, I don't think it should include bussing bgv and main. That's all.

I'm not the one who keeps bumping this danged thread, and I'm not the one calling other people dorks.

do you have more than one vocalist per track?

Subz