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Hello again

i'm mixing a rock track but found it difficult to get everything in
place. everything sounds too big... and there are a lots of
arrangements which doesn't help.

i'm trying to get a more "professional" sound where every elements
sounds quite thin, "little", yet exactly in place, perfectly mixed,
and not agressive.

i know mixing engineers spend hours EQing and compressing and panning
and so on... but how do they get this "fat free" sound ?

any tips & tricks to get everything sound "smaller" but still present
and musical ?

thanks

[Dobbin]

I had exactly this complaint when mixing the sound for a commercial many
years ago - the room was jammed full of "producers" and when one complained
that everything sounded too big for the pictures they all agreed. I turned
the monitors down a few clicks and they all went home delighted.

What you're trying to do has to be the vision at the
production/arrangement/recording stage first. If the cast'n'crew on the
session were after big'n'fat (as they often are) your pretty well stuffed.
(what on earth does lots of arrangements mean?)

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Hello again

i'm mixing a rock track but found it difficult to get everything in
place. everything sounds too big... and there are a lots of
arrangements which doesn't help.

i'm trying to get a more "professional" sound where every elements
sounds quite thin, "little", yet exactly in place, perfectly mixed,
and not agressive.

i know mixing engineers spend hours EQing and compressing and panning
and so on... but how do they get this "fat free" sound ?

any tips & tricks to get everything sound "smaller" but still present
and musical ?

thanks

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

Dobbin wrote:

wrote in message
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Hello again

i'm mixing a rock track but found it difficult to get everything in
place. everything sounds too big... and there are a lots of
arrangements which doesn't help.

Compress less. Open the stereo image more.

I had exactly this complaint when mixing the sound for a commercial
many years ago - the room was jammed full of "producers" and when one
complained that everything sounded too big for the pictures they all
agreed. I turned the monitors down a few clicks and they all went
home delighted.

Yees, good point. Listening too loud is bad for ya and bad for the balance.

What you're trying to do has to be the vision at the
production/arrangement/recording stage first. If the cast'n'crew on
the session were after big'n'fat (as they often are) your pretty well
stuffed. (what on earth does lots of arrangements mean?)

Strings probably.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen