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Widening the image with stereo overhead mics

Widening the image with stereo overhead mics

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Widening the image with stereo overhead mics

- So after the kick and snare, the next most important thing is the overheads because that's gonna affect both the kick and snare and give us all the cymbal information. (drum and cymbal beats) While we got a good basic sound in tracking, what I'm looking for here in the mix is more clarity. The way to get tight, punchy sounds is through clarity, so in this case, we'll achieve that by rolling out some low-mid's, some upper-mid's in the 3K, 3K-5 harshness range, maybe add a touch of top-end, and we'll try some compression. (drum and cymbal beats) When you switch the EQ out and back in again, you can immediately here those problem areas disappear. (drum and cymbal beats) I used a fast-attack setting on the board compressors to push the snare drum back and pull the cymbals forward in the overheads. I can vary the release time of the compressor to work with the tempo of the song and make the cymbals kind of goosh up and get all exciting sounding. This is where transparent compression is…

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