From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
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Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix
- [Voiceover] The grand piano is a percussion instrument, remember, and it has lots of overtones and an abundance of transience and both of those things take up a huge amount of space in a pop mix. So, I've chosen a song that is otherwise rather dense, and so, I really felt like this grand piano had to be pretty small and compact to fit into this rather large soundscape. So, let me play a little bit of this song for you. (slow pop music) This is really a pretty straightforward process. This is obviously some sort of upright piano and it sounds like it even might be a tack piano, at least a lightly tacked piano and, if this were a song where it was maybe just piano and vocal and a regular grand piano, that's when you can let the piano just be full range. Many people would not add top end or shave off the bottom end on a piano that's a sole accompaniment to a vocal, let's say, a piano vocal track, but in a large track like this, I think it's prudent to realize that certain elements of…
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Understanding signal processing order8m 4s
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Kick drum processing techniques5m 51s
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Snare drum processing7m 44s
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Tom toms and cymbals processing8m 56s
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Drum room mics processing7m 47s
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Lead vocal processing techniques12m 9s
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Background vocal processing techniques7m
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Gain processing using EQ and dynamics6m 40s
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Treating the bass guitar8m 19s
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Treating synth bass sounds7m 46s
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Making electric guitars sing with compression, EQ, and reverb11m 43s
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Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix6m 23s
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Carefully crafting the keyboards8m 41s
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Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar9m 50s
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Taming and then featuring percussion7m 51s
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Mixing real and sampled strings13m 1s
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Treating real live brass8m 37s
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Parallel compression techniques7m 58s
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