The biggest challenge I will have to face in this project will personally be the process of mixing and mastering. In order to aid me in this struggle I read an article online titles "9 pro mastering rips for beginners". I found this article extremely useful in gaining knowledge on mixing and mastering. The first being to use an exciter. "Exciters raise the harmonics of the fundamental tones found in the recording" (Computer Music Sep 2017). I think this will become useful if i begin to feel like the tone of the final mixes may sound dull and I could use and exciter to brighten and liven up the mix. The second tip the article gave me was to "Narrow the Mix". At first I was very unsure to what this meant but I then read that a stereo recording typically means making the mix sound wider and although this can make the mix sound rich a big mistakes producers make is over doing it as it can cause phasing issues and can really weaken a mix. Thirdly I went on to read about "Noise Reduction" it came to my understanding after reading this article that noise reductions can be greatly used during long fade-in and outs as in some poor recordings you might be able to hear things such as scratches on a guitar neck in the mix. After this I learnt how important dynamics can be in a song to convey emotion and energy through the track and that by using and expander unlike a condenser it will exaggerate or put emphasis on the dynamics of a song. This could be an interesting experiment on the guitar as typically condensers are used on guitar to make them sound more consistent how ever as this will be a largely funk based EP maybe the dynamics should be emphasized rather than shut out. A massive mistake producers make when mixing and mastering tracks is using the right plug ins on certain instruments for example as I am a guitarist and I will be using Logic ProX to record and mix my songs it might be a good idea to use the pedal board feature on Logic rather than just slapping on effects. Also types of effects can also have a massive effect on a mix as discussed earlier on in my research when discussing distortion, different types of the same effect all come with their own unique sounds that can greatly change the tone of a track. Finally from this article I learnt that i'll need to have the ability to know when a track is finish and not to over do it.
The Glyn Johns Technique (GJT) is a technique used for recording drums created by the British sound engineer Glyn Johns. "who most notably worked with Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, and even started his career assisting for The Beatles." (The Recording Revolution 2011). From this we can clearly see the the GJT is worth researching as it has been used by some of the most influential musicians of all time. The beauty behind the GJT is the pure minimalism behind it. Instead of having to mic up each tom symbol, ETC. The GJT only uses four microphones. It starts with simply placing one mono-overhead above the snare or middle of the kit approximately 3/4 feet. This will allow you to gain a over all balanced sound of the kit. Equally balancing the entire kit. The next microphone (also an overhead) should be placed "to the right of the floor tom, maybe 6 inches above the rim and facing across the tom towards the snare and hi hat" (Th...
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