Any tutorial for mixing a live recording?

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davidrf
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Any tutorial for mixing a live recording?

Post by davidrf » Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:43 pm

Hi there,
could you point me to a good tutorial (or different specific tutorials) for mixing a live recording? I have a multitrack with 4 keyboards/synths (straight to the mixer), bass (straight to the mixer), 2 guitars (straight to the mixer), 3 vocals (mic'd) and a drum set (mic'd with 4 different mics: kick, snare and 2 overheads).

It's a project I make for fun, just to learn a bit of mixing. Thanks!

chris harbin
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Re: Any tutorial for mixing a live recording?

Post by chris harbin » Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:32 pm

No specific mixing vids, but it's a complicated mess trying to sort out which are good and which are just blah blah. Some areas to concentrate on: Gain staging, ditching too much low end other than things like kick/bass, use VU's for anything other than drums (the Klanghelm one is cheap and does a really good job) and not mixing with a limiter/s originally (save them for later) and some organizational aspects are good in the habit department.

Of course, you'll get 100 different people with 100 different responses. :lol:

Joe Gilder (Presonus) had what I thought were some good ones at one point in time (a little Studio One specific but you can still get some good ideas)
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