Sweet Keys

Chopping It Up With Ashtronomix

Thank you for listening to my mix, my name is Freddy Traxx. The first thing I did was make sure NOT to listen to other submissions because I have my own way of mixing and I didn’t want to be influenced by other mixes. I like to use a variety of tools so I used Pro Tools and Propellerhead Reason. When I imported the tracks into Pro Tools I first cleaned up the vocal a bit and slightly edited the levels (not trying to destroy the dynamics), then I eq’d it with Izotope Nectar. I sent the guitar through a doubler because I was going for a room sound and I felt it made the guitar sound bigger. When I was satisfied with my editing and preliminary mix, I sent the snare, overheads, bass di, guitar, and vocals into Reason. I ran the bass di and vocals (each) through Pulverizer for compression and some dirt. I used the U-He Ubhik A reverb on the vocals, doubled guitar, snare and overheads, and I also used Propellerhead’s Echo delay on the vocals. I then sent those wet tracks back into Pro Tools. For the vocal track I mixed the wet signal with the original so that the reverb and delay are more towards the back, and also to keep the dynamics of the original. I decided to use some parallel compression on the drum tracks so I sent them all to an aux bus and I used Waves One Knob Louder as the compressor. After all was said and done I ran the whole thing through my Yamaha digital/analog mixer to give it some warmth. Thank you again for listening and please enjoy.