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Hello,
I'm Jean-François DI RIENZO, I'm 25 and I try to be a sound-engineer and a song-writer at The Office / The Artist Studio Paris

For this mix I really wanted to keep a 70's-live-in-the-studio vibe and since there is only 8 tracks for the whole recording, I didn't want it to sound over-produced, I wanted to keep it real.
My main question was : What would be the sound of Led Zeppelin making a new record in 2013 ?

For this mix, I used a ProTools 9, waves native power pack & SSL plug-ins, MOTU 2408mk3 converters, Mogami cables, an Amek Big 28 console for summing and a pair of Focal Twin6 speakers.

Drums : Nothing really fancy, comps and EQs, then sent in a bus, compressed once again. I didn't use any parallel compression or saturation here. I spent most of the time dealing with the harmonic of the snare which made the mix messy once in the sauce.

Bass : I blended both amp and DI : the amp for the body and the texture of the sound and the DI to add an extra definition through the whole mix

Guitars : I just EQed it, no extra compression or anything, I love the sound the way it was recorded

Vocals : Once again, EQ, comp and I added a little bit of saturation on the choruses to make the voice sound a bit fatter. To keep the vocals from sounding over compressed, I did a lot of volume automations, to keep it coherent along the song.

Spaces : I created a main room and I put everyone in it in order to build a color to the song and I added an extra "office" room for the vocals and an extra long plate for the vocals & the snare

To finish, I summed everything on 8 tracks on my (lovely) Amek and added a to buss compression.

It was really refreshing to mix that kind of music, I won't be the only one to say that but Liza has such a great voice !
Oh... and yeah, I forgot... I would LOVE to get away with the UAD Octo :p

Take care
Paix et amour.
-jf

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