Title: Sing Along
By: Frankie Barranco

Mixed for Dueling Mixes

Sing Along

Willow Creek Junction EP
http://www.willowcreekjunction.com

Recorded at 807studios
Mix at 807studios

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My first consideration when mixing these tracks was to keep the raw energy of the live performance.  I did not want any processing to take that away.  I used the Waves SSL Channel on almost everything.  It has a great sound and versatility.  For the drums I doubled bused them with one of the buses being heavily compressed to bring out a bit more of the depth.  I then gradually mixed that in beneath the first bus just enough to fatten it up.  All of my reverbs I used are TL Space Reverb and a mix of Halls and Spring.  I usually don't add any reverb to my kick drum but I did add a tiny bit on this mix to help keep that live natural reverb feel.  With the bass guitar I added a tiny bit of Sansamp distortion to give it a bit of grit and bite but only did this on the the DI channel.  The miced channel I only used the SSL. The guitar is going through the same SSL Channel and TL Space.  I did double the guitar and subtly pan each to opposite sides of Center.  Though I kept the doubled guitar very low in the mix and EQed slightly different so I don't really notice a second guitar track but a beefing up of the single.  Once again on the VOX I used the SSL and TL Space and again I doubled the vocal.  I used the sans amp on the double to bring out a little grit in the vox and subtly mixed that in.  Again, I didn't want the listener to realize there were multiple tracks since I was trying to keep the live performance feel.  I also used a slight Tel-Ray delay on the VOX on the verses to fill space and a touch of AIR Delay on the Choruses.  All of this was done in Pro-Tools 8 LE through a DIGI002 clocking off of my DIGIMAX.

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