Fletcher wrote on Wed, 16 July 2008 07:39 |
Again I was riding in the car with the kid... and again she was playing stuff she likes... and again I heard that fucking Waves piece of shit all over everything getting in the way of the fucking music.
There were some great songs [and some shitty ones] that she played... the problem was I could barely tell one from the other as everthing was flatter than a pancake and the presentation as emotional as a shoe horn.
Between shitty plug in compression and that gawd awful "auto tune" horseshit it's no wonder why the neighbor kids continue to annoy the snot out of me with Zeppelin!!
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I can relate,
I've been brought on board to mix a Bluegrass album.
Yesterday a friend of mine and I listened to the rough mixes provided by the recording engineer, and when I opened the PT sessions, it asked for the dreaded waves "+Ultra$%^&ifier-ification" plugin. Needless to say, my friend's PT rig does NOT have this installed, thank heavens.
We listened, ad then made ugly faces. The guy had "creatively" squashed the music. To the point of distortion. Wow. and he thought his mixes were great, and that he wanted to mix the album. Maybe not....
Most Bluegrass does not use much compression nor limiting. Ever. Appparently, this engineer thought otherwise. Even though he had been given finished CDs as examples of what to go for.
I'm very happy to say that I got picked to mix the album, as I have had the chance to work on all kinds of music, and I always try to get the sounds that are inherent to each style, REGARDLESS of what I think sometimes. I really look forward to getting these songs to shine the way they should, and not squish them into the 21st century.
Cheers