Julian Victor Corrie

sound research expeditions

been doing a lot of work on the new miaoux miaoux album recently, and i’ve got two tracks that are nearly finished and ready to be sent off for demos. it’s been a fascinating few days figuring out exactly what sounds good and how to get the best out of my mixes and equipment. here are some things that i’ve learnt:

1. mixing at low levels is essential. it saves your ears and your mixes turn out far better. i did crank it a few times to check the impact though.

2. for some reason recording low end stuff into logic from my outboard (mpc1000, waldorf blofeld) robs it of some of its punch and warmth. logic is brilliant for high frequency stuff, for its effects, and for tracking stuff like guitars. so i’m going to be running the two simultaneously, synced via midi timecode, and get the best of both worlds, mixed through my new mackie cr1402, which sounds great as well.

3. waves maxxbass is magical, as is my recently acquired tl audio ivory compressor. you can’t beat good old analogue compression, and the tl sounds great. punch in the 90hz high pass filter and the ‘fat eq’ button, track everything into pro tools then maxxbass it up. this gives you really sweet low end with none of the sub bass distortion or overcompression you might get otherwise, especially if you’re mixing on small monitors with no sub.

anyway that’s all for now. i’ll no doubt be doing some more technical posts in the coming few weeks as the album progresses. can’t wait!