#214 - 07/23/01 06:37 AM
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Craig: Once upon a time there was a website. I'd be damned if I remember its name... I know you had to be a "member" (although free) to access it's pages. The site, however, ceased to be several years ago.
Anyway, you had some articles in a music technology section there, and among others there was an article on mixing.
One section in that article on mixing had a REALLY NEAT little graph describing the "frequency spectrum" of sound with areas such as "bottom", "punch", "boxiness", "presence" and "sheen".
I really liked that article, and although it really didnt teach ME so many new things, I nodded in a "yes precicely, thats the way it is" way at every paragraph. I have friends who could benefit from reading it, and that little simple graph is killer as an explanation tool.
It would be a shame if that article is lost to the dotcom death.
There were other brilliant ones on the same site as well.
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#215 - 07/23/01 12:29 PM
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This article isn't written by Craig, but it's a terrific article nonetheless...
http://home.onet.co.uk/~jzracc/mixing.htm
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#216 - 07/23/01 03:03 PM
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Yes pop, I have read that one before. It is ALSO great, but I'm right now looking for craigs, since I fell in love with that simple graph and it would help me explain some things to my friends. (Of course I could draw my own but why not dig that articla out if its available)
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#217 - 07/23/01 05:02 PM
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As long as we're petitioning Craig, his latest EQ article about processing guitar tracks with plug-ins mentions an article on this site called "Guitar Processing Step-by-Step", supposedly in the Recording channel. I sought and did not find. Does anyone have a link for this? Like Craig, for example?
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#218 - 07/24/01 03:38 AM
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I can put that article up, now all I have to do is find it...
As to the other piece on processing step-by-step, it's almost ready to post. I guess no one's immune from vaporware 
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#219 - 07/24/01 12:29 PM
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Vielen dank, Herr Anderton! No hard feelings about the vapor. Looking forward to the article.
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#220 - 07/24/01 08:13 PM
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Hey Zap,
Don't mean to get OT from your post but I just checked out your MP3.com page as well as your wife's. Well done sir, I saw your panoramic studio view the other day and decided to check out the tunes--very impressive. Did you do everything in the pictured studio? Obviously a DAW'er, what are you using. I'm a Motu/DP'er/Mac...I'd love to share ideas-thoughts
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#221 - 07/24/01 08:32 PM
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>>This article isn't written by Craig, but it's a terrific article nonetheless...
http://home.onet.co.uk/~jzracc/mixing.htm<<
Thanks for the point to that article popmusic. It's turning into
a very good read. Nice in depth explanation on a persons insight
into the mixing process. Lookin forward to Craig's also.
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#222 - 07/24/01 08:54 PM
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Originally posted by WFTurner:
Thanks for the point to that article popmusic. It's turning into
a very good read. Nice in depth explanation on a persons insight
into the mixing process.
Yeah, I like that article more than any book I've read on the subject. Seems that most articles I've seen (can't speak for the original article Zap was talking about) are too general -- mixing is a huge subject -- or, if the article is specific with a genre, the author is usually reluctant to reveal some of his/her personal "tricks". The Jezar article is unusual in that it seems to give away very specific examples of what works for him when he's mixing.
Two other informative articles with very specific examples can be found here and here .
I'd love to read a long article (heck, it could be a multi-volume book -- I'd still buy it) of what goes through George Massenburg's or Roger Nichols' head when they're mixing. With audio examples of the mix-in-progress...
This message has been edited by popmusic on 07-24-2001 at 05:54 PM
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#223 - 07/24/01 09:13 PM
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Trash Monkey: Thank you.
Actually, I am NOT really a "DAW"-er at all. I have BECOME one RECENTLY. I am a "MIDI-sequence"-er. Until I bought my new (1Ghz) computer I had an old 200 Mhz can that couldnt even play ONE audio track in sync.
So most (with the exception of the very newest tracks) of the " Master Zap " material is actually 100% MIDI-sequenced, done "live" in that studio , as in, all the synths are playing at the same time MIDI-controlled mixed 100% ANALOG through my mixers, only to record the final STEREO OUT from the mixer back as the master of the song.
Same goes for the "[link=www.mp3.com/nina]Nina[/url]" material, most of the vocals were put in my ASR-X sampler (eek, a pain w. only 32 megs at your disposal for ALL vox!!). But this became such a royal pain-in-the-posterior that I bought said new computer, and now I am happily DAW'ing the vox tracks, although MOST of the music is still "good old MIDI", unly with added softsynths and the odd loop in SONAR. (Gotta love that software!).
Actually, even though I am DAW-ing and could, basically, use each synth more than once in a track, my mind is mentally hindered by the old "MIDI" way of working so I have yet to actually MAKE a track where for instance my Korg Mono/Poly does more than one thing in a track. Interesting, this mental bit 
Anyway, thank you for your kind words. In the end, I'm just a guy in a Garage. (Although Craig certifies that my garage has "Great Acoustics"... you remember that quote Craig? Okay he had a smiley after it, though, but hey  )
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#224 - 07/24/01 09:21 PM
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Okay, I found the article in my achives...actually it's about equalization more than mixing, and was originally published in EQ magazine. So, I'll post it when I get a chance, and let you all know that it's here.
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#225 - 07/24/01 09:28 PM
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Ah... EQ... well isn't that mixing too
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#227 - 07/25/01 10:12 PM
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Oh "thank you, thank you, thank you" MasterZ. I just saw this post today but I'd been wanting to ask Craig for a reprint of that article I'd read in EQ (I remembered that much) for 2 years. (After his SSS went sailing from AOL and the new site didn't happen, I didn't know how to get him to ask I guess.) Glad it's coming.
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#228 - 07/27/01 04:05 PM
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Uploaded it yet?
Just curious
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#229 - 07/27/01 09:38 PM
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#230 - 07/28/01 05:25 AM
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Yes something like that only Craig had this neat li'l graph which I liked, it was a great tool to explain this to folks.
Of course I can draw one myself for my own use but I'm more thinking of that article being lost in the archives being a bad thing.
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#232 - 08/07/01 04:24 AM
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#233 - 08/07/01 01:14 PM
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someone draw the man a graph :P
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#234 - 08/07/01 01:18 PM
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Um, I'm still waiting for the step-by-step guitar processing article Craig promised us in the EQ column last issue. Any word on this?
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