| All my mixes are done 100% ITB-on headphones-Sennheiser 595's. I don't use templates, always empty projects ad I just add tracks as I see fit. I use all of Logic's soft synths but sometimes I also use my Roland Jx 8P.
Working with vocalists I have one philosophy-adapt to the voice. I remember working with Byron Stingily of Ten City, he was a huge guy and I knew he had power somewhere, but I couldn't find it, he always sang very softly. Well we were working on a sng called "I Can't Stay Away", and I told him to go up higher for the build at the end-and I found his diaphram. It wasn't in the lower register it was in the high notes. From then on every time we wanted "hands in the air" power we knew to go high.
Some singers freeze in the studio and need you to guide them through every line-even if they're fantastic vocalists. Others screw up if you try to guide and are better left alone. The most emotion vocal I've ever produced was Ce Ce Rogers' Someday, where I recorded him warming up:) |