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blayz2002 · 8th September 2005

From your discription, sounds kinda like it's 1 of 3 things,

1. Either the vocals aren't compressed enough..(so pulling them up in the mix makes it not sit) so your guy is mixing them low to compensate.

2. They need fequencies cut to get them to sit and once again you can then pull them up and not have them fight with the busier passages.

3. Your guy is approaching the mix wrong..and should pull everything but the drums down in the mix get the vocals right first, (eq, level, compression) and then add in the supporting sounds in order of importance in the mix...make the vocal the lead in the track...if he mixes House he may be leaning towards trying to mix it like a dance record..which tend to have the vocal sit lower in the mix.

8th September 2005	#7
blayz2002 Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2005 Location: London UK Posts: 884	From your discription, sounds kinda like it's 1 of 3 things, 1. Either the vocals aren't compressed enough..(so pulling them up in the mix makes it not sit) so your guy is mixing them low to compensate. 2. They need fequencies cut to get them to sit and once again you can then pull them up and not have them fight with the busier passages. 3. Your guy is approaching the mix wrong..and should pull everything but the drums down in the mix get the vocals right first, (eq, level, compression) and then add in the supporting sounds in order of importance in the mix...make the vocal the lead in the track...if he mixes House he may be leaning towards trying to mix it like a dance record..which tend to have the vocal sit lower in the mix. __________________ "This is what I love about mixing though ...it's never the same twice"!