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Subject: mixing piano...mono or stereo?
Original Message Date: 22-Sep-05 @ 09:46 AM - mixing piano...mono or stereo?
Message 11/15 23-Sep-05 @ 09:54 AM - RE: mixing piano...mono or stereo?
Message 12/15 23-Sep-05 @ 01:02 PM - RE: mixing piano...mono or stereo?
the short delay thing should work- just work on getting the mono version sitting well on it side and then bring up the fader of the delayed version until you can 'feel' the spread- you dont nesseraily have to have anything jumping out from the delayed side just the feeling that the piano stretches that far
greg
Message 13/15 23-Sep-05 @ 02:01 PM - RE: mixing piano...mono or stereo?
this guy (and his interviewed mixers) says they use panned delays- ie dry coming 10oclock, delayed version coming out at two o'clock- the delay creating a sense of space- can work well...
thats a standard technique and works on tons of things, you just have to be very careful about summed mono mixes, but dry one side and delayed version to the other works good on hats, toms (big tom breaks in rock tracks), guitars, percussion stuff like congas etc etc, but the mono issue.... if you listen to the mono track in my profile called FLYING DUB, further into the track the song breaks down and there is actualy a little hand drum bongo sort of pattern playing fast, but due it being panned like that it almost has dissapeared in mono
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Message 14/15 23-Sep-05 @ 04:20 PM - RE: mixing piano...mono or stereo?
Also, beware of sampled pianos collapsed to mono... most that I've heard are sampled quite a bit out of phase so they sound super wide in the storeroom but pretty crappy in mono. Often it's the onboard reverb that's phasey, so make sure you kill that first, then make the piano mono, then put on your own verb. Maybe just take one side of it?
Message 15/15 23-Sep-05 @ 11:31 PM - RE: mixing piano...mono or stereo?
you'd be surprised how high you can highpass a piano and still have it sound full in a mix
true, and that goes for many sounds but people tend to leave the eq flat adding to top/bottom or mid clutter
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