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Tutorial—Mixdown

18 — Tutorial

❒ Track 8: Piano

We’ll use some EQ to “thin out” the piano sound a bit, and give it a touch more

presence so that it will come through in the mix a bit more.

❍ Piano EQ

❒ Tracks 9 & 10: Strings

If we’d recorded real strings we might have needed a bit of processing here, but

since this is pretty-much a “pre-processed” synth string patch, we can leave it

alone.

❒ Tracks 11 & 12: Female Chorus 1 & 2

Processing to make a chorus “blend” well can be tricky, but in general you’ll just

have to rely on you ears. In this case we’ve used high-pass ﬁltering to remove

rumble from the studio and other low-frequency noise that can lead to unclear

overall sound. Some midrange has been removed to prevent the chorus from get-

ting in the way of the lead vocal, and a touch of high-end presence has been

added to help the voices cut through. Compression also helps to achieve a tighter

chorus blend by smoothing out dynamic variations.

❍ Female Chorus 1 EQ

❍ Female Chorus 2 EQ

❍ Female Chorus 1 Compression

LOW L-MID H-MID HIGH

Q L.SHELF 8.0 — H.SHELF

F 74 21 — 7.55 kHz

G –3.5 –4.0 — +2.0

LOW L-MID H-MID HIGH

Q HPF 10.0 9 H.SHELF

F 94 841 1.49 kHz 13.4 kHz

G ON –1.5 –2.5 +4.0

LOW L-MID H-MID HIGH

Q HPF 1.0 — H.SHELF

F 50 1.00 kHz — 13.4 kHz

G ON –2.5 — +3.5

THRESH. RATIO OUT GAIN ATTACK RELEASE KNEE

–16 2.5:1 +2.0 21 319 1

1 2 ... 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... 33 34

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