Creating the space...Creating the glue...

[Sparky2]

The more I listen and learn, the more I realize how it important it is to put the tracks into the \"same space\" to give a recording the life, realism and to glue it all together...

Recording modern pop, rock or country, is using room verb the first thought in putting everything into \"the space\"?? This is somewhat of a stumbling block for me. Of course, using plates or halls on different instruments can give you really good separating in the mix, but isn't this counter-intuitive to creating a \"glued\" space?? So does one just add a touch of room to a track, say a violin, to put it in the space, but then add a some hall to give it the depth?? Of course, I must experiement and use my ears, but can anyone else offer their experience or expertise??



Cheers
Curt

 

[BTLG]

Try to get the space in the source recording (that is, if you're the one tracking the project).

When recording guitars, I almost ALWAYs want the guitarist to get HIS tone from HIS amp, and if that means using the amp reverb, then so be it. Nothing's more frustrating or me than trying to take a dry signal and tweak it out til it sounds how I wished it had in the first place.

It takes a bunch of expermentation to really figure out what you're going to want in your tracks before you go to mix, and it's probably going to take you tracking a bunch of things, taking them home, monkeying around with them for a while and then realizing what you could've done better in the first place.

My advice ? Listen for what's not there that you want to be there and also what is there that you want to take out. How do you want the mix to sound in the end? etc etc.

Matt