Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips
Mike Senior delves into some of the most common troubleshooting tasks when dealing with acoustic guitar recordings at mixdown, and shares his own favourite processing fixes.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - Unwanted subsonics
04:16 - Undesirable resonances
08:20 - Pick noise
10:34 - Fret noise
12:35 - Overbearing percussive components
14:32 - Conclusion
Credits
This month's episode features audio examples from the following productions:
* Ben Carrigan: 'We'll Talk About It All Tonight'
Download the full raw multitracks from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#BenCarrigan
* The Wrong'uns: 'Rothko'
Download the full raw multitracks from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#WrongUns
Read about my mix of this project in Sound On Sound's March 2013 'Mix Rescue' column at https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-rescue-wronguns
* Tom McKenzie: 'Directions'
https://tommckenzie.bandcamp.com/
Download the full raw multitracks from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#TomMcKenzie
Read about my mix of this project in Sound On Sound's April 2013 'Mix Rescue' column at https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-rescue-tom-mckenzie
* Fergessen: 'Nos Palpitants'
Download the full raw multitracks from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#Fergessen
* Qupe: 'Ayni Nehirde'
Download the full raw multitracks from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#Qupe
* The Long Wait: 'Dark Horses'
Download the full raw multitracks from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#LongWait
* Bolz & Knecht: 'Summertime' & 'Matteo'
Download the full raw multitracks for 'Summertime' from https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#BolzKnecht
Read about the recording sessions for 'Summertime' in Sound On Sound's August 2018 'Session Notes' column at https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/session-notes-recording-acoustic-guitar-duo
Mike Senior Biog
Mike Senior is a professional audio engineer, regular SOS contributor, and author of the best-selling books Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio & Recording Secrets For The Small Studio. He runs the Cambridge-MT educational resources site (including the web's largest free multitrack download library) and hosts two monthly independent podcasts, Project Studio Tea Break and the Cambridge-MT Patrons Podcast.
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