Pensado Place Episode 15

Bruce Swedien inthestudiowithbruceswedien.com Blumlein Stereo Mic Technique

BAE 1073

Pensado Place Episode 14

Mike Dean Batter's Box Keyboards: Crumar orchestrator Vocal: 1073 Cln Gtr: Fender Twin 808: Pultec Keyboards: E6 EQ

Pensado Place Episode 13

Ed Cherney Stereo buss: longer attack times lead vocal: 33609, gml 2200, fairchild rock guitar: 1176 slow attack fast release, ssl g eq ac piano: mic choice and placement, la3a live strings: mic choice placement overheads: fairchild 670, ssl g eq ac guitar: 1176 bass: 1176 snare: 1176

Pensado Place Episode 12

Ed Seay Batter's Box Lead Vocals Male: U67, CLX2, GML 8200 EQ Rock Guitar: 57 and Royer, GML EQ, Ac Gtr: API 550b Ac Pno: Avalon Stereo EQ 2055 Live Strings: GML EQ Overheads: Console EQ Room: Coles, Console comp, Massenberg VCA comp

Pensado Place Episode 11

Chris Wood Batter's Box Lead vocal: Waves linear band followed by L2, live with it 80 percent of mix and then tweak before printing, same philosophy with snare. BG Vox: Waves linear Rock guitars: McDSP P4, L1 or L2 Acoustic guitar: like lead vocal with no bottom, C4 Acoustic piano: 33609 compressor, oxford eq Live strings: oxford eq Overhead drums mics: distressor, L2 for aggressive, sexy r&b: lite eq and ssl Kick/Snare samples: Distressor, nuke Brian McKnight vocal chain: akg tube with custom c12 mod, jenson servo 990, black 1176, gml mic pre, nc76

Pensado Place Episode 10

James Murray Batter's Box Snare: 57 top bottom, 1073 neve pre and eq, run to separate buss with distressors and buss it back into original signal. Kick: d12 or yamaha sub kick or both, neve 1073, or API 560 graphic eq, or 550a OH: 414s hyper cardioid bottom end roll of Room: 147, m50, coles ribbons Lead Vox Male: U47, c23, 251 E Gtr: 57, royer 121, neve/api Ac Gtr: 149, km84, 451 Ac Piano: 414, earthworks,

Pensado Place Episode 9

Brad Blackwood Batters Box: Internal clock No L2 on stereo buss no plugins cranesong head 192 kbps mp3 Fades included Dynamics vs. loudness

Pensado Place Episode 8

Jaycen Joshua Vocals: CL1B Bass: 1176 Kick: 160x Snare: 160x Ac Piano: Neve 33609 Buzzy synth: R Comp String section: metallic: 1176/la3a, warm: fairchild/puigchild

Pensado Place Episode 7

Cut frequencies before compressors, boost after.

Pensado Place Episode 6

http://theproaudiofiles.com/pensados-place/ Manny Marroquin Use the emotional peak of the song to set your highest levels. Think about what surrounds the sound. Carve out spots for sounds to exist. Pick a focal point.

Pensado Place Episode 5

http://www.audiocontrol.com/t37/10127/Real-Time-Analyzer.html

Stereo tricks for strings/pianos/synths If you have a stereo track of strings, convert to dual mono. - Shift the left track early by 7ms - Shift the right track late by 7ms

Keyboards: To make space in the middle, pan your stereo keyboards to one side and pan their effects to the other.

Stereo on a reverb return is usually not stereo Try this: put 2 plugins with the same reverb preset, pan one plugin in hard left, and the other hard right, with both plugins having slight parameter changes

If you are doing a ballad and the vocals are in a really low range, try running the send to the reverb through a harmonizer and put that up an octave, so what you are sending to the reverb unit is an octave higher than the original sound source. When you mix that back in with the vocal it is a really cool effect and makes the vocal sound more exciting

Take two chorus units: With the first chorus unit pan one side left, and the other at about 1-2 o’clock. Take the second chorus unit and change the depth and the rate to where they are slightly different, and then pan that unit hard right, and about 10 o’clock. Delay the hard panned edges about 10-14ms

Vocal analog gear: Millenia EQ for broad brush strokes http://www.mil-media.com (tube inserted into signal chain) GML 8200 http://www.massenburg.com/c/gml/mod8200 for precision EQing Compression: TubeTech compressor http://www.tube-tech.com Gates Sta-Level http://www.vintageking.com

Vocal Plugins: Precision work with Flux EQ http://www.fluxhome.com Color and vibe: Waves API550 and V-Series EQ Waves 1176 blue stripe for vocals and black for everything else.

Pensado Place Episode 4

Tony Maserati multiband compression compressing mid range and leaving bottom end alone

Vocals: Ballad - 1176 Pop - Chandler Zener and Distressor

UAD Waves C4

Mix Buss: Pendulum ES8 Comp/Limiter Slate Digital FG-X

Pensado Place Episode 3

Recommended Plugins:

Runs entire mix through RTA to fix his room.

Sub Grouping: All Vox Program Drums: Massey Live Drums: HComp, API, All Music: VComp? All FX

Kick: SPL Transient designer, Ren Bass

UA: Dimension D

Auratones

http://akmedia.digidesign.com/support/docs/48_Bit_Mixer_26688.pdf http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov08/articles/itbrauer.htm

Pensado Place Episode 2

Recommended Plugins: dbx 160xt on kick 6:1 trans x on kick

auratones with bryson 2b

Pensado Place Episode 1

Recommended Plugins: Waves C6: multiband compression Tony Maserati: Vocal CLA: Vocal Slate FGX Slate Trigger McDSP compressor

Nikki Minaj vocal, used multiple compressors live to get her rap/singing. M149 mike with 1073 neve pre. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/M149 __NOEDITSECTION__