It is very likely I will not have the same #MixingConsole every night, so to be more reliant on my hearing and less on visuals, I wanted to give this approach a shot.
The cool thing about Converge is that they have a very distinctive sound. So there's no guess work during the mix, even as Kurt provides plenty of textures for #bass and #guitar but a very minimal drum recording.
After importing everything in Logic Pro X, I put everything in order and respective folders, as well as renamed the tracks, which makes it a lot easier to navigate.
First thing I do after sorting stuff is to do a rough mix where I adjust just the volume of all tracks to my liking, which will be my baseline of the final mix. I also weed out any track I don't want to use and commit to that. Check out what the rough mix sounds like!
My goal was to exlusively use the #SSL e-channel plugin which almost worked. 😅 I had to use the #FabFilter#ProQ3 to get rid of annoying snare ring, as well as #Izotope#Ozone10 and #Softube Tape for sound shaping, but that's it!
I also used the #CheatSheet from #HardcoreMusicStudio and it helped me a lot! It was very freeing to not rely on your eyes anymore and I'm also a big fan of SSL, as it was my first console I ever mixed on. And I also own and love the SSL 2+ #AudioInterface! 😍
The final result sounds very similar because I did some A / B testing after I was done with the mix, to come close to Kurt's thick sound. Turns out I had to drive the whole mix HARD into tape distortion to achieve that. 😈
The whole mixing session took around 2.5 hours, because the sound was already set in stone, as I mentioned earlier. No guess work, just mixing and having fun. Definitely gonna keep working like this, feels much more natural. Final result attached, have fun!
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