"Ignace Dhont" wrote in message
om...
Had a good look on Amazone and ordered some books (including the
Mixing Engineer's Handbook). Hoping for some real info.

The posters that commented that the de-ess trick was already
well-known (..) obviously didn't understand what I was trying to say.
Of course everyone knows it, that's why I used it as an example. Guess
I'll have to express myself more clearly in the future, this
misunderstanding was kinda embarassing for myself and the posters.

But if someone would like to explain for instance how to position a
sound in a virtual 3D room using delay and equalizing techniques I'm
all ears. Anyone? The old panpot and reverb sounds sooo flat..

Hey, I thought you already understood that mic placement and the mixing
process don't have any serious "laws" like science does.
It's easy to read science from a book, but don't limit your vision to
copying other old, heard, "scientifically proven" mixing tricks..
I could give you 40 ways of recording a stereo guitar track and "prove" each
one's greatness over another with massive amounts of babbling about phase,
proximity effect, guitar resonances and so on, but what would that be good
for?
Forget the subharmonic saw waves gated by the kick drum, the eq sidechain
de-essers, the 10-30 ms predelays on the stereo reverb of a snare, the gated
rock reverbs, the compressed subgroups and so on!

Mixing is not about that. It's about what sounds good for the ear and is
based on a couple of simple things like the critical frequency bands of our
ear etc.
You have to know the basic technical issues, but I think it'd be better for
you to learn those technical issues from a book, and realise that there
really is no "THE guitar tone in the world", it all depends on the context.
Or the current "trend" in music, which basically means everyone's stuck to
the same routines like "ooh, let's put a 16th delay on the vocals, it sounds
so much better than the -93 reverb"...Used trick are already used tricks
which everyone recycles, sometimes without any thought.