One thing many home or project recorded tracks lack is a sense of cohesion. It’s likely because everything was recorded at different times in not so musical spaces (i.e. a bedroom). You can be left with disjointed sounding tracks, and that’s no fun.
Having Something In Common
A great way to give your tracks that unity they desperately need is to “glue” them together with a simple reverb effect. A touch of verb on your tracks (the same verb) is a quick and easy way to give your mix a sense of space and focus.
Comments
Graham this one is great, I always use 2 or 3 different reverbs in a mix, but there’s always one which is used more as a glue than as an effect, it’s really cool, one tiny problem I tend to find and I kind of hear that in this video too is that you kind of lose a bit of 3D-ness you know, but for a good reason, anyway do you know of how to adress this a little bit, maybe i’ll have to mix more time through the reverb so I give my instruments the correct location with reverb already sounding. Any tip would be appreciated.
Thanks Graham! Is there any reason why you prefer to use a plate reverb for this rather then any other kind? Is it because you find it to generally work well as a glue or does your choice change from track to track depending on what works with the that tracks sound?
Plates are a good starting point, and this one worked well in the mix.