basically what I'm doing is sort of manipulating that static balance and
making things just sort of bounce like I want to be bouncing in my chair and like
when the when the handoff happens to the chorus I want to be like yes you know
and like jumping up and down like people in a stadium so that's what gets me off
during mixing it makes me really excited is just making everything sort of swell
and move and have excitement to it you know generally I start with the drums
and you can see there's some there's some fairly big rides you know a couple
3db going in to chorus is to make sure that shit just drops and same thing with
the bass the guitars you know the way this particular song drops into the
course like everyone just hits the diamond hits a whole note there and we
want that to just be loud and proud but let the vocals poke through it so
sometimes I'll push the front of that chord and then pull it back and then the
vocals go away and that chugging part comes in so I'm going to push them up
again they're not huge massive moves as you can see but you can feel they make a
big difference to to what's happening what's important what's audible what's
not and what you're concentrating on cuz there's a famous person who said we
don't walk away humming the drum fill so want vocals upfront and then when
there's no singing you want something else to happen you know cuz if it just
sits there static it's like okay well that loud guy singing to me up front has
gone away so for a split second I might be bored and God forbid that happens so
bring the guitar part up bring the bass fill up bringing a drum fill something
that's happening can be pushed just a little bit to keep that low from
happening you want it like once this song comes on you want energy happening
from somewhere all the time so to show you what this automation is doing I'm
gonna play you the beginning of the song through the end of the first chorus with
all my automation moves and then I'll roll back I'll turn off all the
automation there's a button here that says Auto suspend turns everything off
and we can hear what happens when you just have a static mix so check it out
here's with all the automation up through the first chorus
and you get a again she
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you can hear we get to that chorus it's just kind of like you know it's a chorus
clearly because things change but it's not like jumping up a level and when it
gets to the chorus and this kind of song it needs to just come out and kick you
in the face so that's what we're achieving with the automation