Sir Mix A Lot More Than He Was Expecting

I did some mixing on C'Mon tonight, more than I was expecting. My plan for the evening was to sit down and dry some specific drum mixing that I read about in an article, called NY Style mixing. The short version is that it is supposed to beef up the drum sound by creating essentially a second drum track that gets super compressed. That second track is then mixed with the first to beef up the sound of the drums while at the same time keeping the original tone of the drums.

I didn't have much luck following the instructions in the article to create the separate drum track the way they described. I'm just not yet quite good enough at Nuendo to figure out what they were talking about and how to do it. But I tried a modified version of the instructions so that I could try it on the bass drum. It worked a little bit; the bass drum isn't much louder, but it does pop out a little more now.

I had planned to end my night's mixing there, but was feeling pretty good about continuing on, so I then played with the bass sound a little, and then the rhythm guitars a little, and then the lead guitars a little. When I finished, a couple hours later than I was expecting, I ended up not liking the lead tones, so I'm going back to scratch on those. But everything else was sounding pretty good. I was pretty happy with the results.