Listening
Listening to Simon and Garfunkel on Spotify; right now Sound of Silence.
The arpeggiated guitar lead is off in my right ear, somehow distant and far away.
The bass and the drums (along with the aforementioned lead apparently added by Tom Wilson after the fact) sit in my left ear.
That's not the way we do it these days; I'm not an expert but as far as I know now the kit is mic'd and mixed so that the kick is up the middle, the snare slightly off to one side, the hats off to the left and the other cymbals placed around the mix. The bass is usually close to the kick, sometimes side-chained to a limiter so that it ducks if the kick hits at just the same time, guitars are panned left and right and leads are front and centre, providing cover fire for the vocals.
We do it that way now because over the last sixty or so years sound engineers and producers have been working out what sounds best.
Maybe I'm weird like that, but I kinda enjoy hearing how they did it as they were just figuring these things out.
-J
The arpeggiated guitar lead is off in my right ear, somehow distant and far away.
The bass and the drums (along with the aforementioned lead apparently added by Tom Wilson after the fact) sit in my left ear.
That's not the way we do it these days; I'm not an expert but as far as I know now the kit is mic'd and mixed so that the kick is up the middle, the snare slightly off to one side, the hats off to the left and the other cymbals placed around the mix. The bass is usually close to the kick, sometimes side-chained to a limiter so that it ducks if the kick hits at just the same time, guitars are panned left and right and leads are front and centre, providing cover fire for the vocals.
We do it that way now because over the last sixty or so years sound engineers and producers have been working out what sounds best.
Maybe I'm weird like that, but I kinda enjoy hearing how they did it as they were just figuring these things out.
-J