FREQUENCIES & PHASE
How do you approach mixing a song that is being prepared for radio play?
See when I'm mixing, especially for urban radio songs, I consider that when the song plays on radio,
only certain frequencies (the frequency response) will play; the full frequency scope is not the same as a CD. The frequency response will not be the full 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz (20Khz) frequency range. So this means that
for the mix to have a strong impact, you can't stack up your instruments and sounds in all of the same frequencies... you
have to move things around like a pyramid... so everything can be "in-your-face", and everything can be heard.
Explain to us what you mean by this "like a pyramid"
What I'm saying is that, it's like a picture of a pyramid, and everything has its place on that
pyramid - Panning, frequencies, processing, and phase. See, everything
can't occupy the same "space"; frequency-wise; color-wise, etc. This means that
where some sound is dominating one frequency... another sound can't. So either
you have to move the sound colorization (frequency) above another sound or below it
