MIXING with 4x Grammy-winning mix engineer Alvin Speights
Alvin Speights - Mix
Engineer / Producer - has won multiple Grammy Awards; TLC’s Fanmail and for the Acoustic Soul project by India Arie. His mix production magic can also be heard on releases by OutKast, 112, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Pretty Ricky, B-5, Goodie Mob, JT Money, Keith
Sweat, Boyz II Men, BeBe Winans, Yolanda Adams, Jagged Edge, Monica and many others. Alvin
has also mixed numerous successful movie soundtracks
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
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