What is depth in a stereo mix? How can you create a sense of spaciousness? And what does a cave bear have to do with all this?
In this tutorial, I’ll give you four tips you can use to make your productions sound more three-dimensional.
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Really useful tutorial. It would be great if you would listen to Late for the Sky by Jackson Browne. The vocal seems to break all the rules from the tutorial. Why does it work so well?
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your positive feedback! Concerning your question – I listened to the song you mentioned: Such a great piece of music 🙂 It was originally released more than 50 years ago, so the mixing approach was somewhat different from today – for example in the panning of the guitar.
However, I don’t think that the vocal mix is breaking the “rules of spatial depth”. The sound of the voice is less bright and compressed than today, but it still stands sufficiently in front of the mix. For me, one of the reasons is the musical balance of the other elements in the mix and, what’s more, the arrangement: The whole band plays the arrangement with just the right dynamics to leave room for the lead vocal.
Kind regards
Jochen