Gustav Scheel Audio Engineer

We recorded this live session with at an oldschool bowling alley during SPOT Festival last year.

Mixing live recordings is kinda different from studio recordings. Most of the time you have less-than-ideal acoustics, sometimes straight up horrible to be honest, and you need to figure out bleed in a very different way - specifically on the vocal mics that’s pointing directly back at the drums and amps 99% of the time. If you approach it right you can lean into the mic bleed and let it help you to push the intensity of the mix, but more often than not its a balancing act with pushing your vocals forward enough while still being able to bring out the instruments to where they sit nicely in the mix. The aim should always be to make it sound as good as it could have in the studio, but keeping the intensity that comes out in a live performance, thats what we always try to aim for. Having done this now for more than 10 years, working on a lot of different locations and venues, really gives you great chaos-management which I’d say is the best skill you can develop for mixing live recordings, next to going with your intuition faster than internet forums can come up with new audio-rules for you to drown in on youtube.
For this mix, we wanted to emphasise the mix of a 90s sound with the 00s indie influence - grungy guitars and close, intimate lead vocals. It comes out really really soothing.

If you’re looking for someone to work with on mix for your next record, we’d love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out via DM or on our website and share your music and vision for the sound.

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