Sin City, Jay Bee – Audio Mixing – Verse 2

The earlier intention was to write a New York Jazz but after studying the genre, I find New York Jazz is very difficult when comes to audio mixing. I’m not sure why New York Jazz prefers to hit both melodies and rhythms at the same time with almost at the same frequency range. I’m sure it is artistic because the musical instruments have both fast and slow attacks and vocals compliment the elements. However, to do this art for a sound engineer who is still a beginner is risky.

So instead of New York Jazz, I come up with Jazz Ballad. I however do play around with the Melody-Rhythm-like on Acoustic Piano based on a preset written long time ago.

Samsara did a very good job on singing the verse. I was taken aback on her dynamics and her tempo. The melodies also hit the right key signature. Next was to boost some frequencies:

559-602-645 Hz, 301-344-387 Hz, 473-516-559 Hz, 215-258-301 Hz, 258-301-344 Hz, 602-645-689 Hz, 732-775-818 Hz, 818-861-904 Hz, 516-559-602 Hz, 775-818-861 Hz, 172-215-258 Hz, 344-387-430 Hz, and 387-430-473 Hz.

The vocal range is between 172 Hz to 904 Hz which is coincidently very typical jazz tone.

Earlier on I thought of improvising the music a bit but after so many trials, I decided not to take the risk.

Still the acoustic piano and the vocals play about the same range as how Jazz is. The tick is not to boost any frequencies of the piano. In fact, I like the way it originally sound.

I however notched the lower frequencies of the strings and boost the 904-2000 Hz frequencies.

For drums and percussions, I decided not to modify anything on the presets and let the drums play as intended. Jazz drums are too artistic to be mutated. I get this feeling that Jazz is itself a mutated genre.

I am yet to do the cross-over between Verse 1 and Verse 2 which is supposed to be the introduction of 2 measures of Verse 2. It will be just the hit crashes to end up the rock genre and some added guitar sound and the changing tempo from 180 to 97 BPM.

Below is the Preliminary Audio Mixing of Verse 2: