RE: Live Jazz
Although not incredibly original, it is always soothing to listen to some traditional jazz. In this dimly lit small club, this band is banging away while the bar is pouring taps in the background. Although the hand held camera focused mostly on the keyboard player, who I suppose is the leader of the trio, the bass player was doing some great handywork, which an interesting pan over to his fingers demonstrates. Unfortunately it was evident that the cameraman was interfering with the band at moments, we got a good impression of the feel of the night. I felt the keys sounded a little muffled and were lost sometimes amidst the drums. There could have been a little more seperation between the stand up bass and low toms as well. As it turns out the keys and bass were only captured by the room mics, which explains the lack of seperation. A great performance none the less!
RE:Recorded Jazz
Now this mix is great. Traditional in many aspects, but all the peices were present. Eli and Jesse were the ones who mixed it. I felt the drums were even a little be TOO present. Stand up was perfect in tone and mix, punch and boomy in a great way. The ride again was a little to high in the mix, but snare and an almost perfect level. Piano was places very well.
RE: Listening to our groups mixes on another system. The 1.5 - 3 k range seemed to stand out like a sore thumb, although in the mixing room it did not seem so. Another example of how mixes vary across systems and why it is important not to simply rely on one set of monitors for mixing. The energy of the recordings did indeed prespire fortunately and that is what was the most important to get across. Great songwriting translates absolutely.
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