Mixed, Mastered a Dark Folk LP

As a mastering engineer now, I don’t mix others’ albums very often. But this album was just too much of a strange, interesting puzzle to turn down. (The last stuff I mixed was for Maclaine Diemer’s score for Cyan’s game, Firmament.)

It was a fun and challenging puzzle to put together: guitar, voice, synth, organ, piano, violin, bass clarinet, double bass, and both live and sampled drums. While ostensibly neoclassical folk, it veers into lots of other territory, from jazz to Radiohead-like vocal processing and ambient. The chamber ensemble recordings had huge amounts of bleed to overcome, which was interesting to navigate. Soooooo many reverb auxes with ridiculous decay times (often buried deep in the mix), lots of spring reverb and tape delay. It was a good time.

https://foretendormie.bandcamp.com/album/le-d-sespoir-utopique-2