Recording Mix and the sqrt Console Mix Reprise

These are two mixes from a recording I did of some of my KS accomplices of musical experimentation, the Owl People.  They had a couple of computers and a couple of synths and a bass guitar and a regular guitar.  We recorded it on 4-17-10.  Their house has a good music room full of all kinds of instruments, drums, and noise making devices.  This was a fun little jam they did-

-----Regular Console Mix----

I ran the mix through the DDA Interface /EV console that I am sitting on right now as a summing mixer (used the EQ's a little too).  It is a pretty standard mix down, I added a little delay here and there, and the I put a nice reverb glue on it, and it sounded pretty good.

and then I put it through the sqrt mix matrix . . . .

I am not sure what this mix is all about.  Lots of delay, reverb, and distortion (aka the sqrt mix matrix).  I am not sure you could use "ambient mix" to describe it, might be more like "sqrt got too krunk and turned all the knobs all the way up" mix.  I did use that Moonshine Jar Fuzz, which doesn't have knobs, and it sounds pretty damn good as long as you saturate it on the input.  Kind of a fun way to spend a quiet Friday night.

------The sqrt Console Mix-----

Ambient Accordion Mix from New Years 2010 Owl People Jam

The Saturday after NYs, I took my trusty 828 and hit the Owl People's crib up and dropped some jamz on a hard disk. They had a friend of theirs come over and over dub some accordion. In my past I have been very critical of accordions, cause I ain't too fond of them. This young lady, however, play a cool drone that had a very lost and somber feel to it. I mixed a regular mix down for these cats, and then I did a 5 min or so sparce mix of the accordion as the main part with noisey pad pards fading in and out. Verb Heavy, ya feel me? I also used this big EV interface mixer I have in my house currently to mix it down (ran each track out of the audio interface into the mixer and ran the two track into another computer and hit record, kinda like they used to do with those funny tape machines, or so I hear). aka summing. I do recommend this, it seems to create space for every instrument naturally than what in side my old laptops do. I had a feedback loop recording too while they were running through thier takes (they couldn't hear) and I faded it up a time or two as well. I really had a good time mixing this track.

Owl People with Accordion Angie- ambient board mix