UPDATE: This article appears in The Ultimate Guide to Creative Mixing on the Digico SD5. Have you ever had to mix some really dense backing tracks that made it impossible to find a place for the vocal? When I was working on building the mix for the Ringling Bros. Out Of This World tour I ran into exactly this problem. Not only did I have a very mid-range dense arrangement, but there was an equally dense sweetener track mixed in at the same volume. The musical director was asking for more … [Read more...]