Find something weird and accentuate it

I was talking about recording this evening with my friend Allison Winkler, who is the bass player for Bone Haus and the guitar player / drum programmer / producer / engineer / mixer for Gock. (Full disclosure, I mixed+mastered the Bone Haus record and mastered the upcoming Gock record.) And she had this to say:

“I’ll record a guitar part, and there will be a weird frequency that pokes out, but not in a bad way? And it kind of like tips me off to a little piece of ear candy that I could throw in there. Like, maybe I’ll take that frequency, and add a synth doing quarter notes at that same frequency for a moment, really low in the mix, just to enhance it.”

What a great idea!

The weird stuff is the best stuff — jamie