BLASPHEMY! Learn from 15 mixing mistakes in LET IT BE by the Beatles
Added 2020-10-29 10:29:20 +0000 UTCHi!
I'm putting the finishing touches on the second mixing chapter in my book, and celebrating the event, I've put together a video with a few mixing tips and ideas.
The blasphemous part of it is that I'm using Let It Be as a case study. Specifically, the 2009 remaster. Now, even if I was 100% certain a Beatles song had a mixing mistake, I wouldn't be cocky enough to use it for a mixing lesson, if not for two reasons:
- The Beatles "pointed" these mistakes out themselves: In 2015, Giles Martin, son of Sir George Martin - AKA the fifth Beatle - led a remix project of their greatest hits. This video explores the biggest differences between the 2015 remix/remaster and the "original" 2009 remaster.
- The title of the song is so appropriate to the proper approach (I think) to mixing, or any other creative project. Yes, you should do your best to balance, pan, EQ and compress - but at some point, little changes don't add much, and it might just make sense to let it be.
Oh... and one more thing - 4 out of 7 minutes of this video are totally silent: While this video commits blasphemy, it does not risk being blamed for copyright infringement. I think that analyzing mixing mistakes in a video is legal fair use, but I'm sure the content ID bots would have flagged and blocked this video and it would be taken down, which serves no one.
So... as an inconvenient alternative - there are links in the description to the remasters, and in the video I guide you on the precise time to hit "Play" so the song and my video sync up properly...
All my best,
Ziv (committing blasphemy on youtube as "Loopop"...)
