'Olden day' MIX compression/limiting?

[boriscrispin]

Hey folks,
I keep wondering without knowing, about 'vintage' methods of mixing. Nowadays alot of people strap something compressy onto their final 2track mix, to make it glue/sound like a real record, totally fair.
Looking back to late fifties and sixties stuff (even sinatra type stuff), what were producers known to be doing to their final mixes, prior to mastering. Anything? Simple limiting? or just letting the tape do it's 'final' compression?
I'm interested to know, of course DO WHAT SOUNDS BEST, but I'm interested if people have experience/knowledge in this area. I like the old sounds

[GarryJ]

A big, moist dollop of pomade in the ears smooths out the high end in a very nice way.

Really though, I'd guess that a lot of the signatures of a 60s record came from the tracking and mix itself. Only guessing, though, absolutely no experience with 60s methods.

[A.David.MacKinnon]

Here's an interesting article on Motown's mixing and mastering methods -

http://www.recordinginstitute.com/alex/ ... ltmast.htm

[CurtZHP]

A big, moist dollop of pomade in the ears smooths out the high end in a very nice way.

Fop? Or are you a Dapper Dan man?

[boriscrispin]

Here's an interesting article on Motown's mixing and mastering methods -

http://www.recordinginstitute.com/alex/ ... ltmast.htm

Very interesting....

Any easy listening mixers out there want to tell me how people produced crooners?

[drumsound]

I'm pretty sure some of the adjustments on the Fairchild Limiters had to do with cutting vinyl...

[ofajen]

Hey folks,
I keep wondering without knowing, about 'vintage' methods of mixing. Nowadays alot of people strap something compressy onto their final 2track mix, to make it glue/sound like a real record, totally fair.
Looking back to late fifties and sixties stuff (even sinatra type stuff), what were producers known to be doing to their final mixes, prior to mastering. Anything? Simple limiting? or just letting the tape do it's 'final' compression?
I'm interested to know, of course DO WHAT SOUNDS BEST, but I'm interested if people have experience/knowledge in this area. I like the old sounds

If it were me, I'd ask Bob Olhsson:

olh@hyperback.com

He's always been a good sport about answering my questions.

Cheers,

Otto

[casey campbell]

alot of the older engineers laugh at people paying crazy prices for fairchilds. they were kind of a necessary evil when cutting vinyl.