Mix Analysis #5

Mix Analysis #5 – Safe And Sound

0:00-0:04 – Ambient Synth

0:04-0:13 – Acoustic Guitar, Synth

0:13-0:17 – Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar

0:17-1:10 – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar

1:10-1:23 – Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar

1:23-1:33 – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar

1:33-2:08 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar

2:08-2:45 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar, Drums

2:45-2:56 – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

2:56-3:15 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

3:15-3:46 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Drums

3:46-3:53 – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

3:53-4:00 – Fade out Acoustic Guitar, Synth, Slide Guitar

Instrument	Fade	Level
Acoustic Guitar	-3 to +2	-4 to -5
Slide Guitar	-6 to -2	-4 to -5
Vocal	-3 to +3	-3 to -4
Backing Vocals	-5 to +6	-4 to -6
Drums	-3 to +4	-4 to -5
Synth	-4 to +2	-6 to -8

Producer: T-Bone Burnett

Mixer: T-Bone Burnett

-Tommy Keene

-Sam Phillips

I couldn't find the mixing studio

Mastering: Gavin Lurssen

-Motle Cure

-Ella Fitzgerald

Mastered at Lurssen Mastering in LA

To start, this song won a Grammy for best mastering in 2013. It was part of The Hunger Games soundtrack. This song isn't really something that I listen to that much, just because of the artist, Taylor Swift. But this song was very very good. It was folksy and a bit haunting. The mixing was very good too. There wasn't much that wasn't panned either. There was sweeping from left to right, but no so much from right to left. The backing vocals were the ones that stuck out the most to me, as being the most drastic to sweep. There was a very faint synth going on in the back that was panning but as the listener, I had to really concentrate to see when and where it was going to. The song was mostly guitar, and vocals. There was a little bit of drums that came in during the last quarter or so of the song. I couldn't tell if there was a lot of reverb on the vocals or not. I know they used some, just so the vocals wouldn't sound too dry but nothing too much or fancy. The slide guitar gave the song a real country-esq feel and as I stated above, haunting. With that going on in the right ear, and the synth going on in the left, it gave a very dreary feel to it. It was pretty amazing actually. I didn't think I would like this song to be honest because it is Taylor Swift, but the mixing, did it wonders and I actually really like this song.