I went back to this tune and applied some of the EQ tricks learned the last few months. The bass guitar low end now sits below the kick drum. A few other cuts were made in the overheads track, the chamber and room tracks to remove boxy sounds in the 250-400Hz range. The lead vocal automation was refined and the compressor removed from the track, then changing the compressor on the lead vocal bus for a more punchy sound.

The cumulative effect was that the overall volume went down considerably, leaving me 3dB of headroom instead of 1db. Well, there was nothing more I could add to the mix; there's plenty of reverbs and delays used on vocals and on the guitar track. I thought all evening at work what I could do to enhance or alter the sound, more as an experiment to see what I could get away with that still sounded good, and would be unique.

My answer came when I got home and played the mix. In the first drum beat, the kick punches through. So I grabbed all the drum tracks and sent them to a bus that had the same EQ as the primary drum bus, and then added a drum crusher. The send level on every track was just about 1.5dB lower than where the fader was sitting on the main drum bus - at -7.5db.

I played it back. Holy expletive batman, that's nuts! It's gotta break 0dB and I'm gonna have to lower it, but it didn't, so I left it alone and bounced that version too. Amy and the Handsome Strangers meet John Bonham. The mastering was kept at the same level; LUFS-I = 11.2dB.

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(01-05-2018, 06:25 AM)KMuzic Wrote: Hi Dave
I see you have captured the elusive John Bonham Drum Sound!! LOL!

I Kinda like it.

I love your blow by blow commentary!

Its always cool to experiment and go outside the box.

Good Job!
Its time to remix mine now..I might steal the JB Idea from you

Cheers
K