15-05-2016, 12:15 AM
After moving on from this song for awhile and mixing some other tracks on the site, I came back to it last night for fun. This is entirely new mix and master of the track from a more mixbuss heavy approach.
I first set up my 2 buss processing with a test tone metering out at -18 dBFS. The chain for the 2 buss is: Waves NLS Neve master section---> Waves Vcomp--->Waves Puig-Tec EQPA1---> Waves Kramer Tape on 15 ips and Overbias--->T Racks Soft Clipper. When I finished setting up my 2 buss I went to work with the actual tracks.
The amount of compression on the mix was controlled by driving the individual elements into the the processing on the 2 buss rather than processing the tracks induvidually and working from there, I did compress the vocals, and bass with an LA2a and LA3a emulation to smooth them out a little more, but for the most part the rest of the tracks are unprocessed.
The drums are run through the Klanghelm IVGI saturation plugin for some added character and a Waves Puigchild 670 for some punch. The snare and toms have some reverb on them.
For the bass I added a very subtle chorus to fatten it up a touch and used some sidechain compression triggered from the kick with the stock Reaper compressor.
On the guitars I really only used some subtractive eq to clean them up a little. for the guitar solo I added a Waves Doubler with the octaver blended in lightly and some reverb and delay. The main guitars are run through some spring reverb. The staccato guitar has an auto wah effect on it aswell.
Mastering was just some minor eq, compression, and limiting.
Please leave your comments and critiques below and enjoy!
I first set up my 2 buss processing with a test tone metering out at -18 dBFS. The chain for the 2 buss is: Waves NLS Neve master section---> Waves Vcomp--->Waves Puig-Tec EQPA1---> Waves Kramer Tape on 15 ips and Overbias--->T Racks Soft Clipper. When I finished setting up my 2 buss I went to work with the actual tracks.
The amount of compression on the mix was controlled by driving the individual elements into the the processing on the 2 buss rather than processing the tracks induvidually and working from there, I did compress the vocals, and bass with an LA2a and LA3a emulation to smooth them out a little more, but for the most part the rest of the tracks are unprocessed.
The drums are run through the Klanghelm IVGI saturation plugin for some added character and a Waves Puigchild 670 for some punch. The snare and toms have some reverb on them.
For the bass I added a very subtle chorus to fatten it up a touch and used some sidechain compression triggered from the kick with the stock Reaper compressor.
On the guitars I really only used some subtractive eq to clean them up a little. for the guitar solo I added a Waves Doubler with the octaver blended in lightly and some reverb and delay. The main guitars are run through some spring reverb. The staccato guitar has an auto wah effect on it aswell.
Mastering was just some minor eq, compression, and limiting.
Please leave your comments and critiques below and enjoy!
Mixing is way more art and soul than science. We don’t really know what we’re doing. We do it because we love music! It’s the love of music first. Eddie Kramer
Gear list: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Mbox Mini w/Pro Tools Express, Reaper, Various plugins, AKG K240 MKii, Audio Technica ATH M50x, Yorkville YSM 6
Gear list: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Mbox Mini w/Pro Tools Express, Reaper, Various plugins, AKG K240 MKii, Audio Technica ATH M50x, Yorkville YSM 6