Tom McKenzie - Directions (Robert's Mix)

[Robert]

Hi Robert

I really like the subtle ambiance you have on the guitar and vocals at the start of the song. What did you use as your effect?
(I haven't grabbed the multitracks yet so it could all be from a room mic for all I know)

Not sure what is happening at 1:24 to 1:40 or so (and again at 2:20 to 2:37) but there's another bassy instrument that kicks in which seems to clutter up the low end of things a little bit. Could just be my headphones but the low end in these sections seems to overpower the otherwise very nice blend of instruments you have created!

Dags

Thanks, Dags. I'll take another look at what's happening at 1:24 to 1:40 and 2:20 to 2:37. I've probably goofed something somewhere. Do me a favour and download the mix to see if it plays back better that way. I tend to do that now because I prefer not to make any judgements from listening to the streamed playback.

Starting with standard 7 band EQ; I followed that on all acoustic guitars with EMI RS124 compressor (Abbey Road Plugins) on Gtrs 1 & 2 and the EMI TG12413 compressor (Abbey Road Plugins) on Gtrs 3 & 4 and 5 & 6. The compression is very gentle just to get a bit colour. There's no reverb on the acoustic guitars. The vocal chain is UA Precision de-esser followed by EQ - followed by UA LA2 compression. The vocal reverb is the UA's EMT 250 I'm running Pro Tools and using the UAD2 platform.

I'll come back with my findings on the problems you spotted. Thanks again