08-06-2018, 07:45 AM
Okay, after about 30 hours of work, here's my take on this one.
Some of the larger Problems I had on this...
First, I felt the introduction was too long so chopped four bars out of it. I probably should have chopped the repeat of the chorus after the second verse as well but it works, I guess.
Getting the vocal to settle in was a challenge. It works better with less low end but his voice thins out *fast* when you EQ that area and lots of things want to compete in that region.
Couldn't get enough low end on the kick so mixed in a little bit of a fairly tight DW via drumagog. Also had trouble shaping the low end of the bass.
Mannnnny plugins used on this track. Every time I felt like I was getting a handle on it I discovered something else I didn't like. It's like cleaning up after a storm. After you get the big debris off then you start fixing all the major damage and you next spend weeks cleaning up the smaller debris and discovering more minor damage that you still have to fix. This was most definitely the case with the vocals. I was several hours into trying to get them to sound right when I realized that I was basically taking the wrong approach and had to more or less start over. (I work vocals that need minor tweaks and vocals that need a good bit of surgery with different processes.) Still not entirely happy with them but it's sufficient for a practice project.
Lastly, to deal with the solo instruments I used a combination of stereo delays on some tracks and tonight downloaded the (free) Izotope Imager plugin which I was able to use both in parallel on other tracks and also inline on the vocal bus.
Some of the larger Problems I had on this...
First, I felt the introduction was too long so chopped four bars out of it. I probably should have chopped the repeat of the chorus after the second verse as well but it works, I guess.
Getting the vocal to settle in was a challenge. It works better with less low end but his voice thins out *fast* when you EQ that area and lots of things want to compete in that region.
Couldn't get enough low end on the kick so mixed in a little bit of a fairly tight DW via drumagog. Also had trouble shaping the low end of the bass.
Mannnnny plugins used on this track. Every time I felt like I was getting a handle on it I discovered something else I didn't like. It's like cleaning up after a storm. After you get the big debris off then you start fixing all the major damage and you next spend weeks cleaning up the smaller debris and discovering more minor damage that you still have to fix. This was most definitely the case with the vocals. I was several hours into trying to get them to sound right when I realized that I was basically taking the wrong approach and had to more or less start over. (I work vocals that need minor tweaks and vocals that need a good bit of surgery with different processes.) Still not entirely happy with them but it's sufficient for a practice project.
Lastly, to deal with the solo instruments I used a combination of stereo delays on some tracks and tonight downloaded the (free) Izotope Imager plugin which I was able to use both in parallel on other tracks and also inline on the vocal bus.
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