08-05-2014, 11:01 AM
Hi! I did a mix out of this yesterday. This was pretty hard to pull off: the weird bass arrangement (slapping on the fuller parts) and the drum tracks which were essentially ruined by the shoddy editing certainly didn't help.
Some of the backing vocals were artificially double-tracked (using some ADT software). Once you get rid of those (and the flanging effect they caused with the tracks they were created from) the bg voxes started to sound much more bigger.
The drums in this song were a huge issue and I had to do a lot of weird juggling to get them work. Since you couldn't create the drum strength the traditional way (you know, so that the all the mics support each other) I had to do lots of the opposite: To make sure any of the channels didn't step onto each other's toes and destroy the low punch (or what left of it anyway). That included deleting half of the close mics (kick outs and snare bottoms and such) The sample snare track provided saved my butt here.
But the song is great and that's all that matters in the end
Some of the backing vocals were artificially double-tracked (using some ADT software). Once you get rid of those (and the flanging effect they caused with the tracks they were created from) the bg voxes started to sound much more bigger.
The drums in this song were a huge issue and I had to do a lot of weird juggling to get them work. Since you couldn't create the drum strength the traditional way (you know, so that the all the mics support each other) I had to do lots of the opposite: To make sure any of the channels didn't step onto each other's toes and destroy the low punch (or what left of it anyway). That included deleting half of the close mics (kick outs and snare bottoms and such) The sample snare track provided saved my butt here.
But the song is great and that's all that matters in the end