14-06-2018, 02:48 AM
Okay, here's my first attempt at this.
With electronic multitracks I have learned that one of the first things you have to do is spend an hour or two trimming things and listening for coarse edits. Since even background vocal parts are treated as a loop. there's a lot of cut and paste which means that you don't take from instance #6 of a phrase to fix instance #3 but rather you have the same mistake six times. That makes life fun. It is clear that the vocal tracks suffer from overly aggressive pith correction prior to packaging. I'm sure there's a way to fix that but I don't know the technique so I just did my best to hide it. There is pretty extensive use of the mute button in my session to try to create variance and build throughout the tune. It was difficult though to find the right balance between making room for things and sapping the tune's energy. There are also many group faders and a few extra FX returns. The heaviest use of plugins was on the vocals.
Now here's where I need a few suggestions. I tried to create in the chorus the sense of decreasing distance as you progress through the song. To help build the tune, I used imagers on the vocal lines to go from a narrow sound to an increasingly wide and more present sound. The problem is that this tended to create just a cacophony of sound as you got farther along. One thing I was never quite able to figure out what to do with were the SFX tracks that were included. I get what they're trying to do but without a defined and immediate peak, I had to try to fake it and let the guitars create the sense of arrival. Any thoughts on how to handle this would be welcome.
Anyway, here's my mix after somewhere north of about 25 hours work. (I got into it and stopped watching the clock a couple of times.
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With electronic multitracks I have learned that one of the first things you have to do is spend an hour or two trimming things and listening for coarse edits. Since even background vocal parts are treated as a loop. there's a lot of cut and paste which means that you don't take from instance #6 of a phrase to fix instance #3 but rather you have the same mistake six times. That makes life fun. It is clear that the vocal tracks suffer from overly aggressive pith correction prior to packaging. I'm sure there's a way to fix that but I don't know the technique so I just did my best to hide it. There is pretty extensive use of the mute button in my session to try to create variance and build throughout the tune. It was difficult though to find the right balance between making room for things and sapping the tune's energy. There are also many group faders and a few extra FX returns. The heaviest use of plugins was on the vocals.
Now here's where I need a few suggestions. I tried to create in the chorus the sense of decreasing distance as you progress through the song. To help build the tune, I used imagers on the vocal lines to go from a narrow sound to an increasingly wide and more present sound. The problem is that this tended to create just a cacophony of sound as you got farther along. One thing I was never quite able to figure out what to do with were the SFX tracks that were included. I get what they're trying to do but without a defined and immediate peak, I had to try to fake it and let the guitars create the sense of arrival. Any thoughts on how to handle this would be welcome.
Anyway, here's my mix after somewhere north of about 25 hours work. (I got into it and stopped watching the clock a couple of times.
)
Old West Audio