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You can find the multitrack files for this project in the 'Mixing Secrets' Free Multitrack Download Library.


Here's some more project info you might find useful:

• About The Raw Multitracks: The drums were programmed in Cubase SL3 and Reason, and are presented as a pair of drum loops and separate hi-hat and tambourine tracks. The bass and eight electric guitar parts were all tracked through Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2, and there's a single miked acoustic guitar part which sounds like it was overcompressed during recording. The gorgeous-sounding lead vocal (as well as 12 tracks of backing vocals) was captured with a Rode K2 going through SPL's Goldmike preamp and Dynamax compressor.
  

• Challenges You're Likely To Face:
  • The drums will probably take a bit of work to get sounding good, not least because the loops aren't separated out as individual sounds -- if you want that kind of control, then you'll have to chops things up yourself.
    
  • The guitar and backing-vocal arrangements are both a little bit scattershot, so you'll probably need to do some editing to make sense of the mix's long-term dynamics.
    
  • The bass part is quite noisy, and the LF/MF balance may not be as consistent as you want.
    

• Some Mixing Tips: I mixed this multitrack for Sound On Sound magazine's February 2007 'Mix Rescue' column, using (if I recall correctly) only Cubase SX2's bundled plug-ins and a few additional bits of freeware such as the Digital Fishphones Fish Fillets bundle and Christian Knufinke's SIR. The article also includes a selection of audio files demonstrating the effects of some of my processing decisions.
  

If you have any other general questions about this multitrack, just reply to this post and I'll see what I can do.