14-04-2012, 06:46 PM
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:
If you have any other general questions about this multitrack, just reply to this post and I'll see what I can do.
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Here's some more project info you might find useful:
- About The Raw Multitracks: This project has a live drum take, with separate overdubs for bass, guitars, and vocals. The drum-recording setup comprised stereo overhead mics, a mono room mic, and close mics for kick, snare top/bottom, and two toms. The bass part was captured as a DI and via two separate cab mics, whereas the two guitar parts were all recorded via multi-miked cabs. There are two vocal parts: lead and one backing line.
- Challenges You're Likely To Face:
- Phase issues loom large in this particular project, affecting everything bar the vocal parts, and you'll struggle to get a satisfactory result without at least flexing your polarity-inversion buttons.
- Achieving the kind of stereo width typical of this style is also tricky, partly because of the lack of guitar double-tracks -- spreading the multi-mics across the image doesn't create the same kind of effect, and can lead to mono-compatibility problems depending on how you've managed your phase-relationships.
- Getting the snare to carry through the texture during the choruses is another tough task, especially if you eschew sample-triggering.
- The basic verse-chorus 'gear-shift' is a textbook long-term mix-dynamics problem which is pretty much insoluble without some careful multing and/or mix automation.
- Phase issues loom large in this particular project, affecting everything bar the vocal parts, and you'll struggle to get a satisfactory result without at least flexing your polarity-inversion buttons.
- Some Mixing Tips:
- I remixed this song for Sound On Sound's October 2011 'Mix Rescue' column, which not only shows how I approached this band's recordings myself in practice, but also includes a selection of audio files demonstrating the effects of some of my processing and layering decisions. The full Reaper remix project for this Mix Rescue is also available to download here.
- Another of this band's tracks was the subject of a big mix-off competition I judged a while back (see The Great 'Blood To Bone' Mixoff), so there's lots of relevant advice to be had there, as well as in the related 'Top Ten Mix Mistakes' follow-up article I wrote for Sound On Sound magazine's September 2011 issue.
- I remixed this song for Sound On Sound's October 2011 'Mix Rescue' column, which not only shows how I approached this band's recordings myself in practice, but also includes a selection of audio files demonstrating the effects of some of my processing and layering decisions. The full Reaper remix project for this Mix Rescue is also available to download here.
If you have any other general questions about this multitrack, just reply to this post and I'll see what I can do.