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This took a bit of massaging to get a good mix. Lots of challenges. Lots of fun!!!!

Rock!!!!

Tom

This is a great mix except the vocals sound raw and lacking balance in the space. I had to do a lot of manual automation them to get them to balance, so its no easy task especially since its a live take and the vocalist went between chewing on the mic to being of axis and a foot back.

The drums also seem a bit phasy, especially when the vocals come in due to the bleed into them. Definitely something to work on minimizing with phase inversion and spectral correction.

(07-08-2019, 07:23 PM)tjmtruth Wrote: [ -> ]

This took a bit of massaging to get a good mix. Lots of challenges. Lots of fun!!!!

Rock!!!!

Tom

Hey Tom, just wanted to say I really dig the energy and thickness of the Guitar Track. Can you please advise how you mixed that track.

Kind Regards,

Josh

(23-08-2019, 12:47 PM)Joshdan Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-08-2019, 07:23 PM)tjmtruth Wrote: [ -> ]

This took a bit of massaging to get a good mix. Lots of challenges. Lots of fun!!!!

Rock!!!!

Tom

Hey Tom, just wanted to say I really dig the energy and thickness of the Guitar Track. Can you please advise how you mixed that track.

Kind Regards,

Josh

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Josh,

Sure I'd be happy to......here goes:

Thanks for asking me about this.....here's the scoop on the guitar part/s...

-first load track onto a "stereo" track since the guitar was a mono track (you need to do this so that any stereo plugins or effects you want will be in stereo). Next....
- doubling plugin
-narrowed the doubling to around 10 and 2 o'clock (I don't like it too wide because to me it sounds unnatural).
-harmonic exciter
-reverb
-high pass filter, rounded cut around 100htz on down
-slight high end boost around 16k, slight cut around 3k

Next.....
-on the interesting parts available during lulls in the vocals, I multed the track (duplicated it), carved out only those parts I wanted to process further and discarded the rest), added distortion and auto panning (narrowed to about 10 and 2 o'clock).
-of course reverb used on these multed sections as well.

* Note: I used the same reverb on all tracks as sends. I don't normally like to use different reverbs for different instruments and vocals because I think it acts better as a glue and for spacial consistency. I know others use different reverbs for everything and that's cool too....it's all a preference. Also, using one really good quality convolution reverb for everything goes easier on your CPU....lol.

Thanks again for asking about this...hope it helps out.

Tom

Tommy,
An interesting approach. And some creative solutions. Seems like you used hardly any of the track. That's different. I like just about everything you've done but having an issue with the bottom of the bass guitar. It throbs but not in a great way and gets a little resonant at times. Other than that it is a fun take.