21-11-2020, 08:48 PM
Howdy!
I downloaded this track yesterday and spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 hours on it. Was going for a pretty pop-ish mix with a lot of energy.
I used Harrison Mixbus 32C, and mostly Slate's VMR and some instances of Kilohartz Multipass on some tracks, aside from the buss verbs and delay. I had two different room reverbs for vocals, and had a 3rd tile room reverb for the guitar and wurlitzer, and drums, and a lead vocal, and horns. . . huh a lot of the tracks. I used repeater for the chorusy delay sound, but have it kind of subtle.
For the drums, I copied the kick and snare tracks, and gated one of each instance, and blended that in with the ungated track, giving a little extra punch.
The bass I tried to make super fat and foundational (forgive the unintentional pun) and added a sub harmonic generator at 33.3 hertz to keep a bed of bass.
I actualy reamped the guitar and wurlitzer together using TH-U to give them both a little bit more grit.
I sidechained the bass with the kick, and sidechained the kick with the snare, so there was a little less snare bleed coming from the kick.
Lots of Saturation and and fine layer of consitent compression on the vocals. Hopefully the compression doesn't make everything feel lifeless.
Finally, I added a lot of saturation with one of the preamps in slate's VMR to keep the mids kind of creamy, and help knock down some heavy hitting transients.
I hope that it comes across as clean and bright, but not brittle and harsh.
Thoughts, comments, criticisms?
Thanks for listening!
Draper
*****
Edit: Changed my bass a bit, moved and turnded up the dobro, and brought the background vocals up a touch.
I downloaded this track yesterday and spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 hours on it. Was going for a pretty pop-ish mix with a lot of energy.
I used Harrison Mixbus 32C, and mostly Slate's VMR and some instances of Kilohartz Multipass on some tracks, aside from the buss verbs and delay. I had two different room reverbs for vocals, and had a 3rd tile room reverb for the guitar and wurlitzer, and drums, and a lead vocal, and horns. . . huh a lot of the tracks. I used repeater for the chorusy delay sound, but have it kind of subtle.
For the drums, I copied the kick and snare tracks, and gated one of each instance, and blended that in with the ungated track, giving a little extra punch.
The bass I tried to make super fat and foundational (forgive the unintentional pun) and added a sub harmonic generator at 33.3 hertz to keep a bed of bass.
I actualy reamped the guitar and wurlitzer together using TH-U to give them both a little bit more grit.
I sidechained the bass with the kick, and sidechained the kick with the snare, so there was a little less snare bleed coming from the kick.
Lots of Saturation and and fine layer of consitent compression on the vocals. Hopefully the compression doesn't make everything feel lifeless.
Finally, I added a lot of saturation with one of the preamps in slate's VMR to keep the mids kind of creamy, and help knock down some heavy hitting transients.
I hope that it comes across as clean and bright, but not brittle and harsh.
Thoughts, comments, criticisms?
Thanks for listening!
Draper
*****
Edit: Changed my bass a bit, moved and turnded up the dobro, and brought the background vocals up a touch.