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"Drag" The Long Wait - davemcg61 - 07-04-2018
Getting the basics in place for this tune was quick, however, getting the final levels correct took a few retries. Thus, this is mix #3, which brings the vocals and drums to the forefront, and I believe the various guitars are placed as they need to be so everything is heard. Its got a fairly wide stereo field, which required little extra effort on my part. Your thoughts are appreciated.
RE: "Drag" The Long Wait - Coulomb - 09-04-2018
First thing what is heard is that double vox is too loud (when she sings " quarter to 8, so i pack ..."). And you realy should use a gate in vox channel, particularly at the beginning. And I don't know why, but there is definitely something wrong with drums (too muddy), particularly in the choruses. This is just my opinion. Good luck!
RE: "Drag" The Long Wait - davemcg61 - 28-04-2018
There's now -12.5 dB bell on the kick drum at 124Hz, giving the bass guitar some space, and several low cuts at 40Hz / 10dB per octave on the kick, and again in the mastering. Vocals have been re-balanced also.
RE: "Drag" The Long Wait - KMuzic - 29-04-2018
Hey dave
Nice Job ..your new moves really brought the mix to life. seems to have corrected what Coulomb was mentioning. Snare sounds good and the vocals sound really good to me and everything is balanced really well. I enjoyed listening.
Great Job!!
Cheers
K
RE: "Drag" The Long Wait - davemcg61 - 29-04-2018
Thanks, K. I still make the same assumption - leave as much of what's recorded as "unblemished" as possible. The 6dB cut originally at 124Hz wasn't deep enough or wide enough. Once upon a time, I was told there's not much reason to keep anything on a kick track above 1 or 2kHz. Maybe that's true for a pop or jazz tune, but in rock, there's another harmonic of that beater up at 8kHz. High cut that and the beater attack is shot. The same sort of thing was said about the toms - why keep above 1 or 2k? Working some of these tracks where there's only 3 drum tracks - kick, snare and stereo overheads, teaches the lesson when you hear more attack on your toms, because you never high cut the overheads. EQing stuff can be taken to some reasonable extremes, as in the case of the kick cut at 124Hz. The result being, the toms are much more present, and I didn't have to do anything to the bass guitar, they filled the gap nicely. I'm climbing the learning curves, sometimes clawing at it.