27-05-2015, 05:21 PM
Since the quality of the recordings is good, there's not a whole lot of balance processing on my version. I think I spent more time trying not to ruin it than trying to actually mix it?
The vocal's a bit hot as recorded, so I spent a couple hours drawing automation to bring the missing dynamics back. Some don't seem to like the distortion on the raw vocal... dunno, I think it's sexy.
Otherwise, most effort went into getting the vocal to blend... giving her some width and trying to "put her in the live room" by matching a verb to the Toms track as closely as I could... then running the whole thing through a convolution reverb to put the entire ensemble onstage at a big, urban club, circa 1920.
Think "film noir" and "art deco," those are the visual cues that inspired me. If it sounds a bit smokey and expansive, that was the goal.
It's not perfect... the sax could be feeding into the reverb a little less during the solo, and I could probably back off on the saturation on the master buss for a better LRA... although I'm torn, because I really like the smoldering warmth for this song.
Comments would be appreciated. Working with spill aside from the usual multitracked drum kit is a real sore spot on my work.
The vocal's a bit hot as recorded, so I spent a couple hours drawing automation to bring the missing dynamics back. Some don't seem to like the distortion on the raw vocal... dunno, I think it's sexy.
Otherwise, most effort went into getting the vocal to blend... giving her some width and trying to "put her in the live room" by matching a verb to the Toms track as closely as I could... then running the whole thing through a convolution reverb to put the entire ensemble onstage at a big, urban club, circa 1920.
Think "film noir" and "art deco," those are the visual cues that inspired me. If it sounds a bit smokey and expansive, that was the goal.
It's not perfect... the sax could be feeding into the reverb a little less during the solo, and I could probably back off on the saturation on the master buss for a better LRA... although I'm torn, because I really like the smoldering warmth for this song.
Comments would be appreciated. Working with spill aside from the usual multitracked drum kit is a real sore spot on my work.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!