This was a tough one. Lots of bleed, not much to grab onto EQ wise in the vox. Here's a partial list of what I did to try to make this one pop:
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- Used the Sunset Sound room 2 for room sound
- Used the Sunset Sound plate, but ended up only using it on snare, not vox
- Edited all vox down pretty tight - started with a gate but couldn't get it perfect, so just hand-edited
- CLA Vox on all vocals
- Console 1 across all tracks, most of them had some EQ, liberal high passing, some low passing, some compression
- Used the Softube C1 9000 XL channel strip; just trying it out, not sure it was the "best" choice from among what I have from them
- De-essed using RX 8
- CLA fx on synth, gtrs
- Master delay was Tape Echoes; gave it a dotted 8th swing, slightly off on purpose. It's pushed way back but listen for it on guitars
- Weiss EQ MP + Magic Death Eye on master bus
- FabFilter Pro-L limiter, but almost never hit more than about 1 dB here and there, mostly not hitting it. These tracks were pretty compressed to my ear already
- Really struggled with vox; ended up doing some had volume automation. Also ended up using FLUX Syrah to level the vox before compression. Worked, kinda? Better than without IMO
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