02-05-2014, 11:18 PM
Hey HB, thanks for listening and thoughtful comments 
With bass guitars I usually put a high shelf starting around 1 or 2k and boost depending on the situation... on this particular track it's boosted 6 dB starting at 1k. I forget where I got that idea, but I was under the impression it was pretty common practice... maybe narrow peaks instead of high shelves are the way to go. I'll experiment with it, thanks for the idea
The main difference between the way we treated our drums is that I didn't use a compressor on the bus, I just compressed in parallel. Compression is a natural byproduct of the recording process on tape... signal had to be hot to clear the noise floor, so the drums were pretty compressed to begin with. For that reason parallel compression made more sense, at least in my opinion. Glad you liked the results
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You're right though, the vocal is a serious weak point. There's parallel compression going on, but I was struggling to get it sounding thicker. I was thinking his voice sounded like the guy from Blood, Sweat and Tears, but everything I tried resisted my attempts to replicate that sound. Maybe some distortion in the low mids might help?
HbGuitar Wrote:Jumping into the conversation between you and Takka, I will always look to boost upper harmonics on bass. I use very narrow peaks e.g. if 1st harmonic is around 120hz, I'll boost peaks at 480 & 960 (sometimes 240 and 1920 as well, depending on track). If you scoop out a hole in the kick at around 400Hz, it sits beautifully and will cut through mix. Very important for melodic bass playing styles with lots of 1st and 2nd octave action, less so for chunky open string grinds.
With bass guitars I usually put a high shelf starting around 1 or 2k and boost depending on the situation... on this particular track it's boosted 6 dB starting at 1k. I forget where I got that idea, but I was under the impression it was pretty common practice... maybe narrow peaks instead of high shelves are the way to go. I'll experiment with it, thanks for the idea
HbGuitar Wrote:Love the sound of your drums....Jealous.
The main difference between the way we treated our drums is that I didn't use a compressor on the bus, I just compressed in parallel. Compression is a natural byproduct of the recording process on tape... signal had to be hot to clear the noise floor, so the drums were pretty compressed to begin with. For that reason parallel compression made more sense, at least in my opinion. Glad you liked the results
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You're right though, the vocal is a serious weak point. There's parallel compression going on, but I was struggling to get it sounding thicker. I was thinking his voice sounded like the guy from Blood, Sweat and Tears, but everything I tried resisted my attempts to replicate that sound. Maybe some distortion in the low mids might help?
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!