Carrie Anne

[bmullen]

Hey guys, thanks for listening and your comments. I think I was able to put them to some productive use

Some changes I made:

Narrowed the width on the basses. Turned down the bowed basses and fed their compressors side-chain with the pizzicatos for better overall balance. Really tried to avoid as much compression as I could because this song doesn't have much in the way of dynamics to begin with.

Fixed the clumsy automation on the piano when the bass comes in.

Put a small tonal reverb on the vocals to improve the sound a bit more. More de-essing!!! But still not enough

Lots of work getting the equalization right when the orchestra comes in. You guys were right, it was all over the place. I tried some automated EQ on the strings bus to get them out of the way of the vocals a bit and deleted some tracks that were creating more congestion than they were worth. Pretty much rebalanced the entire orchestra.

I fiddled with the reverbs to try and get similar sexy room sounds like Olli got on his strings.

To me this version is a lot better. I hoped for a more clamorous and climactic finale, but the tracks don't seem to suit that approach, so I went for more of a "vocal on top" mix like the others.

Very nice!