09-02-2015, 01:40 AM
(09-02-2015, 01:27 AM)APZX Wrote: O rly? Ignoring the volume of the signal the first thing I did was to HPF it with a gentle 6dB/Oct filter at about 50Hz. For a good chunk of the mix this is how I was listening to it. Then at a point I felt it needed a more aggressive feeling. So, I dialed up a compressor with very aggressive set of timings and quite a bit of GR (~10dB). Then I applied the age old Pultec EQ trick on the low end. I also added a very generous amount of high shelving with the pultec as well. This really helped it come out and be "big" sounding. Other than that I've got the sidechain and a HPF for the one section in the track where I filtered it out. Not complicated.
Yeah, not complicated at all... I rather overcomplicated it here. I was trying to fill out the stereo image with more than just the vocals, so I duplicated the bass twice and highpassed really aggressively... panned the duplicates to either side and pitch shifted in opposite directions. That probably limited how high I could bring the level up, but I didn't compress it at all, either. So it filled out the stereo at the expense of sounding small
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!