04-06-2015, 08:23 AM
Excellent conversation here!
When I worked on this mix, one of the things I did was lightly go through and compress the vocal tracks but then followed it up with automation specifically to bring out the really soft syllables and try to even the vocal out. In a pop song, you can get away with a word or two being swallowed but in a song like this where the vocal wants to be much more out front, it sounds better if everything can be heard.
I will also echo the sentiment about the cymbals. That was the one aspect of this recording I was not at all happy with when I worked on it but at the time lacked replacement resources (drumagog or something similar) to do enhancement to clean them up and think it would still take a fair bit of monkeying to do so transparantly, given the tune.
When I worked on this mix, one of the things I did was lightly go through and compress the vocal tracks but then followed it up with automation specifically to bring out the really soft syllables and try to even the vocal out. In a pop song, you can get away with a word or two being swallowed but in a song like this where the vocal wants to be much more out front, it sounds better if everything can be heard.
I will also echo the sentiment about the cymbals. That was the one aspect of this recording I was not at all happy with when I worked on it but at the time lacked replacement resources (drumagog or something similar) to do enhancement to clean them up and think it would still take a fair bit of monkeying to do so transparantly, given the tune.
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