Rescue Me - My best - Updated

[Robert]

There certainly were a lot of 'bleedin' problems to deal with - and that guitar not only sounded 'odd' but it needed serious fader-automation to tame the constantly changing levels (particularly on the gtr solo) - and I'm still not happy with my 'work' in that area. Need to revisit. Yes, the vocal microphones were interesting to listen to in isolation; that snare really kept punching-through the lead vocal - making things 'inetersting, lets say. I did a lot of prep-work on the vocals tracks; rather than gating (as I would normally do for FOH), I quite ruthlessly edited-out all the 'bleed' from the tracks and carefully compressed and EQ'd that result for the mix. I wanted us much of the track space to only contain what was 'supposed' to be there - which did take away a lot of the background noise bleed to make the mix clearer. I actually built my mix from the perspective that the drums microphones would be 'open' all the time and concentrated on getting them to sound 'acceptable' before blending-in anything else. It's all a 'compromise' with live tracking. One thing impinges on another and one can only try to make a cohesive sound. A Hammond B4 would have worked nicely on this song... that would have made balancing-out the mandolin a bit better as the mix can sound a bit left-weighted (at times).