Hello to everyone, especially the artist!
I spent a lot of time on this mix for several reasons: First, the song is just great and no matter how long I worked on the mix I just never got tired of it, and that's a good thing. Second, there were many challenges and I like a challenge in mixing.
In order to really make this work according to what I heard in my head, I had to take a few arrangement liberties but none that are too noticeable. First, as indicated, the vocals needed to be pitch-shifted. That took quite a bit of time because of the subtle nuances in the vocal embellishments that are typical in this style of music. And since I don't know the language, a lot of the tuning adjustments in those embellishment areas were very difficult. There was one spot in particular near the end at about 4:56 that was just not going to pitch-shift well without noticeable artifacts, so I did something rather creative I think, and it sounds just perfect with the note ringing out with delay and cutting out the embellishment that I could not correct with pitch shifting.
The bass, also, in several spots I had to correct. There was just too much dissonance in some spots (especially in the beginning area) so I either eliminated the dissonance by removing the note/s or I copied and/or pitch-shifted where necessary to make the bass sound right according to the basic chord structure I was hearing from all the other instruments. A few bass timing issues too. Now, however, I believe that this song can now be fully enjoyed by anyone not even knowing the language or being familiar with this style of music. It's just a real pretty and melodic tune!!!
Well, I've said a lot but I did put a lot of time into this and thought it would be a good idea to explain what I did and why.
Peace.....hope you all like it.
Tommy Marcinek
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