13-08-2019, 02:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-08-2019, 08:19 PM by Mixinthecloud.)
Pulled on some heart strings, this one did. . .
Challenges where first, aligning the drum tracks and then figuring out the approach to the arrangement based upon the kick, bass and guitar in the genre. The guitar took a lot of work to get close and I'm not sure I'm happy with it yet. The kick and bass found their home when I tried not to force them into what they weren't. With that and some filtering on the environment/OH tracks I think the drums came together well. There is some phasing though from the BGVs, I think.
The keys and vocals were pretty straight forward so no real struggles there, however there are some serious pluffs on the lead vocal mic.
I took some liberties with the opening because of the disparity between the guitar riff level and the vocal in context to the body of the song. I like how that turned out. It lead, I followed.
SZLACHETKA - Heart of My Home Town - Mix 2
I followed my own advice here and found a better home for the guitar and its monotonic quality which makes it difficult to present well. And I think I found something which works (see Note1, below). As a result I needed to re-home a lot of the rest of the tracks. This included duplicating the keyboard track and splitting out the Rhodes vs. the organ and then operating on them discretely. That helped a lot. Clarified the bass and honed the kit. Sliced up the tom tracks instead of gating them which made more sense. Gated the snare which also helped the cymbals a lot. There remains a wash in the cymbals which comes from the BGVs. I tried gating them but when they came in the difference was not viable, IMHO. More hi-passing on the vocals to eliminate as many plosives as possible and then a re-balance of the BGVs against the lead.
-12.9 LUFS; 11.7 LU
Note1:
Took one of the guitar tracks and offset the tuning by 3 cents and panned them partially left and right, respectively. Put the guitar buss through a stereo in-line IR reverb and fiddled around until I found a space which worked with the tone and dynamics of the guitar and gave me the space I wanted for both the rhythm and lead phrases.
I hope there is something to discuss in my approach. As always, I look forward to your input and comments.
Your friend,
mITc
Challenges where first, aligning the drum tracks and then figuring out the approach to the arrangement based upon the kick, bass and guitar in the genre. The guitar took a lot of work to get close and I'm not sure I'm happy with it yet. The kick and bass found their home when I tried not to force them into what they weren't. With that and some filtering on the environment/OH tracks I think the drums came together well. There is some phasing though from the BGVs, I think.
The keys and vocals were pretty straight forward so no real struggles there, however there are some serious pluffs on the lead vocal mic.
I took some liberties with the opening because of the disparity between the guitar riff level and the vocal in context to the body of the song. I like how that turned out. It lead, I followed.
SZLACHETKA - Heart of My Home Town - Mix 2
I followed my own advice here and found a better home for the guitar and its monotonic quality which makes it difficult to present well. And I think I found something which works (see Note1, below). As a result I needed to re-home a lot of the rest of the tracks. This included duplicating the keyboard track and splitting out the Rhodes vs. the organ and then operating on them discretely. That helped a lot. Clarified the bass and honed the kit. Sliced up the tom tracks instead of gating them which made more sense. Gated the snare which also helped the cymbals a lot. There remains a wash in the cymbals which comes from the BGVs. I tried gating them but when they came in the difference was not viable, IMHO. More hi-passing on the vocals to eliminate as many plosives as possible and then a re-balance of the BGVs against the lead.
-12.9 LUFS; 11.7 LU
Note1:
Took one of the guitar tracks and offset the tuning by 3 cents and panned them partially left and right, respectively. Put the guitar buss through a stereo in-line IR reverb and fiddled around until I found a space which worked with the tone and dynamics of the guitar and gave me the space I wanted for both the rhythm and lead phrases.
I hope there is something to discuss in my approach. As always, I look forward to your input and comments.
Your friend,
mITc
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