16-04-2020, 02:26 PM
I have a terrible memory, so these notes are just as much for me as anyone else. I figured I might as well post them if I'm writing them when anyway. Feel free to ignore.
My first goal was to give the song motion. I thought the abundance of bass tracks was great so I bounced between then in different sections to change the energy. I wish I could have squeezed a little more clarity out of the thumpy one without using so much saturation, even though I left everything before 100 hz clean. I also added some motion to the synth pads. The organ got a ramping tremolo and the saws a slow warble effect. The strings went through a format filter during the first guitar riff. I panned them around throughout the track.
I took liberty with affecting the guitar parts. I felt they didn't have an anchor to the rest of the tracks as the only acoustic sounding instrument. So the first one guy lots of chorus and delay, which I panned around. The second one... I'm sorry, it screamed vocoder to me and I caved. I promise that's your guitar part in there!
I made two fundamental alterations to the track flow. First, I cut the intro shorter and had the drums come in first. I know I didn't time that filter sweep right fwiw. Second, I added hits to the beginning of the first and second chorus. For the latter I chopped the track. That was kind of my own experiment and I won't be offended if I'm the only one who likes it. I couldn't quite get the hits as cinematic and big as I wanted. The rumbling part is sampled from one of the synth basses and heavily edited.
I did use a drum replacer, but it's only half of the final drum sound. Parallel compression and saturation, and reverb send. Everything except the vocals are ducked by a dynamic EQ with the drum hits.
I was pretty radical with some of my track level EQ choices. I feel the result is probably too dark to good ears. That first synth track, which followed the second bass track, was particularly raspy and hard to place. The first base synth was also quite sibilant.
I used as much autotune on there vocals as I could without getting wildly glitchy. I've never used autotune before and really haven't done any vocal processing either. I took out the breaths and de-essed with automation as I couldn't really get a gate and de-esser to do the trick. I also did some light vocal syncing.There's also done chorus on the vocals. The single tracked verse has more than the rest.
I did some minor time adjustments as well. The drum track seems to have glitched and went off the grid in the second chorus so I cleaned that up. I also felt the bass parts were a little off from each other and the drums, so I tightened that up.
Anyway, that's all of the big changes I remember making. This was a fun song to mix; thanks for making it available!
My first goal was to give the song motion. I thought the abundance of bass tracks was great so I bounced between then in different sections to change the energy. I wish I could have squeezed a little more clarity out of the thumpy one without using so much saturation, even though I left everything before 100 hz clean. I also added some motion to the synth pads. The organ got a ramping tremolo and the saws a slow warble effect. The strings went through a format filter during the first guitar riff. I panned them around throughout the track.
I took liberty with affecting the guitar parts. I felt they didn't have an anchor to the rest of the tracks as the only acoustic sounding instrument. So the first one guy lots of chorus and delay, which I panned around. The second one... I'm sorry, it screamed vocoder to me and I caved. I promise that's your guitar part in there!
I made two fundamental alterations to the track flow. First, I cut the intro shorter and had the drums come in first. I know I didn't time that filter sweep right fwiw. Second, I added hits to the beginning of the first and second chorus. For the latter I chopped the track. That was kind of my own experiment and I won't be offended if I'm the only one who likes it. I couldn't quite get the hits as cinematic and big as I wanted. The rumbling part is sampled from one of the synth basses and heavily edited.
I did use a drum replacer, but it's only half of the final drum sound. Parallel compression and saturation, and reverb send. Everything except the vocals are ducked by a dynamic EQ with the drum hits.
I was pretty radical with some of my track level EQ choices. I feel the result is probably too dark to good ears. That first synth track, which followed the second bass track, was particularly raspy and hard to place. The first base synth was also quite sibilant.
I used as much autotune on there vocals as I could without getting wildly glitchy. I've never used autotune before and really haven't done any vocal processing either. I took out the breaths and de-essed with automation as I couldn't really get a gate and de-esser to do the trick. I also did some light vocal syncing.There's also done chorus on the vocals. The single tracked verse has more than the rest.
I did some minor time adjustments as well. The drum track seems to have glitched and went off the grid in the second chorus so I cleaned that up. I also felt the bass parts were a little off from each other and the drums, so I tightened that up.
Anyway, that's all of the big changes I remember making. This was a fun song to mix; thanks for making it available!