Well recorded, this ! A lot of lovely guitar tones here. And some nice eerie keyboard patches. There is fat to trim, though. All these sounds, that are printed with effects and atmosphere, can't call live on the same floor of the building and there aren't enough stories for them all to have a penthouse suite. A couple of ornamental sounds I kept, a few more I ditched completely.
The acoustic guitars in particular I found to be brassy and lovely. C414 ? I wanted to start and end the song with those so I kind of did an artificial fade out ending with just the acgs.
The drums are very nice, tasteful, appropriate, and in the pocket with swing feel. I compressed the room mics. The top and bottom snare were already phase shifted I believe. The stereo separation of the OHs were good enough to place the toms pretty exactly. I wish there was a ride mic, but eh. The Bass DI low and high shelved and kept just a 160 band, and took the rest of the tone from the Bass Amp.
The guitars all knew their place and I appreciate how the parts were double tracked with a different performance. I did a mono sum monitor and made adjustments from that. There was one guitar part I completely jettisoned and that was the single high A note the electric guitar. I found the intonation just really annoying and I didn't want to tune it. I DID however tune the lead vocal. I used to use the actual Antares Autotune manual grid VST plug and pushed the shapes up and down by hand... but this is my first time tuning a vocal extensively with this DAW and it is fantastic. I finished the tuning in just a few minutes judging it to be artifact free.
The acoustic guitars in particular I found to be brassy and lovely. C414 ? I wanted to start and end the song with those so I kind of did an artificial fade out ending with just the acgs.
The drums are very nice, tasteful, appropriate, and in the pocket with swing feel. I compressed the room mics. The top and bottom snare were already phase shifted I believe. The stereo separation of the OHs were good enough to place the toms pretty exactly. I wish there was a ride mic, but eh. The Bass DI low and high shelved and kept just a 160 band, and took the rest of the tone from the Bass Amp.
The guitars all knew their place and I appreciate how the parts were double tracked with a different performance. I did a mono sum monitor and made adjustments from that. There was one guitar part I completely jettisoned and that was the single high A note the electric guitar. I found the intonation just really annoying and I didn't want to tune it. I DID however tune the lead vocal. I used to use the actual Antares Autotune manual grid VST plug and pushed the shapes up and down by hand... but this is my first time tuning a vocal extensively with this DAW and it is fantastic. I finished the tuning in just a few minutes judging it to be artifact free.
boomaga (Drew Perkins)
MTSU Mass Comm Recording Industry, BS in Audio Recording Production & Tech, 2004
using Cubase 10
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MTSU Mass Comm Recording Industry, BS in Audio Recording Production & Tech, 2004
using Cubase 10
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