This song grew on me ! I think it's got some fine hooks, and reminds me most of Tool.
The instrumental performances are just about flawless. It is a pleasure to not have to dial in any sort of sound for guitar tracks because they just sound so nice au naturel. I heard a lot of other mixers of this track feel it necessary to put a reverb on the clean guitar track in verse 1 & 2 but I think it's best dry. There were two bass tracks labeled DI and Amp, but they were bit-for-bit exact copies so I jettisoned one.
The drums were played on an electronic trigger kit, well chosen patches, but there's no bleed between mics to marry them and no "air." We are given a nice couple of room mixes though, which is thoughtful. I found the Drum Room Stereo track to have kinda too much washy splashy cymbals that I wanted to dial down. If I'd been really on point I would have built up my own drum room sound and squashed it, but I didn't.
I did some rider fading between the vocals and guitars during the choruses just so there's more of an envelope for each. But they're mouse fader-moves, I miss my mixing board. I mean it's just downstairs, I didn't sell it.
I thought about comping between the lead vocal takes but I decided to tune them and stick em together. I like how he recorded it and kept it that way - lead voc solo on some lines, doubled on others. I believe the tuning helps in so many ways.
At the end of the day I'm sure I'm going to remix this when I get some perspective. I might have the mix too crowded in the choruses (the mixdown does have a mag tape emulator compression)
The instrumental performances are just about flawless. It is a pleasure to not have to dial in any sort of sound for guitar tracks because they just sound so nice au naturel. I heard a lot of other mixers of this track feel it necessary to put a reverb on the clean guitar track in verse 1 & 2 but I think it's best dry. There were two bass tracks labeled DI and Amp, but they were bit-for-bit exact copies so I jettisoned one.
The drums were played on an electronic trigger kit, well chosen patches, but there's no bleed between mics to marry them and no "air." We are given a nice couple of room mixes though, which is thoughtful. I found the Drum Room Stereo track to have kinda too much washy splashy cymbals that I wanted to dial down. If I'd been really on point I would have built up my own drum room sound and squashed it, but I didn't.
I did some rider fading between the vocals and guitars during the choruses just so there's more of an envelope for each. But they're mouse fader-moves, I miss my mixing board. I mean it's just downstairs, I didn't sell it.
I thought about comping between the lead vocal takes but I decided to tune them and stick em together. I like how he recorded it and kept it that way - lead voc solo on some lines, doubled on others. I believe the tuning helps in so many ways.
At the end of the day I'm sure I'm going to remix this when I get some perspective. I might have the mix too crowded in the choruses (the mixdown does have a mag tape emulator compression)
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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