Johnny Swain - Freedom - Updated

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Quite the tour de force, from Mr. Swain. Nicely produced, recorded and performed which made it pretty easy to find the song. 

I played around with tom panning and levels to widen them into the bigger picture. The lead vocal had a phasey kind of vibe to it, so I added to it, which seemed appropriate.

I used a Shadow Hills compressor on my mix bus for this high energy song and I liked what it added with the nickel cores. 

The bass already had a bunch of character to it but I added a bit more low-end saturation to beef up the very bottom of it. 

I ended up squashing the pi$$ out of guitars 3, 4 and 5 to get them to sit.
Not sure I'm satisfied with the intelligibility of the vocals but I like where they fit level wise. 

This is my take. I hope you find it listenable.
As always, comments and feedback are appreciated.

Johnny Swain - Freedom - Ver. 3
Sparkled up the intro and added a few more automation tricks plus a clarification of the vocals.

Johnny Swain - Freedom - Ver 4
After a creative suggestion from a colleague, I made some mods to the lead vocal through the song and again clarified the vocals against the guitars.
This runs at -12.8 LUFS -1.0 Peak

Mix well and mix often,
mITc