Tom McKenzie - Directions (Robert's Mix)

[Dags]

Do me a favour and download the mix to see if it plays back better that way. I tend to do that now because I prefer not to make any judgements from listening to the streamed playback.

Yep - its still there. It sounds like a guitar playing the same notes as the bass only an octave higher. It could be that the bass plays up the register for so much of the song then drops down for the chorus part which then gets added to by that guitar which suddenly changes the frequency balance of the song for those parts. There's probably not much that can be done as it's an arrangement choice by the band.

Starting with standard 7 band EQ; I followed that on all acoustic guitars with EMI RS124 compressor (Abbey Road Plugins) on Gtrs 1 & 2 and the EMI TG12413 compressor (Abbey Road Plugins) on Gtrs 3 & 4 and 5 & 6. The compression is very gentle just to get a bit colour. There's no reverb on the acoustic guitars. The vocal chain is UA Precision de-esser followed by EQ - followed by UA LA2 compression. The vocal reverb is the UA's EMT 250 I'm running Pro Tools and using the UAD2 platform.

[insert 'cry' emoticon here]
So many lovely plugins. I'm using Logic's stock ones and a couple of low end Waves plugs I bought two or three years ago. *sigh*
Anyone want to buy a kidney?

Dags