My version of this very good song. Really fun to work with it but the "stems" sure has some things to wish for. Many people praise these files, I don´t find them that impressive. Great, but nothing overly special.
I would love to revisit this mix with more tracks at hand. Please upload the raw tracks in addition to this "stem" download.
My main issues with the tracks.
1: the electric guitar track. Solo and rythm in same track!!! Not fun during solo when you want to mute the rythm guitar. Sounds really good though. Don´t think I did anything to improve the sound of it.
2: Percussion track. Stereo track with a blend of dry and wet signals! A bit too wide premixed for my taste. Removed some side channel on it. Also used some level automation on it.
3: Two backvox tracks pre mixed with double and harmonie! Was able to phase out the digital copy of the double that existed in both tracks. Made my own stereo doubles from the lead track.
4: Three toms in a stereo track. Not very important.. I just found the spread a bit wide. Removed some side and was ready to go
5: As mentioned in another thread, there is some amount of room preset in the files. In the end I doubt I could improve anything by having it another way.
As said before. Really great song, love it. Had a blast with the scissors though. Wanted song to start more agressive so I exchanged the intro solo with the main solo. Well, intro solo is a hybrid between mid and main solo. Also added a couple of bars to the solo wich now is more like a breakdown. Wish I had more percussive options to the bridge after the solo. Also altered the ending. Delayed the original last vocals and later added some chorus reprise "loop".
On the drumbus I use the demo of the new Slate Digital VBC plugin. If it was 150$ I wouldn´t hesitate buying it but this mixing business of mine is just for fun so 200$ is really stretching it.
With all editing that took place, this project more turned into a preproduction project. Hopefully I didn´t step on any toes.
I would love to revisit this mix with more tracks at hand. Please upload the raw tracks in addition to this "stem" download.
My main issues with the tracks.
1: the electric guitar track. Solo and rythm in same track!!! Not fun during solo when you want to mute the rythm guitar. Sounds really good though. Don´t think I did anything to improve the sound of it.
2: Percussion track. Stereo track with a blend of dry and wet signals! A bit too wide premixed for my taste. Removed some side channel on it. Also used some level automation on it.
3: Two backvox tracks pre mixed with double and harmonie! Was able to phase out the digital copy of the double that existed in both tracks. Made my own stereo doubles from the lead track.
4: Three toms in a stereo track. Not very important.. I just found the spread a bit wide. Removed some side and was ready to go
5: As mentioned in another thread, there is some amount of room preset in the files. In the end I doubt I could improve anything by having it another way.
As said before. Really great song, love it. Had a blast with the scissors though. Wanted song to start more agressive so I exchanged the intro solo with the main solo. Well, intro solo is a hybrid between mid and main solo. Also added a couple of bars to the solo wich now is more like a breakdown. Wish I had more percussive options to the bridge after the solo. Also altered the ending. Delayed the original last vocals and later added some chorus reprise "loop".
On the drumbus I use the demo of the new Slate Digital VBC plugin. If it was 150$ I wouldn´t hesitate buying it but this mixing business of mine is just for fun so 200$ is really stretching it.
With all editing that took place, this project more turned into a preproduction project. Hopefully I didn´t step on any toes.
