My Mix of 'Talk To Me Baby'

[davemcg61]

Vocal sounds pretty intimate but then come the stops and there's that nice dark reverb tail, that's very cool. And your drums sound quite modern, punchy and dry, almost MPCish, reminded me of vintage Feist. It felt a little strange at first, but not once I'm back listening to the song and not the mix. Did you do any processing postmix? Sounds tight and solid.

God, I really hate that people chattering at the end. I thought it was my fault for using the scratch vocal but they must belong to some other track.

There is reverb on the snare and toms only, Deliza; very short, about .75 seconds, and just barely audible when soloed, so it only adds width, not much to actually hear and take notice of during the song with everything else going on.

On this tune, the mastering plug-ins are 1) FabFilter Q2, with an 18dB per octave low cut at 35Hz, and an 18dB per octave high cut starting at 12kHz; 2) Waves C4 multi-band compressor, 3) Waves SSL compressor, set at 2:1 and just barely getting occasional 3dB gain reduction, mostly hovering around 2dB GR; 4) A1StereoControl at the MasterBus 115% setting; 5) Adaptive limiter set to +3dB.

Of course, I snipped the chattering and clapping at the end, and then faded out on the track and used an automation fade out on the stereo bus. If memory serves correctly, the chattering was scattered across several tracks. I did some track fade outs in the mix to drastically reduce the sound and make my life easier in mastering.