05-11-2014, 04:02 AM
Thanks Patrick. I wondered about the kick drum being a bit loud, but wasn't really sure... I "fixed" my sub (poked a hole in the dust cap to undent it) but it's still a bit compromised.
The toms, however... I didn't use any of the tom tracks at all, they're completely muted. All of that tom craziness is in the overheads... I'm not familiar with Superior Drummer, but I wonder if it lets you adjust the simulated mic position? EZDrummer has that functionality... You might be able to move them around and re-balance the tom and cymbal levels relative to the kit in the overheads and it'll probably make mixing your drum renders a lot easier with less processing.
The only ambience I added was a plate and delay on the vocals and a plate on the guitars... everything else was either already there in your original tracks or is a pad selfishly masquerading as a reverb. Mike Senior wrote a great article about using pads for various mixing tasks... I'll try to find it for you.
For the vocals I used IQ4 dynamic EQ with upward compression to pin the regions surrounding 300 Hz and 1300 Hz very firmly in place... it's not perfect, but automating the EQ just wasn't working for me at all.
Thanks again for sharing, it's a great song. One of these days I'll try and make some of my stuff available here for your creative abuse as well.
The toms, however... I didn't use any of the tom tracks at all, they're completely muted. All of that tom craziness is in the overheads... I'm not familiar with Superior Drummer, but I wonder if it lets you adjust the simulated mic position? EZDrummer has that functionality... You might be able to move them around and re-balance the tom and cymbal levels relative to the kit in the overheads and it'll probably make mixing your drum renders a lot easier with less processing.
The only ambience I added was a plate and delay on the vocals and a plate on the guitars... everything else was either already there in your original tracks or is a pad selfishly masquerading as a reverb. Mike Senior wrote a great article about using pads for various mixing tasks... I'll try to find it for you.
For the vocals I used IQ4 dynamic EQ with upward compression to pin the regions surrounding 300 Hz and 1300 Hz very firmly in place... it's not perfect, but automating the EQ just wasn't working for me at all.
Thanks again for sharing, it's a great song. One of these days I'll try and make some of my stuff available here for your creative abuse as well.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!