Hi Folks!
Here’s my Entry to the contest.
Thank you Morelia for sharing your work!
Thank you Mister Fox for providing this platform!
Here the corrected links. I hope these work now
Wav:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpgck2cdwedw1 ... r.wav?dl=0
Mp3:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie3qck28vwi3b ... r.mp3?dl=0
Screenshots:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yy40qhgeh4oq ... ad3Ua?dl=0
The concept:
I tried to go for an Audioslave kind of sound, because I thought the drumsounds were very useable for that. That also means that I went for „dirty, distorted and in your face“ rather than „polished“. I used a lot of Saturation throughout the track (mostly Scheps Omni Channel)
I had a little bit of a hard time with the vocal concept. Not because they weren’t good (I thought the aggressive Lead was very cool!), but too many tracks for my taste. If I was in contact with the artist, I would’ve asked if I could just use the lead vocal and the two doubles in a Dave Grohl manner. The other voices took the impact away a little bit in my opinion and made it Sound more like a choir. But since they were there, and also were heard in the rough mix, I reconned that the artist wanted to have them in there, so I mixed them in, but a bit gentler than in the rough.
The technical side:
Once again I tried to recreate Andrew Scheps Rear-Buss technique based on his template, which hast he following routing:
Everything is routed to the Mix Buss (through respective Sub-Group-Busses).
Everything BUT the Drums ist routed to the Rear Buss copying exactly the Mix Buss Levels (FX and parallel Processing not included)
The Mix Buss is looks very crowded due to my FX routing in Studio One, I just wanted to find a way to set up a little bit of mid-side EQing without owning a MS-EQ, and that incorporated some Channel splitting and combining, which thankfully is easy in Studio One. But every plugin shows up in the slots as if they were in Serial, which is not the case.
In fact it's just a
- Dual-Mono Compressor, 2254 style, about 2-3db GR
-FC670 without compression just for transformer colour,
- a mid-side EQ to give a very light top end boost only to the sides,
-a very light Stereo Expansion,
-a Pultec Master Eq, with a gentle smiley- curve and
-a limiter which doesn’t do anything, just to keep the red lights off.
I do not consider this premastering, because it’s used in a very gentle way and just allows for less processing on the single Tracks.
On the
Rear Buss it's Dual Mono 1176s for Parallel Compression (About 3-4 db GR)
The Guitars:
I used mainly the D.I. Tracks run through the Studio one Guitar Amp simulation, to have more control. But I mixed some oft he original signals in, for example in the guitar solo and chorus.
I decided to use only one guitar in the Verse to intensify energy in the chorus and make the song more dynamic.
The Bass:
I duplicated the bass track and had one run through a very distorted amp with a high pass on it, and the other was more for the sub-frequencies.
That way I got a very cool lower midrange from the bass to complement the guitars.
I hope you like it!
Cheers !
Flo
Just like Audioslave 