Hey Everyone,
This is the link to my submission, and a link to DAW screenshots
Song:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19KKXw ... m-upMCem8f
Screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17XXRu ... 5cweUrtB59
Love the vibe of this track, has a great 70's feel to it. Wouldn't be out of place on my driving playlist
Sound-wise I went for the 70's feel. Got a strong Neil Young vibe off the vocals, Fleetwood Mac and America vibe from the music, so kind of went in that direction.
Some editing was done before mixing, the drums were loose in some areas, small adjustments were made to keep the track driving, but it wasn't too much as i didn't want to lose the groove and soul of the song and make it inhuman. Vocals were a little pitchey in the verses, used Waves Tune to manually tune, but as natural as possible and tried to be very transparent. That was it for the editing really.
Drums: I found the tracks that needed the most processing on the song were the kick and snare. I used a gate on both and some Eq with the Pultec to get that sound. I also found the snare to be very dynamic so there was a fair bit of compression to level out the performance. Other that that some high passing, high shelfs on the other instruments. API 2500 applied to Drum Bus for a little smack and a small scoop on the bus at around 400Hz to take out some mud
Bass: I used a blend of the three bass tracks. I Low Passed the DI track at around 250, just so i could purely use it as my low end, this then compressed with 1176s to keep consistent lows. The RE27 was high passed at 250 and i brought some of the mid range out on this to round off the bass tone . The Ribbon was used to complete the picture then the Bass bus has a small amount of EQ and a transient designer doing a tiny amount.
Guitars: I only used the DI tracks on the Rhythm Guitar, which i printed out through the UAD Marshall Plexi plugin that I felt had the tone I was going for. I then panned them LR and each went to a mono Reverb panned opposite to give them some glue and cohesion. LA2A after this on the bus for tone but also to level out the performance.
Solo: Didn't do much here, sounded great already. I just added a little tape saturation to make it sit back a little and sent it to a tape slapback delay to give it some width and make it more interesting.
Sax: Again not much processing sounded great already. I parallel processed it with a Tape Saturator to bring out some low end harmonics and make it more full. Also sent to Some stereo Verb and the Slapback the guitar went to.
Piano &Keys: Piano hadn't much processing. Just some sidechain compression to make it get out of the way of the vocals, and a mono reverb panned opposite to give it some room and depth. A little timing work had to be done here also in the editing stage. The rhode i kept stereo but EQ'd a lot of the mid range from just the Mid Signal to keep it out of the way of the vocals and to give it more width.
Vocals: Eq'd to brighten up the voice, and a little low end bump to give it some body. The vocals were all ran through the LA2A for that rounded tone and to level out dynamics. All the vocals were sent to a Stereo Verb (H-Verb) and the Tape Slapback to beef them up a bit. I did have to do some tiny adjustments to the double tracks themselves in places where the sibilances were not aligned as this gets very noticeable when doubled. Also had to take out some of the breaths, as the two tracks gave an odd comb filtering effect when both happened. Other than that just some Saturation on the double vocals to make them sit behind the main a little better.
Master has a little saturation and a tiny bit of glue verb, and thats about that!
Thanks again for the chance to mix this and i hope you like.
Cheers
Ciaran
