Thanks so much
@BenjiRage, for looking into my mix.
I agree to your comments, experimenting now a bit on that.
* The overhead track is not quite enough for controlling the cymbals (snare sound will change!), I will have to automate the hits that I really need. Too lazy for now.
The ride cymbal is a bit too noisy and masks a lot of other stuff, if I won't automate, though the mpressor helps a lot when inserted.
It presses down the snare a little bit, while the attack of the cymbals can easily come a bit slower.
But it is difficult für the snare to keep its achieved internal balances, while tweaking the cymbals this way.
The question is, how far we can have the voice carry the whole song and structure, and need not do too much around it.
* Chorus guitar - a bit of a style question, I kept it more on the 80ies electronic side, but will try to make the git brighter.
* Backing vocals use the comp in the Lindell 50 already, now switching ratio from 4 to 6. Not sure if we should fill every gap, or leave in some human imperfection. The nice air band was delivered by SPL Vitalizer.
* Toms had no EQ at all, only gate, hipass, Airwindows "Point!", "epicPLATE". Doing a TinyQ. Important to cut 400Hz.
Sidechain tech:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link
I'm using TDR Nova GE as the workhorse, gives me certain options that Trackspacer doesn't have.
Tracktion allowed me to wire up complex racks.
This one has 3 sidechain inputs each with meter and fader. I just route it into a track with inserting the same rack by copypaste, 3 times. It keeps track of its identity and would not create 3 different instances but one interconnected.
The inputs are: 1. lead vocal bus, 2. bg vocal bus, and ... 3. snare! (I make the workhorse timings faster for the higher frequencies and it works)
The instrumental bus has all guitars and keyboards. So I can make these loud enough, and the Nova will attenuate the corresponding main frequencies before they would be masking the vocals.
When the preset is ready, the workflow is quite fast. Insert the rack once for the target bus, and 3 times for the 3 sidechain sources.
Set the sidechain inserts to dry signal only.
Then, adjust the sidechain faders and watch the Nova display, and if required, tweak the 6 frequency bands (depending on the actual vocal range and singing style).
On a standard DAW you would create a bus-A mono track, send its output to the sidechain-IN of the Nova or a spectral compressor (that sits on the instrument stereo bus-B), and create an AUX send to this bus-A from every track you want to be a sidechain source.
Special hint: Lead vocal has Tube Saturator Vintage from Wave Arts, it was free and is one of the very best tube emulators that I know.
(another one would be Phil's Cascade, but behaves differently and is very complex)
The other quality animal is DeEdger (available in the TDR family), it removes a lot of harshness from the vocal.
I also added a screen shot from a brickwall limiter, with this setting it gets super loud.
It is all rendered 48k, then resampled.
Greetings, cu,
if there is interest I can upload, or PM.
Just a quick update: