Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC091 April 2023 - Submissions until 21-04-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 03:23 CEST
First time contender here .... This is fun!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R5qHP0 ... share_link
The kick drum and bass guitar needed some more oomph so I ran each track out an Aux through an Eden WTDI Bass Pre-amp effect which EQ'd, compressed and returned into a new track. That should bring up the bottom end.
I left the drums as is, there was a good room sound and the OH's were great.
I meddled with the snare sound but decided that this song needed the guitars to be more up front. I was unhappy with the gated rack drum track but since it was necessary I threw in some reverb and bit my nails.
Auditioning each guitar track I decided that Guitar 05 was a good candidate for some Eventide Instant Phaser. I set the depth and osc to about 11 OC, and ran with it.
Painted in a pan for Guitar 06, Pan at 9 and 3 for Guitar 07 and Guitar 08.
For the beautiful organ, I made a duplicate track of you so now there is Organ-A and Organ-B.
I plugged in the Eventide Rotary Mod effect to Organ-A then wrote in some rotary speed controls real time. I also manually floated faders to be opposite of Organ-B.
To Organ-B I plugged an Eventide effect called Crystals. This effect pulls harmonics out of an audio track and adds a wild delay.
The notes you are hearing are from the organ track through this effect, not from another instrument or another track.
I left the tail of this effect in at the end of the bridge and it still gives me goosebumps. You can hear the Crystals effect starting at 2:30.
I went on and plugged in BlueTubes Brickwall to Guitar 01, 04, 09, 10 and 11 set accordingly. Moving on I EQ'd all the guitars and created a Guitar stub.
Something about Guitar 03 peaked my interest so I plugged in a Nomad Tempo Delay 3D synced at 135. Ended up liking the sound and left it in.
Ahhhhh, now onto the vocals!
The vocal tracks were recorded very well. Kudos and salutations to all who were involved! I left original tracks untouched but bussed them into my UAD Neve 88RS plugin and my Eventide H910 Dual Harmonizer for some vocal thickening.
I Auxed-Out that vocal bus to a Behringer (yep I said the "B" word) REV2496. In other words, I created a new wet track with vocal reverb.
You can hear this reverb mostly in the bridge.
After futzing around with levels for a few days and running through my Izotope Ozone plugin for a touch of EQ, compression and a little limiting, I came up with this mix.
The DAW I am using is Sonar Platinum (Retro Cakewalk) running on a Win 7 machine with gobs of fantastic plugins that I've collected over the decades. Yes you heard right. Talk about Old School. I am running on Sonar Platinum on a Windows 7 box - with a few hardware modifications. It's amazing. I will never sell it.
I Hope you enjoy this mix as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
JR
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R5qHP0 ... share_link
The kick drum and bass guitar needed some more oomph so I ran each track out an Aux through an Eden WTDI Bass Pre-amp effect which EQ'd, compressed and returned into a new track. That should bring up the bottom end.
I left the drums as is, there was a good room sound and the OH's were great.
I meddled with the snare sound but decided that this song needed the guitars to be more up front. I was unhappy with the gated rack drum track but since it was necessary I threw in some reverb and bit my nails.
Auditioning each guitar track I decided that Guitar 05 was a good candidate for some Eventide Instant Phaser. I set the depth and osc to about 11 OC, and ran with it.
Painted in a pan for Guitar 06, Pan at 9 and 3 for Guitar 07 and Guitar 08.
For the beautiful organ, I made a duplicate track of you so now there is Organ-A and Organ-B.
I plugged in the Eventide Rotary Mod effect to Organ-A then wrote in some rotary speed controls real time. I also manually floated faders to be opposite of Organ-B.
To Organ-B I plugged an Eventide effect called Crystals. This effect pulls harmonics out of an audio track and adds a wild delay.
The notes you are hearing are from the organ track through this effect, not from another instrument or another track.
I left the tail of this effect in at the end of the bridge and it still gives me goosebumps. You can hear the Crystals effect starting at 2:30.
I went on and plugged in BlueTubes Brickwall to Guitar 01, 04, 09, 10 and 11 set accordingly. Moving on I EQ'd all the guitars and created a Guitar stub.
Something about Guitar 03 peaked my interest so I plugged in a Nomad Tempo Delay 3D synced at 135. Ended up liking the sound and left it in.
Ahhhhh, now onto the vocals!
The vocal tracks were recorded very well. Kudos and salutations to all who were involved! I left original tracks untouched but bussed them into my UAD Neve 88RS plugin and my Eventide H910 Dual Harmonizer for some vocal thickening.
I Auxed-Out that vocal bus to a Behringer (yep I said the "B" word) REV2496. In other words, I created a new wet track with vocal reverb.
You can hear this reverb mostly in the bridge.
After futzing around with levels for a few days and running through my Izotope Ozone plugin for a touch of EQ, compression and a little limiting, I came up with this mix.
The DAW I am using is Sonar Platinum (Retro Cakewalk) running on a Win 7 machine with gobs of fantastic plugins that I've collected over the decades. Yes you heard right. Talk about Old School. I am running on Sonar Platinum on a Windows 7 box - with a few hardware modifications. It's amazing. I will never sell it.
I Hope you enjoy this mix as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
JR
