Weird… when I opened the project in Reaper, like I said, I suddenly noticed the R guitar was really poking out. That should have been ‘mix 5’ but I didn’t check against the rendered file. Checking what I uploaded here (mix 5) sounds quite different with the R guitar quite subdued. Although now in ‘mix 6’ the 2 guitars sound more equal level wise… they do sound more jangly that mix 5. sigh OK… I’ll have to revisit it again and check against the rendered result.
Hey there, all. I’m back! Sorry, but I have been a little bit out of the loop.
I was going on vacation this past week and so the week prior to that, as is probably typpical, was utter chaos.Then I went on vacation to visit my family in Milwaukee, and was supposed to be there for a week, but wound up in a bicycle accident that culminated in breaking my hand. Ugh. Actually, it was a really stupid accident on the Interurban Trail. I was hardly moving and basically just tipped over trying to work through an S-curve in the trail. Very poor design, a bizarre curve to get people to slow down before you go over the railroad tracks. Again, I was hardly moving, but somehow landed just right that I broke the bone on my ring finger of my left hand, right in the middle of the palm. Nasty.
So I had to come home early. I was supposed to be there until Monday, but had to come back a week early for surgery. So my hand is in a cast with two pins. No guitar playing for me for at least eight weeks. Ugh again. And I still have the next few days off. Trying to get caught up on things, so I thought I would check in on IRD to see what’s happening!
So…
Really, nice, Vaughan. You amaze me with how much you’re able to do without access to all of the tracks. Would love to know what you did to add “a touch of solidarity.” “Moving the bass around,” I assume, means EQ?
Dang, good ear, Vaughan. So, per your last comments on the BGV, I actually removed the chorus and added a low and highpass filter to the BGV buss, so I was surprised to hear you comment this again; pulled it up just to check and you are correct. I must not have saved it before I uploaded.
So here’s my fix, w/o the chorus on the bgv, and with a touch of LPF, and a bit less HPF on mix buss.
Vaughan, I like the tighter, almost cleaner sound you got especially on the main voc. Could you walk me thru a little more of what you did? I’m thinking it was maybe a touch of EQ boost in the high mids and a little cut in the mids? Not sure though, but I like what you did. Also a touch more compression?
I really like what I have, and feel I’m “so close,” and love what you did. Thanks!
yikes, dude, i have forgotten everything i did… almost
I definitely added some waves neve 73 style eq to pull the snare / midrange up, thats a killer tone machine, the compression/eq may have been from abbey road gear plus a little of the correct flavor of tape eq. I cant remember. that usually tightens things up a tad.
Yes the bv’s are important, and you can also hi/low pass them to get them just right…
oh, the artifacts from mp3 compression can sound a little chorused - so that may also have contributed, no big deal…
