So, I've been going back and forth with an album I'm mixing, and I've finally reached a place where I'm pretty happy with it with this track I've posted. Guitars were reamped with a VH4 and a Rivera K Tre through a Rivera K412 with V30/G12t75 x pattern.
The kit is natural, with SSD Kick 10 to beef up the kick just a touch (it's 70% real kick, 30% sample), and the snare has a very attacky one-shot sample with a similar ratio as the kick, again just for some beef. The kick and snare samples follow the dynamics of the drums as closely as possible. The toms were hand-muted then had tails flown in that were from samples taken of this kit during tracking....Then they were murdered with EQ because the toms were damn-near unusable....and in fact, I almost ditched them. I actually did a mix previous to this one where the entire kit was replaced, but after listening back, I trashed it.
Bass was just a DI, a PSA-1 track and a Maxon OD808 grit track. Each track was sent through my LA2A with about 10db of reduction on peaks. Everything was treated after that in the fairly standard way.
Didn't really have to do much to the vocals. Due to the singer's unique "clean" vocal style, pitch correction was hopeless. Love it or hate it, it is what it is. It's actually grown on me a lot.
Quarters Burn
There's a little bit of tweaking to do here and there, mainly low-end balance stuff and some automation. This mix came together, from the ground up, in about 30 minutes, not including reamping.
The kit is natural, with SSD Kick 10 to beef up the kick just a touch (it's 70% real kick, 30% sample), and the snare has a very attacky one-shot sample with a similar ratio as the kick, again just for some beef. The kick and snare samples follow the dynamics of the drums as closely as possible. The toms were hand-muted then had tails flown in that were from samples taken of this kit during tracking....Then they were murdered with EQ because the toms were damn-near unusable....and in fact, I almost ditched them. I actually did a mix previous to this one where the entire kit was replaced, but after listening back, I trashed it.
Bass was just a DI, a PSA-1 track and a Maxon OD808 grit track. Each track was sent through my LA2A with about 10db of reduction on peaks. Everything was treated after that in the fairly standard way.
Didn't really have to do much to the vocals. Due to the singer's unique "clean" vocal style, pitch correction was hopeless. Love it or hate it, it is what it is. It's actually grown on me a lot.
Quarters Burn
There's a little bit of tweaking to do here and there, mainly low-end balance stuff and some automation. This mix came together, from the ground up, in about 30 minutes, not including reamping.
Off to the pub.
