paulman77
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I get what you're doing here, and it sounds really good, except. I think. for that buzzing in the right channel from the vocal, the delay tail of the processing, it sounds like. That sounds very un-vintage. Also, the string/synth gets a little buzzy too, at the end. It's a different kind of "buzz," but it seems to be things getting too "mid/high." I had a whale of a time with a Mellotron emulation on a tune I did, which I'll post sooner or later, in which the "strings" buzzed or seemed to crackle; a very mid-rangy kind of thing that I had to really hammer with EQ. In short, I EQ'd the mids and highs right out, and that helped whip the thing into place. I think you're right: It just needs to be re-mixed. What did you put on the vocal? Real nice vocal work, too.
Thanks! I'm trying to remember what was on that vocal without opening everything up. I've redone it now, with less plugins. But the one you're asking about I think had both a Fairchild 670 and a 1176 compressor (overkill, which has been remedied), Waves De-Breath, a noise gate, and an EMT 140 for reverb. There were other things I'm not remembering (definitely some EQ plugins, probably a Pultec), but that was the meat of it. Now I've got it with just an 1176, a Manley EQ, a de-esser, and some Logic linear EQ for the finer points. And the EMT 140 still. I used Audacity to get rid of the hiss, so the gate wasn't necessary. And since I don't have it so jacked up with compression anymore, the de-breath wasn't necessary either.
I'll have to check out my Mellotron sounds and see if they're giving me any of that crackling you're talking about. What Mellotron emulation did you use? I use Re-Tron in Reason. I don't track with Reason, but I use it for most of my MIDI instruments.