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It came as a bit of a shock. He was only 65 years old. He was multi-talented, and a very smart fellow.

Okay - I'll check to see if somehow in my attempt to align everything, I knocked the bass track out of sync. That's been the trick of the track. Thanks for the extra ears, P!

Most of this (bass/drums/rhythm git) - outside of Stu's parts - were recorded live. Which parts strike you as off-beat? The jangly guitars? The ebow would be hard to define as "on-beat" and the BGVs align w/ the main vocal (to my ears).

Stu Gort, who used to haunt these very pages w/ us years ago, passed on (I recently discovered). For those that knew him, he was an immensely talented fellow who had an exacting personality. It was his precise nature that made him an excellent guitarist - and guitar maker. It was his guitar...

Will do, K. Thanks for the ears.

I just swapped out the original drums - which were recorded w/ midi through a Roland TD9. At issue was the midi had a LOT of false data in it. I think the hi hat pedal was faulty. So I had to rebuild a lot of that part in fixing it to sound relatively natural. But I wanted a more acoustic kit...

Updated master EQ (slightly louder as well)

Jeebus, Jeff - you've got some fine ears there. Originally the AI mastering plug kicked down the bass w/ a -2db scoop at 200hz - and a commensurate +2db pop in the 4 - 6k range. Since a lot of the energy in this piece (elect/acoustic guitar) are in the range, I left that bump in place - while...

Yes, but I tend to not compress too heavy on the drums anywhere along the chain. I do 3-4:1 while tracking ... but set the threshold up at a reasonable level. Then I lightly hit the buss w/ a compressor just further tame the kit, and a very light limiter to "trim the tops". For detail and...

This one DID (as folks surmised correctly) have a bass scoop inserted by the AI algorithm. I backed that out and made other revisions based on comments/extra ears and this is where I am with this mix:

Busy holiday weekend prevented earlier reply - but I have been still listening and revising the mixes. This is where this one currently sits;

This has a bit 'o mid-mud in it still. I'd throw it on a meter to see where the inequities of frequencies are bunching and then throw a taming EQ at that region. I can't isolate WHICH instrument is pushing the freq clutter - but when you clear it, you'll hear it.

Believe it or not - throw Michael Stipe's vocal over the top and you have a decent REM piece going on. The wince factor is high on this one. Watch the top end of things.

First impressions (newer mix): - Overly limited to everything sounding mushed together - like mashed peas and carrots - and you cannot exactly taste which instrument is what. - Bass is too loud - by a lot. - Vocal is too far under the music bed - Drums are muffled sounding - All the instruments...

What I've done is taken multi tracking and selectively edit it to appear left/right in section section to add "push" to the arrangement. Most of the time the guitar is stage left, but during highlighted passages, the right comes into play, sweetening the stereo image. All it is, though, is...

Interesting - because a LOT of the cream returned when I eliminated the cut in O11. I'm going to put in on a spectrum meter and see if it is lacking energy down low. Curious all the same - particularly as the comment above yours indicates they don't think the mix is bright enough.

In closure - this is where the song landed - as I needed to tweak the middle section still for better bass representation and balance of vocals. Oh - drums needed to recess just a smidge as well. They were just a little pokey. The other two sections I left untouched. They were simple enough and...

NOLA and Jeff - so I go back and check on the overall EQ - which O11 matches up against a popular algorithm and auto-adjusts - and guess where it had taken a 2.5db cut? Yep. EXACTLY where you weren't hearing it. So much for letting the program decide! :D Here is the newly fixed and futzed with...

I went back to the drawing board on it but I got distracted futzing with other details. I WILL be further playing with it based on feedback gathered here. Thanks again!