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What - no clicks at 1:38? :D I was using Waves CLA vocal plug pretty hard on the widening effect - and someone mentioned phase issues in my last post and I went, "Fuck. He's right." So, you know me. I had to go back and take it all down. But I didn't eliminate it entirely - and I KNOW how...

Perfect - and thank you! I will look into everything you caught and/or suggested. I LOVE when folks listen and muse on what occurs to them during the listen. Awesome and appreciated. K-

It's about what you think it's about. It's based on a story of a friend. The curious story of this production is it comes from three different recordings, amalgamated into a single piece. The last recording of it is the foundation. Notable are that the piece was tracked at my band's...

I pulled the soundfile. Thanks for all the comments! Really appreciated!

The music IS a hodge podge - which is why the collection is named accordingly. The vocal is ever so slightly phased to widen it. At times it is more noticeable than others. There's also a slight slap which can exacerbate the effect. Good ears. It's subtle.

Oh yeah it is - so thanks for slogging through even the first 2! It gets a bit more progressive as the album progresses.

I didn't think SC would even allow me to load a file that large, so I'm merely counting my blessings. Agreed in full that a song marker function would add great facility to maneuvering around the file. The "dated" synth is a design choice - just like the "melting background vocals" that are...

Don't over complicate it. Whatever you do: If it sounds good, it is good. However you get there. AI is a tool. It is unlikely to sound good on its own because it has no clue how it sounds. It cannot judge itself for discernment of taste. It doesn't care. It does what it is taught to do and...

Same here, P. I used to just strap Ozone 9 across the two buss with a general setting I liked that would reasonably get me consistently in the ballpark I liked. It was always "close enough", but it was general purpose mastering in "one size fits all". I would mix w/ the GP mastering in place...

Back when the internet was more alive with curious professionals, I witnessed this first hand among guys who did it for a living. You are absolutely right. The myriad interpretations were so varied and different. That's what makes attention to a unified "sound" so important when it comes to...

Yeah - I've got it about as good as I can get it. It's millimeters gained in tweaks from here. :D

I should add that part of the homogenization process starts at the mixing level. Put simply, the collection has to sound like it was mixed to be with each other - so the STYLE of the mixing needs to be consistent. Fortunately, this no longer takes me longer than 40 or so minutes to do a mix...

Quite true. All that matters is whether you enjoy what's going on. If so, it goes faster, and if you don't, it slows to a snail's pace.

Exactly - it's not oft discussed here in depth, but it is something worth knowing. I started learning how to use compression here. Then I learned I was using WAY too much compression here. But the focus was always the mix. It's funny. I'm still remixing things (I've a reputation to...

We all started in on this board so many years ago as newbies without much a clue about even how to comment on things, so we'd say things like "snare sounds a little tubby" to help. :D Most of the players above included. We've come a long way. One of things we never really discussed was...

I always envisioned this album meant as one long stream of various passages - very much like the backside of Abbey Road. It's a prog-rock/album oriented release of 8 "not radio friendly" pieces of music - hence the title of it. This music wanders here, there, hither and yon. But - rather than...

I really like this new mastering plug. I'm getting a shitload of detail and depth out of my mixes. So much so that I'm going back and remastering everything - taking (basically) the 2 bus down to where I'm not mastering a master twice (I put limiters in my two bus). Just sharing an example of...

For instance - most of the drumming here is a live drummer: Frank Basile at Smart Loops, to be exact. That said, I didn't get to make the sonic choices for kick/snare/toms etc ... So in each track, I used Sonar's "Drum replacement" tool to take Frank's performance and identify all the various...

Many many moons ago, I started coming here to this board to learn how to record. I had just started to record this album, my first. 8 albums later and miles upon miles of travel in between, I decided to rework every album from the ground up - because I'd approached the whole process bass...

Thanks for the check-in guy!