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sonusman

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Well, yet another mix of Love Lode, the Echo Star Studio house band by default.
or go to www.echostarstudio.com/Download.html for other downloads from my site. A few from Love Lode, 1 from Sky Blue Mind who if you remember performed Secret Heart, 1 from the Heavy Brothers, and 1 from Anger Mangagement who if you are into heavy stuff this is your thing, and 1 from Mirror Mirror.

Anyway, the Girlfriend song is just about finished. I haven't incorporated mute automation on the mix yet. Would like to get the vocals a bit more under control. Not caring for the toms either. A small little problem with the tom tracks is that I used piezo triggers to a noise gate while going to tape, and the drummer sometimes hit a crash cymbal that was right over the tom he just hit. The cymbal of course bleeds momentarily on the tom track, creating some crash hits that are very annoying. I tried to get him to raise the cymbals at least 18" above the toms, but he complained about not liking to reach that far for a crash :mad: . So, when I get the Alesis card all hooked up, I will go in and edit the tom tracks and figure out a way to get the cymbal bleed out of it. That will probably entail inserting a eq at the end of the tom hit that takes out all of the high end. This has worked for me in the past with toms that have big cymbal bleed.

Anyway. I kind of dig the guitar tones. Still trying though to find just the right effect for the lead. It needs something, but it needs to be subtle. It will come to me at 4 am..... :)

Anyway, this is my first full post of a tune that I used my new soundcard on. I recorded at 24 bit 48kHz sampling, then resampled and dithered down after mastering. I am having to rethink how I do levels now with all the extra headroom the 24 but D/A converters have, but when I am in doubt, I output the soundcard to my CD-R Recorder and listen with the 16 bit consumer converters. Well, they are a bit better than normal CD player converters, but close enough for me to tell what it is going to sound like through them.

It will be nice when standard playback media is 24 bit. So much depth is lost when it gets dithered from 24 to 16. It is a shame.

Enjoy!

Ed Rei
Echo Star Studio www.echostarstudio.com
 
Ed:

I thought that the mix was very good; I like the sound of the bass and the drums are well-placed in the mix. Was the bass run direct? Sounds like you pay attention to details that I don't even notice yet. My only complaint-the song. Is this the most recent release by Love Lode. It sounds like it should be sandwiched in between Huey Lewis and the News and Rick Springfield on the radio.

dmc

[This message has been edited by dmcsilva (edited 01-19-2000).]
 
dmc,

Well, the song was recorded throughout the last year and 4 months. They went very slow at tracking. Anyway, one of the goals for the band on this CD was to have some kind of "retro" rock stuff. So I know what you mean about it being a bit stuck in the 80's. But, as producer/engineer is was my job to get it sounding good and true to the song. Unfortunately, the band did no pre-production with me before recording. It would have been very hard to do any drastic changing of the songs in the studio on the budget they had to work with, which currently stands at about 7k for 15 songs. Of course that is going up with every mix.

Anyway, yes, dated style. But there is only like 3 songs out of the 15 that are like that. It is making for a nice break from the sort of Green Day meets Weezer sound they display prominently throughout the rest of the CD.

Thanks for the feed back.

About those little details my friend, they are what make your mixes better. A mix to me is not done until I have done almost everything I can think of to make it better. Every mix I do I learn from and try to do more on the next one. Keeps me honest.

Ed
 
Oh yeah, the bass is actually 2 different sources. One is the bass right into a DI going into a ART Tube MP, the other is the pre amp out of a Crate bass head going to a ART Tube MP. I believe the DI was a DOD or someshit like that. I am actually not terribly excited about the bass tone overall. It works well, but it lacks the distinction I was after. Just no budget at the time for some better boxes to play with. Oh well.

Ed
 
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