Present Tense Ghost (New bass/mix)

[K-dub]

Back in the heady days of the start of HomeRec, following the invasion of internet trolls, a branch of home recordists broke from the pack seeking a kinder gentler version where trolls would be less welcome and called that site "Recording Project" - affectional known as "RP" where this remained "HR".

It was a smaller group, but it had talent. The above piece is culled from some of those folks. Emeric Sloan does the lead guitar work on it, and most recently @Trojka added a bass part. If you remember Smart Drums from the old Cakewalk days, Frank Basile, the man behind that organization is the drummer on this piece.

I just moved my studio to a new addition in my house and so I pulled this out in the new space to give it a mix and acclimate my ears to the new sonic environment.

How's it sound to you folks?

Thanks in advance for any/all comments!

 

[Papanate]

Great Song - what’s the vocal treatment? Good drums - but honestly I wanted more high end in them - not sure if that would work with your tune though.

 

[K-dub]

Great Song - what’s the vocal treatment? Good drums - but honestly I wanted more high end in them - not sure if that would work with your tune though.

I was listening to the Beatles "Hey Jude" yesterday, and thought "Man those drums sound like they have mufflers on them" - because they have mufflers on them.

I found a Waves plugin I didn't know I had called "Vocal Bender" and you can get some pretty wild results with it. I found a preset called "Real ADT" and then lessened it to my liking. It's essentially a micro-detuner. So ultimately the vocal treatment is the lead is detuned cents w/ a really short delay on it - just shy of sounding dry.

 

[Sky Blue Lou]

I remember all you guys and the Site. I still wear the hat! Nice piece. Basic tracks recorded back in the day?

 

[K-dub]

I remember all you guys and the Site. I still wear the hat! Nice piece. Basic tracks recorded back in the day?

All the way from Emeric back then to Trojka a few weeks ago.

 

[Sky Blue Lou]

All the way from Emeric back then to Trojka a few weeks ago.

Good to hear. Thanx.

 

[TripleM]

Just saw this (I'm still getting back into HR, sorry). It's early AM here, so I'll listen later.

I looked for the RP site but I couldn't find it. There is a therecordingproject.com site, but it doesn't look like the old RP site. Is it around anymore?

 

[TripleM]

I thought it sounded really good. Nice clean sounds.

I hear your old vocal problem. I forget, did we track that down to a mic problem, or delay problem? Can't remember.

I liked the thin little guitar thing at the beginning. But to me it didn't really fit a mix like this.

But overall and really solid mix.