Hey guys, thanks for the feedback.
Gibs - The main vocals during the verse are pretty clean - just reverb. I like the background vocals there -- that's using the Waves Metaflanger "Mutron Biphaser" setting, plus a little reverse reverb. During the bridges (chorus? lol) there's another effect, and the vocals were meant to be a bit more out front, but I could see taming them down a bit.
Proveras - Glad ya like it. I definitely agree the high end is a tad harsh. I didn't apply any eq on the final mix. I think I could actually eq a little of the harshness away up there... or -
The compression on the final mix? Is that what you're talking about? I am actually thinking of redoing just the final "master." I used
the Waves L1 Ultramaximizer on it. I think for some reason with this song, it is almost pushing it too hard. I may try again using
the Renaissance Compressor and see if I can get a better mix that way. It may take a bit of that high end harshness off, thereby maybe cleaning up the feel that it is distorted a bit in that mix.
CyanJaguar - I was probably about 8-10 inches off the mic when I was singing. The vocals were recorded with an NT2 in omni mode, going into a Meek VC6.
As far as Acid - All the drums and percussion were done in there. The horn samples were all arranged in there, and there are also some very subtle strings in there in the first two verses. The backwards parts were all arranged there, the main backward part being the first note of the big guitar chord. The guitar parts were recorded in Vegas and arranged mostly in Acid.
Usually what I do is create a mix for the music in Acid and then save it as a wav and take it over to Vegas to record vocals. Mainly because by the time I get everything in Acid, my cpu stutters enough to make it impossible to record vocals or anything else.
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