keith.rogers
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The project is upstairs and I'm only on my 2nd cup of coffee and wife says I have to go on an hour walk before I can plant myself, so details are fuzzy.Cool. Again it's completely different, yet I recognize some original. A tremolo sounds added. Are any of these you playing it? hhmmm so different. The chords that I hid in back you have out front strong. It is a better flow for the material. Is there anything I could do to the tracks during recording to allow them to mix better?
Nothing was added, and I probably did have EQ on different tracks. Because the tracks didn't appear to line up perfectly, I wasn't sure where things went, so I just got the EZD track set with whatever the default kit was for my old EZD2 stuff, and tinkered a little with timing the hits more metronomically. I used that to align some of the rhythm tracks and maybe bass - just minor stuff, but it was too loose for my ear.
I pasted a copy of the guitar regions together (end to end) or one track I also ran the guitars through some amp sims, probably just a Fender and Vox combo with more gain, and yes with amp reverb and tremolo. There's a little automation on volume and also on panning where I move the lead into the center more when it starts.
Yes, parts probably got slid around a bit as I was lining things up. But, as suggested, I started with the drums, then I added the bass, got happy, probably keys, next long rhythm guitar tracks, and finally lead guitar. A little bit of compression on the mix bus. iZotope "maximizer" to push it to that -12dB LUFS - kind of arbitrary but it seemed like you wanted something in the louder range.
Like I said, I didn't listen to anything else. I basically work from the rhythm, and I'd say the main thing I noticed (in your tracks) that created work at start was the timing is not sharp. I mean, this doesn't have to be perfect, like electronica stuff, but if there's a drummer, then the bass and the drummer need to really be in sync, and that main rhythm guitar has to lock in. Now, you can create space in the middle for the singer, leads, whatever, and they can go crazy, but it should really hang with just the basics.
P.S. (edit): screen shot of the project attached. I actually only put amp sims on guitars & bass, except 09-riff3-consolidated had nothing. No EQ or compression on individual tracks, but there is some one the master. The MIDI keys were mapped to a Steinway Grand (by default?) - I just left it there.
P.P.S. I did use Logic, too, but did not "quantize" any tracks. Just use
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