Right, finally got around to finishing this off. Err, I’ll probably take out the reverse tape sounds right at the end, although I kinda like it for nostalgic reasons.
The hihats have been taken out, and I’ve sorted out a few niggles here and there (mainly with EQing). I originally held back on mastering this until the Studer A80 was fixed (ended up being a massive job as the power board was fudged, so had Clive Kavan give it a proper service).
Really gone to town on this one – after mixdown the chain was as follows:
1. Avalon 747, with TSP on… works well on here as it smooths out the highs.
2. Studer A80, 15ips, RMGi 900 tape… few niggles with this as the tape was already starting to shed (1 year old), but it was the only thing to hand, and I managed to find a clean run. Quantegy where art thou?!
3. Waves X-Noise… see above.
4. UAD Manley EQ… nice stuff, tested the demo for this, and its pretty cool for sorting a few problem areas. Tailed off some high freq’s, and reduced high-mids slightly.
5. UAD Fatso Senior… just used the transformer preset to beef things up, although I set the saturation much lower, as it was messing with the bass.
6. UAD Multiband… not much to do on this one, but compressed a few bands, and expanded the lower/kick for more punch.
7. UAD Maximizer… final chain, again just in demo mode, but I love it so far. L2 seemed flatter when I tried it.
Well thats it! As usual, I would appreciate any feedback (profesisonal or otherwise) on this. To my ears it seems okay, although as a song its pretty busy. This is going to be used for a Kickstarter project we’re going to set up, as Milly (singer) and I are looking to sort out an album, but really need funding to do it seriously.
