01-Acid Queen

02-6 8

1 - Fades Away

3 - Wayside

Climb the World

Seraphim Mettle

Final Mix The Journey

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I decided to try for a more modern vintage style tone for the track. (If that makes any sense)  I may have done a little too much producing to the track, but I did what I felt was necessary to make the song pop as it was fairly simplistic in arrangement and dynamics.  Here is a rundown of what I did.

Gear Used 
Presonus Studio One
Steven Slate Drums
Samson Resolv50 Monitors
AKG K44 Headphones
All Reverbs, Effects, Compression, etc (except Steven Slate) were stock Presonus Studio One plugins


Drums - After hours of trying to gate the kick and snare drums and get a tone I liked, I decide to trigger them and mix the sample with the original.  I used Steven Slate Drums for this. I put a multiband compressor on the overheads to try and bring the toms out in the mix, but still keep them natural sounding as if the drummer was playing in front of you.  Normally I go for a deep tom sound, however I felt this song needed more of a flat natural tone. Some room reverb was added to all the drums to give some space.

Guitars - Bass I decided to mix the amp and the DI together and get a really warm sound with a bump around 1k and a rolloff around 8k. Compression was added to both.  Electric guitar was doubled and stereo panned with each being eq'd slightly different and delay added to the left side. One track was bumped at around 3k and cut around 800hz.  The other was bumped around 100hz and cut around 850hz, with at slight bump around 3k.  The solo I added another layer with some reverb and different eq to stand out in front of the mix.

Vocals - I tried to keep the vocals as natural as possible with some compression, eq and reverb and a slight bit of delay in parts.  I eq'd her voice with a bump at 220hz, 1k, and 10k. Reverb was added to give some space and fatten her voice a little.

I hope you like it, as I had a blast mixing it.

Gfanatic1980

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