Best Of You Instrumental

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Best Of You

Love Song

Love Song Instrumental

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By listening to Liza's group I felt they had a kind of a classic rock vibe. So I decided to make my mix kind of "vintage" sounding, but off course with more of the clarity that we are accustomed to.
I mixed the song on my Amek RN 56 mixing console and I used mostly outboard compressors. On the drums, I used mainly the Chameleon Labs 7720 on the DR buss for their compression. On the kick and snare, I also used a Waves SSl G channel mainly for a little gating. In addition, a CLA 76 and a Kramer tape was used to control the peaks of the snare channel a little more. All equalizing was done with the consoles EQ for all the channels however little was needed. I did separate the DR channels for some control. The toms were cut from the OH and went to a their own track as well as the hi hats when there was no snare playing. I duplicated the snare track to imitate a bottom snare mic and played with it so that I could mix it in mainly for the snare reverb.
As for the bass I mixed in the  original DI with an IK Ampeg SVX amp simulator to make it even more "vibey," and ran it through a hardware 1176 for compression on fast attack and release for even more vibey distortion.
The guitar was duplicated and moved back on the second channel a few samples to make it more stereo in some places with automation and a little Kramer tape slap delay on one channel. I ran the main guitar track through a Chameleon labs 7802 for some tube color hardly compressing at all.
The voice also got the SSL G channel for some very light gating. Then to control the loud peaks through the Elisya Alpha mix compressor and some Kramer tape slap delay to make it "vibey". For even more color I ran it through the Chameleon labs 7802; hardly any EQ was necessary. The Toms got the most EQ to give them the bigness that was lacking because of the distant OH mics.
All the tracks got a little touch of Lexicon PCM vintage plate to keep everything more "classic". 
To glue the mix together more, (because classic recordings are very nicely glued due to the equipment used at the time), the mix ran through a little SSl bus compressor, then a Puigtec EQ to shape a little the top and the bottom of the mix and for the color, and then the Slate FG-X buss compressor because I felt it needed even more glue for the style and the era of music that I wanted it to sound like. Mind you a half a DB was the most each bus compressor was taking off.
I usually ask the clients what is the sound they want to go for but in this case I just had to make a decision myself. I hope Liza and the band like my perception of the sound for their song. Awesome performance! (I wish all my clients were this talented hahaha).
