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TDPRI Twanger Central Weekly backing track jam wk 130

Sundaymorn

Jasch

A question was asked in TDPRI whether a sound engineer can save a bad quality mono track. I took up the challenge. This is the first part - raw mixdown with just Reaper and a few free VSTs, including Cocos own that come with Reaper. 

Izotope's Neutron Elements features heavily. Others that aren't included in Reaper are Brainworx bx_subfilter, Sonic Anomaly's Transpire and George Yohng's W1 limiter.

Saved (mixdown)

This is fully mastered version of the "saved" track from TDPRI. Some things added:

- Bass doubled with Steinberg's VB-1
- Kick and snare doubled using free samples from Musicradar's free kits
- Hihat et co provided by Manda Audio's MT Power Drumkit

Mastering done with Waves's AR TG Mastering Chain plugin. 

Note - this is just a quick job for demonstration and practicing purposes, not even intended to be in any way commercially viable :-)

Pere Grino