Lovers Far Apart

It Is Well

Heres my approach using Pro Tools 9 and Waves plugins for all tracks. Monitors were Genelec 8030's and Hafler TRM 8.1's. 

API eq's were used for the drums & and API compressor for the drum buss. Again the API eq's for the bass tracks and the API compressor for the bass buss. Added the Kramer Tape to the bass tracks for some character.

The guitar has the SSLEQ & SSLComp and some mono delay using H-Delay for a reverb/echo kind of deal. At times its blatent echo, at times its reverby, depends on his playing and where theres emptier spaces in the track as a whole.

Liza's vocals were doubled at first, then I took two different approaches which I toggle muted between at the end of the project then picked a favorite. That favorite comprised of a SSL G-Channel for some high pass and low pass filtering and mild gate. Next was  Maserati Vocal starting with a preset that was rough what I was aiming for then adjusted to suit my ambitions. The channel was rounded out with Vocal Rider cause Liza can be intimate with her breath nuances then belt her butt off in a attention grabbing manner. Put some time into working Vocal Rider, not quite positive its spot on. I rounded out her vocal treatment with a H-Delay in mono, panned hard left in a slap style function and IR1 reverb in mono, panned hard right using a plate style reverb. A third delay, H-Delay again but in stereo was used in two vocal spots to highlight her lyrical content in those areas. 

Total of 18 plugins were used, 12 on actual tracks and the remaining 6 on aux send bussses. The master buss has a Dorrough Meter to monitor level required for pre mastering by contest rules. No master bus eq, or compression was used. Some automation of track faders and effect buss faders was applied as well as some mild editing of wav forms like fade in's & out's. For example the cheering crowd at the end was removed. Attempted a copy edit of that for the front end of the song to make it a full live experience but that idea bombed quickly.

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