GearFest Pure Mix Contest - Liza Colby Band's "Oh Baby"

very good sound for a live recording!
i love to bring out that live feeling on my mix.
i have no outboard, so i use plug ins only, i mix with nuendo, jbl speakers, yamaha amp.
i used waves plugins, at 95% analog modeled  plugins.
i played with delay on DI for bass to retard a little ms, compressed and eq the DI only, and sum it with flat AMP track.
in songs like this i like to hear more tomtoms, so i decide to duplicate OH track, compress both, compress the duplicated more and filtered with EQ to give more mass to toms.
i duplicate kick track and i compress and EQ the two kick tracks in a different way, and then summed in mono.
i used 2 parallel compression on sends (expander- comp-eq-comp-eq-comp-comp-comp-expander): one for drums and one for bass-guitar and vocals, i also used 2 altiverbs on sends: one for vocals alone and one for the rest (very very little on bass, some on guit, so is mainly a drum verb efx): i like the feeling of this effect: all is glued together in a large clean room, like the real takes (i guess... maybe my rev. is longer but i like this on voice like this)
The guitar has a "stereodizer" effect.
i did a little automation to give some breath to the macrodynamics.
All track are compressed, EQ in a different way (some with very little efx, others with a strong effect), and finally a little expanded.
To glue all together dynamically i used 2 compression plugins on master bus with very little impact, and finally a limiter-dither (limiting not hit)
In my opinion crashes are too quiet for that HH, i can't make crashes "on my face" but only HH when the song explodes.... i know in tracking there was a sound compromise for toms/cymbals, that makes a little triky to put out all drumset in a clean and powerful way. 
Vocals, guitar and snare are GREAT!!  in first time i tried to let them flat and totally natural, then i decided to wet them a  little, to glue them better in my mix; bass is  vintage sounding and i like it very much in this track, i had little trouble just to manipulate kicksound and OH sound.
Have fun with my mix!

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