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One thing I know is that I want it to build up so that the peak is at the soldiers singing. (now it's before, then peters out) I kind of gave up, I'm no arranger, I need help getting it to build.



A most excellent effort Vincent.

Your problem with getting it to build is simply in the mix, all the elements are already there. Listen to some other rock operas carefully. My first impression is the vocals are a bit too hot during the peak parts and the drums are too low. Bring up the drums, lower the vocals and up the overall volume. That will punch it up quite a bit. Oh yeah, and bring up the guitar solo too. When a vocalist is singing with a guitar solo they are basically both at the same volume. Something else to allow for strong dynamics is to lower the overall level of the entire thing to create more headroom for the peaks. The quieter parts should be showing you a waveform of maybe 50% of the screen while the peaks would be using a compressor/limiter and be almost maxed out filling up that waveform window. You will hear this in the mixes of other recordings of this type of material or even in movie soundtracks. The difference between the overall volume of quiet passages and the peaks where the action is the loudest is very dramatic.

Overall this is a very creative use of Biab. Yet another rebuff to those who think it's just for jazzers. There have been several discussions over the last few years about using Melodyne to make a Real Track do exactly what you want and this is a good example of it.

Bob

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