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Scott, you did a wonderful job on this mix. Yuu ain't just talk man. You know your stuff and you can indeed deliver. My hat is off to you.

This offering will find a place on my humble site with appropriate credits to sound engineering, mixing and mastering. Thank you again.

Dan



My pleasure.

Main points that you should be able to work with:

1. Put a reverb of your choice into an aux bus of some type and make sure you set it 100% wet. Then use sends on the various channels, imagining how close or far back they are on the stage and set the send amount accordingly, with the send amount increasing as you imagine them further back on the stage. I may have overdone it a bit on this, I don't know. Mix the dry levels accordingly.

2. Light compression was used on nearly everything, after EQ, so that just the peaks were lowered 3-4 dB. On the piano track, I simply used volume automation to tame some more energetic playing, instead of compressing.

3. Pan as you imagine things on the stage. I kept thinking of a small club; which is what the reverb preset had as it's title. I increased the room size about 15% as the only adjustment to the reverb other than setting it to 100% wet.

That's about it. You should be able to do all of this in Reaper or RealBand for that matter.

I'm not going to send a bunch of effected tracks. I'm confident you can duplicate this - the raw tracks are recorded with pretty decent signal to noise ratio. (I do still think there's an intonation issue on at least one string. You can hear it clearly at exactly 00:18-00:19, again at 2:04)

-Scott

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