Originally Posted By: boehm
Hi Lawrence,

awesome vocals, great poetic lyrics and a contagious arrangement. It just carried me away.

Guenter

Thank you Guenter. So glad you enjoyed it.

Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Powerful, Lawrence!

Your vocals are always stunning...this one is off-the-charts...

Cool write.

I'd really like to know how you processed the acoustic guitars. They sound live (like you played them yourself) - so how'd you do that???

Excellent arrangement. Great mix. A great listen.

fj
Thank you Floyd. Through trial and error I've found that acoustic guitars and piano need no compression. So there is no compression other than on the final mix bus. I have a bump of 2 db shelf starting at 5k and minus 2db shelf at 80 db. But the thing that I think helps a lot is a new tool I've been using on almost every track. It's a channel tool. Do you use one? The one that comes with Sonar is called "Channel Tool". I'm sure there are companies that make something similar. If you haven't used one it is a precession panning tool. And it gives whatever you put it on a very clear space in the stereo field. So that you can carve out a spot for each instrument. The last thing I do is aux send each guitar to a bus with a transient shaper set to a snap setting and then dial in as much I like.

Last edited by gruverider; 07/17/16 07:42 AM.