Whato All - First, many thanks for the time you took to listen to my indulgence...
@pompeyjazz - Yip Baked Bean Blue, not puke mustard...it had poke out ear indicators...I'll put the version with the crowd all the way through up probably next week...Yip I had a right gas doing this one, It was super to be able to realise this one.
I have learned a shed load doing each one, I'll go over that later...
@MichaelA - That's one of my problems with it, how to meld the the '80s with the '60's and wondered if the frozen tap echo sounded misplaced, it was a direct nod to the B52's - the track '52 girls. I listened to quite a few of their tracks to get some idea of how they approach it, do they have a story, Love Shack, Cake, 52 girls does, Rock Lobster kind of does...
@Cawproductions - Cheers about the vibe, much appreciated.
A bit more about it...for those who are interested.
Just one drum track with a few compressors on it, Waves C6 multiband and the Fairchild 670...it was really important to work on the kick and snare, as the kick was really exposed at the beginning...just stereo so that was a challenge in itself. Also a waves transx to add punch, that i couldn’t get from the compressors.
No mic sim technology, just Scheps 73, that's just great for Vocal EQ, along with izotop Nectar2 elements..plus whiff to the aux busses.
3 Guitars had Waves GTR amp sim, the Waves TG12345, the real key was Waves Abbey Road Vinyl, that is just brilliant to capture the 'old vibe, more so than the J37 tape, spent a load of time getting the drums, bass and guitars right before adding anything else.
organs were Arturia B3 and Farfisa, with a bit of Soundtoys decapitator and Scheps73.
Bass had Vandal 15" bass amp sim along with the COSM Ampeg fliptop sim from my Rolans 100 bass cube
auxbusses Waves Abbey Road Plates, Abbey Road Chambers, Urei 1176, and LA2 for vox (always use @ 0dB) and send just whiff to these, can't state that enough, just a couple of dB.
submix busses for LVox (had Waves Vocal rider on it, but I took that off..., BVox, all instruments, separate VCAs for LVox and BVox both on the subs.
Some tacks used 2D surround panning to accurately place the Vox.
Master buss SSL bus comp, Stereo enchancer from magix (just brilliant), normalised to -14 lufs, no maximiser.
Did a LOT of mono master buss listening, nearly released it in Mono for extra authenticity...but rejected that idea.
Probably missed a load, soundtoys primal tap freeze at object level on the Whoops only.
No tape sims. I think the TG12345 and vinyl did a lot to help, many of the waves products have analogue and drive features which were used subtly.
if you have any questions let me know and I'll see if I can assist.
Hope it helps
Rich
