When The Sun Shines

[dante]

I had tweaked a pad sound on Pro-Wave to perfection, and immediately I imagined it behind a vocal recorded over a decade ago. The mic engineering wasn't so good back then (overdriven on certain syllables around 6.5k) so I managed to surgically notch much of that out with ConvolveQ, as well as use it again mastering.

Then adding lovely marshmellowy Pro-Wave pad to the arrangement took it to another place...

http://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/when-the-sun-shines

[astroman]

that's a very cool track, surgical op succeeded and the pad is just perfect
I like the voice in it's kind of 'stony' (or garage-like) soundspace, but would position it a little more upfront for perfection.
Maybe some damping of the decay with SPL Transient Designer (you probably have that ?) and a slight increase in level.
But that's just the icing on the cake... (and a matter of taste anyway)

cheers, Tom

[dante]

I know what you mean, unfortunately I was dumb enough to record it with reverb on the input instead of applying later. In the past I've gated the reverb trails out between syllables when thats been the case (but yeah SPL could be a better choice for that). It was also in the days of mid 90 Pentium II CPU so vox and guitars recorded at 22khz. So the new Scope and VST instrumentation tends to jump out and be brighter.

[astroman]

that's interesting... the highs you mentioned seem perfectly smoothed by the process - is that a side effect by the new EQ ?
TD really can kill the room - in fact that was my favourite use of it.

cheers, Tom

[dante]

Could be, hard to tell since its not how I would 'like' to hear it if I had recorded it at decent sample rate, with Scope converters, and with the Rode Classic II, and what I know today. If I ever bumped into a vocalist as good I'd record the vocal again, treating what I got as a guide vocal. But as it stands the emotion is there. And I'll probably use that pad to death in more tunes now

[astroman]

in my ears the track gets a lot of atmospere from the different sources, she just drowns a bit as the guitar is quite similiar.
On the other hand those 2 sources hold it together, the pad fills up gently, bass is deep and round and the drums add some presence and drama in the mid. 22khz... LOL
All craftsmen stuff aside it's a great composition, too

cheers, Tom