Virtual Thought

I’m considering re-working a song that I put to rest a while ago… the mix never made me happy, and after some cool criticism from ASHRUG, the Austin Studio/Home Recording User’s Group last night I want to stick my hands back in the mixing/mastering pie. Badly!

I’m remixing Tidal, an old track I did on Buzz. Here are my thoughts so far:

• Anyone out there know how to make lyrics sung through a vocoder more understandable? One idea I had was that the vocoder seems to have totally lost the sibilants… so I could mix those back into the track from the un-vocodered vocal track after some liberal high-pass filtering… they should also be EQ’ed properly (doesn’t everything?) so they stand out a little more…


• “What this needs is more cowbell!” Seriously, I’m going to mix-down that high, popping, cow-bellish sound… not sure why I tried so hard to bring that to the forefront before.


• The bass needs to be opened up. The hihats, after all this mixing, will probably need to be brought down again. The snare could probably be punchier.


• Needs more texturizing stuff… whooshes, beeps, etc. The things I never quite think about whilst putting down what I think of as “notes”.


• Change the drum track?

Oh, yeah. That song is Copyrighted to me. You wouldn’t want it in it’s current form anyway. ( =

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