The past goes on and on .... (mix content)

[studio]

Studio, I got hands on the raw file and uploaded it. It's mighty, uhh, old-school! To this day, there are records I practically wore out as a kid; when I hear those tunes now, I remember where the pops and scratches were, or the spots where the needle would stick in the groove or where you'd hafta put a nickel on the tone arm so it wouldn't skip.

At any rate, here's oldie but not-so-goodie


I use Voxengo Span as a visual aid for mixing and mastering. You can see in the Before screenshot (top) there's a big lump in the lower midrange and it's all downhill from there. In the After screenshot (bottom), I've pulled up some highs and defined the lows a bit ... room boom made the bottom a bit rough to work with. Even using Mid/Side EQ, trying to suppress that big bulge around 450 Hz tended to suck the life out of things. But as you can see, to the engineer's credit, he at least high-passed the mud-zone lows!

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Okay Woody, I get it now!

Yes, your new version is hot. Hotter than the other click version,
but that's totally okay IMO cuz the song is hot!

I would not put hot sauce on my pancakes but i would give
my taco a once over with some hot habanero sauce.

Your mastering choice is quite good. But I know you've worked at it
for some time and that you also acknowledge your room limitations
but it never stops you from gettin' it done!

I use one of the Waves audio restoration plugins and I'm sure they all
kinda do the same thing. Yours did the job man!

I happen to like the Voxengo stuff too. The low end information
on my 15inch JBLs sounded well defined and I actually wanted
to turn up the overall volume just to get into the song. that's the part I like
and try to explore within mixes, to have the listener be so into it that it
makes them want to put the song on again and crank it up!

As far as I'm concerned, mission accomplished.

 

[studio]

Theres something to be said about bringing back old analog mixes
and modernizing them.

That's what you did to this song Woody. I love it.