waterboy
thanks for checking this out….!
you know, i never played any 80’s metal, so i don’t know what that ‘formula’ entails, but i’ve listened to it for sure, i don’t konw, i’m just tryin’ to boogie!
LOL
thanks scott
mojque
thank you.
i’ll tell you, i did a bunch of stuff to this this weekend, including dialing back the vox delay (it’s just a slapback, but no verb was there.)
did a LOT of tweaking and changing this weekend.
as per a lot of good advice from reviewers, i changed some things, starting with losing the conga at the beginning of the opening of the tune, it was cluttering the beginning.
i left the hand claps, and let the conga come back in when the vox starts, that cleaned up the clutter quite a bit.
some other tweaks:
changed the snare this weekend. went to a 14″ rogers, from a slingerland.
sounds much more meaty. tweaked the main ride cymbal as well.
i edited the entire drum track, for subtle changes all over.
tweaked ALL the drum eq’s, and took out the reverb on the snare, and left on the room mic for drum effects. added a compressor on the top snare head. usually, all the drums are dry, and go to a drum bus, that i put a special channel effect on, that uses 2 compressors in series, along with 2 eq’s in series. it’s a great channel plugin.
i added a NEW 2nd verse with 2-part harmony, and added lyrics to the funky bridge breakdown….
remixed the whole thing, made the guitars LOUDER, put a limiter across the drum buss which allowed me to make the entire send to the master buss hotter without changing the peaks (no higher than -6db EVER).
rolled off the bass guitar starting at 55hz, gentle Q, and that really cleaned it up, and left it fat.
the whole thing sounds much better now!
