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Wess Meets West - 64 Bristol

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Hi there. I'm back with a post rock mix for excellent Wess Meets West. It had 70-something individual tracks and was challenging to mix, but here it is anyway:

https://soundcloud.com/linuxmaniac/wess ... 64-bristol
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Excellent piece ! Sound is very good, and warm. The atmosphere is superb from start to finish.
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Just fantastic, you have mad production skills!

Are you using a similar set-up for all those tracks on your Soundcloud?
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ufug wrote:Are you using a similar set-up for all those tracks on your Soundcloud?
Not really similar, I always try new plugins and mess around with convolution reverbs, but in general — yes. I use Debian, Ardour and a sort of estabilished set of plugins, but it constantly changes as Linux audio makes progress. For example, Girls Under Glass's and “The Long Wait - Back Home to Blue” tracks were mixed almost entirely with Calf plugins, then I moved to EQ10Q when they stopped crashing on every single adjustment and later, with this mix in particular, I moved mostly to them (now EQ10Q is a very decent bundle of various good stuff), Invada (tube distortion and compressor are great), two convolution plugins (Klangfalter and IR.lv2), a couple of different delays, LSP Limiter and some Calf plugins (already mentioned delay, multiband compressor, saturator, stereo tools etc). Everything else is rarely needed, but I can use whatever plugin available as long as it sits in the mix, so no special preferences here. And I have no presets at all, I process from scratch. I've got some Ardour templates though, but they contain complex routing required by DrumGizmo and my own band with no processing.
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ufug wrote:you have mad production skills!
Thanks! I don't think so (I'm still worse than guys like Dave Pensado), but it's still pleasing to read such things about myself.
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that is fantastic ...
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After listening to mix on SoundCloud myself I decided to provide 24-bit FLAC instead. Seems that SoundCloud transcodes Ogg Vorbis files to mp3 for playback needs. Drums are completely ruined by two lossy algorithms applied at once.

Here's the right version:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8qkx ... TNyNHNsQzg
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Very nice.
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beck wrote:May i ask what your role is within those songs? Are those ohter bands? Are you the base player on them? Or the producer?
I mixed and mastered them. Anyway, there are descriptions on SoundCloud that tell where I got the multitrack.

This year I plan to release something with my bands too (some indie rock at least, maybe progressive stuff will be finally ready too), so stay tuned if you're curious about my bass playing abilities. I'll do all the work in Ardour and surely will post it here.
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