"Have a Nice Visit" - Original by Ted

[AndyR]

You getting all this StephenM? You opened this can of worms.

On the subject of High pass filters I do it to pretty much everything on a track by track basis, although less aggressively on kick and bass.  On things like vocals, strings and woodwinds I often go much higher just to clear as much space as possible - unless your vocalist is Paul Robeson it really isn't going to be noticeable if you take out everything below 100hz.

And topping and tailing a song is important to me.  I find it quite sad when I hear a song beautifully captured and mixed only to have a huge click at the end when the artist hits the stop button.

Yeah, I pretty much do high pass filtering track by track too - and pay some attention to the mix at mastering stage just in case the mix (via the plugins) has introduced a bunch of bottom end I didn't notice. Now that my reverb busses have huge low cuts on, it doesn't happen quite so often.

I think Ted, I was probably thinking tracks not mix when I answered.

I also do the trimming track by track now I'm in a DAW - the mix never has any annoying start/stop stuff on it nowadays.

But when I was on an MBR I had to use Audacity.
I can't actually remember what I did with the BR1600! - my raw stereo mixes from the BR1600 seem to have no extras at the start or end... maybe it was down to how I exported?

[BerryPatch]

Very cool neo-psychedelic sound here Ted! I love the extra flanging vocal on the other side. The stripped back approach to the music let's the atmosphere shine. Excellent track!

[Ted]

This here is the original version. The new mix is at the top of this topic.

I didn't really intend to tweak this mix, but I was unhappy with the backing vocals during the bridge and also during the outro. Plus it was a chance to try the high-pass filter techniques I recently learned.

I exported the lead and background vocals to WAVs and tweaked them in Audacity.

During the bridge, the background vocals a copy of the lead vocals, pitch shifted, and auto-tuned. They are very low in the mix, but if you care to listen, there is a subtle chipmunk harmony. In the outro, I also auto-tuned, and added echo and vocoder effects. Because future.

On both the lead and background vocals, I ran the high-pass filter effect. There was a ton of infrasonic garbage in both tracks. I ran the filter at 82hz – one octave below the lowest note in the lead vocal. So the new version should sound "better" than the original, if only for reduction in low frequency hitchhikers.

After tweaking the vocal tracks, I exported them to WAVs again and imported them back to the Micro BR and then ran a new master.

[OdilonGreen]

So mournfully elegiac. As a meditation on loss and human stupidity, it's devastating, especially in light of the current world. It's not preachy, not raging, just sad, and accepting, in a "how stupid" way, and it's all the more powerful for its calm reflection. The spacey, echoey music is the perfect tonal accompaniment for these words. It makes me want to go for a late-night drive to the middle of nowhere, look up at the stars, and just think.

[Ted]

It makes me want to go for a late-night drive to the middle of nowhere, look up at the stars, and just think.

...while you still can.

You're new around here. I haven't learned what to expect from you yet. But your thoughtful comment is appreciated, and closes you off from the "pure goofball" category that had previously been available to you. (A category in which I fear I've been pigeonholed by some people along the way.)

I'm glad you're here. I hope you take a few minutes and post in the Introduce Yourself board.

Here's one of my favorite quotes:

Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound

[StephenM]

the orig mix v1 is incredible

makes me think about how cool music really is.  How cool you really are. 
sort of reminds me of  "Children of the Sun".... or maybe Argent... or some of those incredible old songs of the 70's.
but nope... this is orig
that chorused guitar sounds amazing.
the bass is absolutely sensational.  the kind of sound that makes this cat hang around hoping for a tid bit of whole milk from this cow.
It's fat, and that is what this cat likes... though I don't know how to get it myself.
this reminds me of "Message in a Bottle"... in that it seems like someone putting a note in a bottle and releasing it.... or perhaps sending a signal into space.
I think the space people should send this out... to seek out other species...
yeah man... this is beyond great.

[launched]

Aww you wrote a song. Super clean and the bass line rivals all 70's session cheesebuckets, I fucking love it. You got the guitar right too. Really really good my friend. Sorry for the cliche but you nailed it

[Ted]

Aww you wrote a song. Super clean and the bass line rivals all 70's session cheesebuckets, I fucking love it. You got the guitar right too. Really really good my friend. Sorry for the cliche but you nailed it

Thanks. And welcome back to the Songcrafters commentariat. When will we hear a new song from you?

[Zoltan]

Ted! This is all kinds of wonderful. Infrasonics, or not.

I could write more, but i rather just enjoy!

[launched]

Aww you wrote a song. Super clean and the bass line rivals all 70's session cheesebuckets, I fucking love it. You got the guitar right too. Really really good my friend. Sorry for the cliche but you nailed it

Thanks. And welcome back to the Songcrafters commentariat. When will we hear a new song from you?

I pop in here when I get the homesickness for SC. It's great that there are many fine song postings lately, and I have listened to a few. I don't want resort to "Yeah that was pretty good" in lieu of having more time to show more appreciation. Members we have known a while, totally cool to do that.

So I was ready to get ready. To get ready. Now I'm ready to get ready. One step closer.