Just listened to The Miracle, and Breakthru. Both good jobs. The Miracle isn't my favourite Queen track, but this remix is quite nice, apart from the end, which I agree with the others about. Perhaps the IM guitar needs to be slightly lower in the mix? Clever how you isolated it, though. I could never master "acapellas" from the 5.1 tracks.
Breakthru - well, I was looking forward to it, and you've certainly brought the drums up in the mix, but I wonder if there's just a little too much low bass? It sounds great in places, like on the 'de da de da de da da' keyboard part, but in other parts it seems to swamp the mix just a little. They still don't sound like real drums, do they? Why the hell did they have to replace Roger's drums with machines? It's not as if he's a crap drummer, after all! I also realised that I haven't heard the album version of this for years, as I always seem to listed to my own 'hybrid' mix of the 12" and album versions, so it was quite refreshing to hear.
Good work, though, and looking forward to the album. :)
C_Matt · Member since
Thank you very much for the response, Fickle. Putting the TIM guitar on The Miracle remix was a bad choice hahaha. It was taken from the center channel. What I've isolated were some voices and guitar bits to make the harmonies and change some of their places.
About Breakthru, maybe its true, it has a bit loud the low lows, it sounded good and explosive to me, but I can low down them a bit for the final "release". The digital drums can't be made sound like a real one without mixing the song again, a real shame, the natural drums feeling would be so great in this song and fitted so well.
Today, and after many frustrating tries, I finished Hang On in There, a real bitch. It's just that the song is bad mastered. In the "read me" for the album is all the explanation.
I'll probably upload it tomorrow. Again, thanks for the answer!
AlexQRMX · Member since
Dear C_Matt,
Are you sure that you haven't those famous lost master tapes?
XD Great work, mate!
C_Matt · Member since
The master tapes are not lost. I have them in my wardrobe. Hahahaha, thanks for the comment, I will upload the revision today, in a few hours. Long work.
dysan · Member since
Not sure about this! But as an aside, I really grew to like the original track after years of not really getting it. 'The maddest track on their maddest album' as said in the Sutcliffe book really brought it home.
C_Matt · Member since
I'm not sure if it's the maddest album, but yes it is one of the maddest songs they ever made.
