Hi everybody. In December I started working on ANatO using the different available sources, and I can say the album is almost ready. One problem I have is that every time I listen to the new full album I find at least two things to change, and I never finish because of these reason.
It was a very very hard task, with every song. One reason is that there are so much different recording qualities, like if the album had been recorded in various places with other instruments.
For example, there are four songs which had very opaque bright: DoTL, YMBF, 'Good Company', and 'The Prophet's Song'. Not including YMBF, the rest had one common issue when the bright got restored: lots of clicks, mainly in the cymbals, and some others in the vocals. A way to hide clicks is to reduce the highs in the song equalization, which is the opposite thing to this project's goal.
I hope to upload the complete album to Febraury 10th. And then, start with Innuendo and finish it before March starts (with luck). I'm thinking about other albums to be the next, too.
This post will be edited when the album gets uploaded.
Without more distractions, here are two songs:
I'm in Love with My Car (Album Version):
General: -An explosive but cleaner intro. -Eliminated the strange sound 'bilbup' at 0:31 -Reduced the "bub gubu bglub" sounding of the entire song. -More expansive feeling
Drums: -Changed every single snare, so there's no double hit in them, which made them sound weak. -Restored the full hi-hat hits (abruptly interrupted lots of times: 0:05, 0:08, 0:13, 1:14, 1:23) -Eliminated that cheap sound from the fills and the tombs. -Added pan to the toms.
Vocals: -Increased the feeling that Roger aggressively needs to sing loud to be heard. -More harmonic backing vocals.
Guitar: -Balanced the guitar volumes. -Balanced just a bit the effect the guitar has during the song. -Added the full guitar track.
Bass: -More definition given to the bass. -More deep.
Piano: -Raised up the piano volume.
C_Matt · Member since
'39:
General: -Cleaner sound. -Eliminated very few clicks.
Percussion: -Raised up the tambourine. -Gave deep and hit to the bass drum.
Vocals: -Reduced the excessive stunning middles which perforated the ears at the choruses. -Balanced the volume between Brian and the backing vocals. -Balanced the volume between the backing vocals. -More natural vocals. -Added just a bit of reverb to Brian's voice at the very end. -Added a reverb at the last "me".
Guitar: -Added a little way down guitar in the left channel at 0:09 -Restored the lost guitar bright. -Changed just a bit the panning for the very end guitars.
Bass: -Gave deep. -Gave attack.
lk · Member since
Sounds great, really brings out things you miss first time around and these two are my fave off the album.
Looking forward to the full thing, keep up the good work, see if you can make cosmos rocks sound ok? haha
C_Matt · Member since
Hey! Thank you very much for your response! Those are both of my favorite songs from the album too, are from those songs you recall if someone says the name of the album. Today I (think) finished 'Bohemian Rhapsody' final adjustments. Three songs left to revise and to upload!
Blaise Pascal · Member since
Good job on I'm In Love With My Car, excellent on '39: Brian finally seems to sing and not to whisper to a microphone! xD
Lord Fickle · Member since
Both nice mixes. You can really hear the double bass in '39. :)
brians wig · Member since
You just KNOW I'm going to ask for lossless FLAC files.
Seriously - with all the hard work you do, it's a shame to release them as mp3's, even at 320kb/s.
C_Matt · Member since
Thank you very much guys for the feedback! I'm glad you like it and appreciate the work. I really like how '39 sounds too. Don't worry, I'll upload them to PutLocker in FLAC and MP3. I'll give that site a try, since I've read it's one of the best, and MediaFire fucked all up deleting my files all the time. I hope to have it uploaded by tomorrow.
I'm really sorry for the delay, I'm fixing the last things before uploading it, and I've been bussy in my real life.
Meanwhile, here's 'The Prophet's Song':
General:
-Eliminated constant hiss in the acoustic guitar and drums room tracks.
-Cleaner quiet parts.
-More definition and different delay to the 5:50 hits.
-Restored all the backing instruments at the guitar solo (from 5:54 till the end).
-Reverb and bright to the Toy Koto.
Drums:
-Restored the whole cymbal set shine.
-Heavier drum kit.
-Definition and weight to the bass drum.
-The hi-hat sounds cleaner and less "metallic".
-More defined snare.
-Weightier toms.
Vocals:
-More presence to the main vocals.
-Fixed LOTS of strange vibrating "ssssss"
-Restored some inaudible backing vocals.
-Cleaner vocals in the opera part and the whole song.
-Eliminated some mic vocals "PMBHPMH".
Guitar:
-Shiner acoustic guitar.
-Stereo expanded the electric guitars.
-Brighter overdrive.
-Changed guitars priority and volume levels.
-Remixed the guitars at the solo guitar orchestra.
Bass:
-Depth to the bass.
Lord Fickle · Member since
That's nice too. Did you notice, though, that there seems to be a bit of a 'double' snare, or something a bit 'off' in the part between 2:21 and 2:27 ("The earth will shake, in two will break...")? Not sure if that's supposed to be there, but sounds a little odd. Also, there's a slight volume drop at 5:54-5:57 (the 'bouncing' stereo bit), which you might want to correct for the final version. :)
C_Matt · Member since
Thank you Fickle! I corrected the volume drop at 5:54, trough the four last "go and come" stereo hits won't sound as strong as the other three, since they have a complete pan, and all the sound will go to one channel. In the original song, those hits sound more prolix because all of them have the same panning, and to make them sound strong they raised up their volume, that's why it sounds like a tinny cut at 5:56 in the original version.
The odd snare part is in the original recordings, as can be heard in the original song and in the parts that are similar. Anyway, you are right about the sound, I noticed it to, like the snare starts to sound an instant before being hitted. I think that "effect" is produced by the drum bass pedal coming back or maybe an overdub, like IiLwMC or BR.
Very soon I will upload the album.
lk · Member since
Amazing is all I can say,
looking forward to the album.
How long? gunna be awesome
C_Matt · Member since
lk, I'm sorry but I want to fucking kill myself. I'm doing a short trip right now, so before to come I decided to put all the songs in my pendrive to upload them today... but I forgot the pendrive connected to my computer. I'm coming back to my hometown by Thursday. As soon as I get there I'll upload both CD's (13 songs in the first one and 24 extras in the second). I was really excited to upload the songs and hear you opinions. Just a few days... but the delay is taking too long for me. I hate myself. Meanwhile I'll create a post to keep all my uploads organized.
Good new: Fortunately I have my MP3 with me, with some songs from the album, but I want to upload them together. I can share one at the moment, for which I'll create the corresponding post.
