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Thank you very much for your replies and keeping the interest on this remixes! Vali, I'm going slow at the moment, but today is my university last day, so I'll be free to work more often with Hot Space, but then I have the final exams. At least I hope I could finish it before July's second half. I'll be updating the current progress, a lot with 'Action This Day' and 'Soul Brother'.

Blaise, yes... I'm afraid is a fucking hell to work with. I know Freddie wanted the "Lennon" sound in this song and all that, but basically, the drums are shit and are very loud. The main problems are:
1) The drums are almost in mono, with the vocals and lot of other instruments, hard to separate.
2) The drums have very very harsh and dry highs, to get a reference, like Aerosmith's album "Pump".
3) All the song is very opaque, except for the drum cymbals and the acoustic guitar.
4) The drum snare is very dry and weak.
5) All this issues are very hard to low down, because the drums are too loud.
6) The voice has a shitty effect which makes all too muddy, hard to erase.
7) That effect makes the voice loud, annoying and "ear driller" at some points.
8) When everybody sings the "LIFE IS REAL!" part's "Real!" at 1:34, at the "R" there's a short noise like "Shuc!" hard to eliminate, like many others.

And those are the main problems which ruins a beautiful song as this is, and make me restart it again and again... But I'll keep on trying to get a better quality, or at least to restore some missing bass hits, change a bit the drums and change that muddy feeling.

Brians Wig, yes! I hope SkyDrive doesn't delete my files. As you said that about "Queen II" I checked a bit "Ogre Battle", and I had some ideas, but it will need a lot of effort. I prefer to finish "Hot Space" first and then think about the next album. There are three Queen albums which scares me to work with because of the strange sound: Queen, Queen II and Innuendo. I was thinking about to work again with "The Miracle" or "Jazz", but Queen II is really intriguing.

Cheers! :)

Can you upload the Miracle on SkyDrive? Thanks.

Hi, Mouse, I uploaded 'The Miracle' to SkyDrive. This is an old version, the second I worked with (the first one was 'Jazz'), but without my current knowledge in audio manipulation, so don't expect a miracle, but some songs sound nicer, I included some remixes... Anyway, enjoy it very much!

many thanks again for sharing your brilliant work with us, Matt !!

I am awaiting so impatiently to put my hands on Hot Space when you finish it !

now that you´ve mentioned "Jazz": are you planning to rework this one properly as well, in the future? with your current knowledge I´m sure you could deliver another winner !

well, in fact I´d love you to revisit all the albums :D

I'm free for a couple of weeks! Vali, I was searching my projects folder at my PC and found other things beside 'Hot Space', like an unfinished remix of 'Mother Love', one 'Scandal' remix, a SSoR one too, or some 'Innuendo' sound experiments trying to isolate the vocals. I'll rework 'Jazz' too and see how far can I get. Actually, I'm really interested in revisiting all the albums too, but I don't know where to start. I want to make some changes on 'The Game' and 'The Works', but not by now, because I'll never finish anything with that mind. I only know I won't start with 'Queen', 'Flash', 'Innuendo' or MiH by now. Honestly, I think I'll do like an albums championship, throwing coins between couples and discard till one of them wins, and that's the album I'll rework.

Cheers! :)

ha ha ha ! many tks for the update Matt ! please take your time, whatever the coin says, once you´ve finished with Hot Space. I´m sure, whatever your decision is, the final output will be awesome as all your previous works !

Once again, many tks for sharing your jewels with us! I´ll be very happy when I can put my hands on Hot Space !!

.... and on Jazz, on Queen II, and SHA, and ADATR .... ;)

Matt, are you going to attempt AKOM?

Hello! I'm uploading a little preview from the almost finished 'Hot Space' album on it's corresponding post for some songs that wasn't uploaded yet. I'm very close to finish it!
Mouse, I'm going to check all albums. To be fair enough with all the chances about the next album, I made a championship between QII, SHA, ADatR, NotW, 'Jazz', and AKoM, and this was the result:

Round 1:
-QII vs. SHA --> SHA
-ADatR vs. NotW --> ADatR
-'Jazz' vs. AKoM --> AKoM

Round 2:
-SHA vs. ADatR --> ADatR
-ADatR vs. AKoM --> ADatR
-AKoM vs. SHA --> SHA

The winner is ADatR, so this will be the next album I'll be attempting. Trough I might preffer another one, it was a good result. It's good to change between 70's and 80's albums, I'm a bit tired right now from the energic and powerful adult pop/rock Freddie and Queen sound, and I need a break from it after entire days hearing the same songs. The same effect had all the albums I worked with, but after going with another one I was back to normally. My next album will be ADatR, but the next one will be AKoM then, I promise.

I hope you enjoy this one by now and check the preview!

Cheers and thank you very much!

ADATR ? my favourite album ! not a bad choice, Matt ;)

Nice! :)

Today is the big day. A lot of last minute pressure. I'll upload the album in some hours.

[QUOTE] [b]ciber_mato wrote:[/b]

Today is the big day. A lot of last minute pressure. I'll upload the album in some hours.[/QUOTE]

yeeeeeeeeesssssssss !!!!!!!!!


:)

Sorry again for the delay! I'm really happy to read your last comment, Vali! And thank you Mouse for keeping this post alive too!

The album is ready to download. I hope you enjoy it very much!

[QUOTE] [b]ciber_mato wrote:[/b]

Sorry again for the delay! I'm really happy to read your last comment, Vali! And thank you Mouse for keeping this post alive too!

The album is ready to download. I hope you enjoy it very much![/QUOTE]

Thanks a lot Matt !! it´s incredible, when I got back home yesterday after work I was so anxious to see if the download was ready ... and this morning too when I woke up !! hahahah I´m really feeling as if this was a new official release!! Can´t wait !
I would gladly pay for the entire discography again if you were hired by QPL to remix and remaster everything !

Ditto.

Your remixing is the only real reason I visit this website any longer.

I'm tired of all the bitching, name calling etc. that goes on across the board but I cling on for these.

I listen to your mixes all the time and love hearing the details brought out. I'm dying to hear the complete Hot Space album.

Thanks again.