C_Matt's "The Miracle (HD Revision 2.0)"

Awesome work on Scandal, it sounds so "clear" and fresh, there isn't a very easy way to describe work like this.

Quick question, the extra "tee nana na na" part during the solo, was that already buried in the mix or did you edit the intro (or the 12" mix) over it?

Thanks for the update Matt !

wow, Scandal... such a great track and now sounding so fresh thanks to your magic ! I absolutely love it !

a couple of comments, though; maybe it is just me, but I´m missing more presence of a couple of things:

that "uuuh-uuuh-uuuh" in the background at 1:45 and 1:50 (behind the "over and over" line). Isn´t it a bit more buried, now?

Same applies to the 2nd voice (call it falsetto) of the "tomorrow hard times" line at 3:45. I can´t hear it now, and always adored that bit !

And the "uuuuh" in the background at 3:54. It used to bring a lot of "feeling", but now sounds, at least to me, a little bit weak.

But those are subjective perceptions of mine ! as usual, amazing job Matt !! sigue así ! gracias mil !

^ I agree with Vali. All in all, you do an amazing job, Matt :)

Thanks Matt.
Remix albums are always welcome especially if you can get two different versions of a song by favoring, for exmaple, guitars over synth.

May I ask a personal favour, Matt? I would really appreciate if you could extend the fade out of Scandal (I love that song and it always bugged me that Brian's guitar fades away), basically drag it out as long as possible? Here is attached something of what I mean. Nevermind the volume fluctuations please :) I know you could do this kind of work much better. It would be great if you could do this, perhaps add it to the CD2 :-)

I'll go with what Chief says too about extending the guitar if possible.
I think "My Baby Does Me" needs the same treatment.

Thanks :)

^ Rain Must Fall as well in such case? :) I just hate it when stuff fades out when something is still happening, whether it's vocal adlibs or some guitar improv.

And then there's the dreadful ending to "The Miracle" where they've tagged a completely different song on the end and the segue is dreadful....

Yes, the transition sounds just so off. I guess they just didn't know how to finish the song.

Hello and thank you to everyone!! I corrected those details on "Scandal". About the "thee nana na na" at the guitar solo, it was added, I always thought it was one of the nicest things in the remix and wanted to include it, since at the beginning is barely audible. The "uuuh"s were corrected now, thank you for spotting that! And the falsetto "Tomorrow hard times" was deleted actually, since I love Freddie's voice purity at that part and I always thought that the falsetto ruined that a bit. Anyway, I'll do a version including that line.

The fade out is really complicated, since there's a lot of hiss rising up as the track end, and that mess up with the song. Deleting it goes inevitably to a quality loss, and the song sounds really bad. On the other hand, extending it till the edge and then make a fast fade out would make the ending a bit abrupt. I'm not totally against the fade out, in a song like "A Kind of Magic" or "Radio Ga Ga" works really well, because those are songs that "never end", in AKoM the party goes on forever once the song starts, and RGG could finish like the extended version and it would work fine, but the fade out is like the nostalgic magic still goes on. At least to me, this two for example are songs that I never want to end.

Now, "Scandal" could finish with an aggressive ending. I imagine how, I'll try to do a "no fade out" mix, obviously if it's possible to do it. I see it really hard trough, but I've done it with "You and I", "Dancer", "Father to Son", "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" and "The March of the Black Queen" without having the multitracks, so I'll give it a shot.

With "The Miracle" I'll do an alternative version ending before the last part starts, because is really beautiful and all, but both don't match at all. I'll see what songs deserve that treatment.

Now, I leave you with "Breakthru".
Enjoy!!!

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Thanks for Breakthru! :)

[QUOTE] [b]C_Matt wrote:[/b]


The fade out is really complicated, since there's a lot of hiss rising up as the track end, and that mess up with the song. Deleting it goes inevitably to a quality loss, and the song sounds really bad. On the other hand, extending it till the edge and then make a fast fade out would make the ending a bit abrupt. I'm not totally against the fade out, in a song like "A Kind of Magic" or "Radio Ga Ga" works really well, because those are songs that "never end", in AKoM the party goes on forever once the song starts, and RGG could finish like the extended version and it would work fine, but the fade out is like the nostalgic magic still goes on. At least to me, this two for example are songs that I never want to end.

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Yep. You are totally correct.

[QUOTE] [b]C_Matt wrote:[/b]


Now, "Scandal" could finish with an aggressive ending. I imagine how, I'll try to do a "no fade out" mix, obviously if it's possible to do it. I see it really hard trough, but I've done it with "You and I", "Dancer", "Father to Son", "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" and "The March of the Black Queen" without having the multitracks, so I'll give it a shot.


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I loved those! If you could do just the same with Scandal it would be great! If not, then I'd still urge you to at least do me a personal favour and extend the fade out even with quality loss and PM it to me - that would be very appreciated. I'd do it myself but I just don't know how. Either way, looking forward to this :-)

[QUOTE] [b]C_Matt wrote:[/b]

Hello and thank you to everyone!! I corrected those details on "Scandal". About the "thee nana na na" at the guitar solo, it was added, I always thought it was one of the nicest things in the remix and wanted to include it, since at the beginning is barely audible. The "uuuh"s were corrected now, thank you for spotting that! And the falsetto "Tomorrow hard times" was deleted actually, since I love Freddie's voice purity at that part and I always thought that the falsetto ruined that a bit. Anyway, I'll do a version including that line.

The fade out is really complicated, since there's a lot of hiss rising up as the track end, and that mess up with the song. Deleting it goes inevitably to a quality loss, and the song sounds really bad. On the other hand, extending it till the edge and then make a fast fade out would make the ending a bit abrupt. I'm not totally against the fade out, in a song like "A Kind of Magic" or "Radio Ga Ga" works really well, because those are songs that "never end", in AKoM the party goes on forever once the song starts, and RGG could finish like the extended version and it would work fine, but the fade out is like the nostalgic magic still goes on. At least to me, this two for example are songs that I never want to end.

Now, "Scandal" could finish with an aggressive ending. I imagine how, I'll try to do a "no fade out" mix, obviously if it's possible to do it. I see it really hard trough, but I've done it with "You and I", "Dancer", "Father to Son", "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" and "The March of the Black Queen" without having the multitracks, so I'll give it a shot.

With "The Miracle" I'll do an alternative version ending before the last part starts, because is really beautiful and all, but both don't match at all. I'll see what songs deserve that treatment.

Now, I leave you with "Breakthru".
Enjoy!!!

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I love the new sound of guitar and drums, very aggressive and powerful

Matt ! thanks a lot for Breakthru ! it sounds great ! A lot of new details surfacing and some changes that make it sound different...but really nice !!!! Bravo !!

Just one comment: I went like "hey, what happened here?" right at 3:30, after Brian´s solo and just before Freddie goes again with the "If I could only reach you" line ..... there´s something there that doesn´t sound right at all. It´s like a mini-power failure going on.

Normally we´ve always had a big global sound, setting up the final section of the song, but now that second before Freddie´s re-entrance is sounding .... light / weak, don´t you think?

Very cool mix - I really like how you've brought out the real drums so that they're audible over the drum machine.

The drums start to sound a bit weak at 2:05 as well, there's a significant volume difference there.

Jeez dude, Breakthru sounds so different...and I mean that in a good way!! It sounds like you're right there in the room with them if you close your eyes for a second or ten! Totally different atmosphere to it!! Bravo!!