Emusician

Web Clip 3b: An excerpt of “Spongiform Encephalopathy”, from Rube Waddell’s Greatest Hits CD (2006, no label,) remixed by Wink Paine and myself. To deal with the low end murkiness I established a hierarchy of bass instruments: bass drum ED’ed to be the lowest in the vertical dimension, tuba above that with a vastly different EQH and level than the original, tabla drums above the tuba with broader midrange, and low end shelving cuts to the guitar, banjo, and voice. Getting the low end of these tracks sorted out and bringing up the tuba brought this track much closer to the band’s live sound, which I was quite familiar with. In addition, this approach made it easy to hear how well-recorded and warm most of the basic tracks were, and solved the smile-curve problem as well. Along the way I also lessened the compression on the tablas and guitar to make the backing breathe more, and backed off the compression on the voice to assure its sinister dominance over the mix.