FADED - Like A Lover (single, 2024)

Omnisphere synths and Battery kits making their presence felt here, as is edm-style ducking-to-half-beat compression.

Vocal ambience is a mixture of Eventide Recirculate being fed into LiquidSonics “Seventh Heaven” Bricasti M7 emulation, with much of the signal processing anchored by Sonnox “Voca”.

The mix approach is quite uniform -

• bring all sources up to a strong level of capture quality
• apply musical edits (adding any additional production)
• then mix

Not all sources arrive from a professional studio, so a pre-mix phase might begin with iZotope RX to reduce noise, spill, squeaks, reverb - and de-essing is typically drawn-in as gain automation, which generally produces the best results, to iron-out proximity and other close-mic effects.

So, something like (Sonnox Supressr is often used all across the spectrum (e.g. to tame ringing snares), before an analogue compressor comes into play - fix in digital, enhance in analogue. Each one can do things the other cannot, so you use both.

Editing time and groove is another aspect!

• Piano, horns, strings, arrangement, rhythm programming, flew in new middle section
• Editing
• Mixing
• Mastering
• Production

From the forthcoming album, “Found Sound”