Aaron wrote:The remix sounds great, nicely done. Hearing the B3 is pretty cool. Rolie was a fucking genius (fucking fag boy Friga!)
If it was me I'd fatten up the harmonies on the backing vocals both in volume and depth, shit can any key sounds that weren't B3's and replace them with a power chord playing bassturd running a Wolfgang Special/5150 amp running the high gain input with the gain set on kill. Put the rhythm guitar up a hair in the mix over the B3. I'd also bring Neil's solos up a hair but not much. The bass is perfect, Smitty still sounds odd but I'm not sure what to do with it.
Yeah man, Smitty... The only problem I have had with the early Journey catalog is the drum sound. You should hear the drums by themselves.... Bleck !!! Boxy as all hell. There are three tracks that seem to be only snare which is very strange. Two sound the same and one is obviously a mic under the snare. In my mix I brought up the mic under the snare and now you can here the quiet accents. The boomy, boxy sound might be able to be tweaked some but I dont know. What I felt best served the song was getting Rollie's b3 out of the basement.. Damn they had him burried under Neal. Neal does need to come up a tad im my mix but since Rollie and Neal take up some of the same frequency spectrum turning up one a tad can drown out the other. I have rollie's left and right organ tracks panned all the way left and right and Neal is about 9 o'clock on his left guitar track and 3 o'clock on his right. By panning his guitar like this it makes the Stereo image a bit wider but takes some of the punch (I think he is often too damn loud anyway).. Mixing always has its trade offs. The best would have been if these tracks were raw with no effect and no bouncing. I have a master of Marvin Gaye's song whats going on that was raw like that and it was a pure joy to mix.
REMEMBER FOLKS. I am mixing on a home theater system. That is NOT how you do it. It may sound great to some of you and too bassy to others. I favor lots of low end but not where its boomy. I like to be able to feel it.
Also, b3 appears to be the only keys used on the track so nothing to ditch. I could remix it with no keys or no neal hehe.