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I think this is incredible personally. I like the song too, whether or not you like it is personal taste but the arrangement and production are just amazing.
Multitrack walkthrough
https://youtu.be/00h6Sdbcg7Q
Mixed song
https://youtu.be/5Oc0ja19_GU
Sometimes when I've seen huge sessions it's been because whoever was doing the session was using more tracks for takes rather than using the playlist and expecting the mixer to choose one .. .so 7 tracks of the same guitar solo for example. I've never done a song myself over 60 tracks but a another guy in the studio was working on a 96 track project once using PT9 native on our ancient 2006 Mac pro and I've loaded up HD sessions from the US with 90 odd tracks
I don't know whether more tracks is a good thing of not but personally I think the best sounding records are older ones done meticulously well on tape .... stuff like the Wall, Crowded House, Bowie, there's a sense of 3D depth and roundness I don't hear on digital, even though I know digital is technically better.
Emotionally I'm quite drawn to that method, because I do think that once manning a console becomes second nature, there's a flow to a live mix that seems to result in a shorter path between your creative/ emotional side, and the resulting mixed track.
When you can make any change you want and save it as an alternative mix, it seems to remove recklessness and serendipity from the process and make it a much more "left brain" endeavour. I constantly fight my inclination to think about the sound instead of just listening and reacting to it.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I mix in a DAW same as everyone else. It's just, the times I have had a console to work at... things happen quicker.
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Also ...those vocal performances!
Only thing I find annoying about them is that, say there is rhythm guitar all through the song then a solo comes in on top - the game stems will have the main guitar track suddenly change to the solo and it will move the rhythm part to a new track. It would make more sense to have the rhythm part all the way through on one part and the solo on another track. That way it's obvious that the guitar part doesn't suddenly change, it's a extra guitar part comes in on top.
Something I've found very interesting is that some songs do stop the rhythm guitar when the guitar solo plays (a la a power trio with one guitarist) while others have both at the same time, either over dubbed or a band with 2 guitar players. And to me, both sound great in their own way. The former lets the solo be heard more clearly and the lovely minimal sound of solo guitar and bass whereas the latter has more harmonic complexity.
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The Bruce Springsteen one is good, wonderful guitars, and those vocals!
Tchad is pretty well known for bold, upfront mixes with nowhere to hide rather than dense layering, it would seem odd to hire him then override his tastes, though I think there are other tracks on the album with a lot of keyboard and guitar layers.
but considering their previous stuff was done ( and is highly regarded ) by CLA, there was something to live up to.
I have seen a few things with CLA, and he condenses mixes down to 48 tracks for his desk, it makes perfect sense, and then he gets his sound through a lot of tried and tested analogue outboard gear.
Just the vocals on that track have had a lot of attention to get the '50s' sound of a single overdriven valve mic, without the bleed from a single mic recording.
there was a good thing on the beeb the other night--the american sessions--i think it was called , with Jack White recording groups in a studio, one mic, direct to vinyl----which made it all look so easy, there was obviously some other sound recording done there-I'm not sure we heard the ACTUAL recording, but there was a lot of variety captured via a few versions of a single microphone.
if it sounds good, it is good, but that is always going to be personal.
more tracks does not guarantee anything--except more work, so therefore, if there is a budget-it will be used.
We dont have a standard for listening, so how can we have a standard for recording?
How can a band with 1 keys player play a song with 20 synth parts.... how can one singer sing 4 harmony parts etc.
But I record and mix for fun an no other reason.
You could argue that anything other than a single microphone and a single take is somehow cheating (although I don't agree with this).
I just think of them as tools you use to make art.
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Probably reached it's zenith on I'm Not The Man I Used To Be, one of my favourite songs of the late 80s.
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