“Wings of love” Level 42

Hi

You can probably tell by now, I’m not working these tracks in the right order. Trying my best to avoid the early ones, where the engineer was setting up .

Gone back a couple of songs now for this one. A few minor changes from the “Almost there” settings. The eq moves for every track, so that needed tweaking, plus the release times for all the dynamics tools. You may also notice a difference in both sound and level from “Almost there”. I don’t usually go much on so called vintage compressor models etc, it normally means “buy this, and it will make everything sound fantastic for you”, which they rarely do.

But I did put one in-line just before the final limiter. The last thing this material needs is too much definition, so blurring the edges slightly with the vintage model had the effect I wanted. Listen to how it’s softened the highs of the hi hat and cymbals etc. I’m not pretending its transparent compression, it’s actually pretty obvious, but it works.

The Audio


Wings of love-Cassette source


Wings of love-remaster

Well, thanks for stopping by people, and keep checking back, as I’m going to be doing the whole gig eventually (even the scary earlier tracks). Also, there is a big mastering techniques article on it’s way.

Have a great weekend!

Tone

P.S As usual, I’ll end up tweaking this a little. I just noticed a couple of freq’s creep in.