took a live recording I did for some friends and remixed it in a fairly unique way. They’re doing a vinyl and cd print for some shows they’re going out for soon, and they wanted something special for them, and decided to use a live song from the recordings. I really wanted to deliver something cool, so I started thinking about spatial mixes, but that wouldn’t work, because it’s a CD and Vinyl, not streaming, so it would never translate.

Then I thought about the way Disney started shooting animations on glass frames that moved up and down, with sections of the landscape on each one to simulate the camera moving through the scene, and it absolutely worked printed onto analog VHS sooo..

I basically applied the same principle, took each stem, processed it up to the 7th order, and placed each member and their respective sounds in the “room” for their specific track, and set the depth and perspective as if the listener is in the crowd. Took some balancing and room eq design, but totally worked. Then I took the stems with the spatial encoding and layered them together in a new stereo mix and went to work getting it to sit right. After a few trial and error sessions, width adjustments, and a touch of automation, it actually worked, and I managed to get a full 7th order mix to process out as a 48k24bit stereo track that doesn’t require anything special to hear the HOA mix with, meaning it’s going to translate over to vinyl and CD.

Did I do something new here, or just figure out something know on my own in a cool way?

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