Crowded House - Do not Dream It is Over (Completed)

Thanks Tom

Thanks Tom!

sounds great man. just a bit too much reverb for my taste but I am anti verb :)

@tudan : Yea, I get you. Tony's main vocal is a bit 'peaky' but it's also a great take, so I was reluctant to have him redo, also part of my ethos on here is that BH is a very 'immediate' medium and I wanted to work with what I had. But mainly I LOVE reverb - I could've seriously gone to town on this :-)

@Jungle Jim: glad you showed some restraint mate :)

its a very good collab mate, Great performances all round

Great mix Jim! I'm with Ross when he says there's a bit too much reverb. I used to mix like that too, until I thought better of it and found that less is more.

@Protis: Thanks man - I feel a consensus building around less verb...

Nice fadeout too! I did notice though that my third track is still slightly out of sync. Maybe nudge it a bit to the right in DAW mode, and then it should sound better.

@Protis: can you nudge it in daw and I'll redo the mix offline with that change and with slightly less reverb...

@tudan : On the original the main vocal sounds treated - is it 'doubled' do you think, or something else?

A touch of Delay mebbe?

@Jungle Jim: I think maybe it has a little delay, which may have been common during the 80s. I know that gated reverb was all the rage during that particular decade.

@Jungle Jim: I think I saved a mix a whle back with the sync corrected. Now if only I can get DAW mode to load properly... :-P

@Protis: Actually if you tell me the track number and the offset - I can just put that into the daw

I mean the offline DAW

@Protis: I just saved a new mix with the sync corrected.

@Jungle Jim: I'm still having troubles loading it properly. I may try agan tomorrow if I can't get it working tonight.

@Jungle Jim: my third keyboard track is eighth from the top (Track 8) and the offset is 00:10.325

@Jungle Jim: my second keyboard track is seventh from the top (Track 7 - long organ part) and the offset is 00:10.376. I may have changed it from before, but this is the offset you should put into the offline DAW.

OK - here is a version with KB tracks all nicely lined up (I hope) and main vocal without reverb :-)

@Jungle Jim: mate that sounds night and day - MUCH better! - Great sounding collab Jim - Well done mate

hahaha thanks tudan and Protis for steering me away from the evil that is reverb.. It does sound better though. A learning moment :-)

@Jungle Jim: Once again I agree with Ross about the mix! It's so much better now, especailly with less reverb! I found that out the hard way myself.

junglejim - hello again. Ok, just submitted 3 bv tracks total. 2 tracks for the "dream and world" part on the chorus. There is that high note and also a medium note in the background, so I tried to replicate that for you. (red t-shirts to make it easier! ) Then , the blue t-shirt is the "to build a wall between us" harmony on the chorus. Please feel free to let me know if these are suitable or you would like some changes. I'm totally up for suggestions. If all is good, I'll get started on the Hey Now's. Thanks friend.

1tricktony omg this is great - you've done huge amounts of work on this thank you, it's sounding excellent fella!

@1tricktony: Gimme some Hey Nows then sit down and have a rest you've earned it :-)

@Jungle Jim: ha! thanks so much for your kind feedback. Just added 3 final tracks (in the black t's). 2 of them are "Hey Nows" and the 3rd one is a an additional "to build a wall between us" to give that part a bit more lift, plus and few subtle harmony "hey nows". Thanks again for trusting me with the invite.! So fun to sing along to such fine musicians!

@1tricktony: Excellent tracks Tony and thanks for colour coding your tracks with t-shirts! Trusting you - shaddap - you always deliver fella. That Go Between collab on BHub is still one of my faves.

@Jungle Jim: ha! You're too kind! Yes! Streets of your Town was one of my favorite too! Thanks again for this great collab!

@Jungle Jim: ha! You're too kind! Yes! Streets of your Town was one of my favorite too! Thanks again for this great collab!

@Jungle Jim: ha! You're too kind! Yes! Streets of your Town was one of my favorite too! Thanks again for this great collab!

@1tricktony: haha! But somehow I can't figure out how to submit comments only one time! One for each t-shirt? LOL

1tricktony woot - fella - the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.. Great vocal - love it, can't wait for the backing vocals now.. Your levels are still 'strong' you could still back off a smidgen when doing the backing tracks to avoid clipping/peaking.. If you look at you track in the DAW you can see where it's maxing out.

@Jungle Jim: wow! thanks so much for your kind words! So glad it was what you were hoping for! And if you find while mixing that the lead vocal is still running a bit too hot, I'd be happy to redo it for you. Meanwhile I'll dial back the gain some more and really watch that peak meter while working on the bv's. Thanks again!