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

admin - Thanks so much...I can see my wrinkles better....And I think it sounds better too !

@thx1138: Wow! Nice to hear this one again! : )

Eh - sorry - what's going on? repub how? I not unna standin..

@Jungle Jim: admin - Hi Admin. This collab is a few yrs old. Is it 'safe' to repub for better visuals ?

@Jungle Jim: We updated our process to get a better clearer video after Dec 9th 2021 - after this was published. So all older collabs would need to be republished to take advantage of the new video quality. I am republishing now. As a precaution I have downloaded all tracks and the original published version.

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.