Upon listening to the remaster in the car, I realized that there was some tubbiness to the low-mids and the mid-mids/high-mids were lacking, so I redid it again:
And here's the original mix for comparison:
Here's the story behind the song: It was basically just a drum & bass jam. The strings are D'Addario Chromes, pretty new, with the filter on the Alembic pups turned all the way up, and the bright switch engaged on the F-2B (by accident!). I had brought along a few toys for that trip: the new Boss Space Echo pedal, and the MFB Synth Lite II. My friend had an Oxygen keyboard which I used to control the MFB via MIDI, and we printed those tracks with the Space Echo. I wasn't particularly happy with my synth parts, it was more just experimenting.
The next day, I go into the studio and Damon (the engineer) had stayed up tinkering with the track (he's a real night owl). He picked the bits of the synth playing that he liked, and added his '80s reissue Strat, recorded through the F-2B as well (he was blown away by it - David Gilmour is his idol, and Gilmour used a modded F-2B, but Damon was impressed with it unmodded). All the guitar bits are assembled from a variety of tracks. As for the reversed guitar, I'm not sure what he did! But it's easy enough in ProTools to flip things around.
At the time he said that he wasn't too happy with what he played either, but I think both of us came around, I think the synth & guitar bits fit the song, which is really just an excuse for a drum & bass jam!
I'm glad I reposted in this thread for those who didn't get to see it the first time around!
