dkbender
Ben,
Good catch on the trumpet, I wasn't real happy with that one either but that's what is in Dim Pro, unless I missed a better one hidden in there elesewhere. At the start of this project, I was kind of curious if midi and what is loaded in SONAR Producer could handle the task.
I had the bass at one point more elevated but after listening to the original, decided to pull it back down a couple of dB. I'll revisit it again. The drums are SD3 and I played around with tuning the snare to give it that thin sound like the original. The kick and the tom have normal weight. I do agree there are a couple of spots yet where the song in general has some thinness and I haven't decided what to do about that yet.
Thanks for the excellent crit!
I've used the trumpets from the dim pro for a cover of strawberry fields and I found them more than useable, so thats funny. I suggest you use Rings Beat Kit in session drummer three. As far as I know it is a Beatles Ludwig kit. Detune it, not the Kick, I can't remember if I did the snare not the cyms as well but def the toms. This gives you Ringo's almost timpani sound he was getting at the time. Also whack a low pass filter over the top of the all the drums except the kick and cyms and roll of betwen 3 and 6 db to around 2Khz. This will slighty muffle the drums, this simulates the tea towel effect Ringo was using at the time. If you don't know Ringo was quite fond of placing tea towls over his drums. I've also used a fairchild limiter virtual compressor this gives you a realistic Beatle drum sound.
As for copying The Beatles sound in terms of bass, don't. I was going to mention this yesterday. My first question to you is what master are you listening to in terms of IATW. Are you listening to the original 1987 issues or the latter ones. Because if you are listening to the originals the masters are really thin. I haven't heard the new remasters but I have heard the Love version of this track and none of that inherent thiness from the orignal CD is there.
Peace Ben