Davester2296 | DAR - Nations Collide @DAR-Davester2296 | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Tensions finally come to a head, and the superpowers of the world in NEW GENESIS clash in "Nations Collide"!

In some ways, this track is pretty much the big climax of this album, while "End This Cycle" makes for a nice little encore before closing things out.

I've kept the song structure exactly the same as the original 2015 version. However, just like the rest of these remake tracks, Nations Collide gets a lot of added little goodies thrown into the mix (pun intended).

The 7-string gets to work harmony duty for the leads playing on the left side (Ibanez working the right-side leads). Even some of my old lead recordings on the Strat were able to be reused and blended nicely into the mix as well.

I also quietly threw in some synth-strings just to add a little extra "flavor" to the track.

Now, something that is quite different from the original would be the clean section towards the middle of the song. I was going to go with clean electric guitar, but I just couldn't get the right tone. I was a bit stumped for a bit, then I started playing with the idea of doing it on the acoustic. I quickly fell in love with this rendition of this section of the track!

I also threw in a new harmony part during this section too, which I think really gives this part a little something extra. However, the acoustic by itself still felt like it was missing something... So I went and layered in some old and new clean Strat recordings. I also went and revisited the project file for my cover of "Painful Dreams" from D64D2. Reason for this was to figure out what I did for the clean/chorused guitars there in that track.

After getting the right chorus slapped on to that sucker, I was getting closer to what I wanted after blending it with the acoustic guitars. From there, I went and took the lead and harmony melodies and had the MIDIs for those render out some electric piano tracks. Then I decided to get crazy (on accident) with reverb on these two electric piano clips. So in the signal-chain, I had the good 'ol Vallhalla Supermassive doing its thing. However, I didn't realize until later that it sounded extra dreamy/spacey because that mixer track was ALSO feeding into my aux/Reverb-send track, which had ANOTHER Supermassive in its chain.

Now with the main bulk of that section done, I threw in a couple of bass synths to thicken things up further during this section.

On the topic of reverbs, I decided to go with something different for my "Drum Reverb SEND" aux-channel. My usual reverb that I've been using so far on this remake album just didn't sound quite right for this track. It took me a little bit, but I finally found something that sat just right for the mix! I also tweaked some other mix-related things for the drums too. Fiddled with the send-levels for certain elements, and also messed with the toms a bit.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this turned out! Hope you all also enjoy this remake as well. Up next, we wrap up NEW GENESIS as the curtain falls with "End This Cycle". Hope you guys look forward to it! ~DAR




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