DAR - Upon The Wishing Star {OLD_VERSION} [2015] @Davester2296-B

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Here's another single off of New Genesis! The album is set to release on Tuesday, March 24th, 2015!
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$DAR - Upon The Wishing Star {OLD_VERSION} [2015]$

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$DAR - Fate [REDUX] | { OLD VER. } [Lyrics]: And they fade, they fade They never seem to think They never seem to Whys your media Propagandized I see the things we face How could we be so blind An empire of hate That feeds us wrongful lies I feel Im drowning with you I cant escape these chains Is this what they call fate Would you let me go If I If I plead insane And their fate: they fake Mentalities, ideologies Whys our media Propagandized I see the things we face How could we be so blind An empire of hate That feeds us wrongful lies I feel Im drowning with you And I cant escape these chains If I plead insane And I see a painful fate Would you let me go If I If I plead insane Is this what they call fate Is this what they call Fate So, to get back into the swing of things, Ive decided to revisit Cyclic Divide. In particular, I chose to tinker around with Fate (since it had been my personal favorite from the album). I also chose it because every once in a while when I goof around on my acoustic and sing, Id always pick Fate to warm up with. In the past year or so I wound up singing the chorus differently and started to wonder how it would sound in harmony with the original. I also remembered that a good friend of mine had long ago suggested that Cyclic Divide could use some vocal harmonies. This also provided a good opportunity to practice trying to get that commercial loudness that you hear in pro mixes (and I think Ive FINALLY figured it out!). I was very tempted to just redo everything from the ground up... However, that didnt feel quite right to do. I wound up re-recording only the rhythm guitar parts, and recording my bass guitar (as opposed to the VSTi Bass I had used in the original). I also made some very subtle changes to how the bass and rhythm guitar are played. I kept just about everything else the same, only messing with mixing and volume. Of course, theres the all-new vocal harmony during the chorus. I really love this sound, especially the bits where I sing chains. It just sounds really cool to me, it also reminds me a lot of something else, but I cant think of what. Needless to say, I cant listen to the original now without feeling like something is missing! I should note that the drums had a bit of tweaking in certain parts, as well as changes to mixing. I must say, its kind of nice going back to the old snare samples that I used to use back then. As for my experiments into achieving maximum loudness, Ive finally figured it out! I don’t think it’ll be all that obvious when listening to the video. The reason for that is because Youtube (like most other platforms) normalizes audio to either -13 or -14 LUFS (its gone back and forth, but I think they’ve settled on -14LUFS). However, the .opus file clocks in at -8.5LUFS, which should make it about as loud as a commercial CD. Its certainly louder than the original, that’s for sure! I’m pretty happy with how this redux turned out. The original had always sounded pretty solid to me, but this redux takes it a bit further. I think it sounds brighter, and more crisp. The lower frequencies still have good punch, but are tamed a bit more this time around. The drums also have a bit more clarity to them when the mix gets busy. The snare really comes through nice and bright, and the kick drum is a lot more noticeable (thanks to the wonders of sidechaining the bass to the kick channel!). Anyways, I hope you guys like this redux, and hope you all look forward to the rest of the Cyclic Divide Redux album! With this different approach to mastering, I think things are going to sound pretty interesting from here onward! A new year no, a new decade, a new DAR! ~DAR .OPUS Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ny3tohaubq4li7h/DAR Fate_%255BREDUX%255D.opus/file All Rights Reserved 2015, 2020$