Zeitgeist - vocal down mix

[Submerged]

Holy shit, only took like 13 years.

DM please.

[Machinist]

Would love to hear this as well. It's an album with a few solid tracks - would like to hear what you've done with it.

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by eviltimeban

Yes the EQing has really taken the sharpness off the guitars. Monuments could definitely do with this treatment. I think Shiny 1 is a lost cause though. I tried to do a similar job on Marchin' On but it didn't turn out as well.

i added a bunch of reverb to travels to try to get it warmer and wetter, especially the drums. kinda sounds muddy and bad now, and also i fucked it up such that my experiment mp3 replaced the actual track in my iTunes now

[jm9843]

Originally Posted by djzap

DM me for download

I'll take a dm. Thanks.

[NovaFritz]

I generally hate this album, but I have to hear what everyone is raving about. Maybe I will learn to love it. DM plz

[ButterflyBullet]

It’s definitely a substantial improvement imo

[zeroherosp]

Anyone want to share?

[Machinist]

Send the guy a DM like everyone else in this thread. It doesn't take much effort you lazy bastard.

[Xteenmachine]

I'm also in interested in hearing this. Please PM.

[Joey Goldberg]

Send the guy a DM like everyone else in this thread. It doesn't take much effort you lazy bastard.

[DedRabbits]

Me too

[reprise85]

yeah this is better. guitars are doing interesting things, who knew

[Ram27]

lol OP you probably could've left the link in the main post anyway. people upload full unedited albums to YouTube like it's nothing already

[VoxUpDoc]

This is much better. Thanks OP.

djzap is Netphoria royalty.

edit: though you could go further on some tracks eg. That's the Way the vocals are still separate and floaty. And some tracks the backing vocals are now much louder than anything else in the mix eg. United States whereas it feels like they could also be lowered in line with the main vocal. Maybe a limitation of the software...

Also was Billy like.. way out of tune on a lot of this album?

[VoxUpDoc]

Doomsday Clock
7 Shades of Black
Bleeding the Orchid
That's the Way
Tarantula
Stars
United States
Bring the Light
Neverlost
Stellar
Ma Belle
Zeitgeist
Pomp & Circumstance

This is the best ZG tracklisting btw.
Album falls off a cliff after United States in it's current state.

edit: Sorted cheers for the pms

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by Woody

Doomsday Clock
7 Shades of Black
Bleeding the Orchid
That's the Way
Tarantula
Stars
United States
Bring the Light
Neverlost
Stellar
Ma Belle
Zeitgeist
Pomp & Circumstance

This is the best ZG tracklisting btw.
Album falls off a cliff after United States in it's current state.

Can anyone hook me up with the 'zeitgeist' song mp3? Is it on the All Goes Wrong OST? Does that exist offcially?

It's Starz

[VoxUpDoc]

Originally Posted by NovaFritz

It's Starz

I disagree with Billy on this one.

[MyKeyZ]

Needs Superchrist

[killtrocity]

Yeah good fucking job dude. I listened to this album like every day in the summer of 2007. And even then, I'd still sort of wince every time Billy started singing. Something about it is just so off-putting and bad. But it's totally tolerable now. Say what you will about the songwriting, but the instrumentation on Zeitgeist has always been good, and now you can actually focus on that without being sonically kicked in the balls by Billy droning on.

[incubator]

this is quite good but could you please make the vocals considerably louder in Siamese Dream ?

[Machinist]

Well, I'm impressed with this.

Can someone go a bit further and make it an instrumental album?

[smashingjj]

could we maybe just get rid of all the music?

[Machinist]

Keep the drums.

[Joey Goldberg]

just listen to fuckin' Honor or The Parable if you want to wank it to Jimmy C

[djzap]

Originally Posted by Woody

This is much better. Thanks OP.

djzap is Netphoria royalty.

edit: though you could go further on some tracks eg. That's the Way the vocals are still separate and floaty. And some tracks the backing vocals are now much louder than anything else in the mix eg. United States whereas it feels like they could also be lowered in line with the main vocal. Maybe a limitation of the software...

Also was Billy like.. way out of tune on a lot of this album?

haha glad to do it!

there is indeed a limitation, as the software can't perfectly extract the individual vocal track, and the backing vocals are included in that same track, so there is no processing separately for the lead and backing vocals. I tried splitting it into mid/side as the lead vocal is mixed more mid and the backing vocals more to the sides, but when bringing down the sides channel and leaving the mid it just created bad sounding lossy artefacts, so the lesser of two evils was keeping it clean but the backing vocals still being that bit loud.

so so so much more could be done if we had any official multitracks, or even official acapella and instrumentals.

[djzap]

also thanks to everyone who is saying nice things about the mix. i've always really enjoyed the album so i'm happy if it can help any other fans enjoy it more too

[Machinist]

Superb work. Listened through a few times. It's certainly made it a much more pleasant experience - hearing things in there I hadn't heard before!

[NovaFritz]

Yes, I agree it is a vast improvement over the original Billy yelling in your ears. I did notice the relative prominence of the Billy chorus in songs like Bleeding the Orchid, however, which somehow made that song harder for me to listen to. My best memories of Zeitgeist are still hearing early live recordings of it before the album dropped and ruined expectations.

[Ram27]

a billy corgan tradition since 1999

[AveryLoren]

I'm Netphorian peasantry, but can I partake in all that is the big Z?