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I'm just about ready to call it a night, but I have run off a quick demo of the Closing Master. I'm not completely happy with it yet, but it should give you a rough idea of where I'm going with it.
I've played with the EQ on the bassline a bit to give it punchier highs and deeper throbbing lows. Dom's closing bassline is actually very different to his opening bassline. The opening bassline is dry and very punchy, whereas the closing bassline has significant delay on it and uses a less punchy and more twangy sound. I generally treat the opening bassline as the ideal, so I've tried to enhance the sound of the closing bassline to match it more closely.
I'm not sure what I should do with the bridge melody... as you all know, it's a point of some contention for everybody. There are a lot of people who really don't like Dom's harshly digital-sounding bridge melody. Even Dom himself has never been happy with it, and jumped at the chance to reimagine it somewhat for his 2008 version. I don't dislike it, but I do feel that it could use some work, and I'm not sure how best to approach it. Seeing as this is a remaster and not a remix, it has to stay in and stay prominent (I can't replace it like I've done with my other remixes so far), but I do have some choices regarding what I can do with it. I could leave it mostly dry, or I could try and use some effects to dull it down and blend it in a bit more. I've gone for the latter for this version, using a phase filter and some heavy reverb to help blend it in. If you all would prefer that I do something different, please let me know. I'm very much open to suggestions in this regard.
Anyway, let me know what you all think of it, and it's safe to say you can expect a new version tomorrow or the next day at some point.
EDIT: Reuploaded the mix after a minor tweak. I advised Dom to make a change to his 2008 remix and then forgot to make the same change myself!
Last edited by Danny Stewart; October 20, 2008 at 2:33 AM
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