A few words about what I did. Initially I used Hornets VU meter plugin to auto level all of the stems then I started by going through the drum tracks one by one and summing them in a their own bus. Different compression, Transient design and reverb was used on snare, kick and toms with another room type verb added to the overall bus. Then I tackled the bass by initially getting a sort of Geddy Lee (Tom Sawyer) sound with compression, EQ and some saturation and combining the provided DI and amped stems. This later went through a 3 band distortion plugin to make it fit in the mix better. Next came the main synth playing the melody parts which had a touch of EQ and then I added copious amounts of modulated delay using a compressor with side-chain to maximise delay effect without swamping the playing. The second synth was added in the same way after I tackled the guitars. I first sorted the guitar stems into their 3 groups and then evaluated their use. I felt that re-amping them all would shift too far from the artists original intent but I also felt that they were a little static sonically. So I re-amped all 3 for a more mellow tone, placed into a stereo submix and went a bit OTT with modulation and panning. The idea being that this would sit behind the original guitar tracks and provide some filler. Then I used one guitar track for the wah intro on a triggered pan and muted it thereafter except for the tape stop effect. It is still there throughout in its re-amped version. The other 2 guitars were panned a little and kept close to the stems as provided. I edited out tracks around the tape stop effect to accentuate it and also duplicated the synth on that part pitch shifted up and octave to cut through the drums. Finally a little reverb and level automation on the SFX and I called it a day. Hope that makes sense and maybe useful to someone
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