ABSTRACT
As the production starts with a drumbeat only, it made sense to make it sound exciting, a task for which a pumping compression or distortion usually work when applied on overheads or a drum mix. As the pumping overheads had to dive in level, it was necessary to introduce another set of overheads of a more relaxed and solid nature. Although both the expander and compressor add click by shaping the dynamic envelope of the kick, after mastering there is a chance these will be greatly softened. There are two mono overdubs of the rhythm guitar and these were panned hard-left and right. During the bridges, both parts were "manually gated" by cutting the regions and then adjusting fades; this was done to achieve a sharper and tighter effect. Two lead guitar overdubs were panned roughly halfway to the extremes.
