Tag: 1992

Today, we add some more amazing content to our digital archive. Specifically, a collection of demos for the Goo Goo Dolls’ fourth album, featuring a total of more than one hour of music. Make sure to read the info presented below, as it contains details about this release, including how it compares to the previous “Superstar Car Wash” demo sessions we’ve already published in our blog.

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As many of you already know, years ago a series of “Superstar Car Wash” demo sessions leaked online. One of those leaks included Pre-Mixing Cuts of the final songs which ended up in the album. What is a pre-mixing cut? Let’s have the experts talk about it for a minute. The information below was taken from this source.

Although most people won’t notice it, when done right, it turns a song it into something better. Mixing is more than adjusting the volume levels of vocal tracks and individual instruments. Even though there are other parts of mixing, what is audio mixing in music and why is it important?

Audio Mixing is a process of blending individual things in a recording to come up with as good as a possible version of a song. The mixing process includes:

• Fine-tuning the sense or sound of each instrument using and EQ (equalization)
• Balancing pre-recorded track levels
• Panning tracks between speakers to come up with a stereo image
• Compression, Adding reverb and other effects, improve the already recorded song.
• Taking your song from Good to GREAT!

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As I wrote in the past, there had been several Superstar Car Wash demo sessions which leaked online years ago. One of them featured a tape simply called “Instrumental Demos”. Such release was a 7-song studio take of some of the songs which ended up being included in the final 1993 album. Today I am sharing it with you.

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