Mix Rescue: Jeff Hirata 'Sunshine' -- Additional Resources

On this page I’ve collected together some additional resources to support my Mix Rescue February 2023 article. To check out Jeff Hirata’s music, head over to his Linktree here.

DEMONSTRATION VIDEOS

Vocal Arrangement Deconstruction: In this video I solo all the parts and submixes within the vocal arrangement of my remix, and trace how the arrangment ties in with the lead-vocal effects automation as the song progresses. Unlike many of my fully-scripted Cambridge-MT tutorial videos, I’ve not done any voiceover here, and have instead used onscreen captions to get by points across, because I wanted to avoid interrupting the flow of the audio examples.

If you have trouble downloading or playing this video, here’s a mirror file on an alternate server.

Guitars Arrangement Deconstruction: In a similar vein, this video showcases all the constituent parts of my remix’s guitar arrangement, and demonstrates how I built the short-term and long-terms arrangement dynamics through the entire timeline.

If you have trouble downloading or playing this video, here’s a mirror file on an alternate server.

Automation Insights: In this video, I demonstrate various ways in which I’ve used automation across lots of different tracks in this mix to improve balance, sustain, impact, detail, and long-term section dynamics. There’s a lot of stuff happening on-screen in this video, so don’t be afraid to stop or loop playback so you have enough time to read all the captions and hear how each featured lane of automation is affecting the end result.

If you have trouble downloading or playing this video, here’s a mirror file on an alternate server.

Adding A Bass Subsynth: I added a programmed subsynth part to this mix to fill out the low end of the bass guitar, and in this video I share my process for doing this, showing all the settings I used and demonstrating the sound at each stage.

If you have trouble downloading or playing this video, here’s a mirror file on an alternate server.

Download My Full Remix DAW Project: You can download my full Cockos Reaper DAW project here with all its audio files, and you can scrutinise all my settings in detail by loading it up in the fully-featured free cross-platform demo version of Cockos Reaper. The ZIP archive also includes screenshots of all the third-party plug-ins I used for my remix, so you can see all those settings too, even if you don’t have all those same plug-ins installed.
Download The Raw Multitracks For Mix Practice: If you’d like to mix this project for yourself, then you can download the raw multitracks files (as well as the recordings I added during the remix process) from the ‘Mixing Secrets’ Free Multitrack Download Library.