This is a mix of Wonderful in true stereo. Wonderful is stuck only in mono, and creating a stereo mix has been a goal of mine since I started mixing SMiLE. Moises, my main AI separation tool, has improved greatly over the past year and the stems were finally clean enough to use. I quickly realized that the session track on the box set doesn't have the master take, since it was junked with the multitrack in 1968. I had to manually sync up the ukulele and all the vocals but I think it turned out well.
Sources:
Basic Track: Wonderful - Version 1 (The SMiLE Sessions)
Ukulele: separation from bootleg (The Bicycle Rider Chronicles)
Lead Vocals: Wonderful (Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys)
Backing Vocals: SMiLE Backing Vocals Montage (The SMiLE Sessions)
MASSIVE thanks to BowMan 2 for his assistance with vocal separation. This mix couldn't have been done without him.
5 сен 2024
