Here it is!! Our absolute final version of The Definitive Remaster of Ulterior Motives that tries to fix every complaint we've got to this point on V3 and
V3.1. We couldn't do much to reverb, we honestly don't know what causes that much of it because it was not added manually to the instruments in FL Studio, so this will have to do, please understand that... Also, listen to the tracks like "Think I'm Gonna Cry" and see how damn much reverb there is on that song. It's certainly possible and is probably the case that UM had that much reverb. You have to understand how bad the quality of the original actually is...
We've also noticed the, quote unquote, "leaked" instrumental of the official Ulterior Motives remaster, and we isolated the bass from it and tried restoring it a little. The results are fabulous in my opinion. Soooometimes it tends to get a little low quality, but that's about it, the rest is pure authentic bass straight from 1985.
Here's the whole list of fixed complaints and changes from V3.1 to V4.
COMPLAINTS:
- "Bad mixing": it appears you all mean just the reverb, lol, sometimes the bass... - TRIED TO FIX ➗
- Quiet (and a little muffled) vocals: vocals have been enhanced a bit by making it louder and a tiny bit sharper than last time - FIXED ✔
- Missing 2 claps at 2:20 after the 2 orchestra hits: up until V3.1, our remaster lacked the 2 claps after the 2 orchestra hits at the end of the solo break, thankfully it has been fixed due to someone pointing that out - FIXED ✔
- It not sounding like the 80s mixing (also sort of tied to bad mixing) - TRIED TO FIX ➗
- Too much reverb *on vocals*: some complained just about the vocals being too echoey, we honestly didn't really wanna try making it have less reverb because it always sounds too artificial, it already does a little, we don't want to make it worse now... We ourselves think it sounds just right, especially compared to other songs from the lost album, sorry if you feel otherwise - NOT FIXED ❌
SIDE FIXES THAT WEREN'T COMPLAINED ABOUT:
- Richer snare sound thanks to Macintozh's instrumental multitrack ✔
- Chorus claps are now louder ✔
- Bass now has some variants that Mac's bass did not have, that is done thanks to the official release bass, but before the official instrumental came out we were gonna manually make the variants on Mac's bass, but thank God we did not because it always kept sounding somewhat off... ✔
- Removed loud noise on electric guitar before the 2nd verse ✔
- Made the guitar a little more varianted right after the 1st chorus ends, appearing on the little break before verse 2 to make it more accurate to the actual 1985 instrumental ✔
That's all that has been changed in V4, unless I forgot something then sorry lolololol!
CREDITS
INSTRUMENTAL: Funk & electric guitars, synth, 3rd orchestra hit and snare sound by @macintozh1986 with addition of original bass, drums and electric guitars
1ST ORCHESTRA HIT RIP: @Mesadly
VOCAL RESTORATION: u/WarpyWarpington with little cleaning by me, but it sounds so DAMN GOOD thanks to @冗
MIXING: Me and @冗
EXTENDING: Me
MACINTOZH'S ELECTRIC GUITAR CLEANING (DENOISING): @denoumusicarchive
ORIGINAL SONG BY: @christophersaintmusic and Philip Adrian Booth, 1985
Made with huge dedication to them and to all of the UM fans ❤
11 сен 2024