Oh! Darling


I recorded and mixed a cover of The Beatles' tune 'Oh! Darling' with my classmates Mitch Mosk and Scott Staniewicz for a music production course I took at Tufts University.


Our goal was to make our cover version sound similar to the original. We set up all the mic arrangements, tracked the project to ProTools, and put together a final mix. My bandmates Luke Imbusch and Jeremy Cohen were able to nail the rhythm section tracks in a single take. From there, Scott recorded his guitar, I tracked piano, and we all sang something. I took the lead vocal on this one. 

The piano we recorded had very soft hammers, and wasn't sounding quite like the upright from Abbey Road, so we fixed it in post using iZotope Alloy's transient functionality to tighten up the attacks.

I ended up triple-tracking the vocals in the chorus to give it the same power you hear on the record - one track center, the other two dead-panned left and right. This has been my go-to vocal mixing trick, especially when I'm working with my own, tinny voice.