We Can Make a Miracle

[Craig Anderton]

Genre

Rock

Instruments

Discrete Drums (Chris McHugh loops, chopped up and arranged)
Mai Tai
Cherry Audio Mercury-6
NI Kontakt Emotive Choir
UA DLX Modeling Mic
TX16WX (CA Gibson bass sample set)
Gibson Les Paul and Fender Telecaster guitars
Presence (Steel String Guitar Full preset)

Effects

Waves H-Delay
Waves Kramer Tape (on bass)
Helix Native (on all guitars)
Waves RVox (light compression on some vocals)
Oeksound Soothe 3 (lead vocal)
Rare Signals Transatlantic Reverb
Pro EQ3
Limiter on background vocals

Mastering chain: Pro EQ3 + Waves L3-16 ( (LUFS -12.5, LRA 5.5, True Peak -1.0)

Special techniques

(Page numbers refer to tips in The Huge Book of Fender Studio Pro Tips & Tricks v1.0)

* The *only* processing on drums is the Super-Saturator Mk II (page 345).
* All vocals use the Enhance Solo Vocals FX Chain (page 557).
* The rise at the beginning uses the new Pitch Envelope feature. Thanks, Hamburg!
* Mai Tai with a custom organ preset and the Sweet Multiband Chorus FX Chain (page 285) does the majority of the synth work.
* The forward/backward guitar effects that happens at the beginning and the chorus uses the Pseudo-Feedback Guitar effect (page 508).
* Using the "Inside-Out" mixing technique cut the mix time at least in half (page 931)

Released when

8/13/26

The two drum folder tracks have individual tracks for kick, snare, overheads, room, and toms. The drum bus went to the Super-Saturator Mk II. The background vocals folder track has 5 background vocal tracks.

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[Stuart Welwood]

Nice sounds. Hopeful message. I'm guessing that the guitar that starts at 1:35 is Presence with the Steel String Guitar Full preset? Why does it sound to me like a 12 string? I like the delay on it.

 

[Craig Anderton]

Yes, the guitar using that preset is at 1:35 but it also kicks in around 0:17 and carries through most of the song. In the screen shot above, it's track 20 (the highest blue track). That and the Mai Tai do the lion's share of the background.

The Steel String Guitar Full is in fact a 12-string guitar. I'm not sure why it's not identified as such, but you nailed the sound

 

[Craig Anderton]

I like the delay on it.

Thanks! If you want to try this effect in your projects, here are the settings. You could use the Fender Analog Delay instead of the H-Delay and get the same sound. The effect order is Delay > Chorus.

 

[AAV]

Lovely Craig
Love the use of spoken voice here (without rap. I don't dislike rap, fwiw, but it's so ubiquitous and frankly over-done (my opinion only)) Nice job as always Craig!

 

[BobF]

Bravo!