Homogenise?

Hello. I am very, very rusty with Cubase

I have just recorded the organ part for Whiter Shade of Pale against a backing track. That’s two tracks total. The backing is a karoake type track - OK ish.

To me they sound like separate items playing at the same time. The K track has imprinted reverb of course. The organ is my Nord which, although I have spent some weeks honing the sound, is still harsh and brittle in the upper register - OK ish.

Any tips about how to homogenise the tracks please, maybe warm up the organ. Any stock fx? Which type of reverb?

All advice appreciated :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Z

Yeah, well, this will be way beyond your interest no doubt…but this is what I’d do if I had to get a relatively complete match….

  1. Outside of Cubendo, I’d unmix the karaoke track into 6 tracks or whatever…organ being one of them.
  2. Load the new karaoke multitrack into Cubendo alongside whatever it is you overdubbed…muting the mixed mp3 or whatever as no longer needed. Save project in its new 7-track form.. exit Cubendo.
  3. Outside of Cubendo, I’d load the now-isolated Karaoke organ….and the organ you overdubbed into an editor etc (not cubendo) to do a match-eq…and/or a machine-learn routine for an algorithm to match eq…compression…any distortion..space..and reverb…to then apply to your overdub…bake the result into your organ overdub…export it as a file…import the newly-affected-your-organ into the overall cubendo project..zap or mute the raw overdub.
  4. Depending on what combo of outside routines you use for the steps (esp the available ai matching out there on devoted sites), you can get a close match….in theory. Back in Cubendo, you can mute/unmute between the 2 organs to adjust to desired whatever.

Personally, I’d only do this when I absolutely must have a sonic match another sonic. Likely not necessary if this for hobbying around at home with karaoke….but it does work :slight_smile: