ok, it's put back together now in a way that i can tweak. final touches when i wake up...

i realize my discography has become difficult to navigate through, so i've labelled the releases as lps, eps, singles, etc.

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yeah. i got this out. the three important things to get out were the two classicals and the acoustic, because the excitation on the high end of the guitars is just super tinny - it's the primary reason i'm doing this in the first place. when i did a similar transform a few years ago, i just wasn't paying attention and it fucked up the song. i was able to cleanly remove all three. they're completely inaudible in the output.

i wanted to get the bass out to compress it separately, and i was able to at least floor it. i'll have to play with this. i had multiple paste overs in the track, which has left it as a ghost; i'm doubling it in the remix, as well. i suspect this may actually work out ok. but i may have to squeeze it out using a multiband compressor. that's not something i want to do though, we'll see how it sounds...

there was a really raunchy guitar part that i didn't think i'd be able to get out well, but managed to. i'm surprised by this as i thought i had overlayed it, but i guess i didn't. that will let me put it through a separate amp sim and really raunch the fuck out of it. it's already completely decimated, though, so i'm not sure how much more catastrophic i can get it.

there were three synth parts on top of that. i was unable to line up two of them, but i got about half of one out. i could have probably got it completely out, but i decided not to because i want to double it through the reverb anyways and it's at about the right volume. that's why i'm not concerning myself with those two synth parts, either.

that's what was in the file to disassemble. disassembly complete. now, to reassemble it...

i've been far more successful in getting the tracks separated today. i got the first classical out clean, the bass to -15db and the distorted build down to static. what's left may even add a bit of definition to the mix if it's put through the reverb. the last thing i need to pull out for this approach to be feasible is the ending classical part, and even that is just a small section of it.

separating the tracks means i can reverberate them separately.

if i'm not able to get the last classical out, i think i've got it worked down to the point where i may be able to rebuild the time shift, and then reconstruct from there.

either way, i'm no longer stuck with this end part as one file. i *will* be able to mix it...