Militant said:

Fuck, this mix is hard. It's like a constant battle between trying to strip out the frequencies of all the drums and percussion without making the vocals too thin in the process....then I end up pushing up the vocals with compressors and the instruments are back LOL.... I cut them out but then everything is too treble-y so I cut some treble frequencies and push up some bass frequencies but then the new bassline comes back.... lol... it's just back and forth, back and forth trying to find a middle ground.

Right now I'm using volume envelopes to push down the album track when the talkbox comes in and immediately push it back up just before Michael's inbetween vocals come in, then drop it out again.... because the talkbox vocals are actually on the instrumental, you see.... there's also some different talkbox lyrics on Michael's version whereas on Greg's version there's just one set..... so I don't know what to do about that bit.

You guys want me to keep the sax solo or cut it completely? It wasn't on the original.

Like MJ said in "This Is It" during TWYMMF rehearsal..."I want it the way I wrote it"

Don't rush it tho .. Let it simmer and bathe in the moonlight

Do it with love...L.O.V.E

[Edited 12/11/10 18:14pm]