DaveP said:
once you have the multitrack then you take it to the studio and everything can be done there.
Vocals will be tuned
Any mistakes will be punched in or edited.
Samples can be added to Snare, kick and toms
any Eq needed can be applied, or not applied it there's no need for it.
Gating by simply muting the waveform between beats is quite normal, or any gate plugin
there's so much that can be done in editing/post production and mixing stage nowadays that it will be hard to guess,
But as a mixing engineer I don't hear anything in particular about EQ or any tricks here that go beyond of what engineers normally do to make it sound good.
I agree with all of that being normal practice nowadays as you say, but we are not talking about a multitrack in a studio we are talking a live performance back in 97, that's nearly 20 years ago! and autotune was only released the same year, I can't imagine that they would have started using that live before it became better known. I was more interested in the drums and bass sound in any case. The bass sounds really deep but there seems to be a lot of 200-400Hz to my ears on the drums. Wish I had a frequency analyzer! :-\
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DaveP
I didn't know it was in 97,
but anyway the same applies to 97, maybe not using melodyne in the studio, but the rest is the same without plugins but using all the tools the studios have.
Once you take the multitrack to the studio everything can be done, the full bass line can be re recorded and you will never know.
It sound really good and thanks for sharing with us, what I wanted to explain is that that bass sound can be as simple as being the sound of his Bass directly to a DI, or can be really EQued or Compressed or can even be replaced by a new bass line recorded in the studio after the gig.
Its impossible to know for sure.
I listened to it quite a few times, the bass has some present mid range in the 800hz area it helps to define the notes in the middle of the mix, the sound of the bass itself is normal in that type of bass instruments with active pickups, Warwick , Tobias, Fodera , all of them have that characteristic when recorded direct, the bass low end is also what to be expected from those type instruments.
But as I told before everything could have been done or not, anything I could say is just a wild guess.