Recent content by TimOD

Ouch!

What Rob A. said. My comments about the survey were not meant as a personal attack . . . it seemed pointless and unconstructive, and its important to get feedback on this kind of thing. I spent a lot of time in college (not for music) and I'm very familiar with badly implemented or conceived...

In fact, you'll need to sharpen your skills quite a bit to get that sound.

Reverb will be key . . . and it might be tricky. I like how the vocals are deliberately buried and muffled on "Souvlaki."

If all the tracks were recorded on "the hot side" (maybe distorting a bit?), there ain't much you can do to "tame" them. As mentioned above, pull the faders down. (Better get busy, with two hundred tracks! Sometimes there isn't an easy way.) Next, if you're going to continue working with the...

It was a worthless survey--I find it hard to believe that this would be part of a dissertation, or perhaps I should say, "dissertation." I was not allowed to choose that I wouldn't listen, ever, to the badly produced music in all three clips. The 3rd one sounded marginally better than the...

I was in a group with someone who insisted on rhyming every line with the next; A-A, B-B, etc. it's always a bad idea to do that, in my book. And this whole song is that way! If it's more important to rhyme than to say something expressive, you're in trouble. Internal rhymes, alliteration...

I can see using an online mastering service (like Slate's Virtu--cheap enough to do test mastering before going to an actual mastering engineer), because things are already mixed and ready to go to mastering (hopefully), but mixing? Also, using buses and sends and mixing a dry and wet signal...

Do what I did years ago. Stop watching. Work on music, and read. Another thing I noticed when I did watch is often I couldn't tell when the ad started, and the show stopped. I'd be, "what the hell? Is this some kind of plot device?" Then the point of the ad would reveal itself (finally)...

I've never used tape, and I do have fragments of guitars sometimes, but never is there more than ten guitar tracks (and that's a lot to me) in one song. Many, many little pieces of tracks, whether guitar or voice or whatever, just really gets out of hand and out of control very easily. I've...

Why on Earth would someone do that? (I mean your friend the guitar player.)

I've got a bass guitar that often won't stay in tune, as does my bandmate. They get the Melodyne treatment, and it works great. I never tune vocals, jut bass and the occasional guitar.

Insert points are balanced only on high-end consoles, I believe. Maybe I should say "higher-end," but that's the only place I've seen them.

To me, the process would be to consider that perhaps you're going Too Far with all those vocals. One hundred to two hundred tracks of vocals? That seems excessive, to say the least.

Yeah, same here. There are any one of a number of plugs that one can put on the track insert to boost a low signal.