Easy Listening ?

[Jack Real]

Hi

I just post a new song on the site. The song is called "Comment tu sais". I think it's easy listening but I'm not sure since I usually do Rock&Pop. Anykind of feedback on this song would be appreciated.

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/...d=2872&alid=-1

Thanks,

Jack Real.

[HevyD47Ca]

you'd think with a last name like Guenette I would at least understand a little french

The recording seems very professional.
I like the performances and the material seems to suit you very well.

There is 2 of you I understand from your NWR site.

Good solid work.
A fine demo IMO

[Jack Real]

Originally posted by HevyD47Ca
you'd think with a last name like Guenette I would at least understand a little french

The recording seems very professional.
I like the performances and the material seems to suit you very well.

There is 2 of you I understand from your NWR site.

Good solid work.
A fine demo IMO

Ans:

Hi

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we were two in the mid 80s when we were doing demos but then we split in 85. I'm alone for the stuff from 1996 and onwards. I have updated the description on the site accordingly.

Thanks,

Jack Real.

[Toki987]

nice laid back happy tune, easy to listen to. smooth wide mix. main and background vocal levels could come up a little more for me. instruments were good choice.

[participant]

Can't decide where the excess "fuzz" is coming from on your tracks... but I'm certain it's not mp3 noise. Could be your reverb box/patch.

Not bad on the mix... some of your sounds are getting lost in your "choruses" (the hard-panned vocal areas). It's difficult to critique a "mix" on a synth, since so much of that comes from the box and its limitations...

I would definitely like a few more sounds "up front"... kind of like how your vocals sit during the choruses... and a few more sounds further back (further away than the snare drum, even...) ... I'm thinking this would open up nicely with a few of those types of changes. Right now, too many sounds are trying to occupy the same distance from the listener (depth).


Compression (on some) and reverb (on others), man. And some better tracking. Suggestions. But not bad as-is.


Chad

[Jack Real]

Originally posted by participant
Can't decide where the excess "fuzz" is coming from on your tracks... but I'm certain it's not mp3 noise. Could be your reverb box/patch.

Not bad on the mix... some of your sounds are getting lost in your "choruses" (the hard-panned vocal areas). It's difficult to critique a "mix" on a synth, since so much of that comes from the box and its limitations...

I would definitely like a few more sounds "up front"... kind of like how your vocals sit during the choruses... and a few more sounds further back (further away than the snare drum, even...) ... I'm thinking this would open up nicely with a few of those types of changes. Right now, too many sounds are trying to occupy the same distance from the listener (depth).


Compression (on some) and reverb (on others), man. And some better tracking. Suggestions. But not bad as-is.


Chad

Hi

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you, with a busy song like that, I should move some of the instruments up front and put some others further back. The problem is that I'm limited with my Alesis keyboard because it allows only 2 effect pathes in mix mode. One patch is used for the plate reverb on the drum while the other is used to put a chorus-delay patch on the sax. The ambiance reverb is applied at the mixer for all the keyboard tracks so that's why they all come out at the same depth. There is a configuration that allows 4 patches (2 with reverb) but then I lose the EQ. Can I use the plate reverb patch to move some of the instruments further back ?

For the fuzz sound, it's probably comming from the ambiance reverb and the hi-hat. I had a hiss problem on the other song and I think it's for the same reason. I use the standard effect "Dense Hall #6" of the Roland SRV 3030 and I probably need to adjust some of the reverberation parameters to avoid this.

Thanks again.

Jack Real.