Wow, thanks everyone! Let´s see if I can answer all the questions.
Got better and better as it went on. I hate whatever is playing when you start singing...sounds like a pan flute on steroids, LOL...but that's obviously a personal preference thing. Hahaha! Well, it´s the only fake thing in the mix, a ´mellotron flute´ patch from my Roland synthesizer. It´s not supposed to sound ´good´, but a little Strawberry Fields-like, you know?
Drums sound really good. What are you using for drums? If you say "drums," that's cool, it's just getting harder and harder to tell these days.
It´s a Slingerland kit, brass snare, pinstripes everywhere and a Aquarian Modern Vintage skin on the snare. Zildjian K´s for cymbals mostly. Not much fancy in the mic department: Shure PG´s for the toms and kick (51), Sm57 on snare, two Sony overheads. Reverb from
the Lexicon MPX200. A little compression by Blockfish.
Is the Vocal maybe mixed a tad loud ?
What pre-amp ?
haha - what is that on the Left speaker, just before the drums kick in?
(Sounds like somebody says something)
A mis-edit ?
You know what........ if you got time, why not just list your whole setup for this ?
Answer the questions for the guys asking about samples, and I love to know some of the particular details on other instruments as well.
Yes, maybe in the beginning it´s a little too upfront. Anyway, it´s the inboard preamp from my Mackie VLZ.
The speaking is a mis-edit indeed, this is just an in-between mix for this site, and I have to clean up a lot of tracks still...
I´m not in the studio, so i will try to remember my whole set-up. Drums mentioned above, guitar is a Yamaha something with the Rode at the 12th fret and another condensator at the body. Bass is probably a Squier that was laying around, going through
a Bassman 100, DI´d and miced with the PG51. Violins and cello are real, all recorded with the Rode, for violin on a safe distance of 2-3 foot, and for cello pretty close-miked at the body near one of the soundholes.
The mix overall seems a little out of whack. Maybe some Professional Mastering will fix that? Nice job.
You´re absolutely right, there is quite a build-up in the low-mids. I tried to do a mastering job myself at home.. on cheap speakers.. but here it is, according to me it´s much and much (and much) better:
http://boomp3.com/m/7dfd31c33e60
Starts off cool with the mellotron. Try taking some bass out of it though its almost a litle to fuzzy/distorting kinda sounding.
The acoustic guitar would work better more towards the center I think. When the drums come in they sound full and fit well with the song. Are those recorded? the snare sound is really good fits perfectly into the song.
It´s meant to be distorting, I doubled the track and complety destroyed it with a distortion/fuzz plugin, which I mixed in to taste.
About the guitars: you might be right. Anyway, when the drums come in they are doubled, so that might explain the change in sound.
Thanks all!!!