Dance With Me (Remix) - Thanks for the suggestions...

[PoeticIntensity]

Hopefully this one is better...

I ended up taking advice from pretty much everyone. I bricked one of the vocal tracks, and turned the whole vocal bus up 1db.

I also had a copy/paste party with the drums. Great suggestion, Jeff.

Lemme know what ya'll think.

Dance With Me Remix

 

[ido1957]

That sounds better vocally - she's cutting through the mix better on the loud parts. Just an aside - my daughter knows all the words to every song she likes so it's good to be able to distinguish them. The drums seem nice and tight although I didn't have an issue before.

 

[TripleM]

Vocals are much better. I think they're sitting about right now. A syncing problem or two on a word here and there (e.g., the word "time" at :56 and some word I can't discern at 1:40, the word "now" at 1:52). There are others. If you kept both the tracks down the center they probably wouldn't be noticable.

 

[In Tune Audio]

The vocals are much better and the track seems to have more energy overall.

The snare needs a little work. I won't lie I really don't like the snare sound. There's not enough snap for my liking (again just my personal preference). But besides that the snare needs to be brought up a little. The kick drum and bass are working well together but the back beat has no "umph" in the chorus.

Just my opinion but if it were me I'd put a sample with the snare hits in the chorus. But again just my opinion.

 

[PoeticIntensity]

That sounds better vocally - she's cutting through the mix better on the loud parts. Just an aside - my daughter knows all the words to every song she likes so it's good to be able to distinguish them. The drums seem nice and tight although I didn't have an issue before.

Yeah. The diction issue is beyond what I'm doing here, but I agree. Understandable words are much, much better than the alternative.

Vocals are much better. I think they're sitting about right now. A syncing problem or two on a word here and there (e.g., the word "time" at :56 and some word I can't discern at 1:40, the word "now" at 1:52). There are others. If you kept both the tracks down the center they probably wouldn't be noticable.

This is why I love this forum. Thanks for the nits. I'll take a look at those areas and see if I can't tighten em' up. Rep given.

The vocals are much better and the track seems to have more energy overall.

The snare needs a little work. I won't lie I really don't like the snare sound. There's not enough snap for my liking (again just my personal preference). But besides that the snare needs to be brought up a little. The kick drum and bass are working well together but the back beat has no "umph" in the chorus.

Just my opinion but if it were me I'd put a sample with the snare hits in the chorus. But again just my opinion.

I was listening to this last night thinking the same thing. The snare really doesn't "cut" through this mix. It's not disappearing completely, but it really doesn't shine. I've got a few ideas I'm gonna use tonight to get it to cut through and sound better.

Thanks for the comment!