Tender Mercies - Escape

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A cool song I would like you all to hear and please help me improve. I am have a "ducking" problem when the music gets loud. It seems to fade out when a lot of things are going on at once. Not sure how to fix it.

http://soundcloud.com/clong89/escape

Clong
 
I am listening right now...not listening on the best of systems but...sounds like a lot of highs have been boosted...the is no meat..you know what I mean? Kinda thin. pretty cool song and performance. The drums and vox could use some more ambience like the clean arppegiated guitar part. The distorted guitars are kinda fizzy to my ears. This is pretty cool stuff though...I like the song and performance!
 
klutzee said:
I am listening right now...not listening on the best of systems but...sounds like a lot of highs have been boosted...the is no meat..you know what I mean? Kinda thin. pretty cool song and performance. The drums and vox could use some more ambience like the clean arppegiated guitar part. The distorted guitars are kinda fizzy to my ears. This is pretty cool stuff though...I like the song and performance!
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I agree with you. I had a rough time with the guitar. Do you have any ideas how to create ambience for the instruments? I never really gave thought to it.
 
Very Cool, Nice song and vocal.

I never have this many suggestions, but since i hear them I'll offer em.

I agree Guitars are fizzy, use a thicker/chunkier sound, and vox could use some more ambience.
You could put I nice trailing reverb on the snare.
Bass could have a hair more bottom. 70-120hz maybe.
Something sustaining to back up the beginning (before dist guitars), compressed guitar picking,keyboards,background vocal harmonies, take your pick.


Just my 2 cents.
Good work, thanks for posting it.

Pete
P.S. You may have your levels too high, no individual track should peak higher than -12db, your stereo buss should peak no higher than -4/6db some guys say even less. Try turning everything down.
 
I think you need to give the drums more meat. While its clear, its all treble there. Oh, dirty guitar just kicked in. No meat there either. I think some good reverb could make the instruments sound a bit more real. Good vocalist.

The song is a bit dreary for me.
 
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