Pop Tune

[Elton123]

Not something I have a great feel for, but this young lady brought in this tune with just acoustic. Fun tune to work on.

 

[cobaltaudio]

Sounds like there's a bit too much verb on the acoustic guitar mid-left.
Drums sound is a bit dull during the verses - have you taken a load of top out of them? (Obviously not meaning in the filtered bits like the intro!)

 

[Elton123]

Thanks for the listen. Yeah, maybe a little extra verb on acoustic. i can hear that. As far as the drums, no I didn't take any top end off, but i didn't add any either.

 

[cobaltaudio]

I'd put in a bit of the top end of the overheads.
have you got top and bottom snare mics?
Almost sounds like you haven't inverted the bottom. It's got a bit of a ring and a filtered sounding top end.
If inverting the bottom snare doesn't help - drop it back in the mix a bit to get more pop top and less rattle from underneath.

If you haven't got a bottom mic - then you might want to look at any compression you've got on it, you might have an attack that is too quick and a too high ratio.

Difficult to guess without knowing what you've already got!

really like the vocal tracks by the way

 

[Elton123]

Yeah, thanks for the helpful feedback. No bottom snare mic. Typical set up. Individual mic and overheads. I really left the individual tracks alone pretty much. Just a little eq on kick and snare. Added EQ and comp on the drum bus. I'll mess with it. I was going for the sound I got, but surely can hear the lacking top end.
Vocals were a 414 through a 6176. Seemed to punch her highs through. Little EQ and comp.

 

[kip4]

I see what you mean about the snare.
I love it great work mate great feel, really nice guitars.

 

[ido1957]

It sounds pretty nice even on these laptop speakers. Just a personal preference would be some more reverb on the vocals. But generally a superjob.

 

[iqi616]

Sounds nice to me. I'd put some parallel compression on the lead vocal to make sure it doesn't sink into the accompaniment and maybe duck the guitars a dB. The guitars on the left are bothering me a bit - somehow simultaneously a touch too warm and a touch too bright.

 

[Elton123]

Thanks for the listen and the great input guys!!

 

[RockinRobby]

This is F'ing amazing in every way... I particularly like the fact that you have a chick singer? And she's "really good..." The mix kicks ass, the performances are spot on, this is really really good man.

You should be proud of this.

 

[WhiteStrat]

This is F'ing amazing in every way... I particularly like the fact that you have a chick singer? And she's "really good..." The mix kicks ass, the performances are spot on, this is really really good man.

You should be proud of this.

I agree with this assessment. If I heard this on the radio, I'd be tappin' my toe and singing along--not thinking, "oh this sounds homemade." Great work.

 

[Elton123]

Thanks for listening and the "very" kind comments. Yeah, she's been singing a while, but she's still in High School. A senior I think. She brought in this tune and I thought it was really catchy and well written. The arrangement just fell into place. I find good songs are like that. You don't have to go searching for parts. I really tried to work on her vibrato, but end the end we decided that's just her style. So we decided to let her just be herself. Funny, she sang it much better when I muted everything but the acoustic. Much more character and sass?!?! I ramble... Anyway, I'm very lucky she came to me to record it. It all starts with a good song.

 

[tezdelay]

i like that..

 

[ScottRamsay]

Nice lovely track...only thing I would maybe say is that the volume of the guitar on the right feels off balance compared to the guitar on the left. Easy enough to rectify I guess Is the vox panned slightly to the right too? Good job though!

 

[HugoRibeiro.Com]

Damn! Sounds great over here! Also nice vocals.

cheers

 

[Manslick]

I find no fault.

I really like the way she juggles the words.

I was hooked from the first capo'd chord.

Keep it comin' E-123

PS: I'd spend $00.99 for this.