Recent content by chuckduffy

A lot of talent goes a long way!

This is a fantastic performance, and the recording is beautiful. I checked it out on my little desktop speakers and my big rig.

Man, I unintentionally bumped this replying to a five year old comment from Stratomaster, where he suggests just use a capo. Because I am dumb, it never occurred to me people would listen lol. I took another 5 year break, but am just getting back into the game. I redid my setup from the ground...

Hey man, I was taking another wack at this with my kid and you are 100% SPOT ON. Thanks!!!

God bless you for trying man. It's weird because you get random 5 second patches where you completely capture the ethos of the song, but then lose it again.

This is going somewhere. The verses make me want to hear Warren Zevon sing them :-)

As always, the instrumentation and vocals are top freaking notch. In this case, the drums are seriously lacking punch/life/whatever which is usually NOT the case with your stuff..

The vocals and instrumentation are actually really nice, the drums I can't possibly abide. Sorry :-(

Yeah I find it such a gigantic pain in the ass that I barely bother anymore. I can't stand the whole get something down then futz with it forever anymore. I have been recording continuously since 1987 and my recordings and mixes still are all over the map lol.

Since you were looking for advice - keep doing whatever you are doing :-)

Just wanted to say that overall I love the song, performance and mix. There is some generalized weirdness/artifacts, I think coming from soundcloud but even that doesn't detract. Good stuff man. I don't check in often but its great to find gems like this waiting.

PS - I also agree with you, I don't think this is comb filtering, I think it is an artifact of both audio processing on the raw track, and the soundcloud mp3 processing. All my tracks have fuzz around the high end when played from Soundcloud, and Soundcloud played over bluetooth (like in a car)...

afaik it is totally possible to get comb filtering with a single mic from the reflections of surrounding hard surfaces, happens all the time to my stuff if I am not careful.

First - love the vibe overall. Right off the bat, on my setup * Drum level is just too high - the snare alone is distracting me from the overall track * Reverb/Delays are "blooming" when hit with a lot of signal, and when they hit there is a lot of low frequency stuff that builds up drowning...

I don't really put any stock in listening versus not listening to stuff. I do actively play and cover other peoples stuff because (for me) it is a surefire way to a) become a better player b) break out of a rut - and keep moving c) learn a lot about song structure and instrumentation. For me...