Recent content by Flyguitarfish

Steelhead!

You try to tell her what to do to her music! She has her ideas and she is pretty set on them! Sometimes she’ll listen to me! Lol!

She’s doing great stuff! She has a new one in the works that has an awesome melody. Coming soon! I tuned the drums. I blended a little bit of a sample in with the snare because I needed more snare wires. Everything else is just my kit (Noble & Cooley Horizon with a Ludwig Black Beauty snare)...

My daughter wrote this one last month and we just finished recording it last night. She did a great job with the lyrics and vocal melody/harmonies. She was determined to play all the instruments herself (drums, bass, guitars) so I was “hands off” on this one. I was just there to produce and...

I liked it! I like the breaks where everything drops out except the drums for a beat. If anything I’d reserve the vocal double for just the chorus or other select parts of the song. Maybe just dial it back for the main verses. Nice job!

I really like the tune and mix. If anything, the acoustic guitars sounded a little too bright. Maybe dial those back so the vocals can shine a bit more. Nice work!

Much appreciated. Definitely check out the Smith’s version. Great tune!

Thanks BTS! Your feedback is always appreciated! Definitely check out the original! You’ll hear a great song and will appreciate the differences between the two versions. Thanks again!

Awesome, I really appreciate that Mark!

Thank you! I always struggle to fit vocals into my dense mixes. This time I compressed pretty hard going in through an empirical labs Mike-e channel strip (Nuke). I rolled off most of the low end (very little left under 300k), compressed hard again with a CLA-76, added some Decapitator...

Thank you! Check out the original by the Smith’s. So good, and you’ll realize how much I butchered it!

Awesome, thank you for the compliments and feedback. I was definitely torn on the new verse effect. I opted to let it be super wet in verb as a purposeful effect because it’s about a dream I had. I cut out the guitars in that section and left a distorted bass. I felt it was intelligible enough...

Sounds great! I definitely like the guitar solo centered, it’s the “vocals” while there’s no singing. If a guitar solo continues when the lead vocal starts up again the guitar can move to the side out of the way a bit. But there always needs to be something on center stage. Nicely done.

I’ve been wanting to make this cover for a while. It’s such a sad song and I wanted to put my own spin on it, so I added some of my own lyrics and rearranged a few things to lift it back up on the back half of the song. Added a little more balance to the sadness, if you will. Drums are a bit...

Nice work! She has a beautiful voice. I had to look up the original. I like this better than Taylor Swift’s version! I can hear what others are talking about with the stereo image of the main vocals. For example at about 2:57 the word “list” moves into my left ear. Not sure what would cause...