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  1. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Ok, thanks very much. I'll pm you in a bit. I've got to take care of a fish tank and some other stuff first. Then I'll get the tracks sorted and get them ready to upload somewhere. Appreciate your generosity. I'll be real interested to hear your assessment of the raw tracks. Yeah, the bass...I...
  2. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Haha :) Spantini...the best laid plans of mice and men... Anyway...here's some images for your viewing horror: We've got the REW data...this shows basic frequency response in the listening position. (This is the new set up. I haven't recorded anything in here yet) As you can see, there's a...
  3. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    I live in Australia. But you're right. I'd love to be able to one on one with someone more experienced than me. Unfortunately, I don't know a single person into music or recording. I'd have to hit up a stranger or bug some studio dude. I'm not really that gregarious I guess. I mean. I'm somewhat...
  4. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Oh yeah I have great gear...seriously good stuff. But my home studio is pretty bad I'd say. I'll take some pics of the new set up and I'll include some REW images as well, just for the record. The thing about Amplitube is it sounds awesome on youtube...and that's not just the manufacturer's...
  5. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Addendum/ revelation: Dragging this thread back again...I've really been trying to work things out here and the conclusion seems to be this: My raw tracks are quite poor. It's less to do with mixing issues and more to do with poor raw tracks. I took a long hard look at one of my songs...
  6. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Hey HP...yeah it's not there. Not happy with it, Company Stranger or Country Mile really. I've got my home studio stripped at the moment. I'm reconfiguring. I took measurements and all that. I'm gonna build some panels and treatment including putting some on the ceiling. I've emptied the entire...
  7. Monkey Allen

    Which of the mixes are best

    My cozy home studio is down for renovation at the moment so I heard these on a laptop. The middle one...the compressed one is the best I think. The first one had cymbals and crashes seemingly out on their own and things weren't unifiied. The middle one was more cohesive and more unified. The...
  8. Monkey Allen

    Just a jam - Moscow McNuggets... (ты хочешь картофель фри с этим?)

    Laptop listen here. Things sound pretty good. I won't comment extravagently on the sound apart from the laptop makes it good. Nice guitars all over the place. Well played :)
  9. Monkey Allen

    New Honey Hunters - "Never Mind"

    Hi, sounds very nice to me. I'm in the middle of re-jigging my L3.6xW2.7xH2.5m home studio so that I have half a chance of mixing. Your song sounds absolutely fantastic here on my Yamaha HS8's. Very nice indeed. Cool song, well played, very classy parts and arrangement.
  10. Monkey Allen

    Remix project: The first album revisited 20 years later

    Little anecdote...I helped my mum buy a laptop the other day which means she gave me back this old all in one PC I had bought in 2012 that I had given her for the past few years. I got it back to my place and turned it on to see if it was still going alright and all that. Runs ok, so naturally I...
  11. Monkey Allen

    Remix project: The first album revisited 20 years later

    Nah, I switched to Studio One in around 2011 or so. But wasn't doing any real recording anyway. Just mucking around. I was kind of getting into it in the Guitar Tracks 2/ Sonar days, then yeah, like I said, moved overseas for the next 15 years. I've only recently come back home and have had the...
  12. Monkey Allen

    Remix project: The first album revisited 20 years later

    Very nice stuff K-dub. The mixes sounded excellent. Very easy to listen to. Cakewalk 'eh? My first bit of digital recording gear was Guitar Tracks Pro 2 which I tinkered with 17 years ago or so before heading overseas for work and to live in a shoe box for 15 odd years. I'm pretty sure that was...
  13. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Thanks again dobro...absolutely Human Planet knew the score and told it to me straight from the get go. All those points you link to are on the money. Just got to implement the good advice I've been getting, as you said. :unsure: (y)
  14. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    I haven't heard that song for a long time. The electric guitar may have been a bit harsh? What do you reckon? I heard souncloud does stuff at 14lufs (whatever lufs is). Rubik's Cube of skills is exactly right! (y)(y)
  15. Monkey Allen

    What DAW are you using?

    Studio One since about 2012.
  16. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Yep, agreed. Definitely onto the drums now, trying to get that sussed. Classic...I only just found out that EzDrummer has a "velocity" slider. The slider goes, I think, -127 - 0 - +127. I've been making all my drums at "0". If you ease it back a little for songs that don't need slamming drums...
  17. Monkey Allen

    Misfit

    A laptop listen here...cool song and theme. All the playing is great. Big fan of the guitar solo there. I like your choice for the ending. That sounds good. If I was to comment on the mix I'd say maybe the vocals are covered a tad to the extent that they don't play the lead role compared to the...
  18. Monkey Allen

    Down On The Border

    I listened on a laptop and it sounded very good to me. All the parts sound nice and true. You perform well and you let it flow. I like that.
  19. Monkey Allen

    Mixing SOS

    Yeah, sure I edit the midi in Studio One. You can do that. So, ok, you know EZD...plenty of their midi sees the snare at 100%...and I turn them down. But what's your target level for (let's use snare hits as an example) snare hits on the midi roll? Obviously not 100%, and probably obviously...
  20. Monkey Allen

    "If you please" (A proposal in song)

    This song moved and rose in my speakers like a behemoth, filling the soundscape with one delicious part after another. A truly humbling sound experience and something to either aim for or flee from. I'd love to make stuff this good one day. Or half as good. A quarter as good. I'll settle for...
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