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WAAY too limited - to where it is unnaturally loud. Good freq balance and stereo field - but it's turned up to 12 and everything is smushed together in a less descript crushing of the sound all blendered together. Try pulling back to where ears stop bleeding and the edges of each sound begin to...

That's intentional - so that the part is "out in the open" for folks to hear clear (in general context). I wanted it to poke out, and it does stick about out like a sore thumb at the moment. I didn't adjust the original bass EQ on the bus, so it DOES tilt towards the high end as well. I tend...

I NEVER would have created that from my brain. It's testimony to how creativity is enhanced in music as a team sport.

It should be now. I caught it being ever so slightly awry in a later listen and went "How did THAT happen?" :D

Another option towards a solution, of course, is to have a master bass player read the thread and decide to send a live Rickenbacker track to put into the part. Many thanks to @Trojka for his always awesome contribution! Also @mark skinner - I took your advice and brought the toms more center...

This one came about strangely. I sketched the piece out loosely on an out of tune 12 string guitar but Stu Gort liked what he heard anyways and jumped in to help. He then added most of what you hear here - begging me to please retrack the 12 string and tune the fucking thing right. So - I did...

One of the hardest things for anyone who makes music to do is retain the listener's casual perspective. They don't care what goes into making something sound good. To them, it either works or it doesn't. It's as simple as "I like it." or "I don't like it." - because they're not studying...

Thanks K! I will give that area a check. Thanks for the detailed notice.

The point of technology is to make it easier to sound better - and to me, that means more natural. The drums ARE a live drummer recorded via midi. So they are played "live". The key is the marriage of the song to the drum prescription - making what's played fit the song. One of the things I...

I have been played (over the years) on local music stations - both college and commercial. I'm still being played on college stations. Largely this is because my college roommate was a big fan of my music and happened to be a DJ. He worked w/ Howard Stern in Hartford at WCCC back when Howard was...

In the category of "Kev is a huge procrastinator", I started this song when my daughter was born - and I finished it just after my Mom died - probably a span of near 20 years. Now folks know what the lyrics are about. :D Thanks so much regarding mentioning the angel's voices. I worked really...

THIS! Same OCD. :D In mixing, my inclination would be to reduce the monotonous parts and bring up the ear candy. The thump and the rhythmic chords are not the feature here, but they are the feature of the mix - which, like the waveform, is the OPPOSITE of what I'd have done. Put the bed in...

As per usual, often I just go "What Trip said". I always find my first impression of such is "cool sound!" - which if it doesn't "do something else" wears quickly on me. That's the trick of this genre. I don't go to dance clubs to listen to music for the same reason. So what might work in that...

Everything in this is fake. In that, I mean the bass is a synth. The drums are sampled midi. The bongos are a rhythm loop. The female vocals are Yamaha vocaloid synths. The chimes MIGHT be real, but the cymbal swells are samples. Thinking more closely, I think the chimes are samples too - though...

Google "compression" and "midrange bloom". It will explain it in far more depth than I can muster in short form text format. Put simply, when things get squashed, the midrange pokes out more prominently, because all things being equal, the human ear is more sensitive to that region of...

Truth told, Mark, and I'm serious, when I listened back again, I THOUGHT the bass was a little hot - especially compared to the "Crowded House" version suggested above as well. So I rolled it back ever so slightly. I also pulled the drums back and -- altered the snare sound to be slightly less...

It's funny. When Rob sent me a bunch of replacement sounds, I thought it a brilliant exercise. I'd used Kontakt's Rick as the original bass, but I have Trilogy by Spectrasonics - which I hadn't used in forever so I found that my authorization on my rig had expired. I went there and saw they'd...

Oh yeah - THERE YOU GO! You NAILED it. Nice work. There's exactly the spread and movement to the mix that I envisioned. Now perhaps just a hair back on the limiter until the glue remains, but the harsh mids disappear and the the edges of the sound round out. It's not a lot of pull back - just...

I'm a fan of the Finn bros back to Split Enz. I gave a quick spin through the tracks and I get the reference. The drums are midi. I can change the sound to about anything I want. Part of the reason the keys and rhythm section don't syncopate is because, frankly, the rhythm section came last in...

I have not as of yet - but I'm on my way.