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  1. dobro

    original song, please critique my mix

    You know what? I think you need to familiarize yourself with some of the basics instead of trying to mix from online suggestions. Here's a standard reference work for mixing by Mike Senior: 'Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio'. It costs about 50 bucks and it'll take you hours to go through it...
  2. dobro

    Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" - WTF is this, magic?!

    Way better through the KRKs. I'll be interested to hear this when you've finished the mix.
  3. dobro

    original song, please critique my mix

    How many mics did you record it with? One or two? If one, it can't be phasey. If two, zoom in on the two tracks and see if the peaks and troughs of the wav form align. That's probably why I thought a bit more bottom would help. When you say 'removed', are you talking about a low-cut filter...
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    Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" - WTF is this, magic?!

    I listened to all four iterations. Each one gets better. Nice. Earbud listen: Sounds okay, but I want to listen later on the big speakers. The e-piano's getting sort of awash with those long tails on all the notes. If it didn't ruin the sound, I'd be playing with compressor settings to get a...
  5. dobro

    original song, please critique my mix

    Levels are fine, and the frequency spectrum is about right (I'd like a bit more bottom on the guitar, though). Something to explore more might be space. I'm using a blend reverb plus a space reverb on my vocal + guitar stuff these days. Even though I'm going for a relatively dry sound (I want...
  6. dobro

    Just for the hell of it Misfits cover- Where Eagles Dare

    If, instead of putting a pause between the first and second line of the refrain (I ain't no goddamn sonuvabitch - you better think about it baby), you just joined them up without a pause between, you'd get the second part to scan better and drive the rhythm better. The rest of it is respectable...
  7. dobro

    Border of Love

    Tjarko. He's cunning, eh? It's cooked into the vocal track - I recorded it with the vocal mic. :oops:
  8. dobro

    Border of Love

    2.5KHz - good call. It was the whole shelf in fact. Pulled it down. Cheers.
  9. dobro

    Border of Love

    The audible click was jj cale inspired for the recording part. The song was written before that. Our stuff moves similarly sometimes though, so it was easy to experiment with.
  10. dobro

    Border of Love

    I've got a bongo part (I like doing them mid-side nowadays - I don't get enough pop out of the heads when I record, so mid-side makes them bigger another way). I love recording bongos, cuz you get to hit things. AnywY, I'm holding it in reserve in case the arrangement needs a push, but at this...
  11. dobro

    Border of Love

    While waiting for the previous tune to get redone, I thought I'd post a new one. I've mixed it to where it is now, and I'm wondering how levels and frequency balance strike your ears, and what you're listening through. I did the front man stuff and Tjarko did the rest.
  12. dobro

    Lee Shore CSN cover (Final mix/master))

    Never heard this one before. Thanks for introducing it. I listened to the original. I wanted it to stay in that gentle latin groove they started up at the beginning, but they got sort of intense with it by the end. You don't do that, you maintain the groove throughout - sort of nudged toward...
  13. dobro

    No Escape

    Listened through monitors - it just sounds better through bigger speakers. There's nothing I'd tweak. You feel the same or are you unsure?
  14. dobro

    No Escape

    Sounds about right through earbuds. (I'll listen through the big guys later.) Why '25 years too late'?
  15. dobro

    Need more Time

    Faultless. I'd be dancing to this too much to tweak knobs and click shit.
  16. dobro

    Punk gone acoustic - Original Tune (Everyone is Getting Older)

    Tight bv harmonies and good separation with the front vocal. Good playing, good work.
  17. dobro

    Far Away - remastered

    It's not a fair comparison - the master's so much better. But it's a great mix of a great performance of a great tune.
  18. dobro

    champagne

    Life is so weird sometimes. I put together a vocal years ago and sent it to my buddy Tjarko and he made it into a song. Years later, he decides to redo it. So I re-wrote most of the lyrics and re-did the vocal. It's better now. Whatcha think? https://on.soundcloud.com/MLPAdsdmRwd6kSxn8 Tjarko...
  19. dobro

    My 13 yo daughter wrote an original tune “Reaching for the Moon” - check it out yo

    Yes, exactly. Musically mature for someone just into their teens. Good tune, ace delivery, great hook. Five stars out of the gate, kid. If your dad behaves, let him play on more of your tunes lol.
  20. dobro

    intoxicated

    Maybe it's the double tracking you mentioned, but the sound of the vocal is tricksy to my ears and makes me want to hear it as it was sung.
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