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Definitely better for clearing up all of those crazy drums in the first mix. I still think the timing gets thrown off a bit each time there’s a drum fill though. The bass part is good, and it has a good energy to drive the song. Guitar tone sounds really fizzy to me, I think you’d get more...

Good to hear something new from you Trip. I hear what you mean with the guitars being on the edge of fizz - the tone is in no way terrible though. what happened when you just tracked with a little less gain? I'm guessing you already tried that and it didn't work for you. It mostly sounds...

Had chance to listen to this before leaving for work. Update sounds great DM, I like the more prominent tambourine. Nice work.

This is great DM, it's like some kind of old style chaingang tune. All the vocal layers sound really good and come together nicely. Maybe the main vocal could come up a touch as it really drives the song. It may also be a cool addition to find some clanging metal thing to bring in at some...

New mix sounding good Manslick. From memory, I preferred the drums on the first mix as I seem to remember they were much dryer? Other changes sounding really good though - it's better without the jammy guitar bit and the part where the vocals open up is really very nice. Good job! :)

Thanks Manslick, that does help and is pretty interesting. Was also interesting to listen to the clip you posted upthread. I just downloaded a harmonizer this morning called pitchproof and tried something similar to you with a vocal track for a cover I did a while back –the main vocal already...

Great, thanks for listening Fleet. Apologies for the delay acknowledging and replying - Christmas kinda took over and didn't get chance. Glad you liked it and hope you guys all had a good break. Yeah, it's the same patch that causes issues in the intro and from 1.20 - I think I'm at the limit...

Great, thanks for coming back in Manslick and good to hear it translated well on the big speakers. I hoped it would sound kinda full and enveloping - but tricky to get the balance right with all these synth parts that have the potential to jut out at odd angles on different systems. The mental...

This is really interesting. I've never tried these harmonisers before and my approach to harmonies and backing vocals is pretty basic and often involves scratching around like a blind chicken. I can usually pitch to a fifth or an octave to harmonise, but besides that I've no real idea. So...

I'm always stoked to see a new Manslick song in the clinic - they're just too infrequent these days! This was a really nice - I like the surreal stream of consciousness flow of the lyrics and the vocals are great. The slow build up of the arrangement is really cool, drums and organ sound great...

The update of the update sounds really good I think Nola. The timing is a little loose in spots, but you're a Dinosaur Jr/Pavement fan so that's probably fine! The right panned guitar is a little louder than the left one and so it slants the mix to the right a bit - I'd look at bringing them a...

Had a bit of time to remix this tonight and replaced the original file. Made a bunch of changes, but no idea now whether any of them amount to very much at all. Overheads are down a little for one. I've tried to tame the piercing synth too, but it's proving hard and making eq cuts is...

I think this sounds really good man. I listened back a few times to see if there was anything that stuck out, but nothing came to mind. I'm more interested in the creative side being right and then the mix getting into the right ballpark, so I'm never too good on precise details - which...

Hi, great to hear from you Manslick. Thanks for listening and happy Christmas to you too. Yeah, I guess the Christmas flavouring is subtle, but I'm a bit bored of the usual Christmas tropes, so I'm ok with that. Interesting that it sounds thin in the lows as I was hoping the bass and kick...

Thanks for the detailed feedback Nola. Always good to get your thoughts man. Fair point re. Mogwai I think. I never try and consciously ape a particular band, but Mogwai are certainly a long term personal favourite and I've listened to the record they released earlier this year a lot. Been a...

Great, thanks a lot DM. I'll take a look at the kick - I wanted the drums to accent rather than drive this tune, but I'll have a play around and see how it sounds. Appreciate you taking the time :) Great, thanks a lot Taras. I must admit the update I made corrected areas that were bugging me...

I thought this was really cool nola, one of the best I've heard from you. There's a good energy to the drums and guitars that I think I commented wasn't there on the Dinosaur Jr cover. Mix sounds good to me and I personally like the vocal level for the style. There seems to be a bit of what...

Great, thanks Trip. The challenge was how to give it a Christmas atmosphere that I could bear and how to do so without vocals. Glad it worked and the tones sounded ok. I think you caught a quick update that I uploaded after Robus and VHS had commented, so seems like that might have improved...

Yeah, me too VHS. I generally can't stand Christmas songs either, so this was an attempt to do one on my own terms. Thanks a lot for checking it out and glad to hear nothing was standing out as needing much correction. Wasn't sure how some of the elements would translate, so that's good...

Great, thanks for listening Robus and sharing your thoughts. One of the main things I was wondering was how that opening synth would sit on people’s systems and had a feeling it might come across a little wince inducing for some. I'm not near speakers now, but I know where you mean it’ll be...