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  1. jeffmaher

    Caramel - A smooth jazz version of Suzanne Vega's song

    Fun to see...but maybe instructive? I was checking one of my mixes in near mono like I always do...cuz an awful lot of music is heard in effective mono...like outside a doorway...on a distant radio, etc. Listening in mono to your work, at that unintended setting , the organ, bass and guitar...
  2. jeffmaher

    Jazzy Blues

    Gotta redo the drums...or can them. Dragging the time. Need a real drummer. I can feel the time, but the hat is always a few ms's off the pulse. Funny how I hear goobers when I post it. ....which is one of the reasons I do! the panning seems a little too left on the guitar. for some...
  3. jeffmaher

    Caramel - A smooth jazz version of Suzanne Vega's song

    The seven year thing was a joke. :^) I have to revise my original comments a bit. I was listening in near-mono...after a full day mixing. I'm in full-stereo, now....fresh ears. Guitar is too loud and boomy and stiff; and, like the organ, doesn't yield space. Organ...ditch it...
  4. jeffmaher

    Caramel - A smooth jazz version of Suzanne Vega's song

    The seven year thing was a joke. :^) I have to revise my original comments a bit. I was listening in near-mono...after a full day mixing. I'm in full-stereo, now....fresh ears. Guitar is too loud and boomy and stiff; and, like the organ, doesn't yield space. Organ...ditch it...
  5. jeffmaher

    Caramel - A smooth jazz version of Suzanne Vega's song

    I assumed the opening chords were a keyboard. And I also assumed the bass was an organ foot-pedal....thus, my comment 'reduce organ'. Non-idiomatic execution, and an overall round sound, had me fooled. I don't recall a drum intro. I was half-way through the listen [AT M50 mixing phones]...
  6. jeffmaher

    Caramel - A smooth jazz version of Suzanne Vega's song

    Drums up. Vox up. I couldn't tell there were drums until I noticed you said they were there; and I can't make out hardly a word the singer's singing. Can't hear a guitar, either...just lots of organ. On second thought, level down the organ, and everything should be swell! The flute player...
  7. jeffmaher

    Cole Clark - Recorded Direct - Opinions?

    Well, Two instruments should have musical sex: unison, counterpoint, organization, surprise..dirty-talk.......before one of them leaps around the bedroom admiring his own junk, while she just lays there, bored, with her legs open. The gentleman wanted comment on the composition: it's...
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    Cole Clark - Recorded Direct - Opinions?

    Is that sound package roughly the same as the Maton AP Mic? Maybe cut the piezo mid sweep to zero...if it isn't already, to de-squeek a bit.....or lotion up yer fingers? I didn't have a big problem with it...but you're moving really fast, and it's a high-freq 'zip' that can be annoying, I...
  9. jeffmaher

    Hebrew Slave

    The second mix had the bass level about right. But I think the problem is not in the level: it's probably more the note selection and rythmic figure [none...straight 8ths] the the bass plays. The A part's second chord is really weak with the bass playing...ah...the 5th?...way up high. I think...
  10. jeffmaher

    Rust on the Blade

    Good tune and performances.....but, man!....sounds like over-processing to near max. I know this would really rock if you re-mixed the original, un-voodooed trackage and mastered with restraint!
  11. jeffmaher

    Bluegrass tunes

    I think the recording has a vintage 30's sound....I like it. Only tweaks I'd suggest are level down the bass fiddle and rhythm guit; up with the vox and feature line-playing instruments. Super!
  12. jeffmaher

    Fingerstyle Jammin

    Very solid. Enjoyed it much. I'd narrow the field of the drums: they're everywhere!
  13. jeffmaher

    Jazzy Blues

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    A little bluegrass pickin' over at a friend's house last night.

    Wow! Real authentic b'grass! Great playing and singing all around. Love the recorded sound of the banjo...and the playing is great, too. In fact, I could swear this is Bill Emmerson's band....and his hands, on the banjo. Is it? Are you? ps. What was the distance from the mic to the...
  15. jeffmaher

    Need critique on reverb for this bluegrassy tune

    Mountain [hey neighbor] Been thinkingnabout what you said. And I agree, to a point. Thing is, that blugrass instrumentation drives the playout. Short note durations, strong transients....the reason bluegrass guitarists have their action set one degree before unplayable heighth. And the 2...
  16. jeffmaher

    Fort Worth Texas Rock

    When I think of Texas Rock, I think of Johnny Winter....or ZZ. This recording sounds like brother Edgar and Rick Derringer doing their version. Not hardly raw. Too slick. Too wet with verb and delay. Trying to sound like Electric Lady Land, instead of a tawdry roadhouse. Nothing in my...
  17. jeffmaher

    Heavy Rock tune/metal

    I thought it was great! Two things I would do differently: Thing one: the phrasing in the lead vox is trying to catch the rythmic figure in the BDG's. My point of view is that it's a mistake for two reasons. First, the vocal isn't as articulate as the figure on the instruments, and the...
  18. jeffmaher

    Need critique on reverb for this bluegrassy tune

    My take: The bass is uncharacteristic of bluegrass: notes sound too long; no transient thump....sounds like electric bass...and really moofy. Kind of a flaw. Need upright! I didn't hear distortion in the vocal. Might be my bad HF hearing; but it does sound like a condenser mike catching...
  19. jeffmaher

    I think it's junk...

    Dotto above comments. Wondering: when you added other parts and instruments, did you bury or cut way back on the acoustic?? Listen to some tunes that start like yours does, then listen for the acoustic after the band wakes up. 99% of the time, the acoustic guitar is gone. And that's cuz the...
  20. jeffmaher

    My first attempt at mixing my own song....

    She's wonderful! That's a really good recording....her voice is really nice....she's cute and comes across sincerely...and she writes interesting lyric...and apparently knows what she wants to do with them! Gold ring! And, that's what girls her age and younger....in that record-buying GAGA...
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