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2014: "Yesterday", from the 'Trouble' album

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Thanks, Jimi. Always good comments from you. :)

That's a good call, Robus. It's been bugging me a little that the sidestick hits are too reverb heavy in the intro and the quiet bit after the solo. I think laziness stopped me from sorting it out. Anyway, I set up another automation envelope on the snare track last night just for the main...

I think you've done a good job on this song mix wise. The arrangement's pretty good for this style, which is about as far away as anything I would normally listen to. :D I am going pick on something though and I hope I don't offend, but I think the tone of the lead instrument needs work. The...

Good stuff - I'm partial to a bit of electronic. I started listening to this thinking that the sounds were great but that some judicious scooping out of low-mid mud would do this a world of good, particularly with regard to where the vocal was sitting. After a little while the mix cleared up and...

Do you think the vocal is unclear? It sounds crystal to me. All the instruments share the same global reverb apart from occasional rimshot and tom hits that have an automated send set up (for dub echo and canyon reverb effects).

This is close to being finished now. I will probably add some saxophone to it in the near future, but essentially it's done. https://soundcloud.com/user-790549787/living-in-fear Sleep Sleep is my lifeline Walls come in Killing my down time It's no down time at all I wear away the night...

New version with Lead Guitar intro - does this work? https://soundcloud.com/user-790549787/jazz-noir-gtr-intro

Thanks, Trip. The reverb is the free Magnus Ambience plugin. Preset is the "Papen Bright and Long" but edited for a bit shorter length and heavily damped in the frequencies above about 5k and below about 100 Hz.

I liked this very much performance-wise. It's more accessible than the Radiohead version and gives a very different perspective on the song. Could you share some details of your recording gear and process? Because there is a substantial amount of hiss on this recording, obtrusive enough for...

Hi, everybody. Like most of my stuff these days, this started as an extemporised drum performance by my son Frank. The drums are my new (old) drum set with some posh Zildjian and Dream cymbals. I fucked up the kick drum tracking, so that has been beefed up with a kick sub sample. I'm developing...

With the JVM it feels like I have 12 amps to choose from. :D

Well thanks for that. The exercise hasn't been a complete waste of time for me, then! :)

Greg's general guide to rock drums for NEWBIES!

Ok, Mike was good enough to send me his tracks and I had a go at a mix. It's fair to say that Mike and I don't see eye to eye on mixing style, but I had a go anyway. My DAW is Reaper and this was all mixed in the box with Reaper Native plugins, except for the Focusrite Red 3 compressor plugin...

I've recorded a bit with an AC-15 and found it great, even with a telecaster. It does the Clash brilliantly and sounds excellent wound up. It doesn't suit everybody, I suppose.

Mike, I hate popping up on this forum and just giving you a load of hassle. I'd like you to Wetransfer your wav files of this song to me, let me have a go at a mix that I think sounds good and I'll send it back to you, in private.

The synthesiser pad is insanely loud. How can you not hear that it's utterly swamping everything else in this song? Halve the volume of the synth and you might be on the way to a mix. Also, spend more time on the drums - the sound, the ambience, the punch... the drums are the most important...