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Sounds pretty good, Tad, and certainly better than my early attempts at drum tracking. :D I think the toms might be a tiny bit loud - is that close miking or all in the overheads? The toms sound very, very good, actually. Excellent for somebody who's never tuned or mixed a real kit before. The...

Thanks, Antichef. I think, on balance, I have buried the vocal on the first mix and I'm addressing that now. :) Thanks, Tad. As above, I'm working on getting the lead vocal to, as you say, "float". :D

Apologies, I misread what you wrote. :) I did struggle with having enough high end, though. Re. The "Sound like Frank Black" mic, if you turn one up, let me know - I want one too. :D

I don't hate this cover. It's really good :D My only comments are about subtle ways to widen the audio panorama and give interest to the mix. ;)

PMSL. :D All for the live experience. :D

And that's the way it ought to be. :D In any case, disagreement shouldn't ever end up in butthurt. If you have an opinion and you can defend it well without losing your shit, then everybody's happy. :D

If we're getting onto Strats, I love my 80s Jap Squier. I had the pickups dipped to get rid of the microphony and had the tone controls rewired so that the pot nearest the jack socket rolled off the bridge pickup treble. Great recording guitar and it plays the best of any guitar I own.

Well, Greg, you totally know you're not the kind of person in my cross-hairs at this point. Most of the tossers I'm on about haven't heard their guitar in the context of a band or even enjoyed the company of a woman in carnal congress. :D

That's the problem. I've never owned a guitar that a change of pickups would have taken from mediocre to world-beating. I suppose the Yammy humbuckers in my gigging guitar could be improved upon, but I can work with the tone they have for the music I'm doing, and that's it. A case in point is...

I rarely play the neck pickup on my tele, so I can't speak for that. But when you swap out a pickup for one that is SO different, ought you not to be considering a different guitar? There is a certain kind of person who just cannot settle on a guitar, pickup, amp etc. etc. They fuck about with...

To be honest, you were not the target of my rant, far from it. You try out the nuances, just so you don't have to rely on received wisdom. But I still occasionally go to the Marshall forum and they make my bollocks ache. :D You can own a guitar because you love the object for its own sake, but...

It's the short scale, the lack of sustain, the vintage radius that chokes the strings when bending. But the guitar has the perfect tone for some situations and that's why I haven't ditched it. Am I going to swap out the pickups for AVRI or Bare Knuckle Jag pickups? Am I fuck. They contribute a...

The GAUGE of strings is a legitimate concern. That affects playability. Not everybody has the kind of hands that can cope with 11 or 12-gauge strings. But worrying about different brands of strings of the same gauge is a complete waste of time. The audience don't care, most other musicians...

I suppose I've never owned a guitar that I don't like the sound of, or just cannot find an amp setting with that guitar that I can work with. My least favourite guitar is my Jag, and that's because it doesn't play all that well for most of the stuff I do. Playability is my bottom line, any tone...

This I agree with. Who worries about the weight of a guitar? Someone who is either feeble, old or effeminate. :D

Cheers, Paulman. Reading all this, it seems like you wanted to pre-empt my mixing decisions. All that did was narrow down my choices or leave me with nowhere to go when the high end was missing. I have access to compressors, EQ, distortion plugins and everything else. Supplying me with...

I don't understand this idea of "upgrades". Pickups, pots, electronics, types of wire..... Do they make you play any better? No. Do they give you a better amp? No. Do they make you write a better song? No. It's all bollocks. The most important bits are the player, the song and the amp. The rest...

Hey, Rob - really enjoyed this. Nice to hear a cut from the underrated Wire. :) I think you've done the song justice and got all the instrument tones nicely. Your singing is a good fit for the band generally and you've done a great job with the harmonies. That alone tells me you've spent many...

I gave this a good couple of listens and I think you really have the right voice for this.:) As mentioned by others, the vocal is too loud for such a sparse mix. It could do with a bit of compression on the mix to push the guitars and vocals together more when the volumes of the instruments...

Got to go shopping, I'll listen and comment properly on this in about an hour! :D