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FWIW - I employ this technique frequently. It's a good suggestion.

This is correct.

I'll have to find it first. :D Chris sent a mish mosh of 8 or so tracks of percussion. Everything from the steam sounds to garbled birds making dying noises. I don't have control specifically over that sound. I can take whatever track it is on down a bit, though. I'll check out which is was. It...

I don't know if Chris Hargrove (handle: Mixmaster) comes and visits here anymore - but back in the day, he and I wandered off this weird side alley of working on this oddball piece together. I started it w/ just the piano and Chris took that file and ran with it. He added the percussion/drums -...

That's it, Jeff. Wince factor is gone. Nice adjustment. It is a comfortable listen now. Bring the vocals slightly forward and get them in the pocket and call it a day. You might be able to layer the EQ to poke it through more. It's not a big tweak - but remember that in modern recordings, the...

So we've gone from asking if it sounds real - because now it is real - to does it sound good? :D If you notice the song title, I record the date AND the limiter setting I used. I save multiple mixes w/ different settings and I will go back and forth for quick listens to determine which sounds...

Oh - you're right. It doesn't sound overly phased. That's because it's not. Your ears are not deceiving you by not hearing it. It's not drowning in phase issues. I said that's the result of two wide sources that are too much alike (with the difference YOU correctly noted). That said, there IS...

I second Dave's notion. I have a suggestion as well. Pull back on the beater (kick). It's clouding the mids in competition - which is unnecessary. Listen to where you hear it, but it loses its prominence. The vocals will become much more defined because there won't be a 3k-ish interruption...

That's an appealing start. Generally close on everything - but tipped into midrange bloom land where the wince needle is detecting some overly compressed tracking. Stereo field is well balanced and there's interesting movement to the work - but I'd try to back off wherever the compression is...

WAAY too limited - to where it is unnaturally loud. Good freq balance and stereo field - but it's turned up to 12 and everything is smushed together in a less descript crushing of the sound all blendered together. Try pulling back to where ears stop bleeding and the edges of each sound begin to...

That's intentional - so that the part is "out in the open" for folks to hear clear (in general context). I wanted it to poke out, and it does stick about out like a sore thumb at the moment. I didn't adjust the original bass EQ on the bus, so it DOES tilt towards the high end as well. I tend...

I NEVER would have created that from my brain. It's testimony to how creativity is enhanced in music as a team sport.

It should be now. I caught it being ever so slightly awry in a later listen and went "How did THAT happen?" :D

Another option towards a solution, of course, is to have a master bass player read the thread and decide to send a live Rickenbacker track to put into the part. Many thanks to @Trojka for his always awesome contribution! Also @mark skinner - I took your advice and brought the toms more center...

This one came about strangely. I sketched the piece out loosely on an out of tune 12 string guitar but Stu Gort liked what he heard anyways and jumped in to help. He then added most of what you hear here - begging me to please retrack the 12 string and tune the fucking thing right. So - I did...

One of the hardest things for anyone who makes music to do is retain the listener's casual perspective. They don't care what goes into making something sound good. To them, it either works or it doesn't. It's as simple as "I like it." or "I don't like it." - because they're not studying...

Thanks K! I will give that area a check. Thanks for the detailed notice.

The point of technology is to make it easier to sound better - and to me, that means more natural. The drums ARE a live drummer recorded via midi. So they are played "live". The key is the marriage of the song to the drum prescription - making what's played fit the song. One of the things I...

I have been played (over the years) on local music stations - both college and commercial. I'm still being played on college stations. Largely this is because my college roommate was a big fan of my music and happened to be a DJ. He worked w/ Howard Stern in Hartford at WCCC back when Howard was...

In the category of "Kev is a huge procrastinator", I started this song when my daughter was born - and I finished it just after my Mom died - probably a span of near 20 years. Now folks know what the lyrics are about. :D Thanks so much regarding mentioning the angel's voices. I worked really...