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"Is there *really* a difference between all these strings? I played a bunch of guitars and can't pick out the difference." There is a difference. Sometimes subtle, often big. Different compressor plugins all respond differently to sound sources. The trick is knowing enough to be able to hear...

Thanks again for all the kind remarks guys! If anybody wants the full CD just shoot me a private message. I'd be happy to share.

Thanks for the kind remarks everyone. And Greg - thanks again for your help with the drum mixing on "When Your Heart" at the very end of mixing. Much appreciated.

Hey everyone, My father are I are a studio project called Escher's Enigma. I handle vocals, guitar, piano, MIDI programming, and all production aspects. My father handles the bass. We collaborate on all songwriting. We have a combined 40+ years of professional live and studio music experience...

Hey man, I think you might want to revisit this when you can mix on monitors. The drums are pretty off balance. The cymbals are really, really loud, the kick drum is very woofy and overpowering, while the snare got totally buried. I have noticed that you do a lot of fake stereo imaging from...

One more vote for the snare drum. It just lacked meat. Not the kind of sound I would expect from this sort of music. I would be aiming for a deeper, darker sound. Kick drum could probably get a little more thump, but it wouldn't bother me if it stayed the way it is. Playing is all stellar...

Thanks man, you did a great job too. We used to cover "Mama, I'm Coming Home" in a band I was in about 8 years ago, but I wasn't singing. I have either been the lead guitarist and harmony vocalist in classic rock and 80s hair metal cover bands, or a solo acoustic singer/songwriter guy. Never the...

He's got it on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/schwarzenyaeger/war-pigs

Everyone doing vocals for Schwarzenyaeger's Sabbath/Ozzy cover project right now is singing outside comfort zones. Christ, I'm an acoustic pop/adult contemporary guy and I did War Pigs, currently working on The Wizard. So I think the crazy vocal nitpicking can chill regarding this project. We'll...

I initially found the "drums in mono" thing to be annoying, since that's where I would start too. However for this track being of such an ambient nature, I found the drums in one mono track to be quite easy to work with.

Here you go. The mix was cleaned up, and I gave it a quick master. You can listen on Soundcloud and download both an .aiff and high quality .mp3 at the Dropbox link. https://soundcloud.com/brianmillermagic/overkill-by-colin-hay-cover-by-steve-f-half-enigma-productions...

Yikes. That guitar. What happened? I mixed that song too, and while it wasn't recorded great (especially the palm rubbing against string noise), it was still possible to produce a fine warm, tonally balanced sound. Sounds like you high pass filtered the guitar up to 500hz or something. I don't...

Of course it's a Home Recording forum :) Plenty of guys on here do part time professional work in audio engineering, like I do. But you can safely assume that if someone responds to a thread and offers to help, it is intended as a donation of time as part of this great community. If someone...

Certainly I can make it downloadable, but would you prefer I do some more work on it first? Get it into real solid shape?

I'm glad you enjoyed the mix, and I am happy to wait for some new vocals and then make other adjustments to the current mix. I would be happy to discuss the various decisions that I made. 1. The first thing I did, that any engineer needs to do, is organize the tracks. You had labeled the files...

Use EQ to sit the vocals, first and foremost. Use compression to keep levels in check and allow the vocals to ride above the guitars without getting unruly. Use volume automation to drop guitars down during verses. Stereo widening isn't going to help you sit things in the mix.

Thanks man, I appreciate it. And yeah I'm very lucky over the past few years that my career has shifted into the types of venues that, for the most part, give you their attention and respect for the performance. It's such a different ballgame when you aren't desperately trying to get people to...

Nice mix man. The guitars are super clean. What was your recording chain for them? The lyrics are fairly generic, but we've all done it. No harm there. Not every song can be a brilliant social/political statement. The lead guitar was *maybe* a little loud, but it reminded me of 80s Aerosmith...

Not intentionally so I'll take it as a compliment!

Thanks everyone! Bruthish - Let me know if you're in New England for sure. And yeah, those heavy chords at the end overloaded the feed a bit. It was just one mixing guy and it wasn't his job to watch my computer, so I had it set as best as I could. TripleM - thanks for watching/listening...