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stratmonkee

stratmonkee

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MY friend wrote some lyrics for me, so I attempted to make a song out of this...used my Martin acoustic primarily on this, solo bit in the middle is a takemine nylon string classical guitar. Bass guitar used was squire classic 70s vibe p-bass. synth sounds where the martin thru a ehx string 9 and ehx mel9. Wondering how mix sounds, my ears are pretty wiped out for now :>)

 
I like the acoustic rhythm guitars.

To me the bass tone doesn't fit the vibe of the song. I'd prefer something a little warmer and rounder. This tone has a fairly strong attack, fairly trebly, lot's of fret scrapes, etc. I'd like something a little less aggressive sounding.

Vocals have a bit too much treatment to me. Some pitchiness. They're buried in spots too.

I like the orchestral pad instruments.

I like the nylon string guitar, but it's getting clobbered by the rest of the stuff going on when it's playing.

Drums overall I thought sounded good.
 
You have a good song structure and melody going on. With practically 'any' real drum track it would sound a 1000X better.

You have a good, very organic song going on here, and the drum machine doesn't help it along.

EL
 
Irwin abrigo said:
Intro and into the song definitely has a good vibe this is one of those songs I'll enjoy at a concert. Very good rock vibe going on here.

Irwin
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Thanks for the listen, glad ya dig it!
TripleM said:
I like the acoustic rhythm guitars.

To me the bass tone doesn't fit the vibe of the song. I'd prefer something a little warmer and rounder. This tone has a fairly strong attack, fairly trebly, lot's of fret scrapes, etc. I'd like something a little less aggressive sounding.

Vocals have a bit too much treatment to me. Some pitchiness. They're buried in spots too.

I like the orchestral pad instruments.

I like the nylon string guitar, but it's getting clobbered by the rest of the stuff going on when it's playing.

Drums overall I thought sounded good.
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HI TripleM, agree on the bass, its a new bass and I have not changed the strings yet and the set on the bass (P-Bass) where very bright and clangy, have since restung with some roto sound round wound strings and adjusted action a little, plays a lot better now and less clanky and bright. I think I will retrack the bass now :>)
Will look at the vocals, I did record the backing vocals with a fairly strong reverb level off my board, which was probably a mistake as cant adjust afterwards :>/ should redo those as well... pitchiness is tough for me as I'm working on my singing. Will look at the levels during the nylon string part..I do have a synth thats pretty up front, as well as the mel 9 pedal "string" parts. I love that pedal but tend to over do it a little :>)
Thanks as always for your feedback, appreciate your comments!

Eric Malone said:
You have a good song structure and melody going on. With practically 'any' real drum track it would sound a 1000X better.

You have a good, very organic song going on here, and the drum machine doesn't help it along.

EL
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Thanks for listening Eric, wish I could do "real drums" just a little beyond my situation at the moment ....maybe able to rectify that soon! I agree it would be so much better with real drums :>)
 
I Love the laid back way you sang this. Very nice. I did feel the main vox could have been a little more centered in the mix.
The nylon guitar sounded Real nice I thought you did a good job of capturing the acoustics.
I like bright strings on my bass , but the squeaks can be problematic . When you do isolate the frequency it's still hard to get it out properly.
I Really enjoyed this. Great job on this mix , hope to hear another one .. mark
 
stratmonkee said:
MY friend wrote some lyrics for me, so I attempted to make a song out of this...used my Martin acoustic primarily on this, solo bit in the middle is a takemine nylon string classical guitar. Bass guitar used was squire classic 70s vibe p-bass. synth sounds where the martin thru a ehx string 9 and ehx mel9. Wondering how mix sounds, my ears are pretty wiped out for now :>)

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Great song - entire thing sounds like demo- which isn't bad - but you got the song right.
 
mark skinner said:
I Love the laid back way you sang this. Very nice. I did feel the main vox could have been a little more centered in the mix.
The nylon guitar sounded Real nice I thought you did a good job of capturing the acoustics.
I like bright strings on my bass , but the squeaks can be problematic . When you do isolate the frequency it's still hard to get it out properly.
I Really enjoyed this. Great job on this mix , hope to hear another one .. mark
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Thanks! I am currently re visiting the mix with the feedback I've received in mind, will definitely look at those vocals! Thanks for the listen!
 
Bulls Hit said:
Nice track. Ebbs and flows really well, almost Beatlesque in the way it builds. Good job
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Thanks Bulls Hit, I did want this song to have some noticable dynamics, working on a re mix now to hopefully highlight those a bit more.
Thanks for the listen!
 
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