Blue Light - New Track - First Mix

[dobro]

Only five years old, and pops to the top! I had to listen, just based on the comments.

Earbud listen: 4th mix is way, way better than 1st mix. No suggestions, I just really enjoyed listening. Good song, good performance, good sound.

So... you gonna do it all again with a capo?

 

[Papanate]

MIX Four - bluelight2_m7.mp3 - Google Drive
Cleaned up some flubs, raised the bg vocal a little, tweaked some EQ. Think its about where I want it

First listen to mix 4 - some comments:

Drums are great - sound really live and present - is it EZ Drummer and Reverb or a real drummer?
Vocals - the sound is locked in - whatever you are using works very well for your vocals - I think you need to practice
a bunch of times and recut it - maybe not - just fix the pitching and some of you hanging notes.
Guitars - scratch track right? They were not good - and you ought to rehape your progression - the guitars sound
like a bad version of a thousand other guitars - but with a little work you could figure it out.
Bass - it’s not bad - but two things - play off the melody more and bring up the definition.
Keyboard - out of tune - is that on purpose - either way I’d recut it - there is a ‘jazz’ note in the Blue Light
chorus that just sounds off and not cool (to Me).

 

[Thekesslerboy]

Good stuff. The Go Betweens was a good call earlier. I can also hear The Kinks, Nick Cave and maybe a bit of The The in there. 2 minutes was too short though. This one deserves longer to explore the boozy sleazy atmosphere it conjures up.

 

[chuckduffy]

Man, I unintentionally bumped this replying to a five year old comment from Stratomaster, where he suggests just use a capo. Because I am dumb, it never occurred to me people would listen lol. I took another 5 year break, but am just getting back into the game. I redid my setup from the ground up around Christmas.

I totally forgot how freaking cool this group is. It's spooky how spot on the comments are.

Redoing because:

* i really like the idea of the song itself, but the 'finished product' could be a better
* it's a little too short
* it's a little too slow
* my piano was horribly out of tune, that note papanate mentioned physically hurts my brain
* the guitars didn't flow like I wanted (tried it with the capo and everything made sense lol)
* i liked the bass tone, but not the bass part
* vocal was pitchy in places and hanging notes lol
* I have a better drum mic setup now, I can play drums a tiny bit better now
* I have my piano tuned religiously now, and added a humidification system
* I have piano and drums permamiced so I don't have to constantly shuffle shit around and totally kill the vibe of working on the actual song.

Drums is a little pearl kit I got of the craigslist back in 2016, miced with Cascade stereo ribbon. Any reverb is the room, high ceilings, hardwoods, no treatment
Piano is a Yamaha U3 I got I got of the craigslist back in 2016, miced with Cascade stereo ribbon
Vocals is me eating an AKG 214 I think

Coming out of 5 years of not recording anymore was all egged on by my kid. He's now 24 and a really good musician, songwriter, producer and guitar player. He lives out in Austin and has a pretty cool band.

Anyway, thanks all you are great!!!!