early in the morning

[dobro]

Louis Jordan cover.

I'm trying to do stuff faster than I usually do. So I recorded this late last night (except for the percussion, which I did this morning to work through a hangover) and mixed it just now. Whatcha think?

 

[rayc]

The bass seems to go up & down in volume quite a bit and, given the lines being played in the 1st minute or so, is almost lost. When it pops out for the odd note where it's solo it's very naked.
I thought this might have been the harry Nilsson song at 1st - Harry certainly nicked a couple of musical phrases.
I like it - liked it even more after the 1st minute when your voice settled.

 

[dobro]

You're right about the bass. I think the fix is to change the tone on the bass and do the part again. The way it is, it's sort of invisible most of the time. Way too much overlap with the guitar.

Thanks, ray.

 

[robgreen]

Yeah, I agree that the bass is kind of masked by the guitar frequencies. The vocal is duking it out with the guitar for space in the first part of the song too...only a little bit, but maybe a small mid boost to the vocal would provide the necessary separation.

I don't know the original or recognise the singer's name, but it's sounding good.

 

[dobro]

Louis Jordan? He's great. I've got Saturday Night Fish Fry, but if you go to Amazon, you can hear snippets of his stuff on Best of Louis Jordan. I don't listen to this kind of music (it's sort of rnb flavored swing, if that makes any sense) very often, but I love this stuff that he does.

 

[Mr Clean]

Louis Jordan is great. I really like the version you've done here although I feel it deserves a better bassline. But I'm a bassist, so I'm biased.

Another song where you sound like you had great fun doing it.

 

[heatmiser]

Hey dobro my man.

Fun tune. I too am unfamiliar with the artist or the song. I just read your comment on my latest, and not to sound vengeful or anything, but I kind of feel the same about this track . There's great separation and clarity, but the vocals are kind of dry and floating by themselves in the middle with all this space around them, you know?

All your stuff tends to the drier side of things, but the guitar part(s?) here have some room or verb sound to them, while the vocals seem super present and right up front by comparison.

So, I guess I would be trying to integrate the vocal track more with the backing through verb or whatever, and maybe adding more bottom end to the mix as a whole, but that's just me . Glad I caught this before it slipped off the front page!

 

[dobro]

Yeah, thanks. There's delay on the vocal, but just enough so that if I remove it, I notice it. I think I'm going to start exploring how, after achieving a certain amount of separation in a mix, to pull stuff back together. Reverb and compression on the master is the traditional approach. But I think something that might work just as well is to run sends from various tracks to the same delay or reverb and just use different amounts. Whatcha think?

 

[heatmiser]

Those are some good ideas, yeah. I myself have never applied verb to the master as a whole, but I do generally apply some compression there.

I definitely recommend trying the 2nd thing you mention where you send multiple tracks to the same verb/delay but just vary the amounts to taste...sometimes that helps put things in a similar space...sometimes not.

 

[K-dub]

Well recorded, P. Very clean ... and the mix has a good balance. I can't imagine banging on stuff w/ a hangover. I admire that stick-to-it-tiveness.