Hi Kelly:
Thank a lot for taking the time to listen and the advice.
"The drums seemed hurried on occasion (the snare, especially)..."
I drove the drummer to a point of high frustration by asking her to do it over too many times. The drum sticks were thrown at me a few times (she always missed though). I didn't have the nerve to ask her to do it one more time. Maybe I can fix it in Cakewalk.
"A different encoder, definitely. This one has torn your song to shreads (especially the high end and transients)."
I used cdex. I'll work on the intro final mix eq and try a different encoder.
"btw, is this just you? good stuff..."
I played all guitars and vocals, all keyboards done by a friend at work and my ex did the drums as a big favor for me.
"Great guitar tone, throughout. Always changing... What are you using? sounds GREAT!"
I used everything listed and used every trick I knew. Only a few small parts were DI'ed. The rest were miked.
Guitars: Fender American Strat
PRS CE 24
Danelectro DC-3
Martin DC-1E Acoustic
Washburn Bass
Amps: 1969
Fender Bandmaster Reverb (modded) w/ 4x10 cab
1965 Sivertone Twin Twelve
1996
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Pedal Effects: Blackstone
Mosfet Overdrive 2S
Fulltone ChoralFlange
Stamps Drive-O-Matic Overdrive
DOD FX52 Classic Fuzz
Voodoo Labs Analog Chorus
MXR DynaComp modded to Ross specs
Ibanez Tube King Overdrive/Distortion
Boss DD-3 digital delay
Digitech XP 300
Zoom 9030
"okay, part 2"
"...delayed whatever (guitar?) pulsing behind them, or vice-versa..."
That's a bass guitar staccato picked with sharp, heavy tremelo (actually two trems, one from the Fender amp and one from the Zoom box) and fast, deep chorus/leslie all set to the same timing.
"6:10 or so... sounds like you're taking a loud singing source and attenuating it by fader..."
Yep, that's exactly what happened.
"OH NO! Man, this song is very well done, but you gotta let the fade-out last longer (or start it sooner). Too much of a sudden drop-out at the end..."
Thanks, I'll redo that.
"4:43, major or minor?"
It's supposed to be a C# major but either the keyboardist messed up or I did. I couldn't tell so I mixed out as much guitar as I could on that chord but the clash is still there.
Thanks again, I was worried about the bass and drums because it was mixed on a home stereo (Yamaha amp with bypassed tone controls and Polk speakers).
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