th snare when it does come in on "All that I've done" sounds slightly behind in the time scale of things for me...was it all recorded with the rim shots then the snare overlaid? I definately feel that snare track could be cut out and repositioned 8-12ms further ahead of where it is at the moment.
As for the tone of it, sounds like you made a simple mistake of boosting too far up the register to make it sound brighter when shaving a few db off the bottom end would have given it more clarity in the mix. To me, I can here too much bottom snares...probably because of the top end boost to try and make it brighter. Some times we forget making things brighter can be acomplished with a low end cut and no boosting at the top. I still think it's a great song and a fantastic vocal and without thinking about it too much it's the tubby sounding slightly late snare that distracts me from an otherwise great song all round.
Minor tweak to make a great song perfect.
Thanks for listening, LT. You know, I hadn't listened in a few days, and I think I somehow shifted the drums a little at some point, LOL. I've noticed that if I screw up and don't have "snap" on when I'm cutting drums, I sometimes cut ahead or behind the beat, then when I line things up again with the snap ON, well...you can hear the result. Should be easy to fix, I hope.
As for the EQ...I didn't EQ the drums at all on "All That I've Done." There's a little boost on the acoustics...but that's really it in terms of EQ boosts. I can try pulling that bottom snare down a bit, but this song was the first one that I did, so I didn't even know that I could run the drums on sep tracks.
PoeticIntensity - I'm useless when it comes to recording drums...I've mixed a lot of them, but I have no idea about mic positions. What I DO know is that the dark snare is what I liked the most about the sound of your drums. Really gave me a Mick Fleetwood vibe that I can't say I've heard around here, and I love pulling elements from classic rock into these tunes...gives it an Americana vibe. Thanks again for playing.
jeffmaher - thanks a lot for the detailed thoughts. The plan with all of these home recordings is to demo them out well enough so that she can burn them and put them on CD's and sell at shows...and then just play the songs live and see which ones people react to and which ones people ask for. We've recorded probably about 60 of these tunes in the past 4 years, which is enough for 5 mediocre albums or one pretty solid one. We're 4 songs into a 6th "album," I guess (for lack of a better word), and when this one's done, she wants to pick 12-14 of the best tunes and record them "for real." This'll involve some new instruments and arrangements and re-writes that she's made on tunes after playing them live for awhile, so your comments aren't lost or wasted, and I appreciate them.
kcearl - suck it
whjr15- thanks a lot for that...it was a pretty cool thing to read.
-- give me 4 years and I'll have a lot less money and some direct insight on how much difference a bachelor degree makes when it come to getting them off the runway (so far vicarious insight is saying: not much)
