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Hi everyone. I found some tracks the other day that I had recorded 5 years ago with cakewalk pro audio (pre-sonar!). I had never gotten around to mixing them and coming up with a finished product. I decided to put it together and see what it sounded like. Please ignore the obvious shortcomings in the performance. The bass and keyboards were always meant to be scratch tracks that would be replaced later, and I intended to lay down more guitar to thicken things up a bit, but never got around to it.

The Damndest Creature

Any suggestions for improvement on the mixing and recording itself? Thanks!

Barry
 
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this track rocks, sounds like a comic book cartoon or a vintage video game
like it alot.
 
Your guitar moves are way slick, man. Rockin' :D
I wish I had some really good advice to give you on the mix, but you've already paralelled the scope of my own knowledge/skills :P

I threw the mp3 into Apple's iTunes. Two things for ya:
1) Use ID3 Tags! ;-)
2) The iTunes built-in "Sound Enhancer" really thickened up your song and added a lot of depth right quick. Maybe if you fiddled with the bounced mix a bit in an EQ you could get some slight but instant results. Try bringing it up around the 64Hz to 125Hz area and down between 500 and 1K
 
thanks, I'll try the EQ. I'm not completely happy with the overall compression either. The level was really low and it sounded kind of dull, and I wasn't happy with what my compressor plug-in was doing, so I sent it to a friend who ran it though something called wav hammer. It helped a lot, but also did some weird things. The guitar solo after the keyboard break, for example, sounded fine before the compression but now sounds too loud for me.
 
Yeah, the sound quality, especially of the backing tracks, is lacking. The lead work is very nice, though. An early Satriani feel. That synth thing is cool. If you did some retracking and cleaned up the mud, you'd have a very usable instrumental. Keep it up!
 
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