Food Court Manager

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Please let me know what you think of this mix. I posted this originally a long time ago. This mix is substantially different. New guitar, bass, and harmonies.



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This song is awesome. Funny as hell. The mix is great. The leadvox level maybe a tad low and some lows poke through a tad on lower notes, like singer got closer to the mic or something. Like at :40. Maybe a little volume automation here and there.

Great job. Awesome song
 
Hey cakewalkgg. I'm really glad you liked the song. It's always good to hear that.

Let me check on the lead vox lows. Thanks for the time marker. That helps.
 
Lead vocal is a bit low, I noticed some boominess from the tomtoms maybe?

Great tune, love the melodic chorus work.

Thanks for sharing it Trip !!!
 
Agree on the vocals, they should be at the same level as the guitars, seems like this is what was intended or would fit, not up front, except at the chorus, they seemed like fit there.

Good recording and overall mix.
 
I never heard the original mix you put but there's a lot I like about this. The song is great, groovy, funny. It's got it all really. Love the harmonies. You have a very distinctive voice mate.

I feel the drums are a touch too loud for the rest of the instrumentation. Vocals definitely need to come up a bit. Bass and Acoustic sound real nice.

:thumbs up:

*EDIT* I listened twice and never noticed it was 5 minutes long.
 
Vox are way low when you're singing solo in the verse, Trip. I'd probably double the lead vocal ... thicken it and add sonic interest ... ever so slightly. It's strikes me as dry for the genre. I'd also check out some of the pitches on the bgv harmonies ... there's something tickling my "off" meter.

Like the more acoustic treatment you gave this version ... and the tone of the melodic electric -- it fits well.
 
PDP - I guess I need to bump up the lead vox. I'll listen to the toms too

DM60 - thanks for listening.

Mr. Clean - I'll listen to the drum level and maybe nudge the tracks down. Thanks for listening. Yeah it's long. It's my "Stairway." :)

Trojka - your voice sounds familiar. Are you the same guy as Pedullist? :)

Dub - on the pitchiness - I'm guessing you're talking about the couple of notes right before the chorus... If so, it's supposed to be that way. I swear. And yeah I guess I have to nudge up the lead vox. Thanks for the thoughts.
 
The drum levels and voc levels are fine to me. The wide rhythms are just too loud. Bring them down a little and you're golden. I'd also work on the voc/back vocal mix. They're not very clear, kind of hard to make out the words, and if this thing is funny and punny, vocal clarity is important.
 
I hear pops at :24, :36, 1:27, 1:45, 1:59, 2:09, 2:34, 2:55, and 3:05.







Just kidding :D


Sounds good. The rythm seemed to almost stagger out of the gate, but then it comes together as the song gets going. I think the vocals can come up a bit. Nice harmonies and a few very cool chord changes, like the one that gets us into the chorus.
 
Verse needs to be louder and in the chorus the 2nd vocal lower as the two compete for attention.
Good song. Both make understanding the lyrics harder & the they deserve to be listened to.
Little less from the wide panned guitars'd be good too.
 
+1 on the lead vox being a little buried.

The acoustic on the left feels a little bit "close". Maybe add some reverb or something to it.

It felt a little pitchy at first, but it seemed to settle out by the end as I got more used to your vocal tone.

It's a pretty cool song. Got some clever lyrics.

*edit* Your really hammer on that, "the FCM has the only bathroom key" idea, don't you? o.O
 
Greg - I'll play around with the guitar and/or vocal levels. I'll try to put up a revised mix in the next couple of days. Thanks for listening.

RAMI - ya bastage :). For a quick second, I saw all those time markers in your post, and thought something was terribly wrong. Thanks for the listen.

rayc - let me see what I can do the the lead and BG vocal balance.

VHS - yeah that one spot is where the harmonies form a C7 chord. It kind of sounds "off" at first, but (I swear) it's supposed to be that way.
 
I like it a lot! It sounds like James Taylor from an alternate universe where he was born in the late 70s, had hair and became a punk who grew an appreciation for They Might Be Giants before writing and recording his original songs (scribbled on napkins at the food court, naturally) in the middle of a mid-90s closed-in garage studio with thick, brown carpet littered with corn dog remains, funnel cake-sugared paper plates and water-ringed record sleeves.

Some of the harmonies could be a little tighter (I feel like some were a bit flat at parts) and the lead could be brought up a little bit with slightly more taming on the lows. I love the vocal performance, though. I like the way your (I'm assuming) voice breaks on the higher notes.

The mall in my town used to have a big, beautiful food court but a few years ago, they tore it out and put in a few more (boring) stores. It was part two of their "destroy the mall" initiative; part one being to repace the arcade with a bathroom. I want a corn dog and a slice of pizza now... :(
 
Mix #2 at the top. I pulled the guitars down a couple of db's. And I took a little wooliness out of the backing vocals. How do you like it?
 
TripleM said:
Mix #2 at the top. I pulled the guitars down a couple of db's. And I took a little wooliness out of the backing vocals. How do you like it?
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I think you hit the mark! I have no problems with the second mix and I have to reitterate this:
You (if that is you singing) have a really cool voice!
 
Hmmm. I can't remember if I've heard this one before?

I know Steve McQueen and Spider Man - I've heard at least a couple of iterations of those in here. You don't have the biggest catalog of tunes, do you? :p

I like this. I first listened on a kindle days ago through little 1cm speakers, and it actually sounded great. I listened yesterday on bookshelf speakers with a sub and it of course sounded better, but I did lose the lead vocal at times which is too bad as the lyrics are really funny.

I like the vocal level overall, but it kind of came and went a little bit...maybe some (more?) compression? I dunno.

I like the drums here a lot, but agree with what I think someone wrote about the toms being a bit boomy.

Your voice really breaks up more than usual on this which I think works nicely on this number. Well done!
 
propman - I missed your first post last night, sorry. Thank you for listening to both versions. Thanks for the critique. And yeah that's me singing. They Might Be Giants write some of the better lyrics around. They're very clever guys if you ask me.

heatman - I have a fairly big catalog. I just keep recording it badly - so I don't get to much of it. But I'm slowly reaching the point where I'm getting passable mixes. So maybe I can get to some other stuff. I'll check the toms and vocal compression tonight. Thanks man.
 
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