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[terrible_buddhi]

very strange...when I posted last time the site went unknown....but the thread was there...computer gnomes strike again!

so what I was trying to say is, I remixed some of the songs per your suggestions and came up with the following. I think on a couple songs I went too reverb happy and will be working to correct this. I also know on all but one song (different) it seems the track is too soft. I am using Cool Edit Pro 2 with Gold bundle Waves. I am new to these programs so specific settings/ preset recomendations would be helpful...here goes...again:

this one has WAY too much verb on the lead vox.

probably my favorite, and the one I think needs the least

again too much verb on the lead vox

this one is the loudest, but the vox seem very thin

thanks for your help guys...and the humor

- Keith

 

[fenderlikingood]

sorry kelly

is the tune i listened too. good song bro!!! nice vox, you have some pipe's my man!! the high hat was way up front dominating the mix, bring up the git's,lose some verb? on the kick. these are just my feeble observation's take them with a shaker of salt!! or three. i hope some better ear's get on these tune's for ya.

again, good song!!

thank's

peace

rick

 

[participant]

"different"

whoa... talk about loud in fact... it sounds positively MASHED... this has been hard-limited, or soft-clipped... or something...

Very cool music! Great message "I can be different just like you". Reminds me a lot of Sonic Youth, especially how the rhythm guitar builds with those 8th notes.

Man... 2k Hertz.... HURTS!! same with 6-7kHz... this has got some really painful frequency distribution... way mid-heavy mix...

between 2k-7k... that's where most of the energy comes... cymbals are quite loud, on the order of about 5-6db too loud, and there's too much of a presence boost on the vocals near 3k or something.

If this is EQ'ed at all, I'd start over with all EQ off Maybe somebody else could offer you a short cut, but Id remove all EQ--especially boosts! mix with the cymbals (esp the crashes and hats) lower, and see what you had then... maybe do a mix without eq... strictly panning... and see how that comes out. And please... no more soft-clipping/hard-limiting!


Nice toon... would like to hear a less ear-splitting mix


Chad

EDIT: Just noticed you said you're using "Waves"... aha. Got a feelin' the ol "L1-Limiter" came into hard use on "Different". The L1 won't re-balance the spectrum for you; all it will do is lower the peaks and crank the volume up to the max for you. If the mix is off, it will just be areally LOUD, off mix.

 

[Llarion]

"SK-Middle"

I'm guessing it's "Sorry Kelly"?

Kind of a mixed bag here... I really like the vocal performance, the singer has a natural, expressive voice. Good piece of songwriting. My issue here primarily lies with the drums and the mix... The overal mixdown makes it sound like the "live" version, as heard from the drummer's seat. The rhythm guitar is utterly buried in the mix, and relatively speaking so is the lead vox. It does indeed sound a bit "hard-limited", which gives it sort of an AM radio-esque patina, because most of the transients at the top and bottom have had the life squished from them. The drum perfornmance seems, well, "nervous". the meter is sort of cyclical, it speeds up and settles dwon a few times. Plus, he's attacking those poot hi-hats as if they kilt his mama.

I think this got a little "overproduced" for it's own good, but the raw materials are there for a really cool piece, we just need to hear the rest of the band more, and we need the full audio spectrum back to appreciate the goodness therein.

Cheers!
Phil "Llarion: The Jazzinator" Traynor
www.llarion.com
- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons; for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup.