Haemophilliac Heroes Final Mix & Master

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Hello Folks,
This song had a little success in a little known popularity poll hidden under a bushell in a galaxy far, far away. The version that attracted that snippet of attention was a preliminary mix. Below is the final mix and master for those couple of people who expressed an interest in the end result.
The song features some very talented people from here abouts: Joe Mizzi performed the vocals and wrote the melody, Gerry Steele played the excellent guitar solo & the wonderful noodle phrases throughout the piece and Greg Loyacano played giant killer drums.
Haemophilliac Heroes - a Mizzi/Loyacano/Steele/Cochrane composition:

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I enjoyed playing on this, and kudos to Joe, Greg and you on an excellent tune...!! :D
 
Gerry, Kudos to you & that excellent solo! I think you three blokes pulled off a classic sow's ear routine on this one.
 
Bumpity bump - could be a classic rags to ditches moment for this track.
 
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This track has the sound of a classic rock band form the early 70's, late 60's. Especially on the chorus. Love the harmonies. Absolutely killer sound. My hats off to you (that is if I wore a hat).
 
tobe - it's a download because at 12meg it's too big for a streamer. The download isn't too long depending on your & Mega's traffic. sad you couldn't spend the time. Thanks for attempting I suppose. Isn't the sudden chage of weather annoyingt? Almost as annoying as the hyperbole about rich girl home invasions.
Wish14 - yep - temporarily - it's fine now & before & all around. Megaupload traffic interruptions are, llike life, a temporary thing.
Trackrat - thanks mate - it wasn't a goal we set out to achieve but it one we seemed to have stumbled across due to the excellence of Joe, Greg & Gerry's work. As Cocker said..."You can leave your hat on..."
 
This is really something Ray,
Congratulations to all involved. Very well done. Now my baby is up and she wouldn't let me type.
I'llcome back later to comment the mix.

sikter
 
Jan's mastering has given the tune a nice full round sound, Ray. Well done!
 
It's temporarily unavailable. I'm pretty eager to listen to this, the line up is great. I've heard, and appreciated, a lot songs by everyone involved in this. Maybe you could attach the mp3 in the post ?
 
I got a temporarily unavailable message when I first tried to download too, but it's worked just now. It's a great piece of work - well performed, mixed and the mastering has given it an excellent fullness. Interesting lyrics too - what's the inspiration Ray?

Thanks for posting - this one's going on the ipod :D
 
Joe,
Yep! Jan did a sterling job on this. Thanks for the recco from both you & Gerry. Jan was very patient with me & my need to seek responses from all collaborators.
Saads,
Sorry mate - it'll come good. at 12meg the MP3 is too large for Soundclick and the forum host. I can't really put up a low grade Mp3 version having gone to mastering et al to get the best from it.
Rob,
Thanks for persisting. Thanks also for the kind words. Gerry, Greg & Joe did wonderous work on this as did Jan. Lyrical inspiration: written, primarily, in 76/77 under the influence of alcohol, late teen angst, living in a rural NSW town to attend teacher's college as punk raged in London and being very, very pretentious for a "westie" (that's someone who hails from the poor, downtrodden, multicultural dormitory outer south western suburbs of Sydney - & I loved it!). I tweaked it a little in january of this year - but not much.
 
Yeah i think the final version came out well. This one definitely had it's trials and tribulations. Looking forward to the next one.
 
Yep, it's working now. I'm not at the stage where I can critique stuff as good as this :D
Sounds fantastic, the guitars, the solo,vocals, drums, production quality. Top notch job.:drunk:
 
saads,
Feel free to critique or just comment. Saying it's fantastic is insoluble sweetness for my ears. Thanks!
This song was hugely helped along by the input of Gerry, Greg & Joe all of whom record in different software & uploaded wav files @ 24bit to be imported. After which they commented & recommended regarding their own parts within the mix and then the mix in it's entirety. Huge help from sets of ears I respect. Add to that the work of the ME & kapow! There were a trillion versions & revisions including a superb instrumental version with Gerry wailing & playing melodies all over the track - rather like the instrumental version of Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr but without the monster distortion.
 
Very nice, something about it reminds me of Bowie.

P.S. Rayc Sorry about my download difficulties... I will try harder. This time it took 2 minutes for Mega Upload to even say hello... then 45 sec wait... and some redirect to an online Casino... then a very slow download for just 12MB. Nothing “Mega” about this at all! It all puts me in a crap mood to listen to, let alone appreciate, music. It would be better to reduce the file size so you can put it on a streamer... you might have less resolution, but you might get more listeners.
 
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Tobe, I hear & understand. Mega isn't great but it does have the advantage of not deleting in a fortnight or less. If it were not for this song being a little long & mastered I'd have streamed it. I understand your problem though - I'm south of Sydney & north of Wollongong - the internet is telstra - no option - no other service covers us & we can't get cable or satellite services either. We get as slow as not being able to send an email message before it times out!!! Thanks for persisting & the comments - yes, Bowie like - partly it's the baritone and aprtly the vocal being well clear of the backing a la Low & Heroes.
 
That is a pretty sweet mix you have here ray. Megaupload fired up the file in less than a minute no problem. Listening on WMP now. It sounds really, very full and clear and all that other good stuff. A whole bunch of your tunes are coming together in a finished state now, which is so cool to hear following all of the various iterations over the years. I wonder what you would have thought if someone played you this track in it's current state back in '76???
 
Thanks Heat! The mix did go through a few permutations & needed a few tweaks part way through the stem mastering because that process brings out the best & can alter the dynamics of individual stems a little. WMP? Interestingly I've found that the flattest response on my current computer is with Media Player Classic. I listened to this track on Winamp & it was a little bassy, on wmp it was a bit middy & MPC wasn't much of either. That & my headphones (spent AUS$200+ on Sennheisers because they were advertised as flat but AREN'T) being a little bass biased.
I'm glad I bit the bullet & have been through the mastering process professionally as I've had to seriously reconsider my mixing & have taken most of the songs to the final stage so that I won't go back & tweak them every time I learn a new reording or mixing trick. Hearing this in 76/77? Hmm, I was quite keen on Low & Heroes in 78 so I probably would've thought of it as a guitar copy of that style. Had I heard a combo of Joe, Gerry & Greg back then - I think I would've recognized class in motion.
Thanks for the kind words.
 
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