Have I outdone myself

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Sounds pretty good sir. The intro rhythm guitar sounds a hair out of tune to me. Bass players will love this tune - nice bass tones/playing. Vocals are top stuff... Pretty decent balance as far I can can hear. :D:cool::D:cool:
 
Agree with Ido that the guitar sounds somehow out of tune. Otherwise, simply awesome. Pristine recording, great singing, really groovy tune.

Joey :):):):)
 
Well the guitar sounds ok to me. There definately seems to be some wierd combination of strings held but I thought that was deliberate but then again, I'm no guitarist so what do I know.
I think you could perhaps increase the vocal just slightly and I do mean just a tad. Also, I think the drums could do with a touch more reverb but other than that...it sounds perfect. A great song and performance too. Thanks for sharing...

Mart.
 
Thanks guys

Took another listen, I think I have a doubler on the one guitar which has a tad of chorus which might be causing the out of tune sound.

My vox are quite pitchy, I'm gonna fix that too

Thanks for listening!
 
steppingonmars said:
Thanks guys

Took another listen, I think I have a doubler on the one guitar which has a tad of chorus which might be causing the out of tune sound.

My vox are quite pitchy, I'm gonna fix that too

Thanks for listening!
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Chorus can do that on the guitar. Vocals are fine for me - I don't focus too much unless it's way off. Au natural I guess you'd call it...
 
I think the guitar sounds fine. Though I'd pan it closer to the center. I can still hear it from the right, so it's not bad, but it's farther left than I'd prefer.

Yeah, the vocals are a little pitchy, but there at that level of pitchiness that it could be intentional.

The bass is pretty sweet!
 
Ok thanks again, added a bunch of shit on this one, bu vox and a guitar solo, my ears are fried, can you take one more listen?

http://www.box.net/shared/8oqrb0gilb

Also it seems like I'm getting to a plateau here, I can get my mixes kinda close to something decent, then I compare it to "real" recordings. Seems to be the same issues..

The mix lacks "sparkle" on the high end

I try to get the bottom end "warm" and it ends up sounding "muddy"

We're going to start tracking our next CD and I'd like to make sure our tracking is at least good



Now I'm wondering a couple of things

- is there an issue with sources that is compounding my problem? We're recording the guitar, bass and drums live in the room. I'm using a presonus firepod for mic pre's and a/d conversion. I like the live idea as it seems to give the song some "vibe" , but is it dulling the mix with mic bleed, room, reflections etc

- is this the limit with the equipment I'm using? I use ozone 3 for mastering, cubase for mixing and waves, cubase and a "vintage warmer" for effects and dynamics. I think I use half decent mics, I use shure 57's, an sm7 for vox

- is it still my mixing skills? I'd like to think I'm getting a little better every time, but is there little things that I still need to work on to improve. I wonder if I should take an online course at times, would it help? Anyone recomend one?

Anyways if you could listen to the sample and let me know what you think and let me know what your past experience are on this it would be appriciated
 
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