Hot Darn! I am back!!

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hey guys.......... its been about 7 months since I last posted anything. We got some new cuts coming out. I went back to the drawing board, did some studying, learned some new tricks and please have a listen to this rough mix of one of our new songs called "Hot Darn!". I think i gotta tweak the levels a bit.I feel it totally blows away our old stuff that was already posted. Link is in my sig, thanks!:cool:
 
I was wondering what happened to you. I'll give it a listen tomorrow.
 
I think it sounds great. I like how the drum kit seems to be coming from the top left of space somewhere. The guitar is awesome. The super delayed vocals work really well, but I'd say the singer's pitch is a little shakey singing that fast. I love rockabilly but I've never heard it with this kind of production...Probably because I'm too young to have heard real rockabilly, lol.
 
mrhotapples said:
I think it sounds great. I like how the drum kit seems to be coming from the top left of space somewhere. The guitar is awesome. The super delayed vocals work really well, but I'd say the singer's pitch is a little shakey singing that fast. I love rockabilly but I've never heard it with this kind of production...Probably because I'm too young to have heard real rockabilly, lol.
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thanks man! i did pan the snare a bit, On vocals, i do have a delay on it, but a typical slapback delay. Its just the level of delay that is a bit high. On the shakey singing, we just wanted a raw, pure energy type feel like the cats from back in the days :cool: we got some slow, ballad type stuff coming up soon that shows off her vocal skills. :)
 
Sounds much better than your older stuff. Much better. Guitar tone and playing is good and you either got a new bassist or he got better. Perfect slap-attack on the upright. Mix-wise, only problem I hear are the vocals. They're shrill. I never really liked that girl singer yall got, and the vocals on this one cut through my brain. They seem very bright but unintelligible.

Overall though, it's pretty good. :)
 
Thanks for the feedback Greg. We are all the same line up still. I just decided to do some theory studying and made sure everybody else did too. There is still the occasional off note but we gettin there. As for vocals we were aiming for that rockabilly hiccup sound. She just naturally has a higher tone but the girl is a genius. She writes all our songs lyrically and I write them musically. By the way..... Your cover songs are great man!
 
rockabilly1955 said:
Thanks for the feedback Greg. We are all the same line up still. I just decided to do some theory studying and made sure everybody else did too. There is still the occasional off note but we gettin there. As for vocals we were aiming for that rockabilly hiccup sound. She just naturally has a higher tone but the girl is a genius. She writes all our songs lyrically and I write them musically. By the way..... Your cover songs are great man!
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Thanks bro. I've been thinking about kicking out a few rockabilly style tunes myself. I played many years in a rockabilly band back when noone was doing it.

I think I've said it before, but my only problem with the girl's voice is that it's a girl's voice. she sings well enough, but I don't think chicks pull off rockabilly well. That's guy music. Cars, smokin, boozin....that's guy shit. It's not believable when a chick sings about it. In this tune, I think it's just the EQ of her track that makes it tough to listen to for me. I listened to some of your older stuff for comparison and they're not as good overall, but her vocals seem to sit in the mix better without being to ear-piercing.
 
hmmmm

well, you did say it is just a rough mix. I have to aggre with Greg, the vocals would give me a headache in a short time. Her tone and pitch are strange, like a pissed off chipmunk! I like the bass line...theguitar is really fuzzy soundig distortion.I like the Brian Setzer(sp) tone better. I'd like to hear it again after you do some more tweaking....

JasonBird
 
You'll need to even out the vocals, they fade a bit in places esp when the line has a lot of words.
I quite like the fuzz guitar. The bass seems to have some EQ space between the the slap & the bottom end. the slap, at least should come up as it's not always there.
Big learning curve eh?
Cool enough start, duck tails & drape coats at 5 o'clock.
 
I was actually trying for that fuzz sound. It was the craze back in the day when the guitarist for the Johnny burnette trio accidentally discovered it by playing with a busted amp. As for the vocals..... What would be the best way to level it? Some good compression? Or a volume curve on the track and just lowering the peaks?
 
If you can't retrack then compression & fader automation.
If you can retrack nail vocalist to the floor & tape their head at a fixed distance from the mic with hands tied behind the back. Sounds like bad cabaret style mic technique is a factor - moving away, swinging overhead etc.
It'd be worth the effort to train or restrain the vocalist!
 
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