Vocals
I think the beginning is actually what you wanted, guitar sounds a tiny bit muffly ... not 'grunting' like it might ...
but it fits sonically and provides great great contrast with the screaming mids that come next. That's a searing hot kind of whatever the hell that is.
The keyboard bleeping instrument is not cutting through the mix, it's a little lost.
I would bring down that continuous 'cymbal' ? a bit.
OMG !!!
At 0:45, The vocals, I can understand the words FOUL ! PENALTY !!!!
;-)
By 1:10 it's apparent there might be a little too much effects on your vocal because #1 you are a good singer, and #2 we of course want to hear YOU, and the sibilance caused by the drenching of your vocal in reverb makes it a bit hard to understand.
I'm listening hard here. With monitors and then with two different pairs of cans.
I should not be challenged and 'dared' to understand your words. The majority of listeners are going to ignore your vocals, they become just another instrument, so why did you write words anyway ... why waste our time with the words, if you are not going to let us hear them ???
This of course is IMHO, and this genre probably requires that the words be unintellibible ... what the hell do I know about this kind of music and it's market ???
Now at 2:02, the words are difficult to pull out of all this effect and noise ...
but in this genre, I understand that's not totally, necessary ...
At 2:31, I can understand the words, fist listening, but I'm struggling. It's the sibilance introduced by the massive amounts of effects.
<--- swings his fucking hair and moshes ... righto matey ?
Now at 3:00, simply can't understand the words, and it's wide open terroritory, the vocal is totally exposed here, what is your listener to do here, if they can't understand the words.
Do you have a vocal hook in this song ?
Is the vocal simply another 'instrument' in this song ?
Around 3:00 this is a very well written and mixed string sample fill there. It's a good musical 'suspension' of the previous mateial, and a good let down and resolution into the continuing material, very nice 'tying' together with the little sample.
If the drums are gated, they sound great ... whatever.
At 3:36, I could listen a thousand times with my best cans, and I'd never understand the words.
Maybe you do need to create some headroom for the vocal. Maybe I'm just not clued in.
IMHO the quality of your vocal DEMANDS that you reduce the amount of affects on your vocal, it's simply not necessarey, you are too good for that. It's ok to make the vocal interesting, that's fine ... but to hide it from us ?
Like I say, maybe I'm clueless when it comes to this kind of sonic anarchy.
It is a powerful sonically massive song and production, it DOES blow away the listener. Power, weight, mass ... yes ...
It's well written, great performances.
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