Keep Your Hands to Yourself

[RawDepth]

Another one of my bands playing a cover song. Let me know how the mix sounds. Thanks.

 

[RawDepth]

(One week later)

Nobody has anything to say about my mix?

 

[StevenJacksonMu]

Sounds very bassy to me, not a bad mix as far as I can tell.....maybe the 'bassiness' is something you're going for !
Performance-wise sounds pretty darn good to me, I'd like to hear a little more attack (balls) in the vocals...
I haven't heard this old Barney Bentall song in many many years.
You do a decent version of it.

YouTube - Please Tell Me Why

 

[Greg_L]

Ugh this is one of the worst songs ever. Of all time. It's hard to be objective. Lol.

Um, the mix is boomy and very rumbly in the bottom end. The bass and kick are booming. The guitars are kind of shrill. Like the mic is dead center on the cone. Mainly the left guitar. The right guitar sounds pretty good. It just needs a lot of EQ work, but the performance is really good for such an awful song.

 

[sloop]

Heavy in the sub-harmonics. Clean up the low end. If you can fatten the lead the guitar a bit it will set better in the mix. Its sounding a bit thin. Other than that.. pretty damn good.

 

[Strumbone]

Rockin' guitar, tight harmony on the vocals, but not enough "sparkle" on the high end (cymbals)...a little eq will take care of that. I like it!

 

[Tobe]

Yodelling blues,

You have the vocal about right (but not quite enough yodelling inflection).

Given this path is so well worn, you have no excuse for the laborious and heavy handed backing track. Everything is too heavy and thick. It needs much more crack and spunk. The fuzzy guitars lack both clarity and warmth, they sound DI’d and treated with amp simulators. This has all the ingredients and skill required, but it needs to be a lot sharper.

 

[stevieb]

Sung in the wrong key for your voice. I'd take it up a half-step or two, so you gotta work on the vocals a little more- that will add some energy the mix needs, better than a tempo change (which the song might benefit from- just a little bit faster.)

 

[RawDepth]

Sung in the wrong key for your voice. I'd take it up a half-step or two, so you gotta work on the vocals a little more- that will add some energy the mix needs, better than a tempo change (which the song might benefit from- just a little bit faster.)

I believe it is in the original key. That singer just sounds like that on every song.

I realize it is slightly slow. I tried to speed up the 2-mix but it caused audible artifacts throughout the song. So, I hit the "undo" button and left it alone.

Thanks, to everyone who gave advice above. It was all a huge help. I uploaded a corrected version in another thread.

 

[RawDepth]

I'll close this thread now since there is a new one.