Kiss or Kill - original rock

[mjbphotos]

This is the story of Alix Tichelman, the 'Call Girl Killer'. I wrote the lyrics before her court case where she plea-bargained, and decided not to include it in the lyrics as it was very anti-climatic.

As usual with my all-electric tunes, looking for some good ears on it to point out the problems.

 

[DM60]

Listening on HPs, not hearing anything sounding out of balance. Sounds very clean and clear. On my HPs, mix sounds very good. If I could say anything, maybe drums are a tad low, but they can be heard clearly.

 

[easlern]

I wonder if the mix isn't a little bottom-heavy. Maybe it's the level on the bass I'm hearing? Really like the crunch on the rhythm guitar. I feel like the lead guitar might want to come forward in the vocal's absence.

Seems like small nits because the mix already sounds really good. ::

 

[mjbphotos]

Thanks for the listens and comments. At least I'm getting closer earlier with these mixes!

 

[DM60]

Yes, you are getting so close, I had a hard time finding something it even post about.

 

[mjbphotos]

Yes, you are getting so close, I had a hard time finding something it even post about.

Well thanks for listening anyway. I wish my almost-60-year-old ears would let me listen better so that I didn't doubt myself.

 

[fat_fleet]

Yeah the drums are pretty buried on this.
The snare, specifically is really hard to hear.. it's just kind of floating in this soup of guitar tracks. It really needs to be more prominent. Kick could come up and be more defined.

Otherwise, the mix seems kind of claustrophobic with a lot of activity in the lo mids. Some ruthless hack-n-slashing in that area might open it up- I'm looking at you, bass and guitar tracks! I feel like you've got alot of gits running up the center too. I'd get em out of the way of the vocals.

Levelwise vocals sound about right, all performances seems solid.

 

[Robus]

I had trouble hearing all the words. You might edit the lead vocal track manually to raise the level of the words that are dropping out.

The distorted guitar on the left sound dissonant to my ear. Your song would be better without it.

That's all I got.

 

[mjbphotos]

Comments make me think people need to say how they're monitoring!

Thanks for the listens. Going to try and listen to this in my truck at 75mph tomorrow, always a good reference.

 

[BroKen_H]

Love the sound. Mix is great. Lead tone is very nice...smooth. Good bass tone.
One nit I haven't seen mentioned. There's a glitch (don't know time...it doesn't show on the OP, but between "reality it's" and "so easy to do") on the far left. Sounds like an off echo thing, maybe.

 

[mjbphotos]

Love the sound. Mix is great. Lead tone is very nice...smooth. Good bass tone.
One nit I haven't seen mentioned. There's a glitch (don't know time...it doesn't show on the OP, but between "reality it's" and "so easy to do") on the far left. Sounds like an off echo thing, maybe.

Thanks for finding that, will look at the wave form. The mic stand went toppling last week and I had a couple of BZZZZTs in the vocal waveform after - hope its the cable and not the mic.

 

[mjbphotos]

Love the sound. Mix is great. Lead tone is very nice...smooth. Good bass tone.
One nit I haven't seen mentioned. There's a glitch (don't know time...it doesn't show on the OP, but between "reality it's" and "so easy to do") on the far left. Sounds like an off echo thing, maybe.

Couldn't see or here a real glitch, what you might have heard is an echo on the right side vocal delay. However, I did find a guitar track that had somehow got copied onto the same delay track - volume was super low, so it couldn't really be heard until I Soloed the tracks. How-the-f*ck did that happen?

 

[BroKen_H]

The wonderful world of digital. If that had been on tape, it would have been a headache...