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Here's a super mellow song I don't even like to call it an original 'cause one day I just started playing it and asked my friend "What song is this?". In the end we figured it was pretty much a rip-off of Stanley Turentine's "Sugar" and it's also pretty much "Summertime" and "Spooky", but I guess I wrote it sorta kinda. I already released it on a previous CD about 5 years ago.

Mike did the trumpet solo first take all the way through and it's got a few bad mic'ing moments but it's one of those things where I'd rather accept the whole feel than mess it up by editing it to death.

http://musicmusicmusic.cn/leftmauiml.html

I find it hard to decide how much exactly I want to put the trumpet in front of the track and how much to bury it some. Sometimes it sounds too loud to me but other times I like it to bite a bit.

I ended up running the master through my two Summit tube compressors again to mash it in some.

Beside Mike's live trumpet, it's mainly a Roland SC-8850 module, Steven Slate kick drum, and a track of live drums mostly doing fills and cymbals, plus a track of a coconut shaker and another of coffee mug clinks.

I hear shit in the sound when I made it into an mp3 that wasn't there when it was an AIF. I might have to mess with that.
 
Nice song. I think the trumpet certainly belongs out front in this one. The mix is very balanced. The only really bad thing I can hear is a pretty audible hiss throughout the song. Mastering guys can get rid of that if you don't have the right program. Nice work, and nice playing first time through.
 
Thanks guitar zero. :) Good to hear your view on the trumpet volume.

Yes there's hiss and I don't know where it's coming from. I thought it might be my amp needing new tubes, and I just put new tubes in my compressors. That's today's project.

I don't really want to notch it out, I need to find how it got there in the first place.
 
Dinty,
I really enjoy reading you & have learnt a thing or two doing so. I want to listen to your stuff too but I get a "download missing plugin" message on your page. When I clicked it the finder/installer came up with Quicktime. I can't use QT on my comp as it drives my recording prog & the media players bonkers.
Sorry! I know, I'm the one missing out!
 
Thanks rayc, I just uploaded two new and improved mp3 versions to my site http://musicmusicmusic.cn/leftmauiml.html. They're identical except one was saved with iTunes (like the earlier one that didn't work on you're computer) and the other was saved with Cubase SX3.

I don't know if that will solve this. :confused:

I also uploaded a smaller 256/44 mp3 version to this site.

Thanks for the comments. :)
 
I'm listening to the cubase one. I hear a little hiss, but it has an ambiance sound to it, so I don't mind it. It seems to be chasing the trumpet a little.

I really like listening to it - I don't have much to offer in terms of suggestions for improvement, but I can say I wouldn't change the level on the trumpet.
 
antichef said:
I'm listening to the cubase one. I hear a little hiss, but it has an ambiance sound to it, so I don't mind it. It seems to be chasing the trumpet a little.

I really like listening to it - I don't have much to offer in terms of suggestions for improvement, but I can say I wouldn't change the level on the trumpet.
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Thanks antichef!

Here's the problem: the trumpet was recorded in a studio in New York with a stock U87. Stock U87's are not as good sounding as the vintage one I have that was rebuilt by Stephen Paul. Mine has way more high, high treble. I heard that it's good to 100KHz. It's a magic mic. So to try and get the trumpet to sit on the front of the mix I've done something I don't normally do and that's put the horn through a Summit tube eq which as far as eq goes is pretty nice but there's that line where you want more treble but it's adding hiss... so I have it about where I can stand it. But the bottom line is that I was not happy with the original sound and I couldn't redo it.

In the end I try and go by feel and not the sound. I appreciate the comments! :)
 
Dint,
thanks for adding the extra link. I had a listen & thoroughly enjoyed it. The hiss isn't bad & isn't a distraction - adds a bit of vintage to the track (now, maybe people could invent a piece of gear that uses a tube to add noise to a track to give it a tube/valve/vintage feel....oops sorry silly me).
Good mix mate - no nits.
 
Sounds really nice, Like out of a classy joint in a movie

Mix sounds very balanced.

good stuff:)
 
rayc said:
Dint,
thanks for adding the extra link. I had a listen & thoroughly enjoyed it. The hiss isn't bad & isn't a distraction - adds a bit of vintage to the track (now, maybe people could invent a piece of gear that uses a tube to add noise to a track to give it a tube/valve/vintage feel....oops sorry silly me).
Good mix mate - no nits.
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Thanks Ray. :) You can add tube hiss with a tube compressor no problem, and I'm like you - it can have a coolness to a track, sort of like a London fog.
 
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