Listen 2 My Home Mix & Have Fun

[Pykon]

Hi @ll!

Here is a site with some of my home-productions:

http://www.myspace.com/fiksumdyrdum

"Wherever" was originally a pure acoustic mix with guitars & voc only, what You hear is a re-mix of original, „acoustic" tracks. It may sound a bit unnatural with drum/bass due to some holes in a lo-mid frequency range, as my acoustic guitar resists to produce them.

Have a listen and say whatever You hear

mike

 

[heatmiser]

Maybe not my kind of thing stylistically, but you certainly have a nice smooth voice . Sounds a bit distant though...were you far from the mic? I'd recommend you get a more of an up-front kind of sound...but that could just be me.

The drum/bass combo is kinda lite, but a fine addition nonetheless...the whole mix just sounds too distant and maybe verbed out to me i guess. Your voice was the highlight for me.

 

[greyharmonix]

the drums sound distant. i think everything else sounds fine but the drums sound like an after thought. Maybe some compression on the snare and kick would bring it up a bit. Oh wait it's ez drummer just turn them up i guess.

 

[Pykon]

Well, first of all it's not my voice, Ann does vocals for me, I'm just a modest bass/guitar player and sound mixer

I'll take Your advice on having too distant sound, which was done on purpose with some reach plate reverb. As far as it is a plug-in one, during weekend I'll try to remix the song and post it again. The vocal track itself is free of any room echos and the mic wasn't overloaded with a close-up rec and that's for sure, so I have some flexibility in mix modeling.

And to EZ Drummer... EZ's samples suffer to work properly with such slow tempos, maybe if I'd created the drum line from scratch it would have worked better - what You hear is a re-worked set of grooves from EZ-library.

Coming back to distant vocal - I used strong reverberation to de-center the voice in sound space, I don't like these phase-shifting axciters and sound fattening techniques, but who knows, maybe I should try some. Or I can put it the other way round and make a cleaner, closer mix.

I've tried to cure the over-distant-vocal issue with setting up two isolated reverb/comp/eq settings completely different - one for the beginning and middle part of a song, and other for the loudest part and outro.

Thanks for Your advice, opinions from people with sound-engineering-soul are for me more creative than a thousand of neutral listeners.

I never say "no" to sbd's suggestions before I put them in the mix.

It's always a good time to learn from others.

Best Wishes,

mike

 

[rayc]

I quite like the distance in the drums - it's not a rock out after all - if not as they are I'd change the snare to a brushed one.
A couple of pronunciation points struck me though comfort sung as come fought is odd to my ears with come ft being easier on the ear.
Nice enough piece - the guitar doesn't sound too bad - but if it does cause sonic probs for you - borrow another.
Nice work.
Wow - I had spelt come c. U. m. and the system replaced it with *** - I didn't know this BBS was censored!

 

[Pykon]

You Guys are more helpful than thousand of books & courses!

This weekend I'll put Your tips in the mix.

So write down as much as You can hear!

PS. I Maybe I should have sent Ann to the U.S. before recording to fix some pronounciation bugs.

PS. II Guitar sound – it is not the a case of bad sounding model (ain't perfect one either ) but when only higher strings are played it produces lots of harmonics at high freq and mostly resonances in lo-mid. An acoustic bass could be a kind of treatment, for now it has to remain like it is.

It's a pleasure to be here with You, Talking Ears

 

[rayc]

Nah - US pronunciation wouldn't help - Australian or English is the go!
Seriously though, the stress on fort in comfort is the only real issue. You could have her sing Polski - I love sung Polish or give her too much plum brandy and let her slur the words a little.
My guitar (semi acoustic electric from the early 70's) has very strange harmonics - I've learned to love 'em & make a feature of them.

 

[Pykon]

Nu Mix Of Echo

Hi @ll!

Finally i've finished mixing our Echo song from scratch and tweaking Wherever track - with Your suggestions in mind.

Both songs are - as usually - here:

http://www.myspace.com/fiksumdyrdum

Since MySpace converts audio into lower quality, here is Echo song in HiFi:

http://www.soundlcick.com/fiksumdyrdum

Enjoy!

Mike