Melator - You Remain - new guy here

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Howdy...
I'm working on the mastering of my band's songs...I know, i know...can't be done. :D

just looking for some of that unbiased feedback on the music, sound, what should be done mastering-wise.

I'm thinking that i should leave a little headroom as i master each song up to volume so when i get them all on one stereo track to finish i can raise or lower them accordingly w/o bumping into the limiter.

Working w/ Ozone (love it btw) and learning how not to butcher a perfectly good song. :F

here's the first mp3:
Melator - You Remain

I won't tell you what i play in the band for fear of harsh words :p

Thanks in advance for the info. :D
 
Dude that song is pretty hard to listen to. WTF was that? :(

Mix sounds like its leaning to the right some. I had trouble listening to this so I'm sorry I can't really critique it further. :o
 
I'm confused by both of those posts. :confused:

bring down the music...so you're saying it's too loud or there's too much going on? Thanks for seeing the potential in it.

Trouble listening to the song? like technically or musically the song was just that jacked up? or it's just not your cup of tea period?

that's cool and good to know (i didn't write 'em i just play 'em) but i guess i'd just like to understand why it sucks so bad.

Thanks for the feedback regardless...it's good to know what outside folks think of your music in an unbiased way.
 
Wow! lots of stuff going on in that song....I would like to hear the vocals a bit more out front and the backing music toned down some but, that is just my opinion. I think it has a lot of potential with the right mix :D
 
praga77 said:
I'm confused by both of those posts. :confused:

bring down the music...so you're saying it's too loud or there's too much going on? Thanks for seeing the potential in it.
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A bit too loud. I think its well recorded, just a bit off in the mix. Other than that, sound cool.
 
Cool sounding singer. The whole thing is compressed/limited way too much - sounds like it's being squeezed in a vice. Beyond all the parts trying to be too loud, I can hear the parts clearly and the playing and arrangement sounds really good, so I'd think if you just use more finesse with the dynamics control it'll be quite a good track.
 
praga77 said:
I'm confused by both of those posts. :confused:

bring down the music...so you're saying it's too loud or there's too much going on? Thanks for seeing the potential in it.

Trouble listening to the song? like technically or musically the song was just that jacked up? or it's just not your cup of tea period?

that's cool and good to know (i didn't write 'em i just play 'em) but i guess i'd just like to understand why it sucks so bad.

Thanks for the feedback regardless...it's good to know what outside folks think of your music in an unbiased way.
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For me, the song just sucks. Its boring, pretentious, and monotonous. Not my cup of tea. Thats not to say it wasnt performed well, cuz it was. Its just a crappy style. Not my thing. Nothing personal.
 
Spinal Tapped to 11.
Some good ideas and perffromances but it does sound like it's been put into a sausage casing machine.
If you're doing the mastering I think you ought to go back to the mix, redo it in mono, listen to the levels and how things sit then pan stuff a bit. Apart from the synth there seems to be no real bottom nor top.
 
awesome feedback

Thanks guys. I appriciate all the info here.
Kinda supports what i thought and points me in some good direction.

I can totally understand what you mean about not being your cup of tea, boring, etc. Thanks for being honest about it and giving me good reasons why you don't like the music. I seriously appriciate that.

Thanks again and hopefully this can help me move it in the right direction.
 
I love the Industrial sound it has.

The intro is cool and reminds me of a space thingy.

The singer's odd tone, brings to mind David Surkamp, lead singer of Pavlov's Dog. I loved his voice. It sent chills up my spine.

The synth is stepping all all over the vocals. It has too much of a crackle sound, which distracts from the song.

I agree with ray about going back to the mix...because it isn't ready for mastering yet.

I personally like the song.

I would like to hear it after you do some adjusting levels and such.

Good luck

True
 
Can't spank you True - have to spread it around. I LOVE Surkampf & have all THREE Pavlov's Dog LPs, (secret 3rd LP). That man's voice, those songs, the ARRANGEMENTS!!! The band were demi gods in Australia for quite a while top 10 LP etc.
 
thanks for the words of encouragement. I'll have to give a listen to Pavlov's Dog sometime, I've never heard them before.

The rub w/ going to back mixing it is the band isn't exactly on good terms w/ the fella who was supposed to be mixing it. Also, the only one of us in the band w/ mutlitrack software (me) has Sonar and he did everything in Cubase w/ a TC Electronics box that has all kinds of effects that i don't have. I'd LOVE to have a shot at touching it up, but we'll have to pay this dude like 45 bucks an hour to get in his studio to do so. Don't ask how we got in that deal, but I'm NEVER doing it again.

The keyboard player is married to the singer and they wrote all the songs. Can you tell? ;)

thanks again and I'll try to see what i can do to make the songs a bit more palletable.

take care!
 
to be honest i find the mix quite faitguing, i want to listen the rest but i really have to stop it almost feels like im on an aeroplane.. yucky
im guessing less compression is needed
 
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