New Hip Hop Track / Mix Eval etc

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Your singing voice reminds me of Funkadelic.
I can't remember who sang in that band though.
Bringing in female vocalist is a nice touch.
I'm no expert, but I see commercial possibilities with your material.

Well Done
 
HevyD47Ca said:
Your singing voice reminds me of Funkadelic.
I can't remember who sang in that band though.
Bringing in female vocalist is a nice touch.
I'm no expert, but I see commercial possibilities with your material.

Well Done
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Thanks

I just put it in here because I value you guys opinions.

It will be a commercial product after mastering.

Funkadelic = George Clinton /
Cameo = Larry Blackmon. The singing kinda reminds me of that.
The girl came in after a few people brought it up.

BTW, my partner is singing the main hook. Im doing only 1 track of backups. the lower one

Malcolm
 
Alright Malcolm,

Mix is clean and crisp. the rap is smooth, voices sitting well in mix.
I'd like to hear a tad more thump for the beat.
The female sounds sweet.

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddddddd some thump.

I'm a bass-a-holic

Nice job.

jcmm
 
I am wondering if you mixed on a home stereo because the bass is really weak, especially for hip hop. The kick is got that click, but no boom, and the snare is on the bright side, too.

Kinda wish to hear the drums being a little more stereo, maybe just pan that hh a bit would do. Other than that, this is pretty cool, can't feel the vibe until I feel the bass :)

Al
 
Ditto on the previous comments. Cool tune, but the high end is pretty harsh and the low end is pretty light. Your partner's got a killer voice.

Chris
 
fenix said:
bass probably seems weak cuz it's not mastered!
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Thanks

thats the ticket.

I did a little post processing mainly for myself to ride around in my truck to. My truck knocks like all of hell.

Post processing steps:

1. Gain increase ( maybe 5 or 6 db) cant really remember
2. Rolled off the low end around 40 I think. Still cant remember
3. L1 (preset only)

it was recorded and tracked at 24 44.1... so i didnt have to resample it. Just a dither.

Thanks ALL

Malcolm
 
A1A2 said:
I am wondering if you mixed on a home stereo because the bass is really weak, especially for hip hop. The kick is got that click, but no boom, and the snare is on the bright side, too.

Kinda wish to hear the drums being a little more stereo, maybe just pan that hh a bit would do. Other than that, this is pretty cool, can't feel the vibe until I feel the bass :)

Al
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It was mixed on a Tascam TMD4000 with some HR824s

I feel ya on the drum pans though. The Hi Hat is to the left a tad and the slurp thingy is to the right. I had them further out, but they were kinda fighting the guitar.

The original mix has the bass there. I just f@cked with it.
Mastering should take care of the rest

Thanks

Malcolm
 
I thought this was a good one. The usage of keyboards was different from what you usually hear in rap. I thought it was cool - kind of a nice changeup from those a-tonic keyboard lines you hear so often.

A little repetitve lyrically, but not too bad.

The snare seemed a little midrange heavy. I'd have gone for a little fuller sound out of it. I could also go for a heavy, thumping bass too. Maybe a little fuller kick too?

Just thoughts. Trip...

edit: I swear I didn't read A1A2's review in advance :D
 
malcolm123 said:
It was mixed on a Tascam TMD4000 with some HR824s

I feel ya on the drum pans though. The Hi Hat is to the left a tad and the slurp thingy is to the right. I had them further out, but they were kinda fighting the guitar.

The original mix has the bass there. I just f@cked with it.
Mastering should take care of the rest

Thanks

Malcolm
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I can't say much about your "let the mastering enginner take care of it" apporach as I've never sent anything to a ME. However, from my reasoning+readings, one should really polish to his best ability before sending his mixes to the mastering house.

well, maybe I'm wrong, but best luck regardless.

Al
 
Need Bass opinions on this one

I have had a couple of people tell me that the bass wasn't loud enough. I generally measure the bass by referencing other commercial CDs in my truck but sombody stole all of my stuff.

Anyway, I need feedback on the bass if you get a chance.
It sounds fine to me on my Mackie 824s, but they must be exaggerating a bit. Mainly because I haven't installed my basstraps in the room yet.

If you hear a lack in bass and you are familiar with Freqs, drop me a range to work on for me. I dont like to use SA's. I will forward the info to my mastering guy. I think he didnt want to be too bassey and may have sweeped some of it out.

Here's a link for hifi and lofi on mp3. com

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/42/slank_and_boogie.html


Thanks

Malcolm
 
I think the tune is pretty good. Nice recording/performance.

I'd like more thump. The kinda thump that pisses me off at 2 am when the punks roll down the street with the stereo blastin'.:D

I usually have to back off the low end on my pc's sub when I listen to hip hop/rap. I didn't budge it on this. Think a pube more would help the bootie shakers. :p

Over all nice work!

~scott
 
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