Shana, thanks for listening and for the kind words. There's actually a touch of reverb on one of the vocal tracks. I ran a dry vocal track and a verbed vocal track together for the main verses.
Drstawl, Doc, I'm glad you liked it. I'm going to bring up the guitar tone in a second. Sonusman brought up a good point later in the thread.
GT, what's up, bro! I'm printing up certificates for the graduating class. I'm printing them on drum-head skins. Pah. I think I'm going to bring the level down on the bass drum in this song on the next mix. I listened to it just now with my subwoofer and it felt like someone was kicking me in the chest.
rats, thanks for listening. Can you give me a "time" on that awkward part. I think I know which part your talking about, but I'd like to make sure.
sonusman, I'm glad you liked it for the most part. Ah, bro, you've touched on my weakest point... I cannot for the life of me record acoustic guitar... Actually, I would love to just mic my acoustic, but my studio is not a studio... it's in front of my desk and it's freakin' noisey around here... in fact, if you listened to the guitar tracks by themselves, the guitar's built in condensor mic is picking up my son's Nintendo in the background and my toddler yelling for me from upstairs, and one point, I'm telling my wife "Dangit honey, hang on ... I'm recording." My
acoustic guitar tone on my 6-string using the built in mic is better for filtering out all the noise (including computer fans - I've got a computer for myself, my wife, and my older son all networked here in front of me - it's like working in a jet engine - I exaggerate)... but that same mic has horrible tone... I do my best to shape it, but I don't know enough about acoustic guit sounds to do a very good job. I know what you mean about the 1khz area... I was afraid if I kill it even a little, that I'd kill the life of the guit sounds... but then that's a novice acoustic recorder talking.... You know what I'd really like to do... I'd like to separate the acoustic tracks out into wav files and post them on x-drive or something and have someone who knows how the shape of the acoustic tone should be take a stab at setting the freqs on the tracks... Would anyone be interested in helping me with this? Or maybe just tell me what freqs you think need to come up / come down ?
Anyway, I just posted a new mix of this song. Should be updated by tomorrow. The new mix is taking care of a few things that were irking me from the beginning... I fixed the vocals a little bit. Hopefully it helped the shape and tone of the vocals so that they fit better (especially in the main verses). I also dropped the level of the kick drum down a little bit.
