New Song exploring the limits of Fair Use!

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Hey everyone.

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Soundclick

It's been quite some time since I've tried to record anything quite this heavy, so hopefully it turned out listenable.

Any tips or comments are welcome, but I'm especially interested in ideas for how to get the growled vocals to pop out of the mix a little more. I've got them pretty loud, but they still sound buried.
 
Very good tune, Steve.
Guitar seems to lack some high-mid brilliance and the voice/ voices are a little bit buried. They could be a little bit more in your face for this style.

Joey :)
 
Thanks, Joey.

I actually added a cut around 3000 MHz to most of the guitars. It seemed to make the vocals stand out a little bit, and didn't seem to diminish the guitars' tone too much.
I'll see if can maybe tweak the EQ a little more sometime in the next few days.
 
Lol. That was wongo. Your songs are insane....in a good way. :laughings:

The mix is a mess, but I've grown pretty accustomed to it with your songs. I can hear everything, it just doesn't sound very good, but then again, it sounds just right for your songs, so fuck it. Keep doing what you're doing.

As far as the vocals, it seems to me that you're simply not belting them out hard enough. Combine that with out of time backing vocals or double-tracking, and it can get messy. Just turn them up. There's room in this one for louder vocals.
 
Ouuuuuuuu New steve song...

Fun. :drunk:




Iwas expecting heavier by your description.

But thats o.k. I don't think a slayer-esque sound would work for you.


I like it. For your lo-fi approach to your songs the would set the bar for other lovers of lo-fi.

But something about those gang vocals isn't sitting well with me?

De-esser?


anyone concur?

the song on the whole is awesome. Just something about the vox isn't as awesome as the rest of the jam.

I'm gonna spin it a few more times.
 
Greg: Alright. I'll try turning up the vox a bit. Thank you.

Atom: It was originally written with the intention to be a lot heavier, but I ended up playing it a little more conservatively.
I've got a de-esser on the vocals, but it may be misset. Which ones are you referring to as "gang" vocals? Would those be the growled ones in the choruses or the main vox throughout?
 
The vox around 0:33 - 0:45

They just sound really saliva-y (??) To my ears. Which is why i made the de-esser comment.

I may be wrong. I usually em.

I think it may just be the flow of your enunciation. Casue it's infectious. My mouth wants to sing along but im scared i'll spit all over myself.


I can't really articualte what im hearing steve. Sorry bro.:(:confused:
 
Yeah, that's the choruses. I can see what you're talking about there.
The part of the growled lyrics that cuts through the most is the 'plosives and spit noises. I'll see if turning up the vocals overall helps with that. If not, maybe I can create a notch in the guitars and bass for the growled vox too?
 
OK. I've got a slightly modified version. (The soundclick has been updated too.) With louder vocals and a tweaked de-esser on the growled lyrics.

Is it an improvement?

Thank you all for your input.
 
Not loud enough yet ... the listener still has to try hard to hear the vocals through the music ... and the vocals are the signature of the sound.

Very different. LOVE the feedback at the end.

Once you've achieved that balance, though ... you're done.
 
Alright, I'll take another stab at it.

Might have to wait 'til tomorrow though. I may not have time tonight.
 
I really like the song. Very cool. Great energy. Great quirkiness.

Guitar tone is bad though.

Seems like the whole mix is missing any high end.

I'd back off the vocal effects.

Agree with Dub on the feedback at the end. Sounded cool. Not sure I needed the full 30 seconds of it though.
 
TripleM said:
I really like the song. Very cool. Great energy. Great quirkiness.

Guitar tone is bad though.

Seems like the whole mix is missing any high end.

I'd back off the vocal effects.

Agree with Dub on the feedback at the end. Sounded cool. Not sure I needed the full 30 seconds of it though.
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I also thought it might have been a great transition into something else fwiw ... I kept waiting for the next thing to happen.

Just sharing the thought ...
 
There's a commercial for a fast food place like Long John Silvers (Mcdonals version of fast food seafood), with this band dressed up like Robin Hood and his merry men... and a bunch of other "period people" walking around in green tights, etc... There singing a song promoting this eatery...

This sounds exactly like that band. quick kinda "om-pah" 2 beat thing happening with the beat...
 
bouldersoundguy said:
Wow. You can hear that?
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Not particularly? I've got a cheat sheet of what musical voices tend to occupy which EQ ranges. 3000.. oh right MHz, my bad. :laughings:

Fun thing with the 2 beat: originally, I had an arbitrary measure of 5/4 at the end of each chorus, so I set the drum machines to use simple 1/4 and 2/4 time signatures that wouldn't get lost from that.

I dropped the 5/4 measure (you can still hear it as a 6/4 measure in the very first and last choruses) because it sounded bad, but kept the drum machine.

TripleM, can you give me a more specific idea on what you dislike about the guitar tone? Is that what you think is missing the high end?

K-dub, Well, I was going to apologize and say that this particular song probably wouldn't even ever see an album release, then I accidentally did this.
 
VomitHatSteve said:
TripleM, can you give me a more specific idea on what you dislike about the guitar tone? Is that what you think is missing the high end?
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Missing hi end was one thing. I also thought it was a little tubby sounding. It had a bit of "low mid warble" to it. Like it was a bit unstable in the 300-600hz octave. I also didn't care for the distortion sound. If it were my song, I'd retrack that. And again, it's a real cool song.

And lastly, where did the name VomitHatSteve come from? Do you often vomit in a hat? :)
 
I usually wear a gatsby hat made of some unusual, brightly-colored material. Some of them kind of look like vomit, hence vomit hats. :D

Depending on how you count things, I actually tracked as many as 8 separate guitar tones. Maybe I just need to recombine them a little?
 
I think the lack of clarity is a combination of lower mid muddiness and upper mid fizziness. There's a kind of a noise over the whole mix and I think one or more of your guitars is responsible. If you're layering up to 8 guitars, you can get a build up of undesirable frequencies. It's a cool song though, it's just that parts of it sound like they're being played in the next room
 
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