New Song exploring the limits of Fair Use!

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Yup, this is a pretty cool track. Impressed by the chorus...your ability to cram so many non-melodious words at such a tempo into a short space. There was an early devo flavor to some of this (present in a lot of your tracks I think).

You have a uniquely boxy sound that carries over from mix to mix. Personally, I'd really like to hear these tunes tracked and mixed more traditionally (brighter, clearer, less mid-range), but that may be an artistic choice on your part or gear limitations...I dunno. If artistic choice - I feel confident that the material itself is filled with enough quirky energy to stand out even if the production were more commercial...just my thoughts...good job. :)
 
Thanks Heat.

Yeah, I'm going for as polished as possible, but as you can probably tell, I'm not great at it! :D
So you're recommending more high end less mid as an overall mixing strategy then? OK. I'll try that.
 
VomitHatSteve said:
Thanks Heat.

Yeah, I'm going for as polished as possible, but as you can probably tell, I'm not great at it! :D
So you're recommending more high end less mid as an overall mixing strategy then? OK. I'll try that.
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You're welcome. Yeah, probably not so simple as more high end, but more lows and highs and less mids in general to start. Also, you've sometimes got that "in the next room" sound someone mentioned earlier...the tracks need to be more up front sounding...more immediacy if you will...

People dig your tunes...I dig your tunes, but the mixes don't sound polished at this point. Try A/B comparison with some of your infulences (TMBG, etc.). Listen for the overall differences without worrying about specific elements at first.

Anyway, I envy you for your creativity...I have kind of the reverse issue...my mixes seem more or less ok, but my material isn't too exciting. Yours is a better problem to have. :) (uh, not saying you have a problem or anything...:o:)).
 
It's alright. I'll cop to not being a great sound engineer (or producer. Or mixer. Or any number of other roles involved in the recording process.) :D
 
Early DEVO, for sure!

8 guitar tracks!? Wow. Have you tried cutting it to two or three? It might sound clearer.
 
I say 8 tracks, but that's a little misleading.

It's 2 rhythm guitars and 2 leads. Each of which is doubled (and in this case, the doubles are panned opposite each other).
I do, however, have multiple recordings of each take: DI and a mic pointed at the speaker in all cases, plus an extra mic further away in a few cases. The distant mic thing was a bit of a new experiment with this song. I probably won't use it again in the future.
 
Dude... The song is nuts. It's got your signature all over the place... One thing for darned-sure is you don't sound like the hum-drum pop crap being played all over the place...

I'm not sure if it would help or hinder what you're trying to do, but if you could somehow get a cleaner mix of the sounds you're recording, it'd prove to be interesting. If you could keep "your sound" going, and clean up a bit of the messiness, you'd have something killer.

Definitely unique, man. Keep it up!
 
Thanks. I think for the next few mixes I do, I'll be trying to tone down the multi-tracking a little bit.
Stick with the weird noises, but fewer of them at any given moment!
 
Nice, quirkiness, I like. Reminds me of Mr.Bungle somewhat, not quite as crazy though. See the song starts with a nice drive, whack whack whack, so I got really into it, also the way you sing (rhythm and tone) works really well. The growl, as you noted, is too, what to say, liquid maybe? I also think that it's not a matter of post processing but it's the way you sing it that should be changed. Then it goes into this 'poppy' part where your drum loses its drive, it's like the song loses altitude you know the way you feel sometimes in a plane when it takes a sudden dip? In the 'punky' bit there's a guitar that's too flimsy. It sounds like it could be really cool but it's somewhere in the back. Then whack whack whack, yay! The ending, to my taste, is abrupt and your voice sounds disinterested on the last 'aaarr'.
But, again, this is solid stuff.
 
That song will now be in my head for the foreseeable future. I really liked it. Not sure how I feel about the growl/scream part though.. Doesn't seem to fit to me, but since i can barely hear it, its fine.
 
Thanks guys.

Polysaurus, do you mean you don't like the idea of the growl or the execution of it?
 
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