New Song - Time to Make a Choice

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Listening as I type. Nice intro guitar sound, harmonies are good. The rhythm part is a little "jerky". OD guitars cool but walk over the vocals a bit. The busy choruses are good. The verse again has the guitars over the vocals. I think the jerky part could use some work and try getting the guitars down a bit and out of the vocals. Mixed by a guitar player? There's lots of good orginal guitar sounds but they should balance with the vocals.
 
Way, way too much guitar volume for mine... snare could go up relatively in the drum sub mix - especially in the first section, toms down a touch, especially the lowest one and I'd narrow the panning of the toms, personally... when I could finally hear the bass (when it was just it and drums playing towards the end) it was quite thin sounding..

Also, if you don't have permission to have the Battlestar Galactica sample, I'm not sure it's the wisest move to have it included and up, and especially with that text.... just a thought....

Good luck!
 
This is another that's not even close to being "release" ready. I don't mean any disrespect, but most sites let the listener preview a sample before you buy. I'd never drop money on something that sounds like this.

I have to ask, who's mixing your songs, and how are they monitoring? The two tracks you have here in the clinic right now are a mess. I mean, the songs are okay, but the mixes are kind of a trainwreck and you seem to be in a hurry to "release" everything. If you want to put out a good product, then do it. Take your time and do things right. Don't settle on anything.
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, I appreciate it. We are in talks to get permission to use the BSG clip, but we may be dropping it. I had a thing for awhile for creating theme tunes, but as you guys pointed out they can be distracting, so I am still trying to decide on how to handle that.

As for who is mixing Greg_L, it's me. Still learning. I appreciate your feedback, and I know the tracks are not perfect, but I am not sure they are "a mess".
 
Fair enough. I'm not trying to be a dick or anything. I'm just saying, do these sound good to you? There's a lot of imbalance and just bad sounds in general. Those are easy fixes. I just think it could be better, and you can do it. First thing you have to do is be honest with yourself. If something doesn't sound just right, then redo it until it does.
 
Greg_L, I appreciate your feedback, and of course...I want you to be honest. Start a war, I think is a bit rough, but I am fairly happy with it. I have re-tracked the OD guitar a couple of times, and I am having trouble getting the sound I want. I agree that it is harsh, not what I intended. Maybe I'll re-track again. As for the vocals, that was actually a scratch vocal that was intended to be tossed, but we liked the roughness of it, so we kept it.

Time to Make a Choice...I am very happy with. I don't hear the problems you are hearing. As a noob to this mixing thing, I feel like I have accomplished a lot with that mix. But I am always happy to receive feedback and to try and do better.
 
I liked the harmonies. I liked the clean electric guitar sound, except for the reverb.

Things kind of get away from you when the song kicks in the the other guitars. They kind of swallow up the mix.

I'd little more high-mid sizzle on the distorted guitar.

In general I thought there was too much reverb on the instruments and I thought it was the wrong type of reverb. It's just too big of a space. Through all of this, the vocals sound like they're bone dry, or close. So it gives the vocal the sense of being in a different space. If it were me I'd leave the vocal where it is, and change the verb on the instruments drastically.

I'm noticing some type of distortion/clipping/orWhatever at around 3:16.
 
You guys need a producer and a mixer. I understand why you're doing it yourself (at least I think I do) but you need more time to focus on your music instead of worrying about the technical aspect. You need guidance. I see potential but you have to listen to what people are telling you. I think Greg has it right for the most part. You're happy with it because it's yours, you worked hard on it. But most people aren't looking/hearing the music the way a musician or band does. Tighter performances, outside ideas on arrangements/creative aspects and a good sound engineer would do wonders for you guys.
 
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