One More Song...

[Alexbt]

No, it's not just figurative, it's literal.

This is just a demo recording of my band at a rehearsal this past Thursday. The original vocal tracks are muted and and overdubs were recorded. Same goes for my keyboards.

Also, I'm having trouble getting the mix of the guitars right. The acoustic gets buried at times.

Mix suggestions, please.

Thanks,

Alex

 

[Phyl]

Took a long time to load for some reason.

Very nice arrangement.

Acoustic in the opening is nice, then immediately gets buried when the other parts come in. To bring it out you could try panning, different eq, doubling. Hard to say exactly what to do.

The lead vocal is waaay out front - too loud, at least in the verse. Maybe trying a different verb and bringing the level down would help. You have a nice voice but the tonality of the vocal track is very bright and strident. You could bring the string part up @2:30 when it's just the voice and strings.

Electric lead guitar starting @ 2:00 has too much dirt on it, sounds fizzy. Put in some mid range punch and turn down the distortion.

There's a pretty obvious mic stand bump in there somewhere, I forget exactly where.

Good song, definitely worth development.

 

[Dogman]

I liked the song. The music was too quiet for the vocals, but sounds good. I think the advice Phyl gave should help you mix it a bit better.
Good luck.
Ed

 

[Alexbt]

Thank you!

I have a very hard time panning and trying to find space for everything. I will take a closer listen to our band's 2002 studio album (which I am not on) and see what the mixing dude did with it.

I did a little bit of EQ (because I'm not comfortable with parametric yet) and put some compression on the acoustic. It makes a world of difference to me, though I don't know if compression is good for it.
I'm not singing lead on this song. I'm singing backups (I do lead vocals on one other song.)