onestep closer

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jamal buchet

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hi heres the newest song im working on i know alot of you will comment on the blank spots however as i have said before my artistic"vision"..far excedes my actual guitar "talent"..lol hope it doesnt make you sick in the least mostly this post is about my firt REAL attempt at mixing.......enjoy

thanks "sunset eyes"
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sunset eyes

i was looking for a song called "one step closer" lol i didn't know which song to listen to , untill i saw that your comment's under "sunset eyes" matched your comment's posted here.

first , i really liked the song, great voice. and that's the only problem i have with this tune, your vocals seem to o far back in the mix. bring that nice voice up front. the volume seems right, maybe to much verb??? not sure??

take what i say with a shaker of salt, no, make that 2:p

nice stuff!

peace

rick
 
almost made a lincoln log in my pants

when I thought you were actually covering a LINKIN PARK song!!! :eek: :eek: :rolleyes: :p

"Brandy"? That's the last one in the list, so I d/l'ed it. Begins a bit like a Smashing Pumpkins song. Very melodic. The bigtime obvious thing would be the drums. Are you using a drum machine or mic'ing real drums? They're way low in your mix (which MIGHT work, I guess)... did you intend them that way?

I do like the guitar work. The simple, rhythmic guitar break is really pretty cool. :cool: There are other mixing issues... but one at a time ;) The song's definitely worth doing the best you can. :)


Chad
 
hey thanks..

fenderlikingood:..see thats what i like about this forum to me the vocals are too upfront..strange mostly because im not super confident with my voice yet..i really like this song tho and will try to ad a bit more to it in the future

participant:..brandy was a very sophomoric effort at recording..it has been just me and aguitar for so long that to add the other elements is pretty painstaking...a fun one but still..that is me on drums a roland elec set..i hate the feel of the drums too busy really and i cant seem to get the levels right ..thanks again..for the boost tho

thanks and appreciation

jamal
 
"sunset eyes",

Very infectious tune dude! The mix wasn't so catchy.

I heard some soft drums in the intro, then they emediatly disapeared. Was that a click track? Probably want to clean that up. I loved your vocals but, thought they were washed in too much reverb. Backing vox rocked as well but, same verb issue. Maybe try panning the rhythm git to the left and some of the fills to the right. Your playing is good but, I'd maybe pick my windows for the fills to coinside with pauses in the vocals more.imo. The rhythm git seemed kinda loud as well.

I'm not much of a mixer so, I'll leave it at that.

I really liked the tune and your performances. Hope you make some mixing progress cause I'd like to hear this tune a little more developed.

Great Song!

Hope I helped a little,

Theron.
 
theron: oops ya that was the click track damn....i'm really kinda stuck with the crappy pre-set sounds that sre in the recorder..even the vocals...i hate the sound so i tries to mask it with reverb...again oops...i think part of the problem is i am so anxious to get feedback (never had any before )..that i tend to rush through things...rather than really really spending time to get a sound i like..but as the newness of all this wears off im sure that will get better thanks again for the listen

jamal
 
Are you recording your vocals dry and adding effects during mixdown? If not, you should! That was the first valuable lesson I learned on this board not too long ago.


Theron.
 
sunset eyes - nice song..

I'm hearing some serious crackle over here on that rhythm guitar.. I'm suprised no one mentioned it.. Maybe a bit too much verb on the vocals, but it could work if e.q.'d better..

The worse thing about this is that crackle on the rhythm guitar.. It could be due to a number of things, but it distracts from the listen for me.. was it clipping? You might have to redo that rhythm guitar.. unless it doesnt bother you.. It bothers me very much. :)

The melody and performance is good though.. very nice tune


sam
 
Yeah Sami, I hear it too. Sounds like digital clipping. Also some very slight intonation problems. I like the tune, these are small detractors that can be fixed.
 
Damn........sam beat me to the crackle! That's the biggest thing to me also. Serious crackling sound. The rest of it is good. Too much 'verb I think but that's a creative decision. Nice tune with a lot of potential.....just needs some more stuff on it....like drums maybe....but you've already said that. Get to work! I want to hear this in it's finished form pronto! :D:D
 
yeah the drums are barely there...

I like the melody though...

but my biggest issue with it is that the vocals arn't cutting through to me. I am listening on headphones....and it feels like the electric guitar at the beginning is really competeting with the vocals...

try maybe cutting from frequency ranges, and panning the guitar off to the side a bit so the vocal can breath.

the vocal level itself is ok to me...but, it's washed out by the verb, as mentioned.

nice guitar work. i dig.


-wes
 
sunset eyes

you have a great voice, man! No reason to push it back in the mix with 'verb. IMO the reason the voice washes out sometimes is the heavy 'verb. Strangely enough, the mix might work better if you switched reverb on vox/guitar. Definitely feeling a Smashing Pumpkins influence, and something from Weezer. (That "octave" chord, played on the 3rd & 5th strings say SP all the way!! :p :D)

Levels seem quite loud during the instrumental part--but that part kicks ass!

You play guitar at least as good, if not better than me :D:D:D You've got plenty of guitar talent. This song will be excellent!!! :cool:


Chad
 
man you guys are great!!

sabbath and track rat:...i dont know about the crackle..??..i have listened acoupla times and i cant hear it?..maybe its my extremely lo-fi computer??...not sure...

lt.bob:...ya heres the thing when yer gear is crap you try to dress it up...sometimes the smell still comes thru.lol...my vox mic was about 50 bucks..and it shows horribly...thats gonna be my next purchase tho..thanks for the encouragement tho!!!

wes480:..the "drums" you hear at the beg.....was the click track and im not sure how that happened must have picked it up thru my git pick-ups?...and the mix...the other stuff i posted was sooooquiet so this is my latest attempt.when you dont have a ton of confidence ion your voice..you sorta blend it in more...

participant:...you have had nothing but nice things to say so far...must be setin me up for the big el-flamo..lol
ya i thought i played decent guitar too...until i found this damn sight chuck full-o.raging guitar slingers...who i talk shit about behind thier back every chance i get!..lol just kiddin

again thans so much everyone for spending your time listening to what i do with all of mine

jamal
 
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