Original song mixing adivce!

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Me and my friends wrote this song with no real plan at all lol, and would love any feedback on the mix/arangement, insturmentals, lyrics, anything! Thank you! Also recorded in my basement not professionally or anything just a demo.
 

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Well - not a bad song, and pretty decent playing and singing, BUT- It's drums, and a few other things lurking in the background. Did the drummer mix it? The drums were very up front - and convention is that the singers tend to occupy that position, with drums behind them. The drums also have the sound you typically get on Jazz - a more distant 'single mic' kind of sound. The bass is a bit murky and practically everything needs EQing - but we don't know how you recorded it? Live, or overdubbed? It's not bad (bar the weird beginning noises) but maybe you were stuck with tracks, or mics, or monitors? There weren't any instrumentals, were there?
 
bongdong said:
Me and my friends wrote this song with no real plan at all lol, and would love any feedback on the mix/arangement, insturmentals, lyrics, anything! Thank you! Also recorded in my basement not professionally or anything just a demo.
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Vocals are good - original - bass out of time and not definite - Rhythm guitars - need some kind of change over the song- cymbals sound weird - out of phase - lead guitars again not definite - ideas are good though.
 
Some thoughts . . .

Male vocal is great. Delivery is confident and engaging.
Female backing is lacking in energy, but is ok. On the on or two word responses, consider using the whole phrase
The song structure is just a repeated four chord sequence and instrumentation is the same the whole way through. Consider varying the dynamics. For example, consider adding a bridge, or introducing a chord variation. Also, partway through the song, consider emptying out the instrumentation (along the lines of how you treated the end of the song).
The guitar leads are messy. Sticky to one, and develop its sound to give it some status.
The drum part could be simplfied, and varied according to the part of the song.
 
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