please critique possibly my best work..

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Before even worrying about the recording, you got to deal with the performance issues........ there's never an occasion where playing off-time is acceptable - it's instant "amateur hour".

As to the recording itself - - it's very demo'ish-sounding... no track definition, overly harsh guitar tones, bass is weak and indistinct, and the whole mix leans to the left for some reason......

Keep at it -- first off get the performance level up -- then work on improving the recording/mixing skills.
 
well this wasnt my band...so i couldnt really do anything with the performance issue how should i fix the bass?
 
It depends on how it was tracked... but the issues I'm hearing have to do with either the tracking itself, or the mixing.... it all starts with get good-sounding tracks down though, before you can get a good-sounding mix.
 
Very Blink-182, and I'm a fan of Blink-182. What he said about the time is true, but I have the mix leaning heavily to the right.

The guys in the band sound like they have some chops, but they're either playing overly complicated parts that they can't handle or they're not concentrating hard enough -- or cleaning things up enough with edits and punch ins -- to make it sound good.
 
Somebody's got their speakers plugged in backwards!

Please, please, please tell me that it is Blue Bear, lol

:D Q.
 
here is what I would do:

1)compress the hell out of the vocal
2)have the vocal sing closer to the mic or remove the verb
3) move the overhead mics closer or damp the walls with blanket around the drum

I think the guitars sound nice and upfront, but the rest is in a totally different room to my ears. Anyway, what you've got so far is pretty decent, keep at it!

Al
 
Qwerty said:
Somebody's got their speakers plugged in backwards!

Please, please, please tell me that it is Blue Bear, lol
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Nope.... not me! I think you better check your connections skully....
 
Nope. My speakers are hooked up correctly. Perhaps you have different -- and, dare I say it, incorrect -- idea of which speakers are termed left and which are termed right.
 
Hmm... let's see.... play a sound in cubase, panned right.... hmmm - comes out of the right speaker...

OK - play the sound again, pan it left.... seems to be coming out of the left speaker now......

I don't know but that pretty much defines my concept of left/right.... maybe you prefer your speakers to be "drummer perspective"?????????????
 
i thought it sounded decent.. i mean it's demo-ee but it's got a cool vibe.

the point of the kick gets a little lost in the low-mid of the bass guitar perhaps.

on second listen, the guitars are a bit harsh, and perhaps could come down by a coulple dB after a re-EQ session.. lead vocal needs more compression and needs to come up 2-4 dB. way too quiet. might make the pitchy vocal sound ugly though, you never know. slap some otto-tune on it. kidding.

snare is a tad bit boxy. a touch of 3K5 or thereabouts.

still, good song.
 
About the song

Hi dumass,

Looks like everyone's already said a lot about the production issues, but as regards the song...

First of all, it's good - has the right college/punk vibe going on.
BUT - personally I think it's a shade too long for the the genre. I'd remove the slow part completely (this isn't prog, after all!!!), and cut it down to somewhere between 3 - 3:30.

Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge/solo, chorus, chorus, thank you and GOODNIGHT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN!!!

Have fun,

Mscmln.
 
Blue Bear Sound said:
Hmm... let's see.... play a sound in cubase, panned right.... hmmm - comes out of the right speaker...

OK - play the sound again, pan it left.... seems to be coming out of the left speaker now......

I don't know but that pretty much defines my concept of left/right.... maybe you prefer your speakers to be "drummer perspective"?????????????
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It's possible the channels are swapped up stream of the faders... downstream of the faders may not be the problem :confused:
 
Sonixx said:
It's possible the channels are swapped up stream of the faders... downstream of the faders may not be the problem :confused:
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How's that??? If I pan something hard left, and every meter in the chain shows it's on the left, and the sound comes out only from my left speaker, I'm 99.99999999999999% sure I'm hearing what I'm supposed to be hearing, from the proper position! :p ;)
 
That isn't the issue at all ??????

Skully stated his was leaning to the right... if the leads coming from the playback device are crossed before the fader , then the fader has nothing to do with it...
 
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