... it's a bit narrow in general. Drums are nice and wide, but uneven ... for sometimes they stand out, other times they fall in behind the bed ... overall, they're a little out of context in space, and they could use more punch.
I wish to make this clarification...everything except for the stereo recorded instruments (which are the drums and piano) are still in mono, I have not panned them yet. I'm waiting until I get vocals done before I do the final touches. Perhaps the drums' lack of punch is because I don't use a compressor on the overheads?
The guitar presence sounds like I'm listening through a tin can ... it needs to open up and be a bit less hollow ... and spread out more.
Yeah someone earlier mentioned there weren't enough highs, as I killed off a lot in EQ. I'm bringing them back, and adding in reverb, which will help let it sit in the mix more and hopefully maintain presence. And its hard to make it 'spread out' more when it was not recorded in stereo (e609 on grill, fathead II further away) but I can definitly pan the lead and rhythm guitars around, and I'm sure that will help.
The piano comes in and not only sounds overly midi (in tone), it's wider on the sound stage than the whole rest of the band ... like the guitarist and bassist decided to move their mono amps close together stage center, and the piano player brought this monster stereo array and REALLY turned it up. I'm just guessing, but this was mixed via a stereo patch?
Interesting on the piano sounding like Midi...any ideas on how I can change that? Maybe my high shelf is too high...anyway, about the stereo spread, well, yes, it is wider than the other instruments because its the only thing that is panned aside from the drums. I helped spread the panning out by using a higher high-pass on the treble mic to seperate the highs from the lows more....do you think this is too much? Also, yes, this is a real upright piano.
I don't mean to dis the piece too much, for the playing and writing are very good, but the mix doesn't yet properly showcase how good.
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Thank you, I appreciate it. I'll try modifying a few things.
it really doesn't to me anyway sound much like yes or elp or anything like that...if anything it sounds more like a cross between who and a little known british band of the 70s called Gryphon who were very classically inspired.
I think it sounds cool...could use lyrics or something but it's already miles ahead of most stuff i hear because there's some arranging going on. impressive!
Nice! Seeing as how I started writing this album (and this song in particular) days after seeing the film version of Tommy, I can totally understand The Who influence. Never heard of Gryphon, but should probably check them out.
Yes, there will be lyrics in the beginning. Were you the one who posted the other recent prog rock song here? Sounds like it came straight from 1971, good job
EDIT: So I went ahead and did some changes to the mix. Apparently there was this HUGE 2k notch on the close guitar mic, so I knocked that mostly out of the way, knocked a bit more out of the distant mic, modified the piano EQ some. I making a new link so you guys can compare