Raybans

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Hey, I had to post 10 times before I could get my song in. I left some quick comments I hope were mostly constructive.

Keith
 
Welcome to HR, your tune could use some help. The drums are over-compressed, you can see in the wave form, the louder parts of your song are lower than the softer parts. The arrangement drags on a bit long for me, once the drums come in around 2:30 I'd leave them in and build it up more, the arrangement looses too much steam bringing the drums in and out so much.

The vocal sounds good as it is, guitars sound ok (acoustic has a lot of compression). The song idea " Raybans" is good, I'd make it more pronounced if possible.

All I've got

Pete
 
Hi the main thing I noticed is the extreme width, try making it less widescreen and more forward in the centre. Then there's the compression which is overdone and making it sound thin, I would just try backing off the threshold and ratios on your compressors, and also maybe add some reverb here and there, especially on the lead vocals and bring it forward a bit. Hope all that helps!...Ben.
 
Good performance, but I think the mix is still in need of work. The vocals and violin are a nice capture, but the drums and guitars sound small and far off, I think because of all the compression on them. Ease off it a fair bit I reckon, see if they balance better and then bring up the volume as needed.

Secondly how did you do the bass line? It's all boom and no definition - I wonder if you've either put a quite severe high pass filter on that's cutting off all that definition or you've boosted the EQ on the boomy frequencies around 100-120ish Hz and so accentuated them?
 
I agree with a lot of what's been said. The violin is a nice addition. I don't hear those too much in here. Performances seem good.

There is some kind of processing though (compression?) that is sucking the life out of this mix. It needs to breathe more.
 
Pumping badly round the kick drum and the acoustic guitar is way overcompressed.

I'd uncompress everything and start assembling your mix again and aim for some dynamics... there's no law saying you have to compress things....
 
Nice singing voice.

Yeah some bad pumping on the kick. Some pretty hard compression on the acoustic guitar too. I didn't care for the tone on the acoustic. Some hyped high mids gave it a little abrasive tone.

Some crackles at 1:26. Pops at 1:34 and 1:35.

Hearing some autotune-ish artifacts on the female vocal in a spot or two.
 
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