Re-mix is up. "No Place Like Home"

[Sennheiser]

Please tell me if there is some improvement here.

No Place Like Home REMIX

I listened to this in lo-fi on RealPlayer and I could hear some distortion in the bass drum. On high-fi (between numerous re-bufferings) I couldn't hear any of it.

Using MusicMatch Jukebox on Low-Fi I couldn't hear it either. Hi-Fi won't play at all with my connection. When I play back the copy in the computer in hi-fi none of the distortion is present either.

Now is it the player I'm using or is there really distortion present??? What the heck is going on here??

I backed off the drums a bit and lowered the overall output to the recorder. I lowered the bass some, increased a bit of highs on the vocal and backed off a little effect on the toms and panned out the acoustic guitars a bit.

I tried to mix the klinker note out of the lead guitar track too.

Please let me know if this is an improvement over the first mix.

 

[Toki987]

I didnt hear the first one, I been really busy with work and played some spot jobs with a couple of guys. This sounds like a goodtime tune. I enjoyed it. The Roland drums sound prettty good to me. I did the lo-fi listen since im on 56k, so it doesnt provide a true picture. But I like the tune (s) .
Ken

 

[participant]

Good songwriting.

For me, it's hard to tell on these speakers... even one right after the other... if there's a significant change in separation... the levels are different, for sure... Drums are quieter, bass isn't dominating...

Seems like something remained the same... the sound of the snare... it takes up some real estate, doesn't it?

The reverb on the vocals sounds good... IMO what's holding this back are the drums... it's not that they're bad sounds... it's that they sound like 22050 Hz samples... kind of fuzzy, not as tight & defined as I'd like (or you'd like, I imagine)...

Also sounds like the acoustics could use a HPF above about 200Hz to get em away from the bass... seems like everything wants a piece of 200Hz... snare drum, voice, guitar, bass...

Your vocals sound very well done... and extremely tight... must be a nice mic & pre, as well as room.

If I had to pick one thing I could change, it'd be that snare drum sound... I'm visualizing it as this huge drum with buffalo underbelly fur covering the bottom of it (just big & "fuzzy", I guess)

Good song.


Chad

 

[M.Brane]

I agree that the drum sound isn't quite right. The snare is tubby and the kick lacks body. It could also use a bit of 'verb to tie it together.

I didn't notice any distortion on the kick streaming with iTunes.

Something in there sounds a bit flat. Perhaps that guitar in the left channel?

What was that glitch at 1:06? Bad edit?

The vocal sounds good although a bit dry.

Overall sounds pretty good though. Just consider that's coming from someone who listens to mostly heavy rock.

 

[chrisharris]

As a lifetime fan of "The Wizard Of Oz," I can state with full confidence that I like the song.

Damn, you sound a LOT like Jimmy Buffet. "Changes In Latitudes," that's the vibe I'm getting from this. But it's different, obviously...more of the overall vibe.

To me, something sounds hot in the low end. I don't think it's the kick...more like the guitar on the left. When it PUNCHES on accents, it's kinda' wanting to get out of control a bit. That same git sounds a little (just a hair) flat in the first 1/2 of the song, but it seems to get better.

I agree with M. Brane about the dropout at 1:04/1:05. Those are a nightmare to fix once they're printed, but for what it's worth, I noticed it before I read the comments.

Again, nice tune.
Chris

 

[Sennheiser]

Thanks Toki. Yeah that's what it's sposed to be; just a good-time tune. I was thinking of the times I had been to Europe when I wrote it.

Participant, thanks for listening again.

Your vocals sound very well done... and extremely tight... must be a nice mic & pre, as well as room.

It's a Sennheiser MD-441U plugged into the TASCAM M-1516's on-board pre-'s. The room is pretty much isolated by this mic. If'n you ain't right in front of it, the mic doesn't hear it. I have a crappy room acoustically, but the 441 takes care of it for me.

If I had to pick one thing I could change, it'd be that snare drum sound... I'm visualizing it as this huge drum with buffalo underbelly fur covering the bottom of it (just big & "fuzzy", I guess)

LMAO! Yeah it's big. It should have been lowered it a little, but I couldn't "fix it in the mix".
I love the tone, but it is a bit loud. Thanks for the listen.

M. Brane

I didn't notice any distortion on the kick streaming with iTunes.

Thank God that's fixed anyway. Almost everyone who listed to the first mix said something was distorting in the low end. I couldn't hear it at all.

Something in there sounds a bit flat. Perhaps that guitar in the left channel?

Do you mean the electric or the acoustic? If you're talking about the lead, it might be flat. I'm no lead player. If it is the rhythm electric, I hadn't noticed it. I'll have to have another listen.

The drop-out at 1:05/6 is a quick edit I made with the fader. A very quick pull and push to eliminate a note that was a half-step out of tune. Now I don't know what's worse the bad note or the edit.??? Thanks for listening...again.

Hello Chris. Again, I'm going to have to get my ears focused on that electric guitar on the left track. I hadn't paid any attention to it before. Maybe I'm leaning on the bridge or pulling or pushing on the neck. It was played start to finish with no punches. I don't know why it would be out the first half and then in on the last half unless I'm doing something to the guitar.
My technique on the electric leaves a lot to be desired. Thanks for the kind words. Glad you like it.

I liked your tune I listened to the other night that is on the top of the country chart at NWR. Good song Chris.

 

[B.SABBATH]

from what I remember, the drums sound *relatively* better, but there is a bad punch or something @1:06..

When I say this sounds a lot like Jimmy Buffet, I mean that as a high compliment.. nice vocal!

 

[Track Rat]

The mix seems much better. I don't hear the distortion now but the edit at 1:06 is poopie.

 

[Sennheiser]

Thanks Mike. Maybe I oughta just leave the klinker in there. It gets mighty quiet right there without it.

Like I said, I don't know which is worse. The edit or the bad note.

 

[chrisharris]

Like I said, I don't know which is worse. The edit or the bad note.

You know, it doesn't have to be an either/or thing, necessarily. I find that really loud crash cymbals can cover up a multitude of sins. See if you can throw a really long one on the closest beat.