Roll With The Punches

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Hey thanks for responding people! I've been out of town at a wedding in Arizona dodging rattlesnakes and scorpions all weekend.

ERICHENRYUS: Thanks for the comments! I seem to be getting a weird split with people that think the bass is either too week or too strong. I'm not quite sure how to fix this. Maybe it's an EQ thing. I haven't touched EQ on anything by the way...

PILTDOWNMAN: Thanks for listening and getting back to me! I'm using a drum machine (obviously), and I usually taylor the volume of each hit, but for some reason...probably just laziness...I used some stock kit, and the certain hit are much hotter than others...I'll check that out. As I mentioned above, I didn't touch any EQ (when I do i screw it up), so I'm not surprised that the bass is muddy. Any suggestions there? Thanks a lot?

BOYDRJ: Hey Thanks! I can't seem to get a unified call with the bass. Some people say it's too loud and some say it's too soft. I'm not sure what to do with it! Thanks for listening!
 
I really liked the song. The "words from a fire hose" stuff was cool. The vocal delivery was excellent. Liked the panned guitars in the intro. Just the funky little sound was nice. I liked the contast between verses and choruses. I liked the cheezy guitar solo in the middle.

Doubling vocals like this has to be difficult. It was real good for the most part, but I noticed a syncing thing at 1:23-1:25, and a smaller one at 2:37.

I the song could have used a punchier bass. My opinion only.

Good one.
 
TripleM said:
I really liked the song. The "words from a fire hose" stuff was cool. The vocal delivery was excellent. Liked the panned guitars in the intro. Just the funky little sound was nice. I liked the contast between verses and choruses. I liked the cheezy guitar solo in the middle.

I the song could have used a punchier bass. My opinion only.

Good one.
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Hey thanks! Oddly enough, I don't mention "fire hose" or anything in this song. I listened to it like 5 times after you sent this email and didn't even hear anything that sounded like that, but I'm guessing you're talking about the the part where I start rattling off beach, or popular surfing spots on the Californina/Baja Mexico coast. If that is the case, the real words are "I'll go to Ocean Beach, Point Reyes, Waddel Creak, Steamer Lane..." I say it pretty fast, so I'm not surpised it's hard to make out.

Cheezy guitar solo! I'm offended! No, just kidding, actually it was pretty cheezy.:p I screwed with it for a while and couldn't find anything to really click, so I just kind of left it:rolleyes: .

Would anyone offer a suggestion for the bass? Some people think it's too heavy and some think it's not punchy enough! I don't get it?! What do I do here? Maybe turn down some low end and increse some high end bass?

Anyway...thanks!:D
 
Robertt8 said:
I listened to it like 5 times after you sent this email and didn't even hear anything that sounded like that
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Sorry. By that I just meant the rapid delivery of words. In other words - words coming out as fast as water out of a fire hose.
 
Hey no prob. I'd kind of considered that as a possibility, but then decided to go down the wrong path. Thanks for clearing that up...

Soooooo....any bass EQ advice out there? Is that what this needs? EQing? Like I mentioned earlier, I'd really like a bass D/I, but I'm too damn poor right now. That would probably help out a lot, but is there anything I could do at this stage?
 
The guitar tone right at the outset sets the mood - and kept my interest. OK - I looked at some of the other posts and I don't have enough patience to read all of them but I heard the bass comments - let me help - the bass is fine for me - so there. The instruments lay well-balanced across the mix. Vocal is spot-on and properly effected when needed - well done!! Backgrounds are cool, too. (Damn there are a lot of words in this tune!!) The delayed guit solo is just the perfect touch - throws you for a loop right in the middle - love it. The rim-shot gets old after a while. I LIKED THE BONGOS. Lots of color and variation here - now I gotta listen a few more times to get all of those words!!
Cool tune - cool vibe - really nice recording!!
~Milan
 
Hey thanks for checking my tune out!

I'll just assume the bass is fine in this case then and not F*ck with it. I usually just make it worse. Thanks!

I can't seem to write a tune that doesn't have like 2 pages of words. I think I'm an idiot, because when the time comes to really learn these to play live I'm screwed! Oh well.

Thanks!
Tait
 
Again, a tune I liked but forgot about. Stupid work. I'm just too busy......I listen and forget to comment :)

I don't remember my mixing comments. So I just stick with

I like, Robertt8! :)
 
light and airy...like it alot :) I wish I could get this quality to my mixes!
 
Monitors/Speakers or Headphones?

Just out of curiosity, did any of you people listen through this tune through monitors or speakers?

All I've heard it on are headphones, crapy home stereo speakers and even worse car speakers. It sounds fine on the headphones, but it seems kind of cheap on the home speakers...and my car speakers makes everything sound bad soooo...maybe I'm nuts, but I'm wondering if you guys used monitors or whatever to check this tune out.

Thanks! I'll let this song die soon...
 
I would do three things to this.

Bring up the rythm acoustic a little hotter on the chorus. For some reason this reminds me of the tune "Faith" by George Michael. Sorry but it does. Thus the comment about having the acoustic drive the rythm stronger. Or, bring up the drums.

Second I would compress the whole track, or mult it with a compression track, to fatten up the sound.

Energy kind of washes out toward the end. Put something unusual sounding with a high melody to pick things up. Maybe a cowbell!! Just kidding. Liked the feel and tune by the way.

Yes, I listened through monitors.
 
MIDDLEMAN: Thanks for the advice!

Remixing this puppy becomes a total bitch because I've got all these virtual tracks (for lack of open available tracks), so I kind of end up mixing kind of blind and in chunks, so I'm lucky to get the mixes I've got! I'd love to have more tracks available, but I'm a poor man (as stated in this song)...but it sounds like your just saying to bring things up, so I can probably just give the final mix another hit with the drums, or guitar, or whatever.

I ran the entire mix into a generic mastering tool on my VS 880EX, but I didn't change anything. I need to toy with the settings get a better sound. Thanks for responding and the suggestions!

By the way, I love that tune "Faith" by George Michael...um...that one and "I Want Your Sex"...two great tunes.

Tait
 
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