Room Full of Strangers

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So, I managed to record a new song. I've been side-tracked lately with work, but mostly with learning how to make a video that doesn't look totally amateurish.

So, this is a new song. I've been listening to a lot of older Deep Purple lately. Not that this song sounds like them at all, but it influence me to want to put some organ in this.

Let me know how this sounds.

Thanx guys

ROOM FULL OF STRANGERS

Room Full of Strangers (words and music by RAMI)

Harangue and lecture me
Hang me in effigy
Look at me with rage and scorn and blame me for it all before you look through any mirror
Your talk is cheap as sand
So hard to understand
Cheat and lie and criticize and then one day you realize there ain't no cure for karma

Chorus:
Looking around nothing but blank faces staring down
Stuck in a room full of strangers in the wrong place

I'm learning to embrace
These lines upon my face
You say you always got my back then bail when I'm under attack so I left the party early

Chorus:
Looking around nothing but blank faces staring down
Stuck in a room full of strangers at the wrong time

Always easy to pretend just drowning in denial again like whistling in a graveyard

Chorus:
Looking around nothing but blank faces staring down
Stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time you got me
Stuck in a room full of strangers in the wrong place at the wrong time
 
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Nice and tight (as someone once said to someone else...).

The only thing I noticed other than the overall excellence of this one is that when you chorus the vocals, they come across as really in your face. I find the sound on the main vocal really nice, but when all voices are on at the same time, it's a bit 'all the bright lights are on'. I'm not talking EQ brightness here, I'm talking intensity. Don't know how to say it better. I'd like it to have a slightly softer sound somehow when those vocal tracks are on together.
 
dobro said:
Nice and tight (as someone once said to someone else...).

The only thing I noticed other than the overall excellence of this one is that when you chorus the vocals, they come across as really in your face. I find the sound on the main vocal really nice, but when all voices are on at the same time, it's a bit 'all the bright lights are on'. I'm not talking EQ brightness here, I'm talking intensity. Don't know how to say it better. I'd like it to have a slightly softer sound somehow when those vocal tracks are on together.
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Hey, thanx a lot Dobro. I know what you're saying. I know why, too. I have that long delay on the verse vocals, and I take it off for the doubled chorus vocals. So, they're doubled, and drier.
I just started doing a re-mix, and I I realized that this always happens to me. I get too "inside" a song when I'm working on it, and as soon as I think it's done and post it, all of a sudden I start hearing everything that I could have done better. There are lines I want to re-sing, lyrics and melodies I want to change, levels I want to adjust, etc.....It never fails. So, I'm going to be re-working this over the next few days.
 
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Wow... Everything is so clear! I *love* the sound of your kick. It's tight, poppy, and full of sub-thump, but not too much. Love it. Very, very defined. I hear what dobro is sayin'.. If this were me, I'd EQ the mid-highs a bit in the vox. Maybe even put a compressor on those frequencies so when they get out of control, they're reigned back in a bit.

Yup.. I love it. Good tune, dude. Just put a reign on those vox freqs.
 
PoeticIntensity said:
Wow... Everything is so clear! I *love* the sound of your kick. It's tight, poppy, and full of sub-thump, but not too much. Love it. Very, very defined. I hear what dobro is sayin'.. If this were me, I'd EQ the mid-highs a bit in the vox. Maybe even put a compressor on those frequencies so when they get out of control, they're reigned back in a bit.

Yup.. I love it. Good tune, dude. Just put a reign on those vox freqs.
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Thanx a lot Poetic. You caught the first mix just in time. I just took it down. I'm going to work on that chorus, and a ton of other things for sure. :cool:
 
Don't worry, it will be back. Sorry guys, not the first time I do this. From now on, I'll wait an extra couple of days before I post something that I think is finished.
 
So, while I wait, I'm hearing Mad Dog World, which starts a bit strangely but then all of a sudden becomes an AWESOME Rami tune.
Also, while I'm there I have to have a listen to my favorite RAMI song...Woke Up Dead.
 
Haha. I heard it before it got pulled.
liked it, thought the vocs were a little hot.
Look forward to next version.

On a live Deep purple album. Ian talks about the stage mix, says make everything louder than everything else.
beginning of loudness wars????
Your tune reminded me of that. It was was loud, with the vocals a bit louder.
 
BroKen_H said:
So, while I wait, I'm hearing Mad Dog World, which starts a bit strangely but then all of a sudden becomes an AWESOME Rami tune.
Also, while I'm there I have to have a listen to my favorite RAMI song...Woke Up Dead.
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HA! That's awesome, man. Glad you like those. :cool:

RFR said:
Haha. I heard it before it got pulled.
liked it, thought the vocs were a little hot.
Look forward to next version.

On a live Deep purple album. Ian talks about the stage mix, says make everything louder than everything else.
beginning of loudness wars????
Your tune reminded me of that. It was was loud, with the vocals a bit louder.
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Man, I love those guys. But Gillan and Blackmore are both idiots in each their own special way. Lord, Paice and Glover are cool.

Schwarzenyaeger said:
Post it post it post it
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It's going back up within an hour. Just re-mixing it now. :)
 
OK, tune be back up in the OP and here:

ROOM FULL OF STRANGERS

Not sure about the vocal level, especially the transition from the verses to the choruses.....and anything else you guys might here that needs adjusting.
 
Generally excellent. If I had to nitpick I'd say there's a disconnect between the thin vocals (and to a lesser extent the cymbals) poking out around 3k and dropping off below 300Hz, and the rest of the track that seems super beefy below 200Hz. I realize part of that is just how your voice is, but I feel the need for a tonal connection between the vocals and the other stuff. A little more beef in the vocals, some slight thinning and definition to the guitars and a subtle taming of the kick/bass beef would do it for me. That said, it's in the range where it comes down to personal preference.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
Generally excellent. If I had to nitpick I'd say there's a disconnect between the thin vocals (and to a lesser extent the cymbals) poking out around 3k and dropping off below 300Hz, and the rest of the track that seems super beefy below 200Hz. I realize part of that is just how your voice is, but I feel the need for a tonal connection between the vocals and the other stuff. A little more beef in the vocals, some slight thinning and definition to the guitars and a subtle taming of the kick/bass beef would do it for me. That said, it's in the range where it comes down to personal preference.
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Thanx a lot, Boulder.

Yeah, my voice doesn't always thin out. but in this range, it tends to. I don't think EQ'ing any more "meat" will work, because I don't think it's there to begin with. Maybe just taming the kik/bass a bit might balance things out better. Something to think about and work on. I really appreciate those comments. Thanx.
 
Nope. No nits.
What's the signal chain for that bass sound? Got a bunch o' balls, fatness and still clear like a bell! I could get that sound with old my bi-amp running through an 18 and some 10s, but I got no sims or studio gear can get that sound...
 
BroKen_H said:
Nope. No nits.
What's the signal chain for that bass sound? Got a bunch o' balls, fatness and still clear like a bell! I could get that sound with old my bi-amp running through an 18 and some 10s, but I got no sims or studio gear can get that sound...
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Thanx BH.

I have an Ibanez active bass. It goes straight into my interface and gets recorded raw. At mixing, I have it going through the WAVES GTR. For this tune, I used a "Super Tube" amp (virtual), going through a 15" cab (virtual), miced with an RE 20 (virtual). Then, it goes through an SSL channel strip for some EQ and compression. Sounds like a lot when I type it out, but it's really just going through an amp sim and a channel strip.
 
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