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Well, in my mind when this was written, it was intended to be a 90s shoe-gazing, reverb drenched, House of Love, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, type effort. Droney, moody, etc. But something happened in the recording, and it came out as a poppy 70s glam rock, art school song! A cross between Roxy Music and Chas and Dave! Maybe the key, E, also took it in a twelve bar blues direction. Trumpets (again) presented themselves as I hummed along to the evolving song, so the Roland GR-55 came in handy once more, to emulate them. It's long at just over five minutes, but I already cut a minute of repeats and longueurs out, so I don't know what else to do.

 
Thekesslerboy said:
Well, in my mind when this was written, it was intended to be a 90s shoe-gazing, reverb drenched, House of Love, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, type effort. Droney, moody, etc. But something happened in the recording, and it came out as a poppy 70s glam rock, art school song! A cross between Roxy Music and Chas and Dave! Maybe the key, E, also took it in a twelve bar blues direction. Trumpets (again) presented themselves as I hummed along to the evolving song, so the Roland GR-55 came in handy once more, to emulate them. It's long at just over five minutes, but I already cut a minute of repeats and longueurs out, so I don't know what else to do.

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The playback is tremendously distorting.
 
Papanate said:
The playback is tremendously distorting.
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Yeah blew my ear buds out. Had to quickly pull the volume to 33 to avoid permanent ear damage :D
Has a nice groove under all that distortion. Vocals are good & I like the Roxy style wall of sound
 
I think the limiting is causing some distortion and a bit of pumping in spots.

Nice smooth vocals - good performance.

I like the level balance. A bit light on the low end - just like I like it.

Nice catchy tune.
 
Thanks all. I am working on a ground up remix to try to avoid the baked in distortion. Will obviously temper the overall volume at the end, too.
 
Upon hitting 'play', it's fairly evident that the loudness of this song is causing pretty heavy distortion. I immediately turned it all down (which generally is not something you want your listeners to do). So, other than the overall volume level, I don't hear anything too crazy - but, sad to say that the aural assault caused me to want to stop the song before it finished. I'd recommend mastering this song to something like -10LUFS or thereabouts and I'll have another listen.
 
On my system it's not too loud. It is distorted, so that should be fixed, but the loudness seems actually maybe too quiet, relative to a pro level.

That graphic is hilarious but also 100% true. I master for that nice rectangular shape more than sound.

I like the song a lot. If you're still mixing, maybe a dynamics shift somewhere?

IMO something is off about the beginning. The drums are confusing the pick up notes from the horns? Maybe just the horns for the first two notes, then everything else kicks in?
 
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