Yep. All the time. Though listening again later (weeks) tends to give a new perspective. That is what is productive of this particular forum, none of us are sick of your tune yet.
"yet" being the operative word... However, spurred on by the comments I'm looking at it (or listening to it to be more accurate) again.
It inspired me to actually get my old Legacy monitors out to see if I can get a better and more accurate mix.
I agree with the different venue comment. Guitars are in an auditorium and the vocals are in a bedroom.
Pfftt... I thought it would be obvious the vocals were recorded in the kitchen.
That's not a joke really... I live next to a busy main road and the kitchen is the room that's furthest away from the noisy traffic that picks up on the mic if I record at the front of the house.
But the vocals still have a weird delay on them.
Yes, sorry, that's my rockabilly roots. I like a bit of slap back echo type delay.
To me I'd dry up everything significantly. I'd bring up the vocals just a little bit. It's tough to hear everything. And the lyrics weren't too bad.
Well I've been tweaking it again tonight and yes, I've dried the guitars up and taken the delay down, but added a touch more reverb to the vocal, so hopefully when this mix is done it'll sound more in keeping.
You could probably bring up the bass a bit.
Would that I could... but sadly there is no bass on it. It's just my guitar playing some bass type runs and then all the top end removed.
Maybe the kick too. Snare is too wet. All just my opinion.
Again would that I could. The drums were a built in rhythm on my AW16G. They aren't separate and when I tweak the bottom end on the drum track, it makes the snare muddier. But tonight I ventured in to the complex (to me) world of the multiband compressor and have managed to clean it up a little bit. Will have to wait till I can get loud again on the monitors (it's late and the neighbours don't like to hear my tunes over and over at 3am
Still can't do anything about the reverb on the drums.
Thanks.
The intro is too long IMO. It's a rock song - you gotta get to the point in a hurry.
Yes, you're probably right. I already cut just under a minute out of it.
My excuse for the long intro is that I see a live show in my head most of the time when I'm writing songs. This intro would be visually spectacular, with the band coming out of pods and a model of Stonehenge descending from the lighting gantry.
Hey - I remember this one. I do think you did well making the drums sounds less crispy and fake like they did the first time around.
Yes, fed them plenty of cake to fatten them up.
I guess I agree with the others that now the vocals are in a completely different space from the rest. I like the delay treatment on the vocals, but it stands out too much maybe being so different from the reverberated instruments.
Hopefully I've managed to even that out now.
The problem being that when I take them back into the mix with reverb (to fit better with the guitars), the words get less distinct. I've played with early reflection and the other different parameters. In the end I think I just increased the wet/dry balance and brightened up the reflection. But then I've also brought the guitars forward by taking some of the reverb off. I've also made the delay a
bit more subtle.
I'll have another listen to it in the morning with fresh ears and maybe get a chance to upload it again.
I still like the guitars as they are...live sounding.
I've tried to keep that. I really want the rhythm guitar to sound almost like Chuck Berry's rhythm playing, chugging along very middly and dry, but when I add it to the mix like that it doesn't fit.
The lead guitar is duplicate tracked and most of the reverb comes from the ghost track which is further complicated by being set out of line in the stereo spectrum to its original which is much drier.
Anyway - Thanks for the further comments everyone, it's all appreciated and hopefully, the next one will be a further improvement, but most importantly, I'm learning stuff.
