Straight Up Hard Rock!! (1)

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Here is the second song on my bands demo. We are still in the process of mixing all our songs down, but I would like to get some feedback from you all before we finalize anything. When I was mixing this I was really going for that STP - Sex Type Thing type of sound. I think I am close, but let me know what you think.
I'll post 4 or 5 more songs over the course of this week and get feedback as well if you all don't mind listening. I put (1) on the end because it will be the first song of the lot.



Thanks for listening
Beezoboy
 
Very good! There are a few issues, nuthin major, just my opinions!
Kill the noise in the very beginning of the song !
The gits, while recorded forcefully and excellently, s/b double panned left and right to provide some kinda' stereo semblance.
There is also a upper freq drop-out during the change when the
lead vocs goes into both the 1st and 2nd stanza,similar to some sort of tape-saturation process. Bring the vocs weeee bit mo' upfront and pan the kit's snare and cymbals for more L/R variety
Other than that, a true and smooth production!

Ya' got my props!!!
 
Very slick. Nice mix, and a catchy tune. I like the vocals, but it might be fun to experiment with some heavier vocal processing -- I think the style is condusive to it. For example, I think the chorus would sound really good with a scratchy "low-fit" vocal with a little distortion or maybe some flange. Just a thought.
 
I agree, catchy tune, good mix, good tone from all the intruments but I picked up on a couple of drum clams that should be tightened up. One around 50 sec and the other at 1:29 or so. Kind of a late, unsure hits. Other than that I thought it sounded pretty good.
 
good tune! You have already recieved advice from smarter people, so I'll just say good hard rock tune..

later
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Thanks for the input and thanks for telling me the times and stuff especially. This will really help me squish all the bugs with this song.

Mr Q, I have the guitars panned left and right but not hard left and right. Do you panning hard would give it a better stereo image? The vocal thing you mentioned I cannot hear, maybe I have poor hearing in the highs. Would you mind giving me the times where it changes. It would be most helpful. And yes I did put a little tube saturation on the vocals to give them some edge.

Unfortunately this song is a go between mix between CoolEdit Pro 1.2 and the new 2.0 version. So some things I can get rid of and some things I cannot. Please keep the comments coming, they are very helpful.

Beezoboy
 
thats a pretty good mix even though I still cant hear what the singer was saying

There is an overall high frequency dulling that makes it easy on the ears, but mabe a tad too dull.

Overall, nice balance, nice sound
 
Forceful boulder of a song. Gets the blood pumping in time.
I'd like a little more seperation/clarity on the vox. It is real close though. The cold stop at 2:00 was compromised by the git on the right side muffing a bit before hammering back in. I'd clean that up if possible. I'm not sure but, I think the solo git could stand some attention as far as placement and space. It sounds like it gets lost in the mix.

Thumping tune and a really admirable recording and mix!! You definately captured all the energy and are well on your was to a stellar demo mix.

Great job!

Theron.
 
Theron...thanks man!! Yeah...I am still going to clean up the noise at the beggining of the song, and in that stop. I would really like to listen to this mix on some other monitors. It would really help me get a sense of what mine are lacking in. I have a friend with some Event 20/20's so I'll listen on those. I also might borrow some Tannoy Reveals so I can get a real good idea of what is lacking. I use Monitor One MkII's. Hey I got them both for $150 so I figured they would do til I can get something better. Mackie 824's are not in my budget unfortunately.

I'll be posting either another crazy energetic song or a slow but powerful song a couple days.

Beezoboy
 
Heya neighbor- No real criticism to add-The song is good, recording is good and loud- I heard one drum fubar near the beginning of the song -and towards the end it drops to silence for a second it sounded a little wierd. Other than that good job, well done!
 
On my Klipsch's the bottom end was a little out of control. You might want to look at it on an analyzer and see if there are some spikes.

Cool tune. I think the low end is eating up your headroom. Is there a lot of reverb? It had kind of a distant feel to it. The overall sound was bassy and distant.

I think it will be pretty cool if you polish it up a little.
 
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