the rising tide

[fat_fleet]

Hey man, another great song and a nice clean mix. This one's a little more laid back than your usual offerings maybe?
Really like the guitar textures. Your songs often have great ear candy low in the mix.
Are you still going to cassette?

 

[heatmiser]

Heat - i REALLY SINCERELY hope that you don't think that I was noting anything more than it reminded me of a fragment of one of my songs. I also know that I'm feeling pretty darn unconfortable about being used as a compliment - maybe it's turnabout as fair play for my raving and ranting on your jesus hates you thread I really like the rising tide, the lyrics, the sound, the meloncholy mood it sets and the images it gives off when I listen to it. Your song is so heat it's like heat doing heat.

Oh no...I was totally joking. I probably should use emoticons more often to avoid misinterpretations.(oops - wrong one!)

It is pretty similar though and I wouldn't be surprised if subconciously it seeped in somehow. It's not like a "my sweet lord" situation or anything, but that ascending bit is close.

You write really nice songs with lots of cool changes, interesting arrangements and great melodies. There is nothing to be uncomfortable about. I would like to be able to write songs like that. Thanks again for the encouragement on the song.

Really cool Pete - great tune yet again and lots of fantastic textures. I particularly like the interplay of the two panned electric guitars. The drums have really come together since the first mix where you moved over from the drum machine too.

Only issue I had was with some kind of shaker that you've used throughout the song that i find a bit distracting as it sounds to me a bit like a rustling crisp packet more than adding anything. Nobody else has picked up on it, so maybe it's just me or maybe I'm being picky to keep your ego grounded

What's WWHD by the way?

Awesome. Thanks Rob.

I just found out today I'm going to be losing the drums!! Damn!

They have been on long term loan from a friend of my wife's and we both thought she'd eventually just sell them to me, but she just told us today she'd like them back in the next couple of months...bad news...

Good call on the maracas. They sound like ass. Greg made a similar comment about them 1 or 2 tunes ago. It should be simple, but lately they sound all crispy and light and annoying. I think maybe using the LDC vocal mic is a bad idea. It has that chinese hi-mid hype that seems to accentuate some awful high frequency in the maracas. Maybe I should switch back to a mellower sounding dynamic mic for them? They used to sound fine on prior tracks. Who'd think maracas would present such a challenge??

 

[heatmiser]

Hey man, another great song and a nice clean mix. This one's a little more laid back than your usual offerings maybe?
Really like the guitar textures. Your songs often have great ear candy low in the mix.
Are you still going to cassette?

Hey Mr. fleet! Thanks for checking it out.

Yeah, this is pretty damn mellow...even for me.

While I still have a tascam 688, I only really use it for backwards tracking or anytime I want that highly sought after cassette saturation effect. I switched to a 24 track digital Roland vs2400 a couple of years ago maybe? It may not sound like it, but this tune uses all 24 tracks. I still like cassette, but 8 tracks didn't cut it for me.

 

[bluesunlegends]

Beautiful!

I like it! It's well mixed!

Great job!

 

[heatmiser]

I like it! It's well mixed!

Great job!

Thank you blues!

Despite your low post count it is already apparent that you have a keen ear and impeccable taste!

 

[kcearl]

cant believe youre making up aliases! its a great idea

 

[chuckduffy]

can believe youre making up aliases! its a great idea

deck stacker

 

[Bulls Hit]

The mix actually sounds pretty great. There's no cloudiness or instruments getting in each others way. After about a minute I found myself just listening to the tune without even noticing the mix. I like the way the image spreads out with that fuzzy thing at 1.15 - what is that? Had to listen pretty hard to find anything at all to nit about and I noticed the word 'rest' around 2.07 wasn't quite aligned on the double tracked vocal. So just get that sorted will you.

Nice cruisey summertime tune

 

[heatmiser]

The mix actually sounds pretty great. There's no cloudiness or instruments getting in each others way. After about a minute I found myself just listening to the tune without even noticing the mix. I like the way the image spreads out with that fuzzy thing at 1.15 - what is that? Had to listen pretty hard to find anything at all to nit about and I noticed the word 'rest' around 2.07 wasn't quite aligned on the double tracked vocal. So just get that sorted will you.

Nice cruisey summertime tune

Cool. Thanks Bulls. The fuzzy thing is the same bass used throughout the song, but in those sections it is run through a Big Muff PI pedal. I had to EQ a lot of the actual bass sound out of it though to have it sit alongside the exisiting bass without creating total bass-overload. Yeah, the vocals are a bit rough generally, but I guess I went for spontaneity over precision there. Thanks again man. Haven't one from you in a long while it seems....

 

[rayc]

It's certainly a keeper & one clearly out of your idea box.
Very clear, tidy, consistent mix with a great bass propelling a terrific song. No more hyperbole from me.
OK, what is you bass secret?

 

[heatmiser]

It's certainly a keeper & one clearly out of your idea box.
Very clear, tidy, consistent mix with a great bass propelling a terrific song. No more hyperbole from me.
OK, what is you bass secret?

Thanks a lot ray. That is encouraging.

The bass?..uh, well it varies from tune to tune. Some more successful than others. Nothing too unusual though I don't think.

I play with a pick far up towards or even over the fretboard sometimes (I find it sounds "rounder" or "thicker" that way). I run the bass through a behri mic100 pre with just a little gain which adds some cheap bite. I often lightly compress on the way in, and sometimes more heavily afterwards. I always do at least some EQ cuts and occasionally small boosts. The exact frequencies really depend on what the kick sounds like and also how the low end of all the other tracks in the song stack up I guess?