On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 06:11 AM, Mathieu Lucas wrote:
Hi Charlie, The M-box looks great (it has the same features as the Tascam, with the Pro Tools software added, wich is great.
Some comment on your songs. 1. Love is blind. - The drum's still a little bit too loud... I do agree with an earlier comment : too much cymballs. A real life drummer would never put that much accents on the cymbals. I downloaded your .dbsong-file, and I think you've deleted some cymbals, but didn't update your mix with the new version. You should try it.
D'oh of course you're right - I just looked at it - I have the new drum session sitting unused in the mix.( I wonder if Butch Vig has these problems) I've decided I'm either drinking too much or not enough.
- And the voice the voice too much in the back ground. I believe in a popsong your voice is the main instrument, this should sound the brightest and most in front. Maybe if you just lower the volume of the drum, your voice will come more in front. Though, when I listen through a headphone, it sounds better. (you know, I make a mix in my headphones, on my stereo, my built in speakers on the G4 and my littel portable radio. If the balance is ok on all of then, then there's a big change it also will be ok with someone else. This works fine since I don't have any expensive studio monitors.) - But generaly it sounds much better then the first time. Did you do some EQ on the final mix? - Canadian Whisky?
Good idea - I tend to get the mix OK on the iMac and let it rip from there - I'll take some extra steps - a bit of EQ on the individual tracks but none on the overall mix
2. A nice 60's song with a psychedellic break. I also used the handclaps right away when the chief magician added them (in 'don't sing at work', I was so enthousiast I'm afraid I overdone it a bit). Same remarks : try putting the drums a bit more to the background and your singing will come more in front (nice backing vocals - how did you make them so 'light'?)
Thanks - I over do the claps as well, but they're so cool...who can help it.... the backing vocals were triple tracked and I added stereo reverb (vocals panned left-ish and reverb panned right-ish) Also EQ'd them by dropping the lows and a fair bit and adding a touch at the top end
Keep up the good work!
Bal www.thirdson.tk - new song : "The Earth Turns Around"
Another great effort - you mixes always seem "right" - I can't get it yet - it's as though my version of ProTools Free has 2 pre-set volume settings - too loud and too soft. I'll keep at it. You vocals are also much cleaner than mine, but I'm putting that down to a better mic and firewire sound input vs soundcard input... Thanks again for the input Charlie