I'm recording a demo for a local band. It's a country tune. Anyone have any mix suggestions? It's called "Crying".
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Washlines
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Ptich correction only for the extremest vocal-outbursts
Hi there Mike,
I'm not on insider on the genre but I could help cringing when the lead singer does some outbursts in the song. She is so in front of everything else that here part needs to be ironed-out a little using the pitch-utility in DP. I'm listening to your mix on my powerbook speakers, which will make me unable to say something about the lows-end and highs, just the general composition of sounds.
Which I think is great and sounds really authentic to me. I would probably turn up the solo guitar a few dB to make it stand out a little better. I myself am not too fond of the echo/reverb that was used on the lead-voc but I can totally see that it's a integral part of the country-song style. I also found a lot of instruments and singers panned in the middle, I would personally spread the back-vocalists a little left and right to make the centre less crowded. But I tend to spread things out more then other guys do, to the total extreme that nothing is left in the middle . . .
Anyway, if I were a country/folk person I would surely like to buy this song. The guitars, bass, drums and vocalists were not in each others way, sound-wise. I think you did a good job and are almost there.
Keep up the good work Mike.
Arjen van der Ree
I'm not on insider on the genre but I could help cringing when the lead singer does some outbursts in the song. She is so in front of everything else that here part needs to be ironed-out a little using the pitch-utility in DP. I'm listening to your mix on my powerbook speakers, which will make me unable to say something about the lows-end and highs, just the general composition of sounds.
Which I think is great and sounds really authentic to me. I would probably turn up the solo guitar a few dB to make it stand out a little better. I myself am not too fond of the echo/reverb that was used on the lead-voc but I can totally see that it's a integral part of the country-song style. I also found a lot of instruments and singers panned in the middle, I would personally spread the back-vocalists a little left and right to make the centre less crowded. But I tend to spread things out more then other guys do, to the total extreme that nothing is left in the middle . . .
Anyway, if I were a country/folk person I would surely like to buy this song. The guitars, bass, drums and vocalists were not in each others way, sound-wise. I think you did a good job and are almost there.
Keep up the good work Mike.
Arjen van der Ree
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
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Re: Ptich correction only for the extremest vocal-outbursts
Washlines wrote:Hi there Mike,
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Anyway, if I were a country/folk person I would surely like to buy this song. The guitars, bass, drums and vocalists were not in each others way, sound-wise. I think you did a good job and are almost there.
Keep up the good work Mike.
Arjen van der Ree
Thanks- I'm still working on it. Your comments helped a lot.
Mike