imp19 discussion R/E/P Community September 24, 2022, 12:54:00 PM Welcome, Guest Please login or register. 1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever Login with username, password and session length Home Help Search Calendar Login Register R/E/P Community > R/E/P > R/E/P Archives > j. hall > imp19 discussion « previous next » Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 11 Go Down Print Author Topic: imp19 discussion (Read 22027 times) loudsongsinc Newbie Offline Posts: 16 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #15 on: July 11, 2008, 12:36:31 AM » What he said. . . Logged Scott Bryant Not an Audio Engineer Gabriel F Full Member Offline Posts: 215 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #16 on: July 11, 2008, 01:04:46 AM » I had a last minute work so i could not get time to finish my mix. i have to finish automation and balance the vocal to make it really in your face but not isolated from the rest of the track. i wont upload my mix because i follow the rules. But i will review your mixes and check them against mine. Pretty good song, it remind me nick cave in a good way. Gabriel Fonts. Logged PaulyD Hero Member Offline Posts: 867 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #17 on: July 11, 2008, 06:33:43 AM » Who are the band and the engineer on this? I didn't submit an entry, but I enjoyed mixing it. I really like the song. Overall good engineering, too. Paul Logged People In Music ATOR Sr. Member Offline Posts: 378 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #18 on: July 11, 2008, 07:30:47 AM » These are some really quick and dirty comments on the mixes: Antman Separation an definition could use more work. Balance is ok. Carefulcolapse Bass sounds like it's holding back. Lead vocal lacks ambience/space. Guitar on the left sounds as if the speaker is broken. Drums are dull compared to the guitars and vocal. Chrissilett Big verb on vox. Drums are low and hi heavy and lack body. Guitars are too soft for my taste. Lacks beef. If you put the bg vox this loud they need some tuning. DBallenger Not digging the shifted timings and arrangement edits. Balance is off. DevinK Cool intro. Drum ambience is very obvious and panned unnatural. The clean repeated guitar 'sample' doesn't work esp the sound of it, too poky. You lost me because the mix choices you made don't make it sound as if I have a real band in front of me. ElDuderino Sounds good. GrantRichard Good beefy drums. Good balance, I'd like more guitar. GT Acoustic guitar tone sounds shortened. Reamped lead guitar sounds awful. Drums are good. Ending is a mess. Huds Mix lacks power. Balance is good. Jason Thompson Shifted lead vox. Bass is low heavy but lacks presence. Very dull. JDier Drums pack punch but lack body and are a bit harsh. Good guitars except the right chorus lead one. JNickel Acoustic sounds as if the strings have magically aged ten years. Snaredrum could use more snaresound (bottom). More guitars in chorus please. Loudsongsinc Kick &Snare drums in intro sound roomless. Don't like the eq on the kick. Chorus guitars lack body. Balance is good. Maxim Cool intro. Sounds good. I'd like more presence in the dist guitars. The space guitar at the end doesn't do it for me, rather use the room to beef up the real guitars. MDifazio Yuk, as if I need to pop my ears. This mix sucks hard, sorry man. MGA Harsh and lacking body esp the snare. MGT Drums sound very compressed and sound small because of that. The mids and highs hurt my ears. MSE Balance is good. Sounds could use some more eq work. Osumosan Bassguitar is all stringsound and no bass, this takes up much space in the mix. Reamped guitar sound bad. Drums are good. Podgorny Ambience of the drums (the lack of) is weird. Then there's the clean git that drowns in reverb. Balance is good. Sounds are good. I'd like a natural space. Rankus Very dry. Could use some reverb to glue it all together. Apart from that I like this one. Slash5969 Out of control kick with loads of artifacts. The compressor abuse (in a bad way) ruins it for me. Spoon Lacks a binding ambience esp the snare sound. Vocal sounds far away. Could use more body and tamed hi-mids. Stillwell The reverb on the kick muddies the low end. Too much compression, sounds get small. More guitar in the chorus please. Teleric Drums lack ambience or maybe I need some adjusting after Stillwells megaverb. Good sounds and balance. YZ Nice full leadvox, this is the only vox of all mixes I really liked. Drums are a bit thin in comparison. Guitar solo is too loud. Good mix. Take care Logged Pieter Vincenten - ATORmastering grantis Hero Member Offline Posts: 1407 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #19 on: July 11, 2008, 07:34:06 AM » ATOR wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:30 These are some really quick and dirty comments on the mixes: GrantRichard Good beefy drums. Good balance, I'd like more guitar. Hey, Thanks! I'm glad somebody liked my supersized drums. Where would have preferred more guitar? Chorus, verse, solo? All of the above? Thanks for the comments! Logged Grant Craig Nuovo Music (Me) Skiddco Music (Where I work) Work History (Well, some of it anyway) MGA Newbie Offline Posts: 16 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #20 on: July 11, 2008, 07:43:16 AM » Since I messed up big time on the last IMP, and therefore didn't comment here are some reviews (maybe I'm gonna do the rest that I missed too later on), tried something new and blind listend. As always it's just my opinion. Chrisilett Vocals are a tad too wet (for my taste) ... it's okay in the chorus later in the song, though a bit too much in the intro Nice snare Maybe a tad more stereo spread The kick in that part right after the quite "doo ya"s is a bit too heavy imo, it almost hurts, but I guess that was your intention, either way it's nice'n'hard but just doesn't fit right IMO But overall a decent mix with good balance Maxim Too bassy, thus it sounds a bit muddy to my ears Except for that pretty solid Antman Good mix Carefulcollapse Much compression, especially snare Missing the dynamics Maybe Cymbals a tad too loud Sibiliance of bkg vox ("doo ya") too loud DevinK Where did you get that organ from in the intro? The percussivness of the lick guitar is nice but at the edge of being too much Overall nice mix, but where did you get the those organ sounds from? Grant Richard That drums rip ... which isn't Particularly good in this song IMO The "duh ya"s sound very lofi So once the guitars kicked in an the dominant drums got less dominant it was a good mix Huds Acoustic too loud IMO Good mix MGA Cymbals too loud Snare too loud, nice crack though (hehe I got the feeling this is my mix ... anyway let's go on) Well since it's my mix it is of course perfect ... not MGT Kick too loud/strong/in-your-face Do I hear some pumping around the middle of the song (where it get's LOUD)? Patrikt Nice warm acoustic The kick is seriously not good, it's supposed to have 0 (zero) stereo spread and be centered while this is all over the place OHs too loud Podgorny Drums muffled, no sparkle in the snare Whats that chiwawa barking kind'a sound in the left channel (at around 1:02 in the song) [Okay just some more until my ears start to bleed] ATOR The drums hit hard, like sad before might not suit the song well IMO Muffled too Osumosan Nice warm verb on the drums, though I like my drums more direct Vox in the intro could be a bit dryer Lick guitar could be a louder Less reverb on the lick guitar Slash Too much lowend Drums got no stereo spread The whole thing seems very thightly compressed The vocal effect track is too loud, IMO it should be more subtle Stillwell (btw thx for pointing my to this project) Good hard kick, maybe a tad too much Too much reverb on the vocals Overall too much reverb, sounds like recorded in a chapel Good balance overall though Jason Thompson Lofi sound Vocals are burried JNickel Snares lacking highend Logged ATOR Sr. Member Offline Posts: 378 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #21 on: July 11, 2008, 07:46:18 AM » grant richard wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 13:34 ATOR wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:30 These are some really quick and dirty comments on the mixes: GrantRichard Good beefy drums. Good balance, I'd like more guitar. Hey, Thanks! I'm glad somebody liked my supersized drums. Where would have preferred more guitar? Chorus, verse, solo? All of the above? Thanks for the comments! I'd like to get the feeling that the guitars in the chorus are bigger. You could simply turn 'em up in the chorus or automate levels so that when I get to the chorus there's a big guitar level contrast with what is before so I know I'm at the chorus. Logged Pieter Vincenten - ATORmastering grantis Hero Member Offline Posts: 1407 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #22 on: July 11, 2008, 08:23:15 AM » MGAudio wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:43 Since I messed up big time on the last IMP, and therefore didn't comment here are some reviews (maybe I'm gonna do the rest that I missed too later on), tried something new and blind listend. As always it's just my opinion. Grant Richard That drums rip ... which isn't Particularly good in this song IMO The "duh ya"s sound very lofi So once the guitars kicked in an the dominant drums got less dominant it was a good mix Thanks for the comments! Good observation on the "doo-ya's". Lofi is what I intended. I'm of the opinion that since this song doesn't have a whole lot going for it that something needed to slam. I opted for drums and vocals. IMO, the guitars are kind of uninteresting (except for the solo), so I wanted something else to make the song more interesting. I plan to post comments on this IMP's mixes soon, as I have not participated as of late. Logged Grant Craig Nuovo Music (Me) Skiddco Music (Where I work) Work History (Well, some of it anyway) grantis Hero Member Offline Posts: 1407 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #23 on: July 11, 2008, 08:24:28 AM » ATOR wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:46 grant richard wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 13:34 ATOR wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:30 These are some really quick and dirty comments on the mixes: GrantRichard Good beefy drums. Good balance, I'd like more guitar. Hey, Thanks! I'm glad somebody liked my supersized drums. Where would have preferred more guitar? Chorus, verse, solo? All of the above? Thanks for the comments! I'd like to get the feeling that the guitars in the chorus are bigger. You could simply turn 'em up in the chorus or automate levels so that when I get to the chorus there's a big guitar level contrast with what is before so I know I'm at the chorus. OK, I see your point and agree that the chorus could lift harder. Thanks again for the comments! Logged Grant Craig Nuovo Music (Me) Skiddco Music (Where I work) Work History (Well, some of it anyway) J-Texas Hero Member Offline Posts: 1212 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #24 on: July 11, 2008, 10:45:09 AM » ATOR wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:30 Jason Thompson Shifted lead vox. Bass is low heavy but lacks presence. Very dull. Yup. Shifted lead vox. I still like it. Yes, the bass was a problem to me. I killed it with the LA4. I noticed more and more later, but hey... I had no time to fix anything. It was a first time Johnny, then out the door. Thanks for the listen. MGAudio wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 06:43 Jason Thompson Lofi sound Vocals are burried Brother. I think you MAY have some monitoring issues. I mean, there were a number of times when you commented on drums being "muffled" that I didn't understand. A couple "a little too much" on some high freq or mid where I thought it was outrageous. I totally agree with the lo-fi sound. That's what I thought the track wanted. I found that just turning up the trebble on the stereo really opened it up without anything really standing out (except the 9-10k spit on the vocal from my affinity of overly compressed vox... but that's another story). I try to mix even. I'm no ME and I don't trust my ears or equipment for that type of fine tuning. My school of thought is if you make it sound perfect and badass in your room... unless it's perfect... it will be a nightmare for the ME. I just use the force and be the ball... na na na na na. I still am getting to know the new room too. Thank you for the comments and taking your time out to listen. Logged Jason Thompson www.4141studios.com spoon Full Member Offline Posts: 107 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #25 on: July 11, 2008, 11:07:41 AM » PaulyD wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 05:33 Who are the band and the engineer on this? I didn't submit an entry, but I enjoyed mixing it. I really like the song. Overall good engineering, too. Paul Overall engineering was not bad, but not good. There were too many clipped tracks. That should never happen these days. Regards, David Logged J-Texas Hero Member Offline Posts: 1212 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #26 on: July 11, 2008, 11:13:04 AM » 2nd. Although, I would have to say that it was a bit the performances as well. Heavy on the crashes, vocal mic technique, tuning on the bass, etc. Logged Jason Thompson www.4141studios.com spoon Full Member Offline Posts: 107 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #27 on: July 11, 2008, 12:10:15 PM » J-Texas wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 10:13 2nd. Although, I would have to say that it was a bit the performances as well. Heavy on the crashes, vocal mic technique, tuning on the bass, etc. I hear ya. But isnt that the engineer's job....to have the gain set for such things. Especially in a studio situation where the song was done at least twice and a gain range can be determined. Cheers, David Logged J-Texas Hero Member Offline Posts: 1212 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #28 on: July 11, 2008, 12:17:15 PM » spoon wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 11:10 J-Texas wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 10:13 2nd. Although, I would have to say that it was a bit the performances as well. Heavy on the crashes, vocal mic technique, tuning on the bass, etc. I hear ya. But isnt that the engineer's job....to have the gain set for such things. Especially in a studio situation where the song was done at least twice and a gain range can be determined. Cheers, David It was in addition to what you said. Logged Jason Thompson www.4141studios.com spoon Full Member Offline Posts: 107 Re: imp19 discussion « Reply #29 on: July 11, 2008, 01:05:52 PM » BTW, did you get new monitors, or did you mix this in a different space than you normally use? J-Texas wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 11:17 spoon wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 11:10 J-Texas wrote on Fri, 11 July 2008 10:13 2nd. Although, I would have to say that it was a bit the performances as well. Heavy on the crashes, vocal mic technique, tuning on the bass, etc. I hear ya. But isnt that the engineer's job....to have the gain set for such things. Especially in a studio situation where the song was done at least twice and a gain range can be determined. Cheers, David It was in addition to what you said. Logged Print Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 11 Go Up « previous next » R/E/P Community > R/E/P > R/E/P Archives > j. hall > imp19 discussion SMF 2.0.18 | SMF © 2021, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies XHTML RSS WAP2 Site Hosted By Ashdown Technologies, Inc. Page created in 0.028 seconds with 16 queries.