I Hope It Made You Cry (Rockabilly...ish)

[St_Genesius]

The meanest song I've ever written is now available for streaming and downloads! As always, direct your praise, insults and utterences of "meh" right here.

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[St_Genesius]

Re: I Hope It Made You Cry (Rockabilly...ish)

Don't know if anyone has listened yet, but I just tweaked the mix. I'm a little happier with the vocals now. I'm getting almost uniformaly negative feedback on this one elsewhere, unfortunately, so I don't know that any amount of tweaking will help.

 

[tone4days]

Re: I Hope It Made You Cry (Rockabilly...ish)

cool little tune, St. G ... you really invade that style - go Cat, go!

i think i am hearing a little sibilance/clipping on the vocals every now and again

the guitar is sitting a little buried in the mix at some points and the drums/cymbals are kinda hot at points ...

it's got a real authentic feel .... not like a watered down, overly prettified, disneyized version of rockabilly .. the imperfections give it vibe

but nice work all around - thanks for sharing it

cheers
t4d

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: I Hope It Made You Cry (Rockabilly...ish)

I definitely hear the clipping; I'm still adjusting to Audition and I can't seem to find a master volume control to turn the whole mix down. I think that would address at least part of that problem.

I hadn't noticed the drum/guitar balance issue you mention, but I've been neck deep in this damn song for days now and have lost most of my fresh-ear points of reference. I'm taking tonight off from recording, but I'll go back and listen for that in a day or two. I probably did push the drums too ahrd, as I found early on that when they got buried, the song lost energy, so I kept pushing them up...

I like what you said about the authenticity. I'd love to say that I'm this sloppy ON PURPOSE, but that's not quite the case. But I didn't go out of my way to de-slop this one, as I wanted it to sound as much as possible like a band playing together, sort of live-in-the-home-studio and when I close my eyes, I cna almost imagine that that's what I'm hearing. Almost.

Anyway, thanks both for listening and for the tips on where I might make some adjustments.

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: I Hope It Made You Cry (Rockabilly...ish)

Okay, when I said I was taking the night off from it, I apparently lied. When I got in tonight, I just had to tinker. So new mix is up.