My Band's New CD....

Butch Snyder

Butch Snyder

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My band is working on a new CD and I would like y'all to give a listen and a critique, if ya would, to one of the tunes. The mix is almost final; just a few more tweaks maybe (maybe not).

I appreciate any feedback....

Watchin' Over Me
 
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Sounds good man, good tune. I think you have some problems in the low end especially the bass, it's masking out some frequencies and is making the mix sound muddy.
 
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Butch Snyder said:
It is, but the drums were recorded first, then everyone else separately.
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I just listened to it three times. It could be the encoding on the Soundclick file, but probably not. The bass is masking out the vocals and the guitars and it sounds like the mixer hyped the guitars to cut through the mix. If he would address the low end content first it would be more open and you would hear the vocals better as well as the guitars. Subtractive eq is what I'm talking about. That's what I'm hearing.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
I just listened to it three times. It could be the encoding on the Soundclick file, but probably not. The bass is masking out the vocals and the guitars and it sounds like the mixer hyped the guitars to cut through the mix. If he would address the low end content first it would be more open and you would hear the vocals better as well as the guitars. Subtractive eq is what I'm talking about. That's what I'm hearing.
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I understand what you're saying. The guy who mixed it is our bassist. He's not a sound/recording engineer by any means. None of us are. I will mention subtractive EQ to him. Thanks for the feedback!
 
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The guy who mixed it is our bassist.
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Bingo! Try this:
Put a low cut filter on the bass at 60hz up to 80hz
Use an eq at 320hz on the kick drum and cut about 3dbs there.

Play with those two things. You really shouldn't have to boost eq too much to get things to poke through a mix as long as there is room.
 
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innerdreamrecords.co said:
Bingo! Try this:
Put a low cut filter on the bass at 60hz up to 80hz
Use an eq at 320hz on the kick drum and cut about 3dbs there.

Play with those two things. You really shouldn't have to boost eq too much to get things to poke through a mix as long as there is room.
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Cool, we'll try that....
 
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You have a good song there, take the time to get the mix right. I can't tell you how many times I put out crap because I rushed it then regretted the fact.
 
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I just listened to it on a decent system. Bass is too much. Electric guitar is too little. Drums could come up i the mix too...
 
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What is the high pass on the guitars? Some of them sound a little thin to me (but I prefer THICK so YMMV). Same thing with the keys.

Too much bass as was also pointed out. You may also want to up the volume on the bass drum if possible.

Also I would like to hear more of the backing guitar and keys when the verse starts, seems to be dominated by drums and vocals.

I like the crisp acoustic tone.
 
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Butch Snyder said:
I just listened to it on a decent system. Bass is too much. Electric guitar is too little. Drums could come up i the mix too...
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I suggest that the mixer makes all the eq flat to start get a good balance of all the tracks (listen at low volume to hear the balance) then try this.

Low cut filter on all the guitars at about 100Hz to 120Hz and a high cut filter at 11,000 khz
Low cut filter on the bass 60Hz to 80Hz
Low cut filter on the kick drum 40Hz
Low cut filter on the rest of the drums 120Hz to 140Hz
Vocals Low cut filter 120Hz to 150Hz

any keyboards a Low cut up to about 360Hz.

Then what ever you want to have pop out more you can give a little eq boost.

These are just suggestions but they work well.
 
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Well, we are going to rerecord the song. The suggestions were to powerful to be considered as mere opinions. I am going to really hone the tone on this one too; I'm even using a different guitar. We will change the key as well. We'll raise it in order to let the lead vocalist be able to really hit his swet spot. Thanks all for your feedback...
 
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