New song/mix: thoughts

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:34 am

Hey,
I pieced together this song today. "Head on Riot" it's like a rock/pop tune. Funny how after you work on something for 4 hours by the end your totally sick of it! Anyways, I realized after tracking the guitars and bass that I recorded the song too fast. Any thoughts would be appreciated on the sounds, mix, production etc...

THANKS

Oh yeah...www.soundclick.com/drewslum "head on riot"

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:23 am

I need to not speed up Confused

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:45 pm

Not a bad mix.

Personally I would pull the drums back in the mix, get the other instruments up in the mix a bit.

Also the Hihat sounds a bit "clanky" when played partly open to me. (Is Clanky a word? LOL)

Also, I would look in to getting a touch more of the beater sound (or perhaps a touch more high end) to get just a tad more "click" in the kick to define it a bit more.

Snare and toms sound really nice.

On the acoustic guitar, it might benefit to do a bit of double tracking to widen up the sound instead of using a stereo mic technique on it. That would bring it more forward in the mix as well.

A bit of mid highs would help bring the electric guitar out front as well.

Bass guitar sounds just a tad muddy, some highs would help that a bit.

Other than that, not a bad mix at all.
and remember everyone's going to hear things differently, so what I say many may not agree with.

Good start!

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