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Fargus 27 April 2017

I've been on this forum a long time finally about to finish new album 7 of 10 songs recorded here is latest one that's in a listenable state.

Any suggestions welcome mix definitely needs work. I've learned a lot from this forum over the years. (thanks Donnie)

For this I used one mic an AT4047 for all tracks into a Apogee Duet. Daw is Logic.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/8yb0ohw92upm0ez/ShadowWhisperers.mp3?dl=0

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pcrecord Fri, 04/28/2017 - 03:01

Thanks for sharing

I listened at the studio and with ear-buds. I have a bit of problem finding the hook.
What I meen is that usually you find what the song is about for exemple the catchy shinny thing that makes it unique and you put it in front then build around it.
As of now your song has the guitars upfront doing nothing special. I think they should be put down in volume and the vocal should be push up.
I'm not against effects on vocals, but make sure you are not hiding some unjustify insecurity of the singer. The vocal is a bit thin sounding but it's on pitch and time.
The bacs could be louder as well and the keys are too loud at some spot.
Like I said, unless an element is part of the hook (what people will remember at first listen), there is no point of giving it more importance.
Also the mix is to heavy in the low mids.

My humble opinion anyway ;)
Hope this helps.

bouldersound Fri, 04/28/2017 - 08:49

I find that it's a bit hot below 150Hz, and the keys/drums/vocals seem brash in the 4kHz region. The LF thing is usually a monitoring problem, like you need better bass trapping. I think that if you pull back a little of the 4k from the drums and synths it will make space for the vocals to be dialed back in that range.

Also, it's loud for a mix that hasn't been mastered, and the mp3 version is clipping all over the place. It would be nice to hear it with some headroom so the clipping isn't contributing harshness to the mix. Leave at least 3 or 4dB of headroom in the wav file so when it gets compressed it doesn't clip. We can turn it up as needed on out playback systems.

Fargus Fri, 04/28/2017 - 12:43

thx boulder I will try this "I find that it's a bit hot below 150Hz, and the keys/drums/vocals seem brash in the 4kHz region. The LF thing is usually a monitoring problem, like you need better bass trapping. I think that if you pull back a little of the 4k from the drums and synths it will make space for the vocals to be dialed back in that range."

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