Hey doggie! That was a great introduction of yourself. You were so excited to post your work, you forgot your name! I mean if you're going to be a performer you need to introduce yourself better than, hey y'all.
Well you did a lovely cover. And you used good stuff with which to do it. The performance level was quite good. I don't need to hear everything in perfect lockstep. But ya really wet about the mixing, about 100%... no make that about 300% the wrong way. Earbuds earbuds earbuds, toy speakers. What's wrong with that equation? I'll tell ya... Time to get a real pair of powered monitors. Not computer speakers. Read my lips... no computer speakers.
Since you have presented a cover song and Donny was nice enough to shoot us a link to the original (and I appreciate that Donny), I think you've done an admirable job. Sure I'd like to hear it differently. I would most definitely mix it differently. I would make it more bad at sounding. Bass drum snare drum. With a very clear bass guitar line. Right now you have bass guitar floods that has exceeded its banks LOL. It's all muddy! You don't want muddy. That's what ya get from earbuds and cheap computer speakers. Get smart... missed it by that much. You already obviously are displaying some good mixing chops. But you have shot yourself in the foot doing it the way you've done.
Looking at all of those powered monitor speakers out there can be daunting. 2 Way, 3 way, 5 inch, 8 inch, 15 inch. What to do? Well you could just pick one. Anyone. Not computer speakers. I don't care who the brand name is on the computer speakers. Their Taiwanese imitation speakers of the brand name, are simply licensed to them for the brand name. I'm not saying the computer speakers don't sound great. They sound just the way they're supposed to sound for the average listener. They're not designed as reference monitors. Neither are earbuds. It doesn't matter how good the earbuds are. Which in cost and to the many thousands of dollars and be extremely accurate sounding. It's without the room. Without the space. Without the air molecules permeating your skin pores. Kind of like eating a hamburger, without the meat. A lovely Bun, with some pickles lettuce, tomato and mustard, ketchup and onion. Where's the beef? All you need is a pair of KRK's. You can get the small ones for around $150 a pair. Of course you might hear something " better. " I have some of those myself, in the control room, along with my JBL, double pair of 4311/4312's.
But I don't do Recording.org, from my control room. Though I could. Instead, I do it from the bedroom, to relax with. Where also I have a pair of mini monitors. They look like something you might get from the computer store, Radio Shaft, Best Buy. They only have a single 4 inch speaker with a little 10 W built-in amplifier. With that description, it sounds like something that I just told you not to purchase or use like your Altec Lansing computer speakers? Well it really isn't. This little pair of monitors is what I use and call my " Truth Monitors ". Why, when my description makes them sound like your cheap speakers? They are professional and heavy broadcast grade, self powered monitor speakers. And they're $500 for the pair. $250 each. And they don't sound like your speakers LOL. And your low end was mud city, on 4 inch speakers. What's that tell ya?
This is not unusual when trying to mix anything with earphones headphones earbuds. And then listening to your final mix on Taiwanese computer speakers. However... there are those of us professionals, who have had to sometimes make live recorded mixes, with only headphones. And it didn't take me long to figure out that anything mixed on headphones, of any sort, would sound like mud city on most any speaker, most anywhere. So what do you do as an audio engineer, when that happens? You learn that with your earbuds, earphones, headphones, that as soon as you turn up the bass guitar and can hear it the way it should be? In your earbuds, earphones, headphones. You then back down your fader of the bass guitar, to the point where you can't quite hear it in your earbuds, earphones, headphones. And then you'll get it right. Same goes for the vocal. Same goes for the bass drum. Same goes for everything that has any kind of low end, you can hear. But if you don't have a pair of actual studio reference monitors, even cheap ones, not computer speakers, you're not going to impress anyone. Because ya never get it right. It's nearly impossible. You just cannot perceive things the same way. It's like the difference between the toilet in your Bathroom at home. And the toilet on the airliner. I think the general consensus is, we like to call home our $*^t whole. And you're recording came from the bathroom on the airliner, thank you very much. So I'm still very much relieved since the music and your engineering provided some relief.
But I really hate your toilet paper!
Mx. Remy Ann David
So, study that sound and work towards it even more. You are getting there and deserve to be heard through better.
