31-10-2014, 01:42 PM
Hey pauli! Glad you like the song. There's 3 more coming next month that I think you will like as well. 
I hope you don't mind me telling you how I see the song. Of course this is just hints and I'm happy to hear your take on it, that's the whole idea behind sharing these tracks. I know that I wanted the whole mix to be drowned in delays because I wanted to achieve a dreamy/hypnotic-like quality in the sound.
Now I like the balance of the drums in your mix, although I think the cymbals are a bit loud at times.
Actually, I think the drums overall are too loud compared to the rest of the instrumentation.
I know that the vocals are rather challenging, their sound is pretty muffled (I don't know how I managed to oversee this, honestly), but in the end, I have boosted quite a lot of high frequencies and added some parallel compression and a healthy dose of reverb (plate+room) and delays which helped brighten them up as well. I think you've boosted them nicely, but I guess they are still lacking the parallel processing and are too dry yet as well.
The guitar(s) in your mix are rather low and IIRC I had boosted quite a lot of high end on them as well, and accentuated their delay.
During the chorus in particular, I think they are really driving that part, along with the BGvs.
The vibra/rhodes are more of a pad thing IMHO.
I agree with the arrangement though, now that I listen to it I think it's too linear.
Truth is, this is one of the rare song where I've started from the lyrics mostly, and have spent quite some time on them.
I usually have much more instrumental passages and at least one guitar solo in all my songs, but somehow in this one I decided against, because I thought it was quite long already and more "lyrics oriented" anyway.
But I would be really happy to hear what you can come up with!
Keep it up!
I hope you don't mind me telling you how I see the song. Of course this is just hints and I'm happy to hear your take on it, that's the whole idea behind sharing these tracks. I know that I wanted the whole mix to be drowned in delays because I wanted to achieve a dreamy/hypnotic-like quality in the sound.
Now I like the balance of the drums in your mix, although I think the cymbals are a bit loud at times.
Actually, I think the drums overall are too loud compared to the rest of the instrumentation.
I know that the vocals are rather challenging, their sound is pretty muffled (I don't know how I managed to oversee this, honestly), but in the end, I have boosted quite a lot of high frequencies and added some parallel compression and a healthy dose of reverb (plate+room) and delays which helped brighten them up as well. I think you've boosted them nicely, but I guess they are still lacking the parallel processing and are too dry yet as well.
The guitar(s) in your mix are rather low and IIRC I had boosted quite a lot of high end on them as well, and accentuated their delay.
During the chorus in particular, I think they are really driving that part, along with the BGvs.
The vibra/rhodes are more of a pad thing IMHO.
I agree with the arrangement though, now that I listen to it I think it's too linear.
Truth is, this is one of the rare song where I've started from the lyrics mostly, and have spent quite some time on them.
I usually have much more instrumental passages and at least one guitar solo in all my songs, but somehow in this one I decided against, because I thought it was quite long already and more "lyrics oriented" anyway.
But I would be really happy to hear what you can come up with!
Keep it up!
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something." - Frank Zappa
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