22-08-2015, 11:52 PM
(21-08-2015, 07:15 AM)manuke Wrote: Almost lost the will to live.....
you weren't alone
i think you've done a good job here. adding to the other's feedback, i'd perhaps flag up some opportunities here and there to help push some accents in the song instrumentally? a couple of places by way of example, are the guitars, one at 1:00 panned right (you got the piano and harp out well here though) and again at 1:51 and a biggie at 2:40? they sound a little lost in the ethos, as it were. Don mentioned the energy problem at 2:40, but it's not just energy, it's EQ and clarity as well.
the spectral spike in the vocal caused by the sibilance is a tricky one to fix because this is about the only stuff in the vocal tracking much above 1kHz! lose this 8kHz lump of fatigue and the vocals presence disappears into oblivion, so it's a bit of a no-win situation. i'd have rolled off some of the cymbals though, most definitely. darn things were a health hazard - aliasing.
did you mute the kick on the intro? i don't know if it's the mp3 artifacts from nailing the lossy compression at 192kbps, but i can't hear the cymbal articulation on the way in?
is there a reason you aren't posting at 320kbps?
Beware...........Cognitive Dissonance!