AB - It Was My Fault For Waiting - Too dry?!

[davemcg61]

Hi David, welcome to CMT. What I'm hearing is a need to cut out the bass of the electric guitar power chords. The lowest note of a guitar in standard tuning is 82Hz, so from there and down needs to go, to make room for the kick drum and bass guitar that need to be down there. With distorted electric guitars, I also roll off quite a bit under 200Hz, sometimes -9 or -12dB, and some folks around this board still think I've left too much. The concept being, there's toms and snare frequencies down there that can be drowned out, so its a balancing act. Some snare drums have lots of overtones in the 250 - 400Hz range that gets in the way of vocals. There are little piano riffs that are getting covered up too. With this tune, I think the lead singer is pretty good, but her volume still fluctuates a bit - even it out with a compressor set at 6:1 with medium-slow attack and fast release. In rock, the drums and vocals are the most important parts, everything else gets allocated some space around and underneath. I hope I've given you some ideas to listen for and try out.