You Are The One

[parnellij]

For me, this is a favorite of the tunes offered here.

I like the guitar sound you set up in the intro. I think you did a good job of getting this in the vein of your reference. This is actually a pretty good mix.

I would make a couple of comments, though. First, I think the snare may be a tad high but only a little. There's also something about the delay/reverb setup you have that's making it a little hard to listen do. When I sum it to mono my ears relax a bit more. I think some of that is EQ (mids poking out too much) but also partly transients jumping out a smidge to much(compression settings). Some of it seems to be the delay interval causing a little phasing. The color of the guitar changes when I go to mono, so that's an indicator there.

Thank you for your well-though-out critique. For your effort, I uploaded a new version that addresses some of your observations. First, the twin guitars had been panned slightly left and right with delay on the opposite end to create a bigger sound, but it was a bit much, so I toned that down a bit. Also, I had the LP filter on the stock Reaper reverb plugin turned down to about 6k, but those filters are nearly useless because they put a huge bump in front of whatever you're cutting. I got off my lazy butt and patched in real EQ, and those guitars cleared right up.

The biggest change was that I completely reworked the bass tone, because my first attempt just sucked. It's so much tighter now. Added a little more kick and now the bottom end feels much better to me.

Your comment on the snare must be from later in the song. All the tracks seemed to get brighter and louder as the song progressed (that tape must have been used a bunch), and I addressed most of it, but failed to drop the level of the overheads as the song went on. I have since done that and now the snare doesn't creep up in level like before.