!NEW! - Robert Hammon's - The Elephant

[Mixinthecloud]

Hey Mixinthecloud,

Good one!
Some nitpicking:
not a fan of the loud synth.
Interesting vocal choice, I'm not sure I'm a fan of that sound.

In general Mix is good!
Cheers!

It appears no one likes my use of the synth or my lead vocal treatment.
Thanks for the listen and the comments.

I like the vocal treatment. Maybe it's a little too out front in the verses but I dunno. The vocals work for me.

Allow me to explain my thinking on the vocal and synth:

I was going for as much tension in this approach as I could as a reference to the angst the singer is portraying, hence the aggressive synth (to match the timbre and power of the guitars) and the vocals as a statement of tension. In the first verse (as opposed to the second and third) there is a guitar figure behind the vocal. While I did drop that guitar line in the mix to give more room for the vocal to be intelligible, I found I needed to get very bold with the EQ on the vocal to get it to cut against that guitar part. In listening to most other mixes, the vocal in the first verse gets lost to that same guitar part. This was my solution to that. My second and third verses have the lead vocal level reduced since there is no guitar line for it to compete against. Those verses sound a bit more cohesive. The first verse vocal level is meant to grab the ear and drive home the lyric.