(22-11-2013, 04:23 PM)Mike Z Wrote: Nice song! Here are the main things I did:
Edited the arrangement
Tuned the vocals
Comped the electric guitar tracks to one
Substituted the kick & snare
Processed the bass with Gtr Solo
Put a long reverb on the snare and a moderate one on most other tracks
EQed and compressed most tracks
Hm. Interesting take on this song. You altered the feel of it considerably. Not necessarily a bad thing; this version is actually not bad. A few points, though:
Guitars seem a little bit on the bright side, particularly in the early going.
Why did you replace the kick and snare? The original recordings IMHO were perfectly fine; the replacements you used, to my ears, sound flat and unnatural. Also, the snare's a wee bit too loud; it's not TOO bad but I think it could come down 3 dB or so.
IMHO there was no need to tune the vocals. This style of music isn't ABOUT hitting the notes square on; it's about EXPRESSIVENESS. Voleund's original vocals were VERY expressive and perfectly suited to the song the way they were. That being said, I'm hard pressed to hear any real effect from the tuning, anyway.
Aside from the organ, everything feels squashed to the middle, very little stereo separation. It sounds like you did some panning but very subtly; I suggest you crank the panning up a couple notches, widen out that stereo image, give it some body.
This is not my favorite take on the song, but it is interesting and sounds pretty good on its own terms.