05-10-2013, 12:38 PM
Love you're effects use on this. You get real depth by contrasting the dry drums, the super-distant violin, the wobbly BV effects, the sneaky slap-echo on the lead... a really nice atmosphere overall. Rich, but without sounding too comfortable. Personally I'm glad to hear the bass loud -- it took me bloody ages to program, after all... 
However, it does maybe overcome the vocal at times, which probably isn't in the overall interests of the song.
Loved listening to this version, though -- thanks for posting! Lots of good ideas and atmosphere. As an aside, I don't think anyone has ever distorted the viola solo as I did on the preview mix, which is funny to me, because I never intended it to be heard without the distortion when I recorded it! Obviously I should have bounced down a distorted version, but somehow I felt that maybe someone else might get a better distortion tone than I did at the time I mixed this.
(Not sure about the hi-hats myself, PrincessCakeJ -- for me it loses the details of the synth sequence bits at the high end, which I think I prefer to hear more of. I get your idea, though, definitely, for a lot of more mainstream styles.)
However, it does maybe overcome the vocal at times, which probably isn't in the overall interests of the song.Loved listening to this version, though -- thanks for posting! Lots of good ideas and atmosphere. As an aside, I don't think anyone has ever distorted the viola solo as I did on the preview mix, which is funny to me, because I never intended it to be heard without the distortion when I recorded it! Obviously I should have bounced down a distorted version, but somehow I felt that maybe someone else might get a better distortion tone than I did at the time I mixed this.
(Not sure about the hi-hats myself, PrincessCakeJ -- for me it loses the details of the synth sequence bits at the high end, which I think I prefer to hear more of. I get your idea, though, definitely, for a lot of more mainstream styles.)