Run Run Run - Olli H

[Olli H]

Thanks for listening everybody. I’m glad you liked it. It was my second version of this song. The first one was totally horrible.

there's only one thing you forgot to do....the delays on the snare shots that are so much a signature of the genre. over the years, i've kinda got so used to it that not hearing it's presence is making a distraction.

I felt there was too much delays going on so I didn’t want to bring another delay in. Tape delays are certainly used quite heavily in reaggae. But as they are very creative, I’m sure there’s lot of examples of big reaggae hits where they don’t add delay to snare.

you have a lot of treble on the percussion [hi-hat] than feels necessary, so it's kinda sticking out of this sparse mix rather than blending but the good news from my perspective is that my ears aren't on fire By modern, did you mean the compression on the master buss?

I haven’t defined to myself what I mean with modern, but maybe modern to me is something that has more low-end than vinyls can handle and enough hi-end to cause pain to sensitive ears.

it sounds hot. this is having some impact on the vocal, you've positioned it up-front of the mix and the compression is forcing it even closer; i'd rather not smell his breath but having it this close really shows up the great job you did with the EQ; it's very well presented

I’m just practising different techiniques to make things loud. (Although I couldn’t reach the level I was after.) My master buss didn’t have much of compression. Probably only a limiter with max -3db reduction. So all those details you find annoying, they are not the mistakes caused by mastering. I would say that they are bad artistic decisions made by a mixer.

i'm using the cans, so can't reliably judge if you put a dose of sub into the kick. i'm guessing you did.....

Of course, that’s where another half of the modern sound is. I think good headphones give better guidline to low-end decisions than a cheap room. As my room/monitor combination doesn’t go reliably under 60 hz, I relay only on headphones when it comes to low-end.