Run Run Run - Olli H

[The_Metallurgist]

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

full credit to you for having a second attempt. it can be tempting when faced with a disaster to pack up and look at another project. i've had my moments, especially with audio files of dubious quality!

something i forgot to mention earlier, was the noise floor in your mix. might be an idea to re-assess your gain stage and find the source of the problem to prevent recurrence

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.

Reggae has certainly made some evolutionary changes since the Marley era, that's for sure. however, the project is asking for the delays in my opinion; the snare shots make no "musical sense" where they are in the arrangement otherwise. without the delays, there feels like a ghostly emptiness which rests uneasy in my soul.....like i'm getting the flash of lightening.....but then i don't hear the thunder afterwards? it's like eating fish and chips without the salt and vinegar....kind of thing. the presence of the snare shots gives me the expectation. because my expectation isn't met, it forms a distraction in the sense of an unfulfilled need. but that's me, other's journeys will vary....

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.

that tickled my sense of humor Olli

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.

yup, headphones are great at taking out a room's frequency response from the mix equation, but a magnetically driven mechanical mechanism flexing a single cone strapped to an ear hole is never going to present any part of the spectrum with much reliability, irrespective of budget. you can have a "good headphone" in a quality sense, but if it's not fed the right voltage to suit impedance needs, it's performance can be degraded quite significantly. many integrated headphone amps suck but not many are aware of this.... it's complicated, eh?

catch you laters..