14-11-2012, 09:31 PM
The overall balance you've gone for makes sense in general terms, so your instincts seem sound enough to me. I like the earthy-sounding bass drum sound you've brought to table, and the whistles/recorders all lead confidently.
My biggest concern is the guitars. Firstly it doesn't seem to me that you've done enough to compensate for the excessively transient close-mic capture. As a result the guitars don't want to stay behind the lead lines, and undermine the illusion that we're presumably trying to go for, namely that we're hearing an ensemble performance rather than a set of discrete overdubs. I seem to remember I used a lot of different tactics to deal with this on my version, and there are a lot of possible methods to suit any DAW system.
The other thing about the guitars is that I feel that the implied bass line within the guitar chords is rather light in your version -- something that is particularly a loss in the main 'A' section, where the rhythm of that bass line is part of the character of the tune to my mind. I seem to remember that one of the guitar tracks has a lot more of this line than the others, so you might just be able to rebalance the faders, but I suspect you'll also need some EQ on that track too.
My biggest concern is the guitars. Firstly it doesn't seem to me that you've done enough to compensate for the excessively transient close-mic capture. As a result the guitars don't want to stay behind the lead lines, and undermine the illusion that we're presumably trying to go for, namely that we're hearing an ensemble performance rather than a set of discrete overdubs. I seem to remember I used a lot of different tactics to deal with this on my version, and there are a lot of possible methods to suit any DAW system.
The other thing about the guitars is that I feel that the implied bass line within the guitar chords is rather light in your version -- something that is particularly a loss in the main 'A' section, where the rhythm of that bass line is part of the character of the tune to my mind. I seem to remember that one of the guitar tracks has a lot more of this line than the others, so you might just be able to rebalance the faders, but I suspect you'll also need some EQ on that track too.