18-05-2014, 02:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-05-2014, 02:51 AM by Pedaling Prince.)
Oh wow... direct hit amidships by photon torpedo... just blasted me off my feet, man! Seriously! You even got me emotional, in tears a bit, at one point. More on that in a sec but... wow; this is nice! 
Only two. I feel the compression on the vocals is a wee bit too aggressive; I'd dial that back a notch. On the backing vocals, I'd bring up the level of the "oh-woah-oh-ohs" a good 3-5 dB. Otherwise, this thing is freakin' awesome!
No other improvements to suggest, but I would like to offer some of my reactions along the way:
From the opening, with the beautiful definition you got out of the piano and nice, crisp, clean vocal sound I knew I was in for a treat here. At 0:38 when the drums come in I was pleasantly surprised by how good you got them sounding right out of the gate on your first attempt. Most of us seem to be having trouble with that, myself included; you've got a nice, bright punch out of that snare! How'd you do that?!
Guitars sound awesome! Nice and bright!
Now here's where you grabbed me emotionally and drew out the tears:
At 2:12, when everything calms down and you get to those strings, I could hear the piano faintly in the background, slowly emerging from them. Then, at 2:32, when the piano drifts out to the front of the mix for a moment, like a siren emerging from a fog to reach for the man she loves... I'm listening to it writing this and I've got a few tears once again. Funny thing is if you had described to me what you planned to do, particularly the choice to drop out the backing vocals at that point, I never would've thought it would work. But it did. More than just "worked;" that was amazing, man. Seriously.
Not as sure I like your choice to fade out everything but the drums at the end. I'm thinking maybe bring up the backing vocals to go along with them? I was just thinking, with this particular mix, that the backing vocals standing on their own with the drums might be a cool effect...?
Really impressive work. Certainly the most creative mix of this song so far IMHO.
(15-05-2014, 09:10 PM)EKN Wrote: Any hints to make it (even) better ?
Only two. I feel the compression on the vocals is a wee bit too aggressive; I'd dial that back a notch. On the backing vocals, I'd bring up the level of the "oh-woah-oh-ohs" a good 3-5 dB. Otherwise, this thing is freakin' awesome!
No other improvements to suggest, but I would like to offer some of my reactions along the way:
From the opening, with the beautiful definition you got out of the piano and nice, crisp, clean vocal sound I knew I was in for a treat here. At 0:38 when the drums come in I was pleasantly surprised by how good you got them sounding right out of the gate on your first attempt. Most of us seem to be having trouble with that, myself included; you've got a nice, bright punch out of that snare! How'd you do that?!
Guitars sound awesome! Nice and bright!Now here's where you grabbed me emotionally and drew out the tears:
At 2:12, when everything calms down and you get to those strings, I could hear the piano faintly in the background, slowly emerging from them. Then, at 2:32, when the piano drifts out to the front of the mix for a moment, like a siren emerging from a fog to reach for the man she loves... I'm listening to it writing this and I've got a few tears once again. Funny thing is if you had described to me what you planned to do, particularly the choice to drop out the backing vocals at that point, I never would've thought it would work. But it did. More than just "worked;" that was amazing, man. Seriously.
Not as sure I like your choice to fade out everything but the drums at the end. I'm thinking maybe bring up the backing vocals to go along with them? I was just thinking, with this particular mix, that the backing vocals standing on their own with the drums might be a cool effect...?
Really impressive work. Certainly the most creative mix of this song so far IMHO.