03-07-2016, 04:28 PM
Very nice, clean, clear, good balance.
I'm feeling that the piano image seems to dance around a bit in the stereo field. I think what I'm hearing is mainly that one piano mic is covering the high and one the low, and they're panned oppositely, so the sound kind of moves around depending on where the player is. Makes you feel like you're sitting AT the piano.
I'm not going to call it a bad thing, more just that I noticed it. I like when multi-miking yields interesting interactions in the stereo field. My personal preference for an acoustic combo jazz piece like this is that the instruments remain fairly stable in the stereo image, and to me, it feels like the piano is a little *too* wobbly. How much automation have you put in? It might be an issue of phasing wonkiness, I would be wanting to try out little gain envelope automation tweaks and just listening for something closer to what I wanted to hear.
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I also found a bit of a fuzzy around 1:42.3 - Noodling around with it a bit I think it's the 4.5k - 10.5kish range - doing a spot gain reduction on that seemed to help it a bit. Just kind of makes a funky *futz* as it plays. Listening for the next minute or so I didn't notice any others jumping out at me, so it may not be indicative of anything.
I was looking hard at that spot because I was also noticing some small elements in the sound - sounds like a person vocalizing, and I can see some waves in the spectrogram that look like vocalizations, that pop up thru the song. I Haven't downloaded this multi so I don't know if that's something lurking in the original tracks. It also sounded like something that could be a weird compression artifact, so I'd want to know where that might be coming from.
You made me a *little* nervous saying you used a "limiter" as opposed to compression, and looking at some of the waveforms they had some funky shapes that *looked* like they had some limiter squashiness, and looking at the spectrogram I'm seeing some vertical lines right on the cymbal hits that *resemble* some compression artifacts that I have struggled with in some of my projects(in my case I found that I needed a few more ms of attack time with the plugins I'm using).
That all being said, I wouldn't feel comfortable stating that anything I'm mentioning *is* a compression artifact, just more that the combination of things I was noticing made me curious.
What I do feel comfortable saying is that it *sounds* fantastic, and thats what counts, my "quibbles" are extremely tiny nitpicks, only some of which are based on the sound...the stuff I'm *seeing* may just be me seeing what I'm *thinking* might be there. You've done a great mix, and I appreciate your sharing it. Keep up the good sounds!
I'm feeling that the piano image seems to dance around a bit in the stereo field. I think what I'm hearing is mainly that one piano mic is covering the high and one the low, and they're panned oppositely, so the sound kind of moves around depending on where the player is. Makes you feel like you're sitting AT the piano.
I'm not going to call it a bad thing, more just that I noticed it. I like when multi-miking yields interesting interactions in the stereo field. My personal preference for an acoustic combo jazz piece like this is that the instruments remain fairly stable in the stereo image, and to me, it feels like the piano is a little *too* wobbly. How much automation have you put in? It might be an issue of phasing wonkiness, I would be wanting to try out little gain envelope automation tweaks and just listening for something closer to what I wanted to hear.
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I also found a bit of a fuzzy around 1:42.3 - Noodling around with it a bit I think it's the 4.5k - 10.5kish range - doing a spot gain reduction on that seemed to help it a bit. Just kind of makes a funky *futz* as it plays. Listening for the next minute or so I didn't notice any others jumping out at me, so it may not be indicative of anything.
I was looking hard at that spot because I was also noticing some small elements in the sound - sounds like a person vocalizing, and I can see some waves in the spectrogram that look like vocalizations, that pop up thru the song. I Haven't downloaded this multi so I don't know if that's something lurking in the original tracks. It also sounded like something that could be a weird compression artifact, so I'd want to know where that might be coming from.
You made me a *little* nervous saying you used a "limiter" as opposed to compression, and looking at some of the waveforms they had some funky shapes that *looked* like they had some limiter squashiness, and looking at the spectrogram I'm seeing some vertical lines right on the cymbal hits that *resemble* some compression artifacts that I have struggled with in some of my projects(in my case I found that I needed a few more ms of attack time with the plugins I'm using).
That all being said, I wouldn't feel comfortable stating that anything I'm mentioning *is* a compression artifact, just more that the combination of things I was noticing made me curious.
What I do feel comfortable saying is that it *sounds* fantastic, and thats what counts, my "quibbles" are extremely tiny nitpicks, only some of which are based on the sound...the stuff I'm *seeing* may just be me seeing what I'm *thinking* might be there. You've done a great mix, and I appreciate your sharing it. Keep up the good sounds!