David Tyo: 'Oh, Life'_mix Tommy Marcinek

[tjmtruth]

Hey Tom,

here is some feedback:

I am not a fan of the vocal processing it sounds kind of robotic and abrasive to me? Is this a very tiny room verb or delay of same sort?
Anyway, If you want to use this effect to achieve a certain atmosphere or creative effect you could leave it as is, otherwise you should revisit that in my opinion.

I really enjoyed the small but very effective acoustic guitar edit at 0:50. Very cool! The treatment of the piano also is great.

The drums samples work for the most part except the snare. I think its a bit hollow sounding and does not blend in.

To me it sounds like you are going for a distorted, squashed sounding chours.
I wonder what the drums would sound like if you squashed them even more and really killed the transient to achieve that Loudness War sound...
Usually I am no fan of this but I suspect it could work here

I think you achieved a distincitve and creative mix of this tune. My only real gripe is the vocal processing on the main vocal. Otherwise a nicely crafted mix.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas, thanks for the detailed and thoughtful comments....much appreciated. Yes, I did probably overdo that vocal effect. In other genres it works very well but should have not used it here. Glad you noticed the guitar edit. As you know, there was one note that was rapidly faded in the track which sounded weird. What to do? I had many options but went for the short "reverse" effect to fill in the gap. You missed the vocal edit I did in the very beginning (third or fourth word or so) which had a weird "blurb" sound that had to be dealt with. I carefully borrowed a portion of the note from another section and blended/cross-faded. It took a while to do but to me you can't hear that recorded anomaly on that word anymore.... :-)

Many thanks for the rest of the positive comments you made. I may indeed go back in and mix it again, trying to follow your sage advice on the drum and other issues you mentioned. Again....thanks much. Peace.

Tom