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Pedaling Prince - Benjamin John: "Better Way"
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Haven't been around in here much. Still mixing but since I haven't had time to properly review other people's mixes I don't feel right asking for feedback on mine. However, I do promise that anyone who gives opinion on this one I will review your mix of it (if you've done one Wink).

I just had to share this. It's such an odd little song. The music is so uplifting and peppy, but the lyrics are so sad. When I listened to it all the way through the first time after I mixed it I was bopping along for the first half and had tears in my eyes at the end.


.m4a    Better Way - 2016-04-03, 1.30 AM.m4a --  (Download: 4.97 MB)


John A. Ardelli
Pedaling Prince Pictures
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#2
Welcome Back John.
Nice to hear another one of your mixes sounds pretty well balanced ,Maybe just a little more eq adjustments as can hear some loose bottom end of the kick end in the side channels ,I think the background vocals sound a little full and boxy around the 600hz area and below mainly in the side channels also ,but getting a mix to translate on many different monitors and please ears is a good challenge I am having.
Just my personal thoughts on what I'm hearing listening on Hd600's and Ns10's.
Cheers Big Grin
Don
P.s enjoyed watching your latest Fast food Video !

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(03-04-2016, 09:01 AM)thedon Wrote: Maybe just a little more eq adjustments as can hear some loose bottom end of the kick end in the side channels

That was on purpose. The original tracks, as you know, included an "ambience" track for the kick. That track sounded horrible; it was obviously recorded in a barn (literally; I could hear the animals in the background, and it didn't even synchronize properly with the actual kick recording Confused) so I ditched it and added an artificial ambience slapback. I actually preferred the sound of the kick the way it was but since the artist obviously wanted that ambience on the kick enough to record a separate track for it I decided to put it in.

thedon Wrote:I think the background vocals sound a little full and boxy around the 600hz area and below mainly in the side channels also

Yeah, you're probably right. Since they're only in the background, I don't tend to balance the EQ on background vocals as carefully as I do the lead vocal. Of course, given the retro 50s feel of this piece I didn't want to over-process, either; I wanted to make this as clean and natural sounding as possible. But maybe I should've worked on those backing vocals just a little more. But there were so bloody many of them... Tongue

thedon Wrote:P.s enjoyed watching your latest Fast food Video !

Ah, then you also heard a bit of my mix of "Iron Sheik" by Dry Clean Only, which I've adopted as the theme for my YouTube series Podium HD as of this year. Wink

For those of you just coming in here who wants to see the video Don is talking about, here's the link:

https://youtu.be/iX8QK12eysY

I haven't gotten any response from KFC thus far. So I've send the video directly to their Canadian headquarters and posted to their Facebook page... Big Grin

Anyway, as promised, I'll now go and review your mix of this song. Wink
John A. Ardelli
Pedaling Prince Pictures
http://www.youtube.com/user/PedalingPrince
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