Colour Me Red - Olli H

[Olli H]

Wait is this your 21 revision? Quite a handful of fixes.

I like it. I just miss the electric distortion guitars in the chorus.. I think they are very important and it's what makes this song really good.
Good job keep it up.

Thanks, only couple of revisions, but the latest one happens to be in post #21.

I do understand that you miss the distortion guitar. But I thought it was too distorted to my taste and I took the polite - as Mike put it - path and it lead me to decision to give room for the side guitars and organ. They are the new instruments that chorus introduces.

Actually I didn't use that distortion track at all. I took the DI and run it through an amp with less distortion. I tried to make those panned boogie guitars (electric on the left and acoustic on the right) a balanced pair. So that was the first big decisions that influenced all the other things in my mix. In that panning it wouldn't have worked if there had been heavy distortion only on the left channel.

One of my references was Bob Dylan playing weird crime-death-songs with muddy-waters-feeling and rockabilly touch. (album Love and Theft, 2001). His band was very acoustic. But I had to admit that I never reached that mood that he has created.