Sons of No One

[philmclean]

Here's my take on Son's of No One!

[Mike Senior]

The vocal is very crispy in the top octave here, and gets pretty uncomfortable to listen to on my system at any decent level. I had to pull out about 4dB with a 6kHz shelf to get any further with it. Fortunately, there was good reason to persevere! I like the general sound and particularly the blend you've got going here -- it really coheres nicely. A nice sense of space and size too, so the longer reverbs/delays have paid off too. The kick struggles on small speakers though, so I'd be tempted to give it a bit more MF information, perhaps with distortion, to get it to cut through a bit better.

I'd probably also give this kind of a style a slightly more overt buss compression sound, and if you did that you'd have to evaluate its effects at mixdown, rather than leaving it until mastering. A quick experiment suggests that you might need more sustain on the snare to make it work, though, as that drum's depending on its spike to make its presence felt.

[philmclean]

Hey Mike,

Thanks for the reply.
And yes I totally agree with you on the vocal.
First thing I did after posting this was put a desser on it and small shelf cut on the vocal and the reverb itself. Sounded a million times better.
I will definitely give that a try with the kick drum because I noticed it disappearing as well and didn't really know how to fix it.

Thanks.