[ddots-l] Re: Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please

  • From: "Steven Jeffrey" <shjeffrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:41:21 -0500

Good point Omar,

So true, I'm amazed sometimes just how different a mix can sound the next day. 
I think both of the sets of ears mixing this tune are getting a little burnt 
out, will let it rest for a few days and hit it again.

Steve
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Omar Binno 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:16 PM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please 


  it's good to take a break from a mix for a day or so and come back to it.


  Omar Binno

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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Steven Jeffrey 
    To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:13 PM
    Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please 


    Yeh, I have a couple of those in the house right now making plenty of 
noise, they are coming in loud and clear. 

    I just gave the tune another listen and I completely hear the snare 
volume/bass volume thing, will back off on both of those for the next mix... 
can't believe I didn't catch them earlier.

    Thanks,

    Steve 
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Nick Dotson 
      To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:46 PM
      Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please 



      Those of us in the rhythm section are somewhat analogous to children, 
most often best felt rather than heard.  (grin)

      Nick


        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Steven Jeffrey 
        To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:36 PM
        Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please 


        Thanks Darran, Omar, and Nick for your suggestions. All of these sound 
completely reasonable to me, and I'll run them past the person I'm mixing the 
tune with.

        Funny how things sometimes work, the two instruments most being 
commented about are the instruments played by the two guys mixing the tune... 
he's a drummer, and I'm a bass player, he wanted the bass further up in the 
mix, and I wanted his snare further up too... I think both of us were purposely 
not trying to spotlight our own instruments, but we could possibly of somewhat 
cross-spotlighted each others.

        Thanks again for the feedback.

        Steve
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          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Nick Dotson 
          To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
          Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:05 PM
          Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please 


          Basically I loved it, although I've never been one that's too keen on 
sweaty intense anthemic American Rock'n Roll like Bob Seiger or Bruce 
Springsteen.  However, as a drummer, were it my own set, I'd ask that the snare 
be brought down a smidge or two to put it in balance with the rest of the set.  
It has a pitch, miking and probable compression that brings in out front and 
center in your face, equal to or in front of the lead singer's voice, and I 
kept finding my attention drifting to that artifact of the piece.  I really got 
off on the bass playing and the choral part, as well as the guitar solo.  But 
it's a very "Radio Friendly" without being squished to death with over 
compression mix--a true rarity these days and i liked the panning of the 
cymbals, and the spaces for all of the instruments--the snare though.  (grin)

          Nick



            ----- Original Message ----- 
            From: Steven Jeffrey 
            To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
            Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:17 PM
            Subject: [ddots-l] Feedback On First Mix Needed, Please 


            Hello,

            I am interested in getting some feedback (possitive, or negative) 
on a mix I've been working on with a friend. This is the first mix we've done 
together, and we're both at the point with this mix where we arn't sure what 
else needs to be done (if anything.) 

            I recorded the bass part for the tune using Sonar/CakeTalking in my 
homestudio, so hopefully this type of request isn't to far off topic for this 
list.

            Any suggestions/observations would be very much appreciated.

            Here's the link to the tune.

            "Hold On"

            Thanks,

            Steve

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