[realmusicians] Re: some listening material

  • From: Gudrun Brunot <gbrunot@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:02:53 -0700

Instrumentalists tend to want to hear themselves rather than the lead singer--present company excluded in this statement, of course... I've actually found that to be true, being the female vocalist in a band doing Irish music. The fiddler can never hear himself enough. Same when I did something with a classical guitarist. He always goes "I can't hear myself" and boosts himself and sends me to kingdom come...


But, oh, when I'm at music camp, there's this one super instructor, and he sometimes plays when I sing, and it's like floating on warm, salty waves.

So, bring up the vocals, Joe, the heck with the band, put them in their places!

Gudrun who finds it hard to practice what she preaches in that respect...

At 08:01 AM 10/11/2009, you wrote:
lol, I think I got carried away with myself when mixing, I loved the snare and simbols maybe too much and so it's a very drum heavy mix, I remember thinking after how the vocal was to quiet but the band seemed pleased and I'd ran out of time to remix.
I would say another thing I should've worked at more was the kick drum.

I find with mixing you can never have enough time, or, maybe i'm jusdt slow, I hate having that pressure when the band are more or less standing over you watching the clock.
I agree with tom totally about letting each instrument find it's place.
Panning is a good one, but also think about what frequencies the instrument in question occupies and then see about cutting out the unnecessary freqs, fx can be used as subtile ways to create the illution of depth and distance, e.g. reverb or chorus. then look at the whole picture again, is it too bright too dull, is it doing what it should in terms of what style of music it is. Then if your lucky you should have a mix that's heading in the right direction, but sometimes it's down to the way the instruments were recorded I've had mixes that seem to mix themselfves and others that never sounded great what ever I did.
Joe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Morrison" <chadmorrison@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:51 AM
Subject: [realmusicians] Re: some listening material


Hey, like the song. If I was to nit pick something I would probably say the drums are a little loud mainly the hats and cymbals. it might be the speekers I'm using. Also I'm new to this whole thing. I'm just a drummer trying to go engineer.
Take care
Chad
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Kingston" <tom.kingston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:03 PM
Subject: [realmusicians] Re: some listening material


Hey Joe,

Sounds good to me. The only thing I would nitpick on, and this is just my personal preference, would be, as others have said, put a little more cut through presence on the vocal. I'd probably also try to give it a little more air and space; that which we usually lose due to compression. But again, it's all a matter of the sound you, and more importantly, your client likes.

Great job!
Tom

----- Original Message ----- From: "joe" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


   Hi guys,
here's a link to a tune we did in the studio some time last year, I know its a bit heavy, but i'm pleased with the result.
Critisism is welcome by the way!
have a listen,
Joe



   http://www.sendspace.com/file/onpd2v



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