Hey Slau, thanks for the feedback. i’ll go through this, and see if i might fine tune it. Think a agree with you on a lot of this. Thanks for your thoughts. Steve
> On 8 Dec 2015, at 2:43 pm, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Nice job. Sounds pretty balanced and all. OK, here's my comments, since you > asked for feedback and take it with a grain of salt. > > To me, it sounds like you've got a whole lot going on in terms of > instrumentation. There are several guitars popping out here and there but > there isn't a clear riffing instrument. In other words, every instrument is > riffing either here or there and, at least to me, the effect is that each > riff just gets buried among all the others. Picture, something like a Dire > Straits tune. There's essentially one guitar that's doing the riffs while the > other handles rhythm. To me, that's more memorable and more of a highlight. I > guess it's the idea of keeping the dish simpler, with less ingredients while > this tune has a whole lot of ingredients and, while it may taste good, it's > hard to pick out the key ingredients because there are so many things > competing for one's attention. Naturally, that's more of an orchestration > comment rather than anything to do with mixing, per se, but that's the first > thing that stands out to me. > > As far as mix specifically, I wasn't crazy about the snare sound. It seems to > be buried a bit yet still harsh. The upper mid range seems to be a bit > pronounced. > > Finally, before your second chorus, I believe you have the sound of clearing > your throat that somehow got in there somewhere, perhaps on the harmony vocal > or something. > > Given that you haven't been working in Pro tools too long, this all sounds > good. Of course, you've been around the block before with other recording > scenarios so no surprise :) > > Cheers, > > Slau > > On Dec 7, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Steve Sparrow <i...@sparrowsound.com.au > <mailto:i...@sparrowsound.com.au>> wrote: > >> Hi guys. Here is a track i thought i’d share with you. I’d be interested in >> your thoughts. >> This recording was produced in p t at my studio Sparrow Sound studio. Based >> in Brisbane Australia. >> >> Please find drop box link below. >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10442917/paint%20your%20cactus%20green%20mp3/track01%20Lose%20Threads.mp3 >> >> <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10442917/paint%20your%20cactus%20green%20mp3/track01%20Lose%20Threads.mp3> >> This is an original song i put together a couple of years back, and finally >> got round to recording. >> all comments and thoughts welcome. >> Steve >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
