Get out of My Head (now!)
Hey All.
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/patches/GNX4/GetOutofMyHead2.mp3
A remake of a song I wrote a while back:
Recorded and mixed using SONAR 6/Producter (with my Tascam FW 1082) and mastered/tweaked using Sound Forge 8.0.
Guitars: Me using a Les Paul/GNX4/Guitar Rig2 (used a distorted GNX4 patch with a Guitar Rig2 effect for the heavy part).
KeyBoard: My brother using a Yamaha Motif Rock Organ. Have never used keyboards in my songs...so was a little leary. Should I take it out?
Drums: Me using Roland TD20.
Bass Guitar: My brother using an Ibanez bass throuh the GNX4 (bypass).
Vocals: Me using Audio Technica condesor Mic. Not happy with the vocals. Kind of a Godsmack meets the Bee Gees sound.
Lyrics: I wrote them a couple of years back. Kind of sappy and mopey, but the way I was feeling at the time. A lot of regret and remorse...poor me
Your honest feedback is appreciated and will be taken to heart.
Thank you.
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/patches/GNX4/GetOutofMyHead2.mp3
A remake of a song I wrote a while back:
Recorded and mixed using SONAR 6/Producter (with my Tascam FW 1082) and mastered/tweaked using Sound Forge 8.0.
Guitars: Me using a Les Paul/GNX4/Guitar Rig2 (used a distorted GNX4 patch with a Guitar Rig2 effect for the heavy part).
KeyBoard: My brother using a Yamaha Motif Rock Organ. Have never used keyboards in my songs...so was a little leary. Should I take it out?
Drums: Me using Roland TD20.
Bass Guitar: My brother using an Ibanez bass throuh the GNX4 (bypass).
Vocals: Me using Audio Technica condesor Mic. Not happy with the vocals. Kind of a Godsmack meets the Bee Gees sound.
Lyrics: I wrote them a couple of years back. Kind of sappy and mopey, but the way I was feeling at the time. A lot of regret and remorse...poor me
Your honest feedback is appreciated and will be taken to heart.
Thank you.
Comments
The only critiques I'd offer:
The vocals had a different tambre than the rest of the song, like they were recorded at a different studio and added to the song later.
The solo git'r was a neat sound but wiped out the rest of the mix...tone it down a bit?
But overall a pretty cool tune!!! I'd leave the k/b's in, they're good.
But the vocals in this tune were really pretty good...I just thought they didn't quite fit into the mix. As if they'd been recorded differently and put into the song afterward.
Lots of guys here much more talented than I have posted about mixing...but the gneral gist seems to be:
Give each instrument/sound it's \"space\"; meaning that sounds of similar tambre or frequency range will compete with each other, so at the very least separate them in the mix.
I have a liking of the theory of spreading sounds across the stereo mix to give each a different placement, so when you listen you hear each sound coming from a slightly different \"place\" in the mix.
In reality, cleaning up a sound is highly subjective. Most of the guys here with tons of recording experience will tell you that the thing to do is record vocals or even a git'r dry, then add EQ and effects afterward. That makes good sense.
I put a lot of emphasis in my mixings on spacing things out and not crowding the mix, and having the various sounds co-exist nicely.
I can't computer record, so I tend to go for the sound I want when recording.
With vocals, I've found that the biggest mistakes are over-effecting and too much reverb. And using compression is very helpful.
With git'rs and the like, if you're getting a muddy sound, chances are you've got too much bass eq'd and not enough mid/presence/high. Since every ax and mic etc is different, you have to experiment, and get things dialed in the way you want them to sound. I actually have patches on my GNX just for a particular mic or git'r sound.
Seriously though, thanks for the tips.
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