scott volthause wrote on Fri, 22 September 2006 13:09 |
dconstruction wrote on Fri, 22 September 2006 16:05 |
And they just sound cool. Which, to me, is justification enough.
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Agreed.
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Man, I agree too-- but I can't figure out who it reminds me of. Jawbreaker and/or Everclear to some extent vocally, I know there's a better example though. [EDIT: Lucero -- a little anyway, that's who I couldn't remember.]
I'm not thinking of Modest Mouse, although I see the point.
Anyway, I went back through several of the mixes and tried to have at least one useful thing to say. Sorry for not getting to all of them.
You guys all had interesting ideas and I'm pretty much going to leave off the complimentary stuff because I'm in a rush-- as my folks would say, I loved them all equally. If held at gun point here's what I'd want you to revisit:
Scott Oliphant -- Seems like there’s maybe a delay between Snare R and L, or perhaps top and bottom are hard panned or something. For me it sounds a little weird, but headphones exaggerate panning stuff.
Rankus – The Distorted guitars at 02:16 sound bass heavy and a little veiled to me— maybe just a taste thing, also these phones are muddy so you know, grain of salt.
Urick – Your mix sounds overly bright and splashy to me on these rather dark phones. I do understand the impulse to brighten-- this is a little much for my ears.
Maxim – Mix sounds a bit cloudy to me, plus I’m missing those BGVs. There’s a bad fade, or edit or something around 02:36 --that may have come up already, can't remember.
Chris J – Your drum treatment is an automatic skip for me— but hey, I
really really don’t like Massive Attack— so maybe it’s just me. I find the overall sonics to be way too peaky as well.
If I were giving out homework assignments I’d ask you to re-mix this song using only panning, level, and EQ. Cuts and boosts of no more than 2 db. No delay, no verb.
I don’t mean to sound like an ass— you hipped me to Audacity and LAME for which I’m very grateful, thanks they're great free tools. Sorry for over focusing on your mix-- it was the hardest for me to grock.
Volthause – Not so into the fade out-- you weren't the only one though. Like the mix -- drums are a little too "roomified" for me. Probably should have skipped yours, I don’t have a lot to offer.
Spoon -- the intro is really distracting with the drums so far back and the acoustic pounding away. I think you've got a cool arrangement idea that didn't quite gel yet. When the kit comes back in it sounds kind of strange, I don’t feel like the snare is glued to the rest of the kit very well—it’s poking out too much.
So that's all I've got, I do agree that just listening to all the different mixes is the best learning tool IMP has to offer. Hopefully nobody is too bummed on my above attempts at insight.
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