Ator:
The split acoustic guitars at the start doesn't do it for me. I intepretted that as an intentional opening up of the mix from the beginning into the first chorus, which doesn't happen like this.
The guitar licks and lead parts are seated nicely. I love the snare sound, and it fits in the verse and chorus nicely. The vocal sounds good to me, tonally, but for some reason I'm not feeling anything from it. Take this with a grain of salt, people said the same about my mix.
OOhhh lead part came in, feels good, well done.
Hmm, is there some compression on the "Do ya"s? There's some sort of uncomfortable attacky sound that makes the individual voices kinda distracts me from the overall sound of the do ya's.
Ohh, nice ending, I liked that.
The kick drum was good, it didn't stand out immensely, but it's presence was there in the back of my mind moving things along.
Chris Ilett:
Acoustic sounds nice, it feels quiet, which is nice, but with foreboding. The bass slips in nicely, I would have brought the drums in with the vox. I'm longing for them now, especially as the guitar licks go past.
I'm not digging the reverb on the vocals. It sounds too hard, maybe if some of the reverb's highs were brought down.
The backing vox in the chorus is quite distracting, he's kinda fighting for the centre of my attention with the lead vocalist, which is something I did consider doing, because those backing vox sounded great to me, but it really needed to go more one way or the other.
Tremolo/phaser effect is weird.... I don't know if the sound should feel spacey, from what I can tell the song is about some guy that's still in love with a woman who's marrying another man? Just doesn't sit with me.
also, the last solo could be louder, I felt it was there to lift the last chorus into a excited, feel good climax, which requires it to be fighting against the (now well engrained in the listeners mind) chorus vocals.
Jason Thompson:
Acoustic is okay, quite loud, which gives it more of a top 40 character.
Snare sounds MUFFLED. The rhythmic quality of the snares sound (compression?) is nicely shaped, but to me the EQ just makes it feel unnatural. It also sounds like the snare drum is actually going to be chewing up a lot of your head room, since you seem to have turned up the entire snare sound to make up for it's lack of presence due to a lack of certain higher frequencies.
I like the fade at the end.
Carefulcollapse:
I like the panned acoustic, it gives it a nice hardness/realness and is something I haven't heard yet.
Relationship between the kick drum and snare is really nice in the verse. Unfortunately the crashes are a bit too loud, and as the verse leads into the chorus, the hi-hats start to feel too loud and uncomfortable, partly due to level, party due to EQ. I would have automated them if I wanted them that high in the verses to begin with.
The snare drum seems to lose it's snareyness in the chorus when the other instruments come in. Perhaps automating the bottom mic up a bit? But the other thing with the snare is, that it doesn't seem to carry the rhythm, after it's been played. If you've used compression or reverb on this, set the release/reverb times with the kick drum playing too, that way, you can set them to fit into the song rhythmically.
That guitar part on the right hand side during the second verse is too loud and keeps drawing my focus away from the vocals.
Hmm, the do ya's are again, weird and hitty on the Do's, I might've used some RMS compression to take the attack out of them. plus there seems to be some sort of weird reverb or something on them? ANd they might be too loud.
Wow, song ends abruptly.
stillwelll:
The guitar at the start seems to sound a bit lowfi, did you take out some lows?
The vox are incredibly overpowering, and the reverb doesn't suit the verse when it's that strong. I feel like I'm in a bathroom. Actually, the reverb feels uncomfortable throughout the entire song and the vocals too strong,
The snare seems like this tiny thing off in the background, and is completely dwarfed by the kick drum and vocals.
Did you use a sample on the kick drum? It sounds like it belongs on a metal album and feels really disconnected.
I like the way you faded that guitar part out though.
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Okay that's all from me for today, I'll do some more later.