Long azz post warning!!
In the spirit of the project, I offer my first impressions of every mix I could get to open. I commented on things that stuck out as really good or not good, everything else seemed acceptable. Note that I am NOT a professional nor do I have a professional listening environment (240 cans and Yamaha monitors in a treated but very small room).
I will be happy to elaborate upon request.
1)Maxim - Good LdVox tone, good guitar tone, DoYa’s loud, exposing tuning, leslie(?) on noodling guitars doesn’t fit, kick
and snare fit well, cymbals fizzy?
2) Ballenger-didn’t open
3)teleric - acoustic and drums in different rooms, would like some ambience on kick; needs bass; DoYa’s loud, exposing tuning, removing drums works, really builds toward last chorus, Good Mix
4) patrikt - Acoustic muddy; drums sound very good if not dynamic, cymbals too loud; rhythm guitars need some verb; good LdVox tone, but low in the mix; mix gets lost behind the drums a lot
5) MGA - lots of verb on snare (and OH’s?); LdVox sounds small; kick gets boxy in the busy parts of the mix; lots of verb on DoYa’s; cymbals too loud;
6) Jason Thompson - Too much dist on Bass for the verses; cardboard kick; vocals are too distracting to listen more. . .
7) Greg Thompson - Big Mix; LdVox disappear on “for my invitation”; too much distortion on noodling guitar; good bass; Do Ya’s very good, don’t notice the bad notes; Very Good Mix
ATOR - Acoustic stereo effect wigs me out; too much snare bottom; good bass; like the guitar tone a lot; didn’t like the ending, but would’ve been very cool if the DoYa’s were well performed
9) MGT - Drums sound good, just not for this song; kick has no bottom; LdVox spitty; the guitars are boring into my skull; good DoYa’s; lots of high mid everywhere; I pulled this up on the Yamaha’s just for fun, now I’m bleeding;
10) Podgorny - bass a little boomy; LdVox too “in your ear” (slamming into an 1176?); dry vox and drums don’t play well with very wet guitars
11) Jnickel - LoFi acoustic odd; there’s a blanket over the drums; no gtr noodling. . . hmm; good LdVox tone; guitar fights the Vox for space in last chorus;
12)Loudsongsinc - kick is low-middy; thin LdVox, kinda spitty; chorus guitars need some balls;
13) Jdier - Long verb on LdVox sounds out of place on dry drums and bass; drums squiiiished and overpowering for the verses; cymbals too loud; kick has no bottom; good LdVox tone; Very Good Chorus
14) chrisilett - LdVox too wet in intro; need to roll off some high end on verb; BGVox too loud; very HiFi, smiley face EQ sound to the mix; second verse doesn’t work, DoYa’s not well performed and lofi kick doesn’t fit; Gtr processing on end is a genre violation (to steal a term)
15) sstillwell - HUGE drums, too huge, too squished; LdVox very wet and spitty; nice stereo treatment of noodling guitars; BGVox sound very good, but too loud and wide, good solo tone, good DoYah’s
16) Huds - won’t play
17) Osumosan - Nice drums; bad tone on noodling guitar-overdistored; good bass but could use more low mid; DoYah’s too loud; LdVox buried 2nd prechorus and chorus; well rounded mix
18) Telesound - don’t like the acoustic panning; good LdVox tone, present without spitting/essing; good guitars; DoYah’s were a bit forward, move them back with hi rolloff and verb?; Very Good Mix but kinda squished
19) Carefulcollapse - don’t like the acoustic panning; Big Mix; too much cymbal; DoYah’s are pretty large and wide; LdVox in chorus could use some meat and/or volume, abrupt end; nothing jumps out as spectacular, but nothing bad; Very Good Mix
20) MSE didn’t play
21) mdifazio - too wet; way too wet; did I mention the effects? there’s a lot of them
22) spoon - drums match the song, good sound, but too much snare bottom; LdVox ambience could’ve waited until the gtrs come in, it’s fine then; BGVox could use some automation; DoYah’s too loud/show the bad performance and cover the LdVox; LdVox buried a bit in 2nd chorus; nice fade
23) Rankus - acoustic a bit loud; drums very good, hard rock scooped kick, but good; noodling is loud and centered over the LdVox; BGVox too wide; DoYah’s show the performance; LdVox sounds good and cuts through the chorus, there’s a nice pocket for them; Very Good Mix
24) YZ - Bass a little round; where’s the kick?; too much snare bottom; everything is a little too ambient; Good BGVox EQ,verb and mix; like the arrangment; the mix is closer to right than it sounds at first, little less verb, more kick and it is REAL good
25) ElDuderino - LdVox a bit low; drums sound good, but are overpowering; noodling gtr has bad tone; gtrs sound good, but don’t mix well, lot of high mid content that hides the Vox
26) Antman - snare a bit disconnected until the gtrs come in; LdVox low; gtr tone plays well with the vox; good mix
27) DevinK - don’t like the verb choice for drums; LdVox sibilant; REALLY like the creativity shown on this one, maybe cause I’ve heard the “straight” mix 500 times; I don’t like the ending a lot, but I like that he stuck with his theme, Very Good Mix
28) slash - those drums are nuts squished; verse gtrs too big; Vox buried; everything is huge, no space around anything
Scott Bryant