SingSing wrote on Mon, 27 October 2008 21:51 |
Fiasco, you messed up the samplerate... FYI Stefan SingSing |
Adam Miller wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 10:44 |
I haven't got time to do proper reviews of all the tracks just yet, but I will... But with regards to the original tracks- WHAT was going on with the autotune on this? It's quite brutal. It's one thing to track parts that may have problems, another to introduce the problems as part of the postproduction process. What's even more puzzling is that most people seem to have completely missed the words that were tuned a semitone out! Adam |
Colin Larson wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 13:38 |
Tricklecharge: Did you and Fiasco work together on this one? ;D |
Colin Larson wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 12:38 |
Aha! Just heard a sound replacer flam on the kick. I caught you |
Colin Larson wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 12:38 |
kind of like firefly's mix, |
T. Mueller wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 18:29 | ||
Yeah. I don't have Melodyne installed, so I wasn't gonna take the time to fix it. |
Fiasco wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 12:50 | ||
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No need for Melodyne. A simple pitch shift plugin does the trick. |
J-Texas wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 13:10 | ||
Unexciting? Hey, you said it... I didn't. |
Colin Larson |
...kind of like firefly's mix, the drums seem sort of disconnected... |
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TheDan: Do something to get the vocal a little more out front and this mix would be pretty near perfect |
slash5969 wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 17:58 |
Fiasco - Whaaaaaattt thissssss tuuuuuuuuune ssouuuuuuuundssss liiiiiiike aafterrrrr the quaaaaaaaaaaaalude kiiiiiicksssss iiiiiinnnnnnnn. |
slash5969 wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 16:58 |
Jonah A Kort - What's that rattling in the bass? Too much Rhodes for me, and the abrubt editing doesn't work. Solid drum sounds for the most part. Delayed acoustic doesn't really work, either. There are too many distractions in this mix - anything that draws attention to the cleverness of the mix engineer by extension almost always detracts from the song. |
Jonah A. Kort wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 17:36 |
I think Slash doesn't like the Rhodes part |
TheDan wrote on Tue, 28 October 2008 15:22 | ||
I don't have time to review separately, but I just wanted to add a few blanket comments. Mostly, these tracks were pretty much great from the start, so why is there so much "BIGASS DRUMS"? (watch the movie Idiocracy) Really not necessary for the song. The vocal was obviously compressed on the way in or at some point before we got the tracks, so why compress it again? If you need more volume in spots, ride the fader or automate. (that was me being a hypocrite, because I a agree mine was too quiet, and dry ) There was a lot of atmosphere to be had with the guitar swells and rhodes things, so all the crazy reverbs and delay things on top of that were kind of unnecessary . I thought all the goodies on some mixes distracted from the simple solidness of the song as a whole. This is all my opinion of course, and I hope not to offend anyone. This whole thing is just fun, and I want to be involved in the future if I have time.
Wow, thanks man! -Dan |
Colin Larson wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 12:45 |
Especially on a freebie mix like this where anything goes... |
Adam Miller wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 14:18 |
Fiasco- appropriate name! Kind of dig the vibe of it this slow though! |
T. Mueller wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 12:50 |
Raise your hand if you used samples. (*My hand is staying down.*) |
Podgorny wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 18:31 |
I know it's WAY late and therefore not included in the discussion. But I've been busy. And since Grant recorded this, I felt some ridiculous obligation to give it 30 minutes of my time... So that's what I did. Enjoy, Grant! http://kylemann.com/misc/imp20_podgorny_mix.mp3 |
grant richard wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 18:17 |
You dork. |
T. Mueller wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 10:50 |
Raise your hand if you used samples. (*My hand is staying down.*) |
Adam Miller wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 12:15 | ||
Just as an aside- there's no reason to ever invest anything less than 100% in a mix you do, whether it's for free or not- and especially if it's being aired in public. The freebies you do are the ones that'll end up getting you work at some point in the future... |
T. Mueller wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 13:50 |
Raise your hand if you used samples. (*My hand is staying down.*) |
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i think at the end of the day, you just need to evaluate your own personal opinion on all this. if you don't dig samples, then don't use them. just know and understand the full extent of that decision. and vice versa!!! samples on drums started being used for a variety of reasons, one of the biggest was, to eliminate the bleed from other drums. so as you EQ and compress you are just treating the one sound and not effecting any of the others. |
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T Mueller: if you want to go with such drums, the bass has to follow, and it is not. |
T. Mueller wrote on Mon, 03 November 2008 12:42 | ||
So, here's a question, I guess. By "the bass has to follow", do you mean that it needs to be as compressed? I couldn't find a good way to beef up the bass after minimal attempts. Can anyone provide a suggestion or two? And I'll try to post more reviews. I had done all of them up to a certain point, and haven't gone back yet. I clearly have a lot to learn... |
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Hey, this is just me, others have already voiced different opinions about your mix. |
j.hall wrote on Wed, 05 November 2008 12:08 |
is this IMP wrapped up? |
osumosan wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 12:19 |
My apologies for lameness. Overloaded with work. I started to write some reviews and (my dog ate it) my computer crashed. So demoralizing! |
JCMastering wrote on Mon, 17 November 2008 10:53 |
YZ - file is clipped |
YZ wrote on Mon, 17 November 2008 09:03 | ||
No. There's limiting. There's no clipping in the file, ie, the 0dB FS samples are as intended. Thanks for the reviews! |
JCMastering wrote on Mon, 17 November 2008 14:53 |
Also , having reviewed this many entries and judging by the how little feedback has been received so far , may I suggest that to make the discussion easier the participants be split into groups. Reviewing 10 to 15 entries at a time would be more manageable. |