On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:42 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > The acoustic sounds like it > was detuned and slightly out or used a capo? Or out with the > piano...something sounds just a sqeak off there... Heh.. yeah. We broke a B string just before recording and only had a G string to replace it with, so the higher he played on the fretboard the more out of tune it went. Hard to fix at 1:00 AM. The guitar should be rerecorded anyway. We mic'd it really close with a large diaphram condenser (amateurs!) so it came out too boomy with no ambiance. And in parts it almost sounds like a banjo and I have no idea why. I'm also hoping to pick up an all-tube preamp/compressor before we do that. That was just done with the preamp on a cheap (LTO) mixer. > I'm a less is more kinda guy...I'd keep the guitar and sink the piano > way back in the mix...even replace with some strings? Well, I played the keys, so I would have kept them and put less bass and a bit less vocals, but Joey mixed most of it without me. ;-) On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:14 -0600, Reuben Martin wrote: > Very nice. You might want to try to turn down the reverb on the piano > a bit so that it has more of a crisp sound to it. (or turn down the > synth. I can't tell if what I'm hearing is reverb on the piano or if > you you have a pad syth playing the same thing as the piano) This > will be crucial if you apply any type of compressing in the mastering > stage because you might start to loose definition on the piano. Just > a suggestion. Otherwise very well done. :-) It's a pad, and yes, it's too loud. We're going to rerecord the keys anyway, because we mad a stupid mistake during recording and ended up recording both channels on the same track (essentially mono-fying the beautiful Roland waveforms). Originally, we had the voice sample (heard in the last chorus) doubling the piano, but it was too much, so we settled on a pad. It's still almost too much too. Maybe I'll go to just very mild strings. Thanks for the suggestions. Austin
