Wow, thanks for the responses and tips! Last Wednesday 25 May 2005 16:33, R Parker was like: > woohoo, an era of music I love; Buffalo Springfield, > Crosby Stills Nash & Young, etc. You can do great > things with vocal harmonies. Yep, harmonies are planned, but I don't want to overdo it. > On first listen, taming the cymbal crashes will enable > increasing the drum volumes. Cymbals do clash with > Vocals and your vocals are very good. Then again the > drums don't build tension 'til the resolving measures > so it's cool. Ah, that's interesting. I deliberately turned the cymbals up because I liked the 'splashiness' of them. I might rework them as the programming could be better. > Parametric EQ to sweep/search for the correct kick > cut; -15db at 200Hz tames common farting sound in kick > drums. Many of us dampen the mallet head to tame > resonance and then we go after the slap around 3kHz or > there abouts--I never actually look. The hole is just > to get the mic in. Interesting... > I like the echo on the vox too but would experiment > with it. Maybe a more selective usage but then stomp > on it. Verse, first measure "Caught up in my father" > echo, echo, tailing into second measure just "sludging > around." Then no more in the verse and cymbals build > the last measure. Perserve the tonal quality with a > seperate and very tight echo. You don't want to hear > any slap. What am I babbling about. It's your fault > for getting me excited. Makes sense to me. This is a rough mix, I just slapped a bit of canyon delay on at approximately the right speed for this mix. I shall experiment with it a bit more. I also haven't quite got the compression right. Glad you enjoyed it ;) tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
